John Baldessari was a conceptual artist that used photography, painting, and text to explore and test the boundaries and structures of art.
Born 1931, National City, California
Died 2020, Venice, Los Angeles, California
Baldessari attended San Diego State University and did post-graduate work at Otis Art Institute, Chouinard Art Institute and the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA from 1970 – 1988 and the University of California at Los Angeles from 1996 – 2007. His work is in the collections of the Modern Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.