A.K. Burns
2026 Milestone Grantee
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A.K. Burns, born in 1975, hails from Northern California and currently lives and works in New York. An interdisciplinary artist-educator, she works at the intersection of sociopolitical issues, cultural tropes, and corporeality—troubling systems that assign and maintain hierarchies. Utilizing video, installations, sculpture, and writing, Burns critically and humorously explores the nexus of material and language. Burns’s has exhibited internationally including Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; MMK Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany; Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany; and The Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA. A.K. Burns is currently a professor and MFA Co-Director, at Hunter College, CUNY, Department of Art & Art History.
