AA Bronson is an artist, publisher and curator whose work emphasizes issues of collaboration, trauma, loss, death, and healing. He co-founded the group General Idea in 1969 with artists Jorge Zontal and Felix Partz. General Idea’s work played with mass media and popular culture, and was produced in nearly every conceivable medium— sculpture, painting, installation, video and performance work as well as artist’s books, photography, multiples, prints, and public art projects. Art Metropole, a Toronto archive and store for multiples, artist books, and ephemera, was founded by General Idea in 1974. The group ceased in 1994 with the deaths of Zontal and Partz from AIDS. A General Idea retrospective opened January 2010 at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Working independently as an artist since 1994, Bronson was President of Printed Matter (NY) from 2004-2010. He has had solo exhibitions worldwide, and is in collections of museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum (NY); and the National Gallery of Canada. Bronson presented his recent collaborative project, Invocation of the Queer Spirits, in New Orleans, Winnipeg, and New York; and his School for Young Shamans organizes group discussions around the world. Additionally, Bronson has edited many books and written extensively, including his memoir Negative Thoughts (2001), published by the MCA Chicago. He has taught at UCLA, the University of Toronto, and Yale University. Bronson is currently the artistic director of the Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary.
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