Iain Baxter
| Iain Baxter& | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Iain Baxter November 16, 1936 Middlesbrough, England |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Known for | conceptual art, photographer |
| Movement | Conceptual Art |
| Awards | Member of the Order of British Columbia (2007) |
Officer of the Order of Canada (2003)
Iain Baxter&,OC OOnt OBC FRSC (born Iain Baxter on November 16, 1936) is a Canadian conceptual artist.
Baxter& is recognized internationally as an early practitioner of conceptual art; the Canada Council Molson Prize committee stated in 2005 that his "highly regarded conceptual installations and projects, as well as his photography, have earned him the label of 'the Marshall McLuhan of the visual arts." Baxter& was co-president with Ingrid Baxter of the conceptual project and legally incorporated business N.E. Thing Co., founded in 1966.
Baxter& is Professor Emeritus at the School of Visual Arts University of Windsor and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
Baxter was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1936; his family emigrated to Canada in 1937 and settled in Calgary. In 1959, he received a BSc from the University of Idaho and completed a Master of Education at the University of Idaho. Baxter studied art and aesthetics in Japan in 1961 and completed an MFA at Washington State University at Pullman in 1964.
Founded in 1966 by Iain and Ingrid Baxter, N.E. Thing Co. was established as a conceptual vehicle that viewed the art world as "parallel [to] consumer culture." N.E. Thing Co. was incorporated under the Companies Act in 1969. Focusing on an interdisciplinary practice and using photography, site-specific performances and installation, N.E. Thing Co. is seen as a "key catalyst and influence for Vancouver photoconceptualism" and is considered a precursor to the Vancouver School. N.E. Thing Co. created some of the earliest photoconceptual works to display a tendency to use photography to document "idea-works and their sites, as language games and thematic inventories and as reflective investigations of the social and architectural landscape."
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