Editing Chris Burden (section)

== Early life and career ==
Burden was born in [[Boston]] in 1946 to Robert Burden, an engineer, and Rhoda Burden, a biologist.<ref name="Margalit Fox 2015">Margalit Fox (May 11, 2015), [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/arts/chris-burden-a-conceptualist-with-scars-dies-at-69.html Chris Burden, a Conceptualist With Scars, Dies at 69] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref><ref name="nytimes.com">[[Roberta Smith]] (October 3, 2013), [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/arts/design/chris-burden-extreme-measures-at-the-new-museum.html The Stuff of Building and Destroying: 'Chris Burden: Extreme Measures,' at the New Museum] ''The New York Times''</ref>  He grew up in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], France and Italy.<ref name="newyorker.com">[[Peter Schjeldahl]] (May 14, 2007), [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2007/05/14/070514craw_artworld_schjeldahl Performance: Chris Burden and the limits of art] ''[[The New Yorker]]''.</ref>

At the age of 12, Burden had emergency surgery, performed without anesthesia, on his left foot after he was severely injured in a motor-scooter crash on the island of [[Elba]]. During the long convalescence that followed, he became deeply interested in [[visual art]], particularly photography.<ref name="Margalit Fox 2015"/>

He studied for his B.A. in visual arts, physics and architecture at [[Pomona College]] in 1965–1969<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=11 August 2022|title=Chris Burden|url=https://www.theartstory.org/artist/burden-chris/}}</ref> and received his MFA at the [[University of California, Irvine]]—where his teachers included [[Robert Irwin (artist)|Robert Irwin]]<ref name="newyorker.com"/>—from 1969 to 1971.<ref name=gagosian>Gagosian Gallery website. http://www.gagosian.com/artists/chris-burden/. Retrieved 25 May 2010.</ref>