Hans Haacke (b. 1936 in Cologne) has permanently lived and worked in New York since 1965. After studying at the Staatliche Werkakademie (State Art Academy) in Kassel (1956–60) and spending time abroad in Paris, Philadelphia, and New York, he taught in New York City for thirty-five years as a professor at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. In the course of his extensive teaching activities, he was also a visiting professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (State University of Fine Arts) in Hamburg and the Gesamthochschule (Comprehensive University) in Essen, lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an honorary doctor of fine arts at Oberlin College, Ohio, Bauhaus University Weimar, San Francisco Art Institute, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Haacke has received numerous awards, including the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement of the College Art Association of America, the Deutscher Kritikerpreis for 1990, the Golden Lion for the German Pavilion at the 1993 Venice Biennale together with Nam June Paik, the Kurt Eisner Foundation’s Art Award, the Helmut Kraft Foundation’s Prize for Fine Arts, the Distinguished Teaching of Art Award of the College Art Association, the Peter Weiss Prize of the City of Bochum, the Roland Prize for Art in Public Space, the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation’s Art Prize, and the Kaiserring of the City of Goslar.
