Burden was born in 1946 in Boston, the eldest of three children. His father was an engineering professor at Harvard. At the age of thirteen Burden took up photography as a serious hobby. In 1969 he received his B.F.A. from Pamona College in Claremont, CA. He started out as an architecture student but later changed his major to sculpture because, as he said: “When I design something, I can’t wait to see it.”(People Weekly). In 1971 he received his M.F.A. from the University of California, Irving. It was during his graduate studies at UCI in 1970 that he first began attracting the attention of his peers. He locked himself in a locker for seven days with five gallons of water suspended in the locker above him. (Horvitz). Burden continued doing performance art such as this until 1983. In 1983, after realizing

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