Born in 1941 in Brucklin, lives and works in New York.

American video artist and performance-maker.

Teaches TV skill at New York municipal school and New York University.

In his work, Bill Beirne focuses on human behavior and "attribution." Attribution is that aspect of human interaction that assigns significance to an action or an anticipation of behavior based on expectation. The surveillance camera, a means of maintaining the immediacy of performance in public space and a metaphor for the frames of reference we use to determine the truth of a given situation, has been a key element in Beirne’s work since the early seventies.

His works are well-known, exhibited at
Franklin Furnace, New York;
The Kitchen, New York;
Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx;
Santa Fe Fine Arts Museum, New Mexico;
Contemporary Art Museum, New York;
A Space, Toronto;
Witny Museum of American Art, New York
National Center for Contemporary Art in Kaliningrad, Russia (2001);
TV Gallery, Moscow (2000, 1999);
in New York at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (1999, 1997, 1976);
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (1997);
the Sculpture Center (1994);
The International Center of Photography (1994, 1992);
The Whitney Museum of American Art (1991, 1979);
Fashion MODA (1986);
Artists Space (1978);
D’Arc Gallery (1977);
Herron Art Gallery, Colgate University (1976);
and 112 Greene Street (1976).