John Baldessari was born in National City, California in 1931. He attended San Diego State University and did post-graduate work at Otis Art Institute, Chouinard Art Institute and the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA from 1970 – 1988 and the University of California at Los Angeles from 1996 – 2007.
A video introduction to his practice & bio

I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, 1971

Studio, 1988

I Saw It, 1997

Six Colorful Inside Jobs, 1977
32:53 min, color, silent

Scene ( ) / Take ( ): Palm trees in silhouette…, 2014
Sourced from John Baldessari’s Website