Vince Briffa

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Vince Briffa (born 1958) is an artist and academic.

He works in video, photography, painting, new media and installation. He is also a curator of contemporary art exhibitions, writes for various local and international publications and organizes discussions, exhibitions and art residencies. He was awarded a PhD by the University of Central Lancashire in the UK in 2009 and an MA in Fine Arts with distinction from the University of Leeds in 2000. He was also artist in residence at the Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland in 1996.

Briffa’s work has been exhibited in some of the world’s most prestigious museums and galleries. He has also been chosen to represent Malta in many international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (1999) amongst others, and his work forms part of many local and international private and public collections.

As an academic, he is an Associate of the Electronic and Digital Arts Unit (EDAU) of the University of Central Lancashire, and a visiting academic at Contemporary Art Practice, Leeds University in the UK. He is also the external examiner for the Bradford Film School.

Vince Briffa has been involved in the creative industries for the past thirty years and was instrumental in launching computer graphics for television broadcast in Malta in the late 1980s.

Works exhibited at

• 48th Venice Biennale (1999)
• Villa Manin Museum of Contemporary Art
• Passariano and Casoria Museum of Contemporary Art in Naples, Italy
• Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus
• MOYA and Only Atelier, Vienna; ‘Johanniterkirche’, Feldkirch, Austria
• Palais des Nations, United Nations Building, Geneva, Switzerland
• Grounds of the Museum of Modern Art, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
• Galerie der Schwarze Punkt, Konstanz, Germany
• Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh Festival
• Matthew Gallery, Invergordon Gallery, Scotland
• Galerie d’Art Zero, Barcelona, Spain
• Queen Street Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Espace Claudel, Bibliothèque Universitaire, Amiens, France
• MAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santa Fe, Argentina
• Cork Vision Centre, Cork, Ireland
• Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Cathedral Museum, Mdina
• the Museum of Fine Art, Valletta
• Museum of Archaeology, Valletta
• St. James Cavalier, Valletta

External links

• https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/vincebriffa