Hank Bull was born at Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary) in 1949. He pursued independent studies in Europe and attended the New School of Art in Toronto, studying under Nobuo Kubota and Robert Markle. In 1973, he moved to Vancouver, where he joined the Western Front Society, exploring performance art, radio, shadow theatre, video and music. During the 1980s, as a participant in global art networks, he collaborated on early explorations in telecommunications, and contributed to the development of artist-directed economies of exchange, producing numerous international projects. In 1999, he was co-founder of Centre A, the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Throughout a long career, he has continued to make art in a range of media, including painting, photography, video, music, and sound, and continues to be an engaged advocate for the visual arts.