Nauman taught at the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of California at Irvine. Some of his best known works include A Rose Has No Teeth, Eleven Color Photographs, Art Make-Up, The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths, Burning Small Fires, Wall-Floor Positions, Placing Upside Down, Audio Video Piece for London, Ontario, LA AIR, Henry Moore bound to fair, back view, Please/Pay/Attention/Please, Tony Sinking into the Floor, Face Up, and Face Down, Good Boy Bad Boy, and many more. In 2006 Bruce Nauman was ranked as the number one living artist by Artfacts.net.