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Edward Burtynsky

(Canadian, born 1955)

Edward Burtynsky

Coal Tailings #1, SASOL, Synfuels, Secunda, Mpumalanga, South Africa, 2018

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Edward Burtynsky

Salt Ponds #9, Near Fatick, Senegal, 2019

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Edward Burtynsky

Salt Ponds #6, Near Tikat Banguel, Senegal, 2019

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Biography

Timeline

1955: Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
1974 - 1976: Diploma, Graphic Arts, Niagara College, Welland, Ontario
1982: BAA Photographic Arts (Media Studies Program), Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario
1985: Founded Toronto Images Works
2004: Recipient: TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Prize, Monterey, Canada
: Recipient: Outreach Award, Les Recontres d’Arles, France
: Recipient: Roloff Beny Photography Book Award for Before the Flood, Ontario, Canada
: Lives and Works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
: Canadian Artist

Exhibitions

2013: Burtynsky: Oil, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada (solo)
: Nature Transformed: Edward Burtynsky's Vermont Quarry Photographs in Context, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, USA (solo)
: Landmark: The Fields of Photography, Somerset House, London, U.K.
: Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
: Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
: Burtynsky: Oil, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winterpark, FL
: Nature Transformed: Edward Burtynsky's Vermont Quarry Photographs in Context, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA (solo)
: Burtynsky: Oil, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA
: Burtynsky: Oil, The Photographer's Gallery, London, England
2012: Subverted, Ivory Press, Madrid, Spain
: Burtynsky: Oil, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2011: Burtynsky: Oil, Ryerson University in association with the Institute for Contemporary Culture, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
: Burtynsky: Oil, Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: Burtynsky: Oil, Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg, Germany
: Edward Burtynsky: L'Uomo e la Terra. Luci e Ombre, Centro Culturale di Milano, Milan, Italy
: Burtynsky: Oil, McCord Museum, Montréal, Quebec
: Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime, (touring exhibition), Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah.
: Gulf Oil Spill, Art 45, Montreal, Canada
: Edward Burtynsky: Oil, Galeria Arnés Röpke, Madrid (solo)
: Burtynsky: Oil, The Rooms - Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
: Edward Burtynsky: Making and Breaking, Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
: Burtynsky: Oil, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
2010: Edward Burtynsky: Min(d)ing the Landscape, Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
: Gulf Oil Spill and Pentimento, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
: Australian Minescapes, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane, Australia
: Australian Minescapes, Sovereign Hill Gold Museum, Ballarat, Australia
: Edward Burtynsky, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, China
: Edward Burtynsky: Quarries, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, U.K.,
: Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, Blaffer Gallery, Toronto
: Una fábrica, una máquina, un cuerpo…Arqueología y memoria de los espacios industriales, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida
: Una fábrica, una máquina, un cuerpo…Arqueología y memoria de los espacios industriales, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo de México, Ciudad de México, 2009
: Auto. Materia y Sueño, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles, Spain
: Auto. Materia y Sueño, Laboral centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain
: The Residual Landscapes, The Whyte Museum of Canadian Rockies, Banff, Canada (solo)
: Burtynsky Australian Mines, Gallerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
: Edward Burtynsky: An Uneasy Beauty – Photographs of Western Canada, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey (solo)
: Australia - Edward Burtynsky, Art45, Montreal, Canada
: Burtynsky: Oil, Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery, New York, NY
: Burtynsky Australian Mines, Flowers East Gallery, London, U.K.
: Burtynsky: Oil, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
: Burtynsky: Oil, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery, New York, NY
: Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, Blaffer Gallery, Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
2009: Burtynsky: Oil, Corcoran Gallery / Museum of Art, Washington, D.C. (solo)
: Moving Walls, Open Society Institute, New York, NY
: A History of Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, U.K.
: Ingenuity: Photography and Engineering, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
: Oi Futuro Media Art Center, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
: SESC Pauista, San Paulo, Brazil
: New Quarries, Flowers East Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Three Gorges, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, Minnesota, MN
: The Tropics, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
: In Pursuit of Progress, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada (solo)
: Moving Walls, Open Society Institute, Washington, D.C.
: New Quarries, Galeria Toni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
: Material World, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (solo)
: Variable Capital, Blue Coat Gallery, Liverpool U.K.
: Twice Removed, Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
: Territories, 6th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Liege, Belgium
: Eastern Standard: Western Artists in China, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
: Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
: Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Winston Salem, NC (solo)
2008: Burtynsky Photographs, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, Netherlands (solo)
: Australian Minescapes, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle, Australia (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA (solo)
: New Quarries, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
: New Quarries, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Manufactures Landscapes, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, Netherlands (solo)
: Burtynsky Photographs, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, Netherlands (solo)
: Manufactured Landscapes, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France (solo)
: Burtynsky: Quarries, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Burtynsky: China, Center Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain (solo)
: Burtynsky Photographs, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Netherlands (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, University of Oregon, Oregon (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA(solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Boca Ratón Art Museum, Boca Raton , FL(solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Presentation House, Vancouver, B.C. (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: Photographs, Canadien Cultural Institute, Paris, France (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky – In the Pursuit of Progress, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (solo)
2007: Construir, habitar, desocupar. Prácticas del espacio, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia-San Sebastián
: Imaging a Shattering Earth, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
: Et voilà le travail!, Galerie d’Art du Conseil General des Bounches-du-Rhône, Aix-en-Provence
: Edward Burtynsky – In the Pursuit of Progress, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Presentation House, Vancouver, B.C. (solo)
: Canadian Photographers, Théâtre de la Photographie et de l’Image, Nice
: Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky – In the Pursuit of Progress, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Presentation House, Vancouver, B.C. (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA (solo)
: Whose Nature? What’s Nature?, Sun Valley Center of the Arts, Ketchum, ID
: China, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
: The China Series, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: China’s Industrial Revolution, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: China’s Industrial Revolution, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (solo)
: C on Cities, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
: Madre Tierra, Photoespaña 2006, Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain
: Allphabet City Festival 2006, Toronto, Canada
: The photographic document: Aspects & Transformations, Photography Museum of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
: Contemporary Landscapes: Crossing Boundaries, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC
: Made in China: Work, Machineries and Automation in the Arts of 1900, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
: Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
: Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
: Imaging Asia in Documents, 1st Photo Biennale, Daegu, Korea
: The China Series, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL(solo)
: Imaging a Shattering Earth, Museum of Conteporary Canadian Art, Contact Photo Festival, Toronto, Canada
: Edward Burtynsky: China’s Industrial Revolution, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta (solo)
2006: China, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
: Photo España, Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: China, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
: New China works, ART45, Montreal, Quebec (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: Quarries, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Candada (solo)
: Manufactured Landscapes, Yours Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
: Fabryka Krajobrazu: Manufactured Landscapes, Yours Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: Eight China Works, The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
: PhotoEspana Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain
: Fabryka Krajobrazu/Manufactured Landscapes Yours Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
: Edward Burtynsky: China Palace of Art, Bratislawa, Slovakia
: China, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
: The China Series, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
: Edward Burtynsky / China Foto Month of photography, Palace of Art, Bratislava, Slovakia (solo)
: Oil Fields, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
: Edward Burtynsky, Herron Gallery, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, ISA
: Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
: Edward Burtynsky: The Edmonton Art Gallery Gift, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
: Fundacion BBK, Bilbao, Spain
2005: Edward Burtynsky: China, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Edward Burtynsky: China, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco; Charles Cowles Gallery, New York; Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto; Flowers East Gallery, London, UK
: Asian Quarries, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
: Flowers West at Keller & GreenKeller & Green
: Works for Wycombe Square
: Spiritus Mundi, Flowers East
: Edward Burtynsky, Flowers Central
2004: Image Smugglers in a Free Territory, 26th São Paulo Biennial, Brasil
: Edward Burtynsky at Reuban Alexander, UK
2003 - 2005: Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky—organized by The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Japan
2003: Landmarks Oakville Galleries, Centennial Square, Oakville, Ontario
: Edward Burtynsky: Mid-Career Retrospective, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Finnish Museum of Photography at Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, California
: Before the Flood, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario and Flowers Gallery, London
2002: Eight Large Photographs, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
: Shipbreaking II, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Rajasthan New Work, Flowers Central, London, England
: New Acquisitions / New Work / New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
: Altered States: Landscape Transformation in the Wake of Progress, University Art Gallery, UC San Diego, CA
2001: This is North America/Is this North America?, Fine Arts Center Galleries, Univ. of Rhode Island Kingston, RI
: Shipbreaking, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
: Edward Burtynsky: Shipbreaking, Robert Koch Gallery San Francisco
: Edward Burtynsky Photographs, McMaster Museum of Art Hamilton, Ontario
2000: Oil Refineries, Mira Goddard Gallery Toronto, Ontario
1999: Art & Architecture, Mira Godard Gallery Toronto, Ontario
: Virgin Land, Nassauisher Kunstverein Weisbaden, Germany
: The Sudbury Basin: Industrial Topographies, The Art Gallery of Sudbury Sudbury, Ontario
1998: On the Nature of Landscape, Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum South Hadley, MA
: Urban Mines, Mira Goddard Gallery Toronto, Ontario
: In the Wake of Progress: Quarries, Tailings & Urban Mines, Paul Kuhn Fine Arts Calgary, Alberta
1997: The Big Picture, Albright Knox Gallery Buffalo, NY
1996: Before the Land Behind the Camera, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography Ottawa, Ontario
1995: Quarries, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1993: The Stone Quarries, Mira Godard Gallery Toronto, Ontario
1992: Beau: A Reflection on Beauty of Nature in Photography, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography Ottawa, Ontario
1991: Tainted Prospects: Photographers and the Compromised Environment, Castellani Art Museum Lewiston, NY
1990: The Landscape: Eight Canadian Photographers, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario. Curated by David Barbour. Traveling exhibition: Le Mois de la Photo, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
1988: Breaking Ground-—organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa. Traveling exhibition: Alberni Valley Museum, Port Alberni, British Columbia; Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia; Cambridge Public Library and Art Gallery, Cambridge, Ontario; Lacham Gallery, Stouffville, Ontario; Galerie d’Art de Matane, Matane, Quebec; The Gallery/Stratford, Stratford, Ontario; Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta; Biblioteque Municipale de Mont-Joli, Mont-Joli, Quebec; Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Banff, Alberta; Cedarbrae District Library, Scarborough, Ontario; Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, Ontario; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario.
1987: Mines and Railcuts, Laurence Miller Gallery New York, NY

Public Collections

: San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, Ca
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
: London Museum, London, Ontario
: Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
: Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
: Gemeentemuseum Helmonds, The Netherlands
: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario
: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
: Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain
: Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
: Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
: Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, North York, Ontario
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, U.K.
: Thessaloniki Museum of Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
: Saint Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
: Scottsdale Museum of Contempoary Art, Linhart Collection, Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A.
: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
: Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec

Literature

2007: Edward Burtynsky: Quarries, Essays by Michael Mitchell. Göttingen, Germany: Stiedl
2005: Sansom, Anna, The Beauty of Progress: Edward Burtynsky's widescreen Industrial Visions, November 2005, Spoon, U.K.
: Meyers, William, An Artist in Awe of His Surroundings, October 13 2005, New York Sun, Arts & Letters
: Baker, Kenneth, As Nature Bleeds, Edward Burtynsky get the Big Picture, July 6 2005, San Francisco Chronicle
: Knight, Christopher, His Aim is True, May 25 2005, Los Angeles Times
: Dixon, guy, A Warning From the Wastelands, April 7 2005, Globe and Mail, Review R1 - R3
: Goddard, Peter, Terror in Progress, October 1 2005, Toronto Star
: Harris, Jeff, The Reinvention of China, February 24 2005, Maclean's
: Roderick, Daffyd, Made in Canada: Frame of Work September 19 2005, Arts & Culture, Time (Canadian Edition)
: Milroy, Sarah, Burtynsky's view of China Rising, October 15 2005, Globe and Mail, Review, R5
2004: Regimbald, Manon, Les Ruines Des Burtynsky, November-December 2004, Spirale
2003: Before the Flood. Essay by Gary Michael Dault
: Pauli, Lori. Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky. Essays by Mark Haworth-Booth and Kenneth Baker. Ottawa, Canada: National Gallery of Canada, in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London
2001: Edward Burtynsky: Ten Years. Essay by Mark Mayer
: Torosian, Michael. Residual Landscapes: Studies of Industrial Transfiguration. Toronto: Lumiere Press
1994: Quarries: Edward Burtynsky. Essay by Michael Mitchell

Edward Burtynsky

(Canadian, born 1955)

Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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