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Edward Burtynsky
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Canadian
, born 1955)
Edward Burtynsky
Greenhouses, Almeria Peninsula, Spain,
2010
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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
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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
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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
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