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Edward Burtynsky

(Canadian, born 1955)

coast mountains #15, receding glacier, british columbia, canada by edward burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky

Coast Mountains #15, Receding Glacier, British Columbia, Canada, 2023

Price on Request

coast mountains #16, british columbia, canada by edward burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky

Coast Mountains #16, British Columbia, Canada, 2023

Price on Request

coast mountain #9, firn snow, british columbia, canada by edward burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky

Coast Mountain #9, Firn Snow, British Columbia, Canada, 2023

Price on Request

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

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

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
English (US)

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