BORN:
1945Seattle, WA

SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

2001		Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1999		The Norton Building, Seattle, WA
1999		Pictures from Another Place, continued, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997		For Her Own Welfare: 24 Hours Witnessed, Seafirst Columbia Center, Seattle, WA
1996		Pictures from Another Place, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995		Mars Hills College, Mars Hills, NC
1995		Portrait of America, Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem University, Winston-Salem, NC
1994		Surveillance / Sensations: Works from 1987 to Present, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994		Recent Work, University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC
1993		All God's Children, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1993		Recent Black & White Photographs, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
1993		Portraits from America, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, Jenkins Fine Arts Center, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
1993		All God's Children, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1992		Portraits from America, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
1992		Men, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1991		Ministry of Culture, Alden Beisen, Belgium
1991		Human Scene, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
1991		G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
1990		Folio Gallery, Calgary, Canada
1990		Andrea Ross, Santa Monica, CA
1990		Recent Photographs, Portland School of Art, Portland, OR
1989		Marsha Burns Photographs Rome
1989		Polaroids, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
1989		Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1988		Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
1988		Berlin, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, OR
1987		The Silver Image Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1987		Gallerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris, France
1987		Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1987		The Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1987		Photographs for Real Life, Baskin Gallery, Tacoma Museum of Art, WA
1986		Trisolini Gallery, Ohio State University, Athens, OH
1986		Forum Fotogaleria, Tarragona, Spain
1986		Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1986		Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
1986		Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1985		Outside of Society, Seattle/Berlin, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1985		Canon Photo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1985		Gallery Watari, Tokyo, Japan
1985		Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Menen, Belgium
1984		American Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium
1984		Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1984		Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
1984		Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1984		Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
1983		Gallery Alphaville, Placenza, Italy
1983		G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1983		Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1983		The Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1983		Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1982		Dreamers, Glover/Hayes Books, Seattle, WA
1982		The Baker Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1982		Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982		, Books and Company, New York, NY
1982		The Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA
1982		The Gallery of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography of Columbia College, Chicago, IL
1982		Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
1982		Paula Pia Gallery, Amtwerp, Belgium
1981		The Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
1981		Jeffrey Gilbert Gallery, Chicago, IL
1981		Glover/Hayes Books, Seattle, WA
1981		The Art Attack Gallery, Boise, ID
1980		Eastern Washington State College Gallery, Cheny, Washington
1980		Gallery Four, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
1980		The Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1980		Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
1980		The Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA
1980		Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1980		Glover/Hayes Books, Seattle, WA
1979		Jeffrey Gilbert Gallery, Chicago, IL
1979		Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1978		Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
1977		University of Oregon, Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
1977		Sarah Reynolds Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1977		Marsha and Michael Burns: Recent Photographs, Museum of Fine Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1975		The Photographer's Gallery, Seattle, WA
1973		Cheney Cowles Art Museum, Spokane, WA
1971		University of Denver, Denver, CO
1969		Smith College, Northampton, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2000-01		American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Museum EKI, Kyoto; Takamatsu City Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo
2000		Horse, The Male as Sexual Entity, Ron Judish Fine Arts, Denver, CO
1999		Hindsight Is 20/20, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA
1999		The Full Monty, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY
1998-1999		Personal Visions: Focus on Photography, Dream Collection...part four, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
1998		Inspired Moments, llalak & Tom Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997-1998		Personal Visions: 101 Photographs by 101 Photographers, Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, VA; traveled to: The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
1997		Eye of the Beholder, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
1997		101 Visions, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA
1997		Jay Steensma / A Retrospective, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
1997		Sex / Industry, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
1997		New Acquisitions, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1996
1997		The Three Great Egyptian Ladies, The Giza Pyramids through the History of Photography, The Photography Museum, Charleroi, Belgium
1994		About Face, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
1993		Masquerade, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1993		Indianer Nordamerikas, Schweizcrische Stiftung fur die Photographie im Kunsthaus Zurich, Swittzerland
1993		The Art of Microsoft, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1992		Photographs: Jock Sturges, Plauto,Marsha Burns, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1992		To Collect the Art of Women: The Jane Reese Williams Collection of Photography, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
1991		SoHo At Duke, Five Artists from Charles Cowles Gallery, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
1991		People and Places, Northern Illinois University Art Museum Gallery in Chicago, Chicago, IL
1991		National Governors Association Art Exhibition, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA
1991		Bumberbiennale: Seattle Photography 1931-1991, Rainer Room, Seattle Center, WA
1990		Twentieth Anniversary Show, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1990		Western Women Photographers, Maveety Gallery, Portland, OR
1990		China 1989, One Path Three Vision, Italia, Seattle, WA
1990		Photography From Seattle, Committee for Visual Exchange, Tashkent, USSR
1990		Photography by the 1990 Workshop Faculty, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA
1990		Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
1989		Twelfth Annual Pilchuck Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1989		Taboo, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1989		Behold: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
1989		Attitudes Revisited, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1989		100 Years of Washington Photography, Selected Artists, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
1989		Faces of China: Photographs of Contemporary China, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
1989		The Cowles Art Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1988		Selections 4, Photokina 88, Cologne, Germany
1988		Musee de L'Eysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
1988		Photographic Images/N.W., Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
1988		Nude: Male and Female, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1987		New Works, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1987		Focus Seattle, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1987		Index Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
1987		Galerie Arena, Ecole Nationale de la Photographie, Arles, France
1987		Twentieth Anniverary Exhibition, The Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
1987		Likeness, Expression and Character: Presence in Photographs, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
1986		Third Western States Arts Foundation Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1986		The Photographic Image Gallery
1986		Elliot Smith Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1986		Commitment to Vision, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
1985		Das Aktfoto, Muchner Stadtmuseums, Das Aktfoto, Munich, West Germany
1985		Das Aktfoto, Museum of Moderner Kunst, Das Aktfoto, Vienna, Austria
1985		Exhibition of Works from the Permanent Collection, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1985		Photo 15, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
1984		American Photography Today, University of Denver, Denver, CO
1984		Arranged Image, San Francisco Camera Work Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984		Arranged Image Photography, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
1984		The Nude: Classic Beauty, The Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA
1984		Masterwork Show, Ledel Gallery, New York, NY
1984		Attitude and Expressions: Classic and Contemporary Portrait Photography, Mills House Visual Art Complex, Garden Grove, CA
1984		American and Dutch Photography, Foto Biennale Enschede, Holland
1984		Paula Pia Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
1984		The Big Picture, Polaroid, The Museum of Photographic Arts, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
1983		Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
1983		Outside New York: Seattle, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1983		The Individual: Five Contemporary Photographic Viewpoints, University Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
1983		Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1982		G.H. Dalsheimer, Gallery, Ltd., Baltimore, MD
1982		California and the West Coast, Cypress College, Cypress, CA

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID
California State Museum, Long Beach, CA
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
City of Seattle Collection, Seattle, WA
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Evergreen State College Collection, Olympia, WA
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Indiana Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Museum of Modern Art, Pompideau, Paris, France
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Newport Harbor Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Newport Beach, CA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Orange County Museum of Contemporary Art, Newport Beach, CA
Pacific Northwest Arts Council
San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Spencer Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Springfield Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Whatcom County Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA