EDWARD BURTYNSKY

 

 

BORN:

 

1955

St. Catharines, Ontario

 

                           

EDUCATION:

 

 

B.A. Photographic Arts (Media Studies Program), Ryerson Polytechnical University,

Toronto, Ontario

 

Diploma, Graphic Arts, Niagara College, Welland, Ontario

 

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

 

2004

Before the Flood, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

2003-05

Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky, The National Gallery of

Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; The Finnish Museum of Photography at Cable Factory, Helsinki; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY *

2003

In the Wake of Progress: Images of the Industrial Landscape, Canadian Embassy in conjunction with Library of Congress, Washington, DC *

 

Billboard, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY

 

Before the Flood, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco

 

Before the Flood, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario *

 

Before the Flood, Flowers East, London

 

Oil Fields, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

2002

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York *

 

Eight Large Photographs, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

 

Shipbreaking: The Second Voyage, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco

 

Rajasthan New Work, Flowers Central, London

 

Rock of Ages: Photographs by Edward Burtynsky, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL *

 

Works from Two Decades 1981-2001. A Gift to the Collection, Kitchener-Waterloo Art

Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario

 

Prairie Art Gallery, Grand Prairie, Alberta

 

Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta

2001

Flowers East, London *

 

Shipbreaking, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario *

 

New Work, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco *

 

Survey Show, Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario

2000-01

Visions and Views: The Architecture of Borromini in the Photographs of Edward Burtynsky,

Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Quebec; traveled to the Winnepeg Art Gallery, Winnepeg, Manitoba

2000

Oil Refineries, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

 

Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco

 

Edward Burtynsky Photographs, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario

1999

In the Wake of Progress, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco

 

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston

1998

Urban Mines, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

 

Urban Mines and Tailings, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York

 

In the Wake of Progress: Quarries, Tailings & Urban Mines, Paul Kuhn Fine Arts,

Calgary, Alberta

1996

Tailings, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1995

Quarries, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York

1994

The Carrara Marble Quarries, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1993

The Stone Quarries, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1992-98

Breaking Ground, Produced by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography;

traveled to: 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

 

Recent Landscapes, Scaramouche Restaurant, Toronto, Ontario

1986

Landscapes, Toronto Image Works Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1985

Earthworks, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario

 

Landscapes, Gallery 252, Hamilton, Ontario

1984

Earthworks, A Moment in Time Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1982

Landscapes and Greenhouses, Ryerson Photographic Arts Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

 

 

 

* = catalogue


 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

 

2004

Fotofest 2004 – Water: Fotofest’s Twentieth Anniversary Biennial, Houston, TX

 

Displacement: Photographs by Edward Burtynsky and Camilo Jose Vergara, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA *

2003-04

Terrain Vague: Architecture, Photography and the Post-Industrial Landscape, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA; travels to: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA *

 

Landscapes of Man, Jean-Paul Slusser Gallery, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2003

Global Detail, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, The Netherlands *

 

Presence of Mind: Imagining the North, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

 

Industry and Entropy: Edward Burtynsky, Mark Ruwedel and Robert Smithson, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA *

 

Pretty, as a Picture: Beauty and Banality in Contemporary Photography, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

In Residence: The Photographs of Stéphane Couturier and Edward Burtynsky, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 

2002-03

Altered Landscape: The Carol Franc Buck Collection, Norsk Museum for FotografiPreus

Fotomuseum, Horten, Norway; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

2002

Miami Currents: Linking Collection and Community, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL

 

The Eye of the Beholder: A History of Photography from the LaSalle Bank Photography Collection,

Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI

 

Manifest Destiny and the Contemporary American Landscape, Sun Valley Center for the Arts,

Sun Valley, ID

 

New Acquisitions / New Work / New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles

County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

 

Altered States: Landscape Transformation in the Wake of Progress, University Art Gallery,

University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

 

Acquiring Taste, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

 

Curator’s Forum: Collecting Contemporary Art, Ackland Art Museum, University of North

Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

2001

Detourism, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

 

Best of the Season: Selected Works from the 2000-2001 Manhattan Gallery Season, The Aldrich

Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

 

This is North America / Is This North America?, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of

Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

 

Eternal Commentary: Writers Respond To Photography, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Ontario

 

Site /Seeing, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

 

Out & Out in the Big City, Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta

1999

Art & Architecture, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

 

Virgin Land, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Weisbaden, Germany

 

L’Evocation, Marché Bonsecours, Montreal Quebec

 

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

 

Before the Land, Behind the Camera, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Alberta

1997

Work, Workers, Works: Rearranging the Land, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

 

The Big Picture: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY

 

Land Used, Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN

1996

Before the Land Behind the Camera, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography,

Ottawa, Ontario

1994

Burtynsky/Maynard, Art Gallery of Ontario

1993

Embodied Spaces, Le Mois de la Photo, Montreal, Quebec

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, co-curated by John Pfahl

& Sandra Olsen, Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, NY

1990-91

The Landscape-Eight Canadian Photographers, McMichael Canadian Art Collection,

Kleinburg, Ontario; traveled to: Le Mois de la Photo, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

1989-92

Money Matter: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture, curated by Anne Tucker, Museum of

Fine Arts, Houston; traveled: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Quebec; National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

1989

Structure and Landscape in Contemporary Canadian Photography, Art Gallery of

Northumberland, Cobourg, Ontario

 

What is Photography--150 Years of Photography, Prague, Czechoslovakia

1987

Focus “87”, Art Gallery of Ontario

1985

In the Keeping Room, Marcus Schubert/Edward Burtynsky, Presentation House,

Vancouver, British Columbia

1983

Photo Perspectives, National juried exhibition, Presentation House, Vancouver,

British Columbia

1982-83

Transitions - The Landscape, Produced and toured by The National Film Board

traveled to: The Photography Gallery, La Jolla, CA; The Canadian Centre of Photography, Toronto, Ontario; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba; The Photo Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario

 

 

 

* = catalogue

 

 

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:

 

Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Albright College, Reading, PA

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

Art Gallery of North York, Toronto, Ontario

Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario

Bibliotheque National, Paris

Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario

Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Quebec

Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario

George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario

Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA

Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA

McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA

Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Québec

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

Presentation House, Vancouver, British Columbia

Ryerson Polytechnic University / School of Image Arts, Toronto, Ontario

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

Seattle University, Seattle, WA

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

 

AWARDS:

 

1997

Gold Medal, National Magazine Award for article in Canadian Art

1990

Canada Council “B” Grant

1985

Ontario Arts Council Framing Grant

1984

Canada Council “B” Grant

 

Ontario Arts Council “B” Grant

1983

Canada Council Short Term Grant

 

Purchase Award -- Presentation House, Vancouver, B.C.