EDWARD BURTYNSKY
BORN:
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1955 |
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EDUCATION:
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B.A.
Photographic Arts (Media Studies Program), Ryerson Polytechnical
University, |
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Diploma,
Graphic Arts, |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
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2004 |
Before the Flood, |
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2003-05 |
Manufactured
Landscapes: The Photographs 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 * |
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2003 |
In the Wake of Progress: Images of the
Industrial Landscape, Canadian
Embassy in conjunction with Library of Congress, |
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Billboard, |
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Before the Flood, Robert Koch Gallery, |
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Before the Flood, Mira Godard Gallery, |
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Before the Flood, Flowers East, |
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Oil Fields, |
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2002 |
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Eight Large
Photographs, Mira Godard
Gallery, |
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Shipbreaking: The
Second Voyage, Robert Koch
Gallery, |
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Rajasthan New Work, Flowers Central, |
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Rock of Ages:
Photographs by Edward Burtynsky,
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Works from Two
Decades 1981-2001. A Gift to the Collection, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery,
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Paul Kuhn Gallery, |
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2001 |
Flowers East, |
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Shipbreaking, Mira Godard Gallery, |
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New Work, Robert Koch Gallery, |
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Survey Show, |
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2000-01 |
Visions and Views:
The Architecture of Borromini in the Photographs of
Edward Burtynsky, Canadian
Centre for Architecture, |
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2000 |
Oil Refineries, Mira Godard Gallery, |
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Robert Koch Gallery, |
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Edward Burtynsky
Photographs, McMaster |
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1999 |
In the Wake of
Progress, Robert Koch Gallery, |
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Robert Klein Gallery, |
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1998 |
Urban Mines, Mira Godard Gallery, |
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Urban Mines and
Tailings, |
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In the Wake of
Progress: Quarries, Tailings & Urban Mines, |
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1996 |
Tailings, Mira Godard Gallery, |
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1995 |
Quarries, |
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1994 |
The |
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1993 |
The Stone Quarries, Mira Godard Gallery, |
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1992-98 |
Breaking Ground, Produced by the 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 |
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1987 |
Mines and Railcuts, |
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Recent Landscapes, Scaramouche
Restaurant, |
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1986 |
Landscapes, Toronto Image Works Gallery, |
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1985 |
Earthworks, |
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Landscapes, Gallery 252, |
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1984 |
Earthworks, A Moment in Time Gallery, |
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1982 |
Landscapes and
Greenhouses, Ryerson
Photographic Arts Gallery, |
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* = catalogue |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
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2004 |
Fotofest 2004
– Water: Fotofest’s Twentieth Anniversary Biennial,
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Displacement:
Photographs by Edward Burtynsky and Camilo Jose Vergara,
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2003-04 |
Terrain
Vague: Architecture, Photography and the Post-Industrial Landscape,
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Landscapes
of Man, Jean-Paul Slusser
Gallery,
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2003 |
Global
Detail, Noorderlicht
Photofestival,
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Presence of Mind: Imagining the North,
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Industry and Entropy: Edward
Burtynsky, Mark Ruwedel and Robert Smithson, Freedman Gallery, |
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Pretty, as a Picture: Beauty
and Banality in Contemporary Photography, Carrie Secrist
Gallery, |
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In Residence: The Photographs
of Stéphane Couturier and Edward Burtynsky, University Art Gallery, University of
California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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2002-03 |
Altered Landscape: The Carol Franc Buck Collection, Fotomuseum, |
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2002 |
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The Eye of the
Beholder: A History of Photography from the LaSalle Bank Photography
Collection, |
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Manifest Destiny and the Contemporary
American Landscape, |
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New Acquisitions
/ New Work / New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections,
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Altered States: Landscape Transformation in the Wake of Progress, |
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Acquiring Taste, |
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Curator’s Forum: Collecting Contemporary Art, |
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2001 |
Detourism, The
Renaissance Society, |
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Best of the Season: Selected Works from the 2000-2001 Manhattan
Gallery Season, The Aldrich |
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This is North America / Is This North America?, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of |
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Eternal Commentary: Writers Respond To Photography, Gallery TPW, |
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Site /Seeing, Art
Gallery of Ontario, |
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Out & Out in the Big City, |
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1999 |
Art & Architecture,
Mira Godard Gallery, |
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L’Evocation, Marché Bonsecours, |
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The |
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1998 |
On the Nature of Landscape,
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Before the Land, Behind the Camera, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, |
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1997 |
Work, Workers, Works: Rearranging the Land, |
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The Big Picture: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Albright Knox Gallery, |
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Land Used, |
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1996 |
Before the Land Behind the Camera, |
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1994 |
Burtynsky/Maynard, |
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1993 |
Embodied Spaces, Le
Mois de la Photo, |
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1992 |
Beau: A Reflection on Beauty of Nature in Photography, Photography, |
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1991 |
Tainted Prospects: Photographers and the Compromised Environment, co-curated by John Pfahl & Sandra Olsen, |
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1990-91 |
The Landscape-Eight Canadian Photographers, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, |
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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 |
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1989 |
Structure and Landscape in Contemporary Canadian Photography, Northumberland, Cobourg,
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What is Photography--150 Years of Photography, |
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1987 |
Focus “87”, |
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1985 |
In the Keeping Room,
Marcus Schubert/Edward Burtynsky, Presentation House, |
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1983 |
Photo Perspectives,
National juried exhibition, Presentation House, |
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1982-83 |
Transitions - The Landscape, Produced and toured by The National Film Board traveled
to: The Photography Gallery, |
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MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
Art
Gallery of Ontario,
Art
Gallery of North York,
Art
Gallery of Windsor,
Bibliotheque
National, Paris
Canada
Council Art Bank,
Canadian
Centre for Architecture,
George
Eastman House,
The
Library of Congress,
Musée
d'art contemporain de Montréal, Québec
National
Archives of
National
Gallery of Canada,
Presentation
House,
AWARDS:
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1997 |
Gold
Medal, National Magazine Award for article in Canadian Art |
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1990 |
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1985 |
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1984 |
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1983 |
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Purchase
Award -- Presentation House, Vancouver, B.C. |