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Edward Burtynsky    (Canadian, 1955)

 Edward Burtynsky - Rock of Ages #4, Abandoned Section, Adam-Pirie Quarry, Barre, Vermont (Photographs) h: 9 x w: 7.5 in / h: 22.9 x w: 19 cm
Edward Burtynsky
Rock of Ages #4, Abandoned Section, Adam-Pirie Quarry, Barre, Vermont 1991
 
  

Biography
1955 Born in St. Catharines, Ontario.
1985 Founded Toronto Images Works.
2004 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Prize, Monterey, Canada.
2004 Outreach Award, Les Recontres d’Arles, France.
2004 Roloff Beny Photography Book Award for Before the Flood, Ontario, Canada.

Exhibitions
2009 Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery, New York, New York
2009 The Residual Landscapes, The Whyte Museum of Canadian Rockies, Banff, Canada (solo)
2009 Edward Burtynsky: An Uneasy Beauty – Photographs of Western Canada, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey (solo)
2009 Burtynsky: Oil, Corcoran Gallery / Museum of Art, Washington, D.C., USA (solo)
2009 Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, Blaffer Gallery, Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
2008 Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate,
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
2008 Eastern Standard: Western Artists in China, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
2008 Territories, 6th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Liege, Belgium
2008 Twice Removed, Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2008 Variable Capital, Blue Coat Gallery, Liverpool U.K.
2008 Material World, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (solo)
2008 New Quarries, Galeria Toni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2008 Australian Minescapes, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle, Australia (solo)
2008 In Pursuit of Progress, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada (solo)
2008 New Quarries, Flowers East Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2008 Moving Walls, Open Society Institute, Washington, D.C., USA
2008 Moving Walls, Open Society Institute, New York
2008 A History of Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, U.K.
2008 Ingenuity: Photography and Engineering, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2008 The Tropics, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
2008 SESC Pauista, San Paulo, Brazil
2008 Oi Futuro Media Art Center, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
2008 Three Gorges, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
2008 Burtynsky Photographs, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, Netherlands (solo)
2008 Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Winston Salem, North Carolina (solo)
2007 Edward Burtynsky – In the Pursuit of Progress, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (solo)
2007 Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Presentation House, Vancouver, B.C. (solo)
2007 Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania (solo)
2007 Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachussets (solo)
2007 Edward Burtynsky – In the Pursuit of Progress, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (solo)
2007 Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Presentation House, Vancouver, B.C. (solo)
2007 Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania (solo)
2007 Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachussets (solo)
2007 Edward Burtynsky – In the Pursuit of Progress, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (solo)
2007 Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Presentation House, Vancouver, B.C. (solo)
2007 Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania (solo)
2007 Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachussets (solo)
2007 New Quarries, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto (solo)
2007 New Quarries, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York City (solo)
2007 Manufactures Landscapes, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond (solo)
2007 Burtynsky Photographs, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond (solo)
2007 Edward Burtynsky: Photographs, Canadien Cultural Institute, Paris (solo)
2007 Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Boca Ratón Art Museum, Boca Raton (solo)
2007 Burtynsky: Quarries, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
2007 Burtynsky: China, Center Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain (solo)
2007 Burtynsky Photographs, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Netherlands (solo)
2007 Manufactured Landscapes, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France (solo)
2007 Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, University of Oregon, Oregon (solo)
2007 Construir, habitar, desocupar. Prácticas del espacio, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia-San Sebastián
2007 Imaging a Shattering Earth, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2007 Et voilà le travail!, Galerie d’Art du Conseil General des Bounches-du-Rhône, Aix-en-Provence
2007 Canadian Photographers, Théâtre de la Photographie et de l’Image, Nice
2006 Whose Nature? What’s Nature?, Sun Valley Center of the Arts, Idaho
2006 C on Cities, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2006 Imaging Asia in Documents, 1st Photo Biennale, Daegu, Korea
2006 Allphabet City Festival 2006, Toronto, Canada
2006 The photographic document: Aspects & Transformations, Photography Museum of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
2006 Contemporary Landscapes: Crossing Boundaries, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
2006 Made in China: Work, Machineries and Automation in the Arts of 1900, Palazzo Ducale, Genos
2006 Madre Tierra, Photoespaña 2006, Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain
2006 Imaging a Shattering Earth, Museum of Conteporary Canadian Art, Contact Photo Festival, Toronto, Canada
2006 Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2006 China, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2006 Photo España, Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2006 Fabryka Krajobrazu: Manufactured Landscapes, Yours Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
2006 New China works, ART45, Montreal, Quebec (solo)
2006 Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (solo)
2006 Edward Burtynsky: Quarries, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Candada (solo)
2006 Manufactured Landscapes, Yours Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
2006 Edward Burtynsky / China Foto Month of photography, Palace of Art, Bratislava, Slovakia (solo)
2006 Edward Burtynsky: Eight China Works, The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachussets (solo)
2006 PhotoEspana Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain
2006 Fabryka Krajobrazu/Manufactured Landscapes Yours Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2006 Edward Burtynsky: China Palace of Art, Bratislawa, Slovakia
2006 China, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2006 The China Series, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA (solo)
2006 Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
2006 Edward Burtynsky: China’s Industrial Revolution, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta (solo)
2006 China, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2006 The China Series, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA (solo)
2006 Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
2006 Edward Burtynsky: China’s Industrial Revolution, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta (solo)
2006 China, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2006 The China Series, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA (solo)
2006 Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
2006 Edward Burtynsky: China’s Industrial Revolution, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta (solo)
2005 Edward Burtynsky: The Edmonton Art Gallery Gift, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
2005 Fundacion BBK, Bilbao, Spain
2005 Edward Burtynsky: China, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco; Charles Cowles Gallery, New York; Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto; Flowers East Gallery, London, UK
2005 Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
2005 Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005 Edward Burtynsky, Herron Gallery, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, ISA
2005 Oil Fields, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2005 Edward Burtynsky: China, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2003 - 2005 Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky—organized by The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Japan
2004 Image Smugglers in a Free Territory, 26th São Paulo Biennial, Brasil
2004 Edward Burtynsky, Flowers Central
2004 Edward Burtynsky at Reuban Alexander, UK
2004 Works for Wycombe Square
2004 Spiritus Mundi, Flowers East
2004 Flowers West at Keller & GreenKeller & Green
2004 Asian Quarries, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003 Landmarks Oakville Galleries, Centennial Square, Oakville, Ontario
2003 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
2003 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
2002 Shipbreaking II, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California
2002 Rajasthan New Work, Flowers Central, London
2002 New Acquisitions / New Work / New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
2002 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
2001 Shipbreaking, Mira Godard Gallery Toronto, Ontario
2001 Edward Burtynsky: Shipbreaking, Robert Koch Gallery San Francisco
2000 Oil Refineries, Mira Goddard Gallery Toronto, Ontario
2000 Edward Burtynsky Photographs, McMaster Museum of Art Hamilton, Ontario
1999 Art & Architecture, Mira Godard Gallery Toronto, Ontario
1999 Virgin Land, Nassauisher Kunstverein Weisbaden, Germany
1999 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
1998 Urban Mines, Mira Goddard Gallery Toronto, Ontario
1998 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
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, New York

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.
2005 Meyers, William, An Artist in Awe of His Surroundings, October 13 2005, New York Sun, Arts & Letters
2005 Baker, Kenneth, As Nature Bleeds, Edward Burtynsky get the Big Picture, July 6 2005, San Francisco Chronicle
2005 Knight, Christopher, His Aim is True, May 25 2005, Los Angeles Times
2005 Dixon, guy, A Warning From the Wastelands, April 7 2005, Globe and Mail, Review R1 - R3
2005 Goddard, Peter, Terror in Progress, October 1 2005, Toronto Star
2005 Harris, Jeff, The Reinvention of China, February 24 2005, Maclean's
2005 Roderick, Daffyd, Made in Canada: Frame of Work September 19 2005, Arts & Culture, Time (Canadian Edition)
2005 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
2003 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
2001 Torosian, Michael. Residual Landscapes: Studies of Industrial Transfiguration. Toronto: Lumiere Press
1994 Quarries: Edward Burtynsky. Essay by Michael Mitchell
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