EDWARD BURTYNSKY - CURRICULUM VITAE
Born
St. Catharines, Ontario, 1955
Education
1982 - Bachelor of Applied Arts - Photographic Arts (Media Studies Program), Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario
1974 - 1976 - Graphic Arts, Niagara College, Welland, Ontario
1985 to present - Photographic artist, entrepreneur, educator, lecturer.
Established Toronto Image Works, a darkroom rental facility, custom lab, digital imaging centre and new media computer training centre.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Nature Transformed: Edward Burtynsky's Vermont Quarry Photographs in Context, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, USA (February 8 - April 21, 2013)
Burtynsky: Oil, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada, June 4 - September 2
2012
Nature Transformed: Edward Burtynsky's Vermont Quarry Photographs in Context, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA April 21 - August 19
Nature Transformed: Edward Burtynsky's Vermont Quarry Photographs in Context, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, USA (February 8 - April 21, 2013)
Burtynsky: Oil, The Photographer's Gallery, London, U.K. (May 18 - July 10 - tentative)
Burtynsky: Oil, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, Virginia, USA, October 20, 2012 – January 8, 2013
Burtynsky: Oil, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, USA, June 9 – September 23
Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, May 25 - September 1
Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming, USA, January 29 - May7
Monegros - Dryland Farming, Flowers Cork Street, London, U.K., opens March 2012 (dates TBA)
Edward Burtynsky: Shipbreaking, South Seaport Museum, New York City, USA January 25 – May 28, 2011
Edward Burtynsky: Encounters, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, January 21 - March 31
2011
Monegros - Dryland Farming, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, USA, October 26 - December 10
Edward Burtynsky, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, USA, October 27 - December 10
Burtynsky: Oil, McCord Museum, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, October 7, 2011 - January 8, 2012
Edward Burtynsky: L'home I La Terra, Llums I Ombres, Centre d'Art Tecla Sala, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, September 22 - February 2, 2012
Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime, (touring exhibition) Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA, August 29 - November 29
Edward Burtynsky: El hombre y la tierra. Luces y sombras, Sala Municipal de Exposiciones de San Benito, Valladolid, Spain, June 2 - July 10
Burtynsky: Oil, Ryerson University in association with the Institute for Contemporary Culture, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 9 - August 21
Burtynsky: Oil, Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, April 21 - June 26
Burtynsky: Oil, Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg, Germany, February 3 - April 3
Edward Burtynsky: L'Uomo e la Terra. Luci e Ombre, Centro Culturale di Milano, Milan, Italy, January 25 - March 27 (Artist's talk February 1)
Gulf Oil Spill and Pentimento, Flowers Cork Street, London, U.K., 12 January - 5 February 2011
2010
Edward Burtynsky: Making and Breaking, Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, October 23 - December 12
Gulf Oil Spill, Art 45, Montreal, Canada, October 9 - November 13
Burtynsky: Oil, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, September 18, 2010 - January 2, 2011
Edward Burtynsky, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, China, September 21 - October 23
Gulf Oil Spill and Pentimento, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada, September 16 - October 9
Gulf Oil Spill and Pentimento, Hasted Kraeutler Gallery, New York, USA, September 9 - October 16
Oil, Galeria Arnés y Röpke, Madrid, February 18 - May 15
Australian Minescapes, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane, Australia, August 13 - September 19
Burtynsky: Oil, The Rooms - Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, May 7 - August 15
Australian Minescapes, Sovereign Hill Gold Museum, Ballarat, Australia, March 8 - June 20
Edward Burtynsky: Min(d)ing the Landscape, Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, January 22 - April 11
2009
Burtynsky: Oil, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 5, 2009 - January 9, 2010
Australian Minescapes, Western Australian Museum, Geralton, Australia, December 4, 2009 - February 14, 2010
Burtynsky: Oil, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 28, 2009 - February 28, 2010
Burtynsky: Oil, Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA, October 15 - November 11
Burtynsky: Oil, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA, October 3 - December 13 (exhibit tours through 2012)
Burtynsky: Oil, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada October 8 - October 31
Burtynsky: Oil, Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery, New York, USA, October 1 - November 28
Australian Minescapes, Australian Centre for Photography, Melbourne, Australia, July 17 - August 22
Manufactured Landscapes, Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts, USA April 18 - September 7
Edward Burtynsky: Quarries, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Christ Church University, Canterbury, U.K. April 18 - May 9
Edward Burtynsky: A Survey, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta, Canada February 6 - June 9, 2009
Australia - Edward Burtynsky, Art45, Montreal, Canada January 30 - February 28
Burtynsky Australian Mines, Gallerie Stefan Röpke, Köln, Germany, January 30 - March 13, 2009
Edward Burtynsky: Uneasy Beauty, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada January 17 - March 22
Burtynsky Australian Mines, Flowers East Gallery, London, U.K., January 9 - February 7
2008
Material World, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada June 28 - October 29
New Quarries, Galeria Toni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain, May 29 - July 11
Iberia Quarries, Galería Arnés y Röpke, Madrid, Spain, May 30 - July 31
Australian Minescapes, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle, Australia, April 5 - June 4
In Pursuit of Progress, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada, January 26 - April 12
New Quarries, Flowers East Gallery, London, U.K., January 8 - February 2
2007
Selected Works, Galerie Stephan Röpke, Berlin
New Quarries, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
New Quarries, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
New Quarries, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York City
Manufactured Landscapes, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, Netherlands, October 9, 2007 - January 6, 2008
China Works, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián, Spain, December 4, 2007 - Feb 9, 2008
Burtynsky Photographs, (major survey exhibition) Gemeentemuseum Helmond, The Netherlands, October 9 – January 6, 2008
Edward Burtynsky: Photographs, Canadian Cultural Institute, Paris, France
Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, (touring exhibition) curated by David Brown, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
— Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 2006
— Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 2006
— Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2006
— Tufts University Art Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, Massachusetts, USA, 2007
— Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA, 2007
— The Art Museum, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA, January 15 - April 30, 2008
— Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA, October 23, 2008 - December 23, 2008
2006
Edward Burtynsky: Eight China Works, The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, September 9 – October 8, 2006
Edward Burtynsky: China, FotoFo - Month of Photography, Palace of Art, Bratislava, Slovakia. November 2 - December 3
Fabryka Krajobrazu: Manufactured Landscapes, Yours Gallery, 33 Krakowskie Przedmiescie St. 00-071 Warsaw, Poland, December 2, 2006 - January 31, 2007
Edward Burtynsky: Quarries, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, September 16 – October 7, 2006
Edward Burtynsky: The Edmonton Art Gallery Gift, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
New China Works, ART45, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Edward Burtynsky: China’s Industrial Revolution, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
PhotoEspana, Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain
Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
Shipyards, Building and Breaking, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Köln, Germany
2005
Manufactured Landscapes (includes 24 new China images), Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Manufactured Landscapes, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, USA
Photowork, The Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Manufactured Landscapes, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Art, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Entropia, Fundacion Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa, Bilbao, Spain
Burtynsky — China, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Burtynsky — China, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA (touring exhibition - see above)
Burtynsky — China, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Burtynsky — China, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Burtynsky — China, Flowers Gallery, London, U.K.
2004
Manufactured Landscapes, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Manufactured Landscapes, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada
Asian Quarries, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003
Landmarks, Oakville Galleries, Centennial Square, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Edward Burtynsky: Mid-Career Retrospective, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
— Finnish Museum of Photography at Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
— The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
— The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA
— The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, USA
— Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, California, USA
Before the Flood" Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (cat)
Before the Flood" Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, USA (cat)
Before the Flood" Flowers Gallery, London, USA (cat)
2002
Burtynsky, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
Burtynsky, The Prairie Art Gallery, Grand Prairie, Alberta
Burtynsky, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
Burtynsky, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
Eight Large Photographs, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Shipbreaking II, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California
Rajasthan New Work, Flowers Central, London
Rock of Ages: Photographs by Edward Burtynsky, Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois (cat)
2001
Shipbreaking, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
New Work, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
Survey Show, Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario
Vues et points de vue: L'architecture de Borromini dans les photographies d'Edward Burtynsky - Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec
2000
Oil Refineries, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Edward Burtynsky Photographs, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
Vues et points de vue: L'architecture de Borromini dans les photographies d'Edward Burtynsky, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec
1999
In the Wake of Progress, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California
Ed Burtynsky,Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA.
1998
Urban Mines, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Urban Mines and Tailings, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, 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, New York
1994
The Carrara Marble Quarries, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (cat)
1993
The Stone Quarries, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1988
Breaking Ground - Produced by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography Exhibition tour:
— Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario - 1988
— Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, Ontario - 1988
— Floating Gallery - Winnipeg, Manitoba - 1989
— Cedarbrae District Library, Scarborough, Ontario - 1989
— Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta - 1990
— Bibliotèque municipale de Mont-Joli, Mont-Joli, Québec - 1990
— Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta - 1991
— The Gallery/Stratford, Stratford, Ontario - 1991
— Galerie d'art de Matane, Matane, Québec - 1991
— Lacham Gallery, Stouffville, Ontario - 1992
— Cambridge Public Library and Art Gallery, Cambridge, Ontario - 1992
— Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia - 1992
— Alberni Valley Museum, Port Alberni, British Columbia - 1992
1987
Mines and Railcuts, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, N Y.
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 & Greenhouses, Ryerson Photographic Arts Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
Landmark: The Fields of Photography, Somerset House, London, U.K. begins March 2013 (exact dates TBA)
2011
Infinite Balance, Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA), San Diego, California, USA, October 11, 2011 - February 5, 2012
Songs of the Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, August 20, 2011 - April 29, 2012
To The Ends of the Earth, Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA, September 17 - October 19
The Ocean Reglitterized, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, New York, USA, September 16 - October 29
LOOK11 – Liverpool International Photography Festival, Liverpool, U.K., May 13 - June 26
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, U.K., June 7 - August 15
Depiction, Confederation Art Centre, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, May 28 - October 2
The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, USA, September 24, 2011 - January 8, 2012
The Eye is a Lonely Hunter: Images of Human Kind - Ecological Circuits, Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany, September 10 - November 6
Car Fetish. I drive, therefore I am. Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland, June 8 - October 9
Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, USA, February 25 - May 29
The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography, The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, October 22, 2011 - January 17, 2012
The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FLA, May 1 - September 1, 2011
Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA, February 20 - May 15, 2011
The Kasper Collection: Mannerism and Modernism, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York City, USA, January 21 - May 1
2010
Weltbilder 4, Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland, September 23 - November 13, 2011
Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA, September 17, 2010 - January 2, 2011
Developed and Undeveloped: Photographic Landscapes, de Young Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, USA, October 9, 2010 - March 20, 2011
Energy = Labour, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, Germany, September 15, 2010 - February 13, 2011
In Light: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, January 20, 2010 - January 23, 2011
Bearing Witness: works from the collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, May 8 - January 3, 2011
In Focus: Photography from the Permanent Collection, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA, January 19 - March 14
Water: National Geographic, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, California, USA, March 26 - early June
The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography, The Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH, July 9 - September 19
Prix Pictet: Earth, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, March 9 - April 18
- The Empty Quarter, Dubai, February 9 - February 28
Thanks for Being With Us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucsson, Arizona, USA, July 17 – October 10, 2010
2009
Into The Wild, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, Oct 9, 2009-January 31, 2010
Uneasy Pieces, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, December 5, 2009 - February 28, 2010
Vanishing Landscapes/Verschwindende Landschaften, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria, November 14, 2009 - January 9, 2010
In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes before the Digital Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA, October 25 - March 14, 2010
Earth: Art of a Changing World, Royal Academy of Arts, London, U.K., December 3, 2009 - January 31, 2010
Prix Pictet 2009: Earth, Passage de Retz, Paris, France, October 23 - November 24
Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece, December 14, 2009 - February 28, 2010
Moor House, London, U.K., October 12 - October 30
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, U.K., October 5 - October 10
Les Visages de l'industrie, Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle, Switzerland, August 30 - November 29
Connecting to Collections 2: Destinations, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, August 7 - October 24
Substantial Resources, Art Gallery of Sudbury, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, April 18 - August 30
Una fábrica, Una Máqina Un Cuerpo, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, October 17 2009 - February 24 2010
Why Work? Rurart, Centre for Contemporary Art, Rouille, France, April 16 - August 2
Nature Nation, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel, May - December
Una fábrica, Una Máqina Un Cuerpo, Centre de Documentació Panera, Lleida, Spain, May 6 - August 30
Chelsea visits Havana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba, March 28 – May 17
The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photohgraphy, New Orleans Museum of Art, LA, May - October (touring exhibition)
Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York City, January 13 - April 4
Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord Between Nature and Society, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, February 28 – June 28
Evolving Eden, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, February 6 - May 10
Prix Pictet 2008 Shortlisted Artists Exhibition:
Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, December 11, 2008 - March 30, 2009
Royal Geographical Society, London, U.K., The Intelligence Squared Green Festival, January 24 - 25
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, April – May 31
2008
La Grande Image: Histoire de la Photographie Panoramique de 1839 à nos jours, Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier, France, November 6, 2008 - January 25, 2009
Prix Pictet, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, opens October 30
Highlights from the Fotographfis Collection, Bank of Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
Picture the Process: Landscape through Time and Space, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, December 12, 2008 - February 1, 2009
Manufactured Landscapes, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, in Brunswick, Maine, October 23 - December 23
Scale Matters: Photographs from the Joseph and Charlotte Lichtenberg Collection,
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., November 1, 2008 - February 1, 2009
POV/21: Twenty-First Century Points of View, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, October 23 - December 11
Somewhen, Jarach Gallery, Venice, Italy, September 10 - October 25
The Tropics, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, September 11, 2008 - January 5, 2009
Modern Photographs: The Machine, the Body and the City - Gifts from the Charles Cowles Collection, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, September 21 – November 30, 2008
Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate,
— National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, June 27 - October 13
— Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, November 1, 2008 - March 1, 2009
Moving Walls, Open Society Institute, Washington, D.C., February 29 through December 2008
China in Motion, Phase 2, Arup, London, U.K., July 7 - October 2
1% - Water and Our Future, Hasselt, Belgium - June 29 to September 28
Twice Removed, two-person exhibit with painter Brent McIntosh, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
Sound the Alarm: Landscapes in Distress, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, The Bronx, New York
Shifting Landscapes, Power House Arena, Brooklyn, New York
Eastern Standard: Western Artists in China, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, U.S.A.
Ingenuity, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Relics and Ruins, Instituto Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil & SESC Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
China Works, Center Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain
International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Liege, Belgium
2007
Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography and Film, Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Moving Walls, Open Society Institute, New York
We are All Photographers Now! Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
A History of Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, U.K.
Imaging a Shattering Earth, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax
Enfants De Cartier, Photographie Canadienne Contemporaine, Théâtre de la Photographie et de l'Image, Nice, France
Ingenuity, Gulbekian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
2006
C On Cities, Venice Bienalle, Pavillion Padiglione Italia, Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy
Modern Photographs: The Machine, the Body and the City - Gifts from the Charles Cowles Collection, Miami Art Museum, Florida
Arthur Ollman Tribute Collection, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Imaging Asia in Documents, 1st Photo Biennale, Daegu , Korea
The photographic document: Aspects & Transformations, Photography Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece
Made in China, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
Modern Times: Work, Machinery and Automation in the Arts of 1900, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
Imaging a Shattering Earth, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Contact Photo Festival, Toronto
2005
Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
Disaster Topographics, Toronto Photographer's Workshop, Toronto, Ontario
Subjective Distance, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
Hot Mush and Cold North, The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2003
Industry and Entropy, Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania (cat)
In Praise of Plenty, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2002-2003
Altered Landscape: The Carol Franc Buck Collection, Norsk Museum for Fotografi – Preus Fotomuseum,
Horten, Norway & Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
2002
New Acquisitions: New Work / New Directions3 / Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Altered States: Landscape Transformation in the Wake of Progress, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Curator's Forum: Collecting Contemporary Art, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The Eye of the Beholder: A History of Photography from the LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2001
Detourism, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Constructed Identities: Edward Burtynsky & Suzy Lake, Burlington Arts'Centre, Burlington, Ontario
Site/Seeing, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
1999
Virgin Land, Nassauischer KunstVerein, Weisbaden, Germany
L'Évocation, Marché Bonsecours, Montréal, Québec
The Sudbury Basin: Industrial Topographies, The Art Gallery of Sudbury, Ontario
1998
On the Nature of Landscape, Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts
1997
Work, Workers, Works: Rearranging the Land, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Big Picture, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Land Used, Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, Minnesota
1996
Before the Land Behind the Camera, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
1994
Burtynsky/Maynard, Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario
1993
Embodied Spaces, Le Mois de la Photo, Montreal, Quebec (cat)
1992
Beau: A Reflection on Beauty of Nature in Photography, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario (cat)
1991
Tainted Prospects: Photographers and the Compromised Environment, Co-curated by John Pfahl and Sandra Olsen, Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, New York (cat)
1990
The Landscape: Eight Canadian Photographers, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario (cat)
Le Mois de la Photo, Curator: Katy McCormick, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
1989
Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (book)
Exhibition tour:
—Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas - 1989
—National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. - 1990
—Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec - 1990
—Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia - 1991
—National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario - 1992
—Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario - 1992
Structure and Landscape in Contemporary Canadian Photography, Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg, Ontario
What is Photography: 150 Years of Photography, Prague, Czechoslovakia (cat)
1987
Focus '87, Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario
1982/83
Transitions: The Landscape, Produced and toured by The National Film Board (now CMCP)
Exhibition tour:
—The Photo Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario - 1982
—Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba - 1982
—The Canadian Centre of Photography, Toronto, Ontario - 1983
—The Photography Gallery, La Jolla, S. California - 1983
AWARDS AND HONOURS
2011
National Magazine Awards, Gold Prize: Conceptual Photography, Toronto
MOCCA award, Toronto, Canada
Honorary Degree - Doctor of Laws, Mt. Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
Deutscher Fotobuchpreis - Silver Award, Burtynsky: Oil
2010
Kraszna-Krausz Book Award, U.K. for Burtynsky: Oil
2009
Prix Pictet, London, U.K., Nomination & Short Listed
2008
Planet in Focus Media/Industry Eco-Hero Award
Canadian Environment Awards: Ideas for Life
Prix Pictet, London, U.K., Nomination & Short Listed
Deutscher Börse Prize, Nomination, London, U.K.
Ideas for Life Award, Canadian Environment Awards
Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts, Achievement Award
ICP Infinity Award, Art category, International Center of Photography, New York
Deutscher Fotobuchpreis - for Burtynsky: Quarries
2007
Honorary Degree - Doctor of Laws, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Honorary Degree - Doctor of Fine Arts in Photography Study, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Honorary Degree - Doctor of Fine Arts, Montserrat College of Art, Boston, USA
2006
Officer of the Order of Canada
Flying Elephants Foundation Fellowship
2005
TED Prize - (inaugural) Monterrey, California
2004
The Rencontres d'Arles Outreach Award, Arles, France
2003
Roloff Beny Book Award, Toronto
Applied Arts Magazine - Photographic Book Award
Governor General of Canada Delegate – Circumpolar State Visit to Finland and Iceland
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts – Academician's Honours
National Magazine Awards Foundation – Photojournalism Silver Award
LECTURES
Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 2, 2012
Calgary’s International Festival of the Arts: The High Performance Rodeo, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, January 24, 2012
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, May 11, 2012
Royal College of Art, London, U.K., January 2012
DOT (Design Our Tomorrow) Conference, Toronto, Canada"
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, USA
The Long Now Foundation, San Francisco, California
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Society for Photographic Education Conference, Denver, Colorado
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Trudeau Foundation Annual Conference, Calgary, Alberta
Corcoran Gallery / Museum, Washington, D.C.
Art Resources in Teaching, Chicago, Illinois
Havergal College, Toronto, Ontario
Bishop Strachan School, Toronto, Ontario
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario
Montserrat College, Boston, Massachusetts
Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Netherlands
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
University of Toronto
National Geographic Society, Washington
ORACLE conference, Chicago
TED Conference, Monterey, California
Parsons Lecture, Parsons New School for Design, New York
Idea City, Toronto
Natural City Symposium, University of Toronto
International Center of Photography (ICP), New York
Finnish Museum of Photography at Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Kodak Lecture Series, Ryerson Polytechnical University, Toronto, Ontario
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bibliothèque National, Paris, France
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswisk, ME
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario
CincinNatti Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Fondation Arts et Culture, Jouxtens-Mezery, Switzerland
Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Gemeentemuseum Helmonds, The Netherlands
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Kaspar Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario
Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal, Québec
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
London Museum, London, Ontario
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Québec
Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick
Presentation House, Vancouver, British Columbia
Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain
Ryerson Polytechnic University/School of Image Arts, Toronto, Ontario
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
San José Museum of Art, San José, CA
Scottsdale Museum of Contempoary Art, Linhart Collection, Scottsdale, AZ
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Spencer Museum of Art, The University of KS
Saint Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
Thessaloniki Museum of Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, U.K.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Wilson Centre for Photography, London, U.K.
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Ackerman & Co. Atlanta, Georgia
Air Canada, Montréal, Québec
Allied, Torono, Ontario
Arrow Hedge, Toronto, Ontario
AstraZeneca
Bank of Nova Scotia, Toronto, Ontario
Bennett Jones
Beutal, Goodman, Toronto, Ontario
Blackburn Group, London, Ontario
Blaney, McMurtry, Stappells, Toronto, Ontario
BMO, Toronto, Ontario
Boston Red Sox, Boston, Massachusetts
CB Richard, Toronto, ON
Ciba-Geigy Canada Ltd., Toronto, Ontario
CI Funds
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Cafritz Interests, Washington, DC
Charles Schwab & Co.
Chase Bank, New York, NY
Claridge Incorporated
Delaney Capital
Devon Petroleum, Calgary, Alberta
Dow Jones, New York
Elton John Foundation, London, U.K.
Encana Resources, Calgary, Alberta
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Toronto, Ontario
Fidelity Investments
Foreign Affairs Canada
Goldman Sachs
Granite Club, Toronto
Grosvenor Capital Management, Chicago, Illinois
Hunt Oil Company, Calgary, Alberta
INCO, Head Office, Toronto, Ontario
J.P. Morgan Bank
Kelly Company, New York, N.Y.
Lax, O'Sullivan, Cronk
Lenczner, Slaught, Royce, Smith, Griffen, Toronto, Ontario
Likrilyn Capital, Toronto, Ontario
London Life, London, Ontario
LW Capital, Toronto, Ontario
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington
Morris, Rose, Ledgett, Toronto, Ontario
McCarthy, Tetrault
McMillan, Binch
National Bank, Montréal, Québec
Novell, Incorporated
OMERS, Toronto, Ontario
ONEX, New York, N.Y.
Ontario Mining Association, Toronto, Ontario
Ontario Public Service Employees Union, Toronto, Ontario
Ove Arup & Partners International, London, U.K.
The Parnassus Foundation, New York, N.Y.
Phillip Morris Corporation, New York, N.Y.
Pictet & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland
Power Corporation, Montreal, Quebec
Price Waterhouse
Refco Group, Ltd.
Royal Bank
Schulich School of Business
Sunlife of Canada
Swiss Bank
Swiss Re Life and Health
TD Bank, Toronto, Ontario
Teleglobe Canada, Montréal, Québec
Templeton Management
Tory, Tory, Deslauriers & Binnington
TransAlta, Corporation, Calgary, Alberta
Tremblanc Capitol, New York, N.Y.
Vertical Screen Inc., Warminster, P.A.
Wood Gundy
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2011
Keats, Jonathon. "The Grim and Beautiful Vision of Edward Burtynsky" Men’s Journal, New York, USA. (April) p.78-83.
Angel, Sara. "Refined Crude" (interview) Eye Weekly, Toronto, Canada. (April 14 -21) p.18-19.
Burtynsky, Edward. "Pentimento" Burtynsky Studio Publication, (September), Hardcover / Softcover / Folio editions.
Rydell, Malena. "Mr. Dump Master" Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden. (Spring) p.16-19.
Enright, Robin. "The Fine and Excruciating Construction of the World" Border Crossings, (March) p.22-37.
Clark, David. "Icons of Photography, Edward Burtynsky 1955-present" Amateur Photographer, London, U.K. (February 5) p.37-38.
Godard, Peter. "Labour of Love" The Toronto Star, Toronto, Canada. (February 3) p.E1,E7.
Viau, Rene. "Une Beaute Contaminée" Vie des Arts, (Winter - #221) p.48.
Vigano, Enrica. Edward Burtynsky: L'uomo e la terra. Luci e ombre, Intervista a Edward Burtynsky, Centro Culturale di Milano, Milan, Italy (January) (cat.)
Hodgson, Francis. "Seductive Obsolescence" Financial Times Weekend, London, U.K. (January 22) p.L&A8.
2010
Soberano, Amy. "Production Studio" Lifestyles Magazine, New York, USA. (Winter, #230) p.52-57.
Hodgson, Francis. "Windows on the World" FT Weekend Magazine, London, U.K. (13/14 November) p.22-29.
Burtynsky, Edward. "Pentimento" Burtynsky Studio Publication, (September), Hardcover / Softcover / Folio editions.
Hodgson, Francis. "Edward Burtynsky: Exploring the Residual Landscape" Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, China (cat.)
"Edward Burtynsky: Beauté Coupable" Azart Photographie, Paris, France. (September 8) p.76-83.
Jacob, Dider. "La Mareé Noire vue du Ciel" Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, France. (July 8) p.98-100.
"Edward Burtynsky" View, Brussels, Belgium. (June 17) p.32.
Hodgson, Francis. "Edward Burtynsky: Oil" Portfolio, London, U.K. (May #51) p.22-33.
"The Still Photograph: Embedding Images in Our Mind" Nieman Reports, (Spring #64-1) p.53-54.
Grande, John K. Oil & Water, CV86, Montreal, (September #86) p.96-98.
Abdajian, Laurent. "Un Monde de Brut" Télérama, Paris, France. (July 28) p.27.
McCusker, Carol. "An uneasy Contradiction: Surveying the career of Edward Burtynsky" Color, London, U.K. (28 July) p.36-51.
Sozanski, Edward J. "Ravaged landscapes, ugly yet not" The Philadelphia Enquirer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. (July 28) H4A.
Ballamingie, Patricia. "Edward Burtynsky’s China photographs: A multidisciplinary reading" Environments: a journal of interdisciplinary studies, Waterloo, (#37 - 2) p.67-92.
Boetzkes, Amanda. "Waste and the Sublime Landscape" RACAR, (XXXV - 1) p.22-31.
Axsom, Richard H. (ed). "100 Years 100 Works of Art" Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. p.200-201.
2009
BURTYNSKY - OIL, Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, October, 216 pages, hardcover
Edward Burtynsky at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam Saatchi-Online TV & Magazine, 2 December.
Patalay, Ajesh."Blighted and Beautiful" Telegraph Magazine, London, U.K. (21 November) p.34-40.
Keimeno, Criteria. (1 November). Oil, Epsilon, 968, p.9, 15.
Knelman, Martin. "Burtynsky’s Oil Apocalypse" The Toronto Star, Toronto, Canada. (October 21) p. E1, E7.
Acosta, Jimena. "The Aesthetics of the Plunder" Arquine, (Summer #48), p.44-47.
Mitchell, Michael. "Evidence and Entropy" Australian Minescapes, Museum of Western Australia, Welshpool, Australia.
Laviolette, Mary-Beth. "Man Made Space" Swerve, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (February) p.25.
Kaldis, P. "Meta Industrial Landscape" Photo Mag, (February #182) p.34-35.
Sass, Julie, and Handlin, Emily. "Trouble in Paradise" Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, USA. p.56-59.
Remy, Patrick. "Qu'est-Ce-Que La Photographie Aujourd'Hui?" Paris: Beaux Arts, Paris, France. p.84-85.
Clark, David. Photography in 100 Words. London: Argentum, p.28.
Blackwell, Lewis. Photo Wisdom. California: Nelson Education, p. 58-63.
"Australian Minescapes" Galerie Stephan Röpke, Cologne, Germany (CAT)
2008
Laurence, Robin. "Edward Burtynsky" Border Crossings, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (#110 - 2) p.80.
John K. Grande. "Interview with Edward Burtynsky" Grand Tour, Perspecta 41, (June) p.153-158
Feindel, Andrew. "Kickstart: How Successful Canadians Got Started" The Dundurn Group. p.149-154
"Find The Root: The Modern Industrial State" Kaze No Tabibito #33, Crevis, Tokyo, Japan. (August) p.1-18
"Picture Power: The Cost of Progress" Newsweek, Beijing, China. (July) p.84-87
Forbes, Duncan. “Edward Burtynsky’s Negative Sublime” Portfolio Magazine #47, Photography Workshop Ltd., Edinburgh, Scotland. (May) p.4, 18, 21
Campbell, Craig. "Picturing Second Geography" (interview), Space and Culture, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (February) p.39
Barth, Nadine. "Verschwindende Landschaften" (English: "Vanishing Landscapes"), Dumont, Cologne, Germany
Life Magazine. "Heaven" Beijing, China, April, p.16-33
Williams, Rosalind. "Edward Burtynsky" (interview) Tendencias, Madrid, Spain, (Summer) p.58
Hodgson, Francis. "Return to the Source" FT Magazine, London, U.K. (July) p.24
Baillargeon, Claude, "Affinity and Dialectic" Twice Removed, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (CAT)
Michael Dee, (Interview) FotoAllers Forlag, Hälsingborg, Sweden. (May)
Art World Magazine, Media Issue #3, London, U.K. February
Harding, Stephan. "Intelligent Growth" Resurgence Magazine, issue number #247, Devon, U.K., March/April, p.12/13
Focus Magazine, G+J Gruner+Jahr Polska, Warsaw, Poland, June
IDpure, Morges, Switzerland
Focus Extra #32, Milan, Italy, May
Dwell Magazine, The Elements Issue: Light/Water/Earth, Issue #1, November, San Francisco
Poole, Di, "New Quarries" Next Level #14 White Issue, London, U.K., July, p.70-77
2007
BURTYNSKY - QUARRIES, Published by Steidl, Germany, October, 192 pages, hardcover
Edgar, Ray. "The Price of Power" Monument Magazine #79, Melbourne, Australia, June/July, p.90
Lombino, Mary-Kay. "Utopialand" Vassar College, New York, NY, USA.
Jacobs, Karrie. "Searching For the Future" Metropolis, Architecture & Design, January, p.42
"La Bella Cicatriz / The Beautiful Scar" Ojo De Pez: The Fall of Nature, Issue #8, p.14-27
"Manufacturing Humanism: Steichen/Burtynsky" Prefix Photo #15, Toronto, Canada (May) p.55-67
Callick, Rowan. "All the Coal in China" The American, (May/June) p.24-32
"Age of Extraction" Walrus Magazine, Toronto, Canada. (July/August) p.32-34
"Histoire - Geographie Terminales" Editions Magnard, Paris, France (June)
Vrij Nederland, Issue #17, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Canogar, Daniel. "Ruins" Exit Magazine # 24, , Madrid, Spain. (Winter)
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century, New York, NY, USA. (January)
TIME Magazine, New York, NY, USA. (September) p.24-27
2006
Cruz, Pozo. “The Seed of Destruction," La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain. (October)
Burtynsky, Edward. “The Rice of China, Edward Burtynsky’s view on China” Dam 6, 20 countries. (Apr/May) p.22-29
Petty, Jules. “Myth of Progress” Adbusters #67 , Vol 14, no. 5, Vancouver, Canada. (Sep/Oct) p.70-71
Resurgence #236, Hartland, Bideford, UK. (May/June)
“Work” National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., USA. September, hardbound
John K. Grande, "Manufactured Landscapes - an interview with Ed Burtynsky" Etc. Magazine #75, Montreal, Canada (Autumn)
Allen, Laura & Smout, Mark. "Augmented Landscapes", Pamphlet Architecture 28, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, USA (March)
Viernes: El Periódico de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (April)
"Supervivencia y Bienestar / Survival and Well-being: Burtynsky - China Portfolio" Picnic #13, Mexico City. (Nov/Dec)
Stephenson, Sam. "The Family of Destruction: Edward Burtynsky's Photographs" BardPolitik, Bard College Press, Annandale-on-Hudson, p.35-38
Tousley, Nancy. “Burtynsky in China” Calgary Herald, February 11, Calgary, Canada.
Diehl, Carol. “The Toxic Sublime” Art in America, February, New York, USA p.118
The Paris Review, no. 175, Fall/Winter, New York, USA
Coupland, Douglas. “Photography in Canada” Carte Blanche, Photography Vol. # 1, Toronto, Canada. (April 15)
Zollner, Manfred. “Reich im Umbruch” fotoMAGAZIN, Issue #3, February 17, Hamburg, Germany
Ringel, Stephanie. "Die Weltfabrik" Sie+Er Magazine, Nr. 1/06, January 2, Zurich, Switzerland.
Weber, Andreas “Kuenstliche Landschaften: Die Schönheit des Hässlichen – Die Schönheit der Zerstörung” GEO Magazine, March 2006, Hamburg, Germany
C International Photo Magazine, Issue #2, June 2006 (two editions English-Chinese and Spanish-Japanese) London, UK, Europe, North and South America, Asia, Hardcover
Cheetham, Mark. “Art & Nature” The Walrus, April 2006, Toronto, Canada
Glaseby, Joanne. “Fast Forward: Photographer Edward Burtynsky’s Exquisite, Detailed Work...” Zag, Issue #2, March, London, New York
GEO Italia, Summer, Milan, Italy
2005
Sansom, Anna. "The Beauty of Progress: Edward Burtynsky's widescreen Industrial Visions" Spoon, UK. November
Meyers, William. "An Artist in Awe of His Surroundings" New York Sun, Arts & Letters, New York, USA (October) 13p.13
"Entropia" Fundacion Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa, Bilbao, Spain, October (cat.)
Baker, Kenneth. "As Nature Bleeds, Edward Burtynsky get the Big Picture" San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California, USA. (July 6)
Knight, Christopher. "His Aim is True" Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, USA. (May 25)
Dixon, Guy. "A Warning From the Wastelands" The Globe and Mail, Review, Toronto, Candada (April 7) R1-R3
Goddard, Peter. "Terror in Progress" Toronto Star, Toronto, Canada. (October 1)
Harris, Jeff. "The Reinvention of China" MacLean's, Toronto, Canada. (February 24) p.34-37
Roderick, Daffyd. "Made in Canada: Frame of Work" September 19, Arts & Culture, Time (Canadian Edition)
Milroy, Sarah. "Burtynsky's view of China Rising," October 15, Review, R5, Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada
Burtynsky, Edward. "BURTYNSKY - CHINA" Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, October, hardcover
2004
Dault, Gary Michael. "The Eleventh Hour in Photography" Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada (Summer - Vol. 20 - No. 1) p.56
Fishman, Ted. "The Chinese Century" New York Times, New York, USA (July 4) p.24
Milroy, Sarah. "On the Eve of Destruction" The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada (May 31) R6
Kuipers, Dean. "Guru of Wise Use," Playboy, New York, USA (May) p.51
Hannon, Gerald. "The Eyes of Edward Burtynsky" Toronto Life, Toronto, Canada. (February) p.81
Whyte, Murray. "Beautiful Mines," ARTnews, (February) p.70
Whyte, Murray. "Adding up the price that Nature Pays," New York Times, New York, USA.
2003
Lahey, Anita. "The Intrepid Photographer: In search of Industrial Lyricism" Vernissage, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (Winter) p.20-23
Richler, Noah. "This Overheating World: The Evidence of Man" Granta, UK. (Autumn)
Dawson, Jessica. "Unnatural Wonders" Washington Post, Washington, DC, USA (August 7)
Whyte, Murray. "Mapping the High Cost of Progress" Toronto Star, Toronto, Canada (June 28) F-4
Darwent, Charles. "Unnatural Beauty" The Independent, London, U.K. (May 11) p.23
Dault, Gary-Michaeal. "Second Sight at the Eleventh Hour" Before the Flood, Burtynsky Studio publication, (cat.) (April)
Youngs, Christopher. "Industry and Entropy" Albright Center for the Arts (cat.)
Fulford, Robert. "Industrial Light and Magic" National Post, Toronto, Canada. (March 11)
2002
Leffingwell, Edward. "Reviews: Edward Burtynsky at Charles Cowles" Art In America, New York, USA (June) p.129
Fulford, Robert. "Art Around Every Corner" The National Post, Toronto, Canada (May 9) p. AL 3
Callahan, Sean. "Multiple Viewpoints" Smithsonian Magazine, Washington, DC., USA. (April)
"Acquiring Taste" Real Art Ways. (Feb/June) p.85
Loke, Margarett. "Art in Review: Edward Burtynsky" The New York Times, New York, USA. (February 22) p.E40
2001
Donegan, Rosemary. "Awesome Ambiguity: Edward Burtynsky's Industrial Landscape" Prefix Photo 3, Toronto, Canada. p.9-23
Baker, Kenneth. "Edward Burtynsky" ARTnews, New York, NY, USA. (May)
Richler, Noah. "Residual Landscapes" Saturday Night Magazine, Toronto, Canada (May 19)p.25-29
Mays, John Bentley. "A Melancholy Beauty: Edward Burtynsky's Shipbreaking images are revealing in their humanity," The National Post, Toronto, Canada (April 25)
Torosian, Michael. "Residual Landscapes: Studies of Industrial Transfiguration" Lumiere Press, Toronto, Canada
Mayer, Marc. "A Dystopian Sublime: Edward Burtynsky's Grand Tour" Edward Burtynsky (cat.)
1999
Murray, Joan. "Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century" Dundurn Press
Hanna, Deirdre. "Ed Burtynsky ignites industrial passions" Now Magazine, Toronto, Canada. (Oct/Nov)
1998
Long, Andrew, "Landscapes in Flux", Art & Antiques. (December)
Falk, Dan. "Mining Modern Industry for Art Gems," The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada. (May 5)
1996
Rhodes, Richard, "Tailings", Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada (Fall Issue)
1994
Burtynsky, Edward. "Quarries" Burtynsky Studio publication, essay by Michael Mitchell, Toronto, Canada (cat.)
1991
Pfahl, John and Olsen, Sandra. "Tainted Prospects: Photographers and the Compromised Environment" Castellani Art Museum (cat.)
1990
Wagg, Susan. "Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture" McGraw-Hill
Barbour, David. "The Landscape" McMichael Art Collection, Kleinburg, Canada (cat)
Harris, David. "Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture" (cat) Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Quebec
1988
Burtynsky, Edward. "Breaking Ground" Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada (cat.)
Clark, Douglas. "Edward Burtynsky: Breaking Ground" Views, Toronto, Canada (July) p.5,8.
1984
Langford, Martha. "Contemporary Canadian Photography" Hurtig Publishers Ltd.
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