Nicholas Metivier Gallery
Toronto, ON

"Over more than four decades of making photographs, certain images have come to stand as markers along the path of my thinking about industry, landscape, and the scale of human ambition. Many of the works in this show have long since sold out, but by returning to the vault and presenting a few of these photographs at a scale that was not possible at the original time of release due to material and technological restrictions, I’ve had the opportunity to revisit them with fresh eyes. Assembling this selection of prints allowed me to rediscover the ideas that first compelled me to make them, while also recognizing how their meaning continues to evolve over time." - Edward Burtynsky

Paul Kyle Gallery
Vancouver, BC

This exhibition at Paul Kyle Gallery offers a powerful survey of Edward Burtynsky work, revealing the complex and often uneasy relationship between human industry and the natural world through images of striking beauty and consequence.

Featuring works from the early 1990s to the present, Human/Nature presents a survey of Burtynsky’s practice through photographs drawn from several of his most celebrated series. It will be the first major show of his work in Vancouver in over a decade.

Centro Niemeyer
Asturias, Spain

The Niemeyer Center is hosting the exhibition 'Water' by renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, a leading figure in contemporary photography internationally. Curated by Enrica Viganò, the exhibition brings together a selection of striking images that explore the complex relationship between humankind and one of the planet's most essential resources: water.

Photo London
Flowers Gallery, Booth HO1

Photo London
Flowers Gallery, Booth H01

A new selection of Edward Burtynsky's work, including recent photographs from Western Australia, will be spotlighted as part of Photo London's Public Programme.

Nearly two decades after his seminal Australian Minescapes series and three decades following his renowned Nickel Tailings photographs, these new works see Burtynsky continue his longstanding engagement with sites of extraction and the evolving landscapes they shape. Together, they are in dialogue with a singular image taken in Shell Beach, a gesture towards Burtynsky’s ongoing Tribute to Nature series.

Robert Koch Gallery
San Francisco, CA

The gallery will exhibit key early works by Edward Burtynsky in a new 48 × 60–72 inch format, a size he long intended for these images, though the means to produce them at this scale were not available at the time of their original release. The previous largest size edition these images were produced in was 40 x 50-60 inches and sold out more than 20 years ago.

Nicholas Metivier Gallery
Toronto, ON

"This exhibition is, for me, a moment of reflection. Over more than four decades of making photographs, certain images have come to stand as markers along the path of my thinking about industry, landscape, and the scale of human ambition. Many of the works in this show have long since sold out, but by returning to the vault and selecting a small number of artist proofs from my own archive, along with presenting a few of these photographs at a scale that was not possible at the original time of release due to material and technological restrictions, I’ve had the opportunity to revisit them with fresh eyes. Assembling this selection of prints allowed me to rediscover the ideas that first compelled me to make them, while also recognizing how their meaning continues to evolve over time. This exhibition feels less like looking back than it does taking stock, offering an opportunity to consider the arc of the work and the legacy these images may carry forward." - Edward Burtynsky

Seoul Museum of History
Seoul, South Korea

Seoul Museum of History—renowned for charting the city’s evolution from its origins to the present—will host the first large-scale exhibition of Edward Burtynsky's works in Seoul. Bringing together local memory and global scale, BURTYNSKY: Extraction/Abstraction invites visitors to reflect on humanity’s profound impact on the planet and the resilience of cities.

Over the past decade, the museum has deepened its engagement with environmental challenges and crisis narratives through special programs such as the special exhibition Unprecedented Flood and the 11th European Film Festival (themed Stories for Challenging Times). This exhibition builds on this commitment, presenting four decades of Burtynsky’s practice that vividly documents industrial landscapes, resource extraction, and the intricate systems that sustain—and strain—modern life.

Flowers Gallery
Cork Street, London

This month the Lower Gallery at our Cork Street space features a selection of Edward Burtynsky's newest series Western Australia, Recent Works.

Western Australia brings together the artist's latest photographs of a region that marked a significant milestone in his early career, continuing Burtynsky's longstanding engagement with sites of extraction and the evolving landscapes they shape.

Borusan Contemporary
Istanbul, Türkiye

Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky, whose career spans more than four decades, reflects on civilization’s growth and the profound ways humans have altered, reshaped, and at times scarred the natural world on an astonishing scale.

Highlighting a series of prominent projects, the exhibition opens with Burtynsky’s most recent series commissioned by the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, which explores erosion across various regions of Türkiye. Presented under the theme of Erosion, this section features numerous never-before-seen photographs. Spanning all floors of the Haunted Mansion (Perili Köşk in Turkish), the exhibition is organized around distinct themes on each level: Water and Salt, African Stuides, Nature, Quarries, Mines,and Oil. With each theme offering a unique perspective, the exhibition presents a compelling visual narrative of the current state of our planet.

Robert Koch Gallery
San Francisco, CA

Robert Koch Gallery is pleased to announce Edward Burtynsky: Transformation, featuring monumental color photographs that examine landscapes altered by resource extraction, manufacturing, rapid development, and the ecological changes that follow. These works continue Burtynsky's ongoing exploration of how human intervention has reshaped natural environments worldwide, revealing both their vulnerability and magnificence.The exhibition embodies Burtynsky's decades-long pursuit of capturing the profound and often permanent changes human industry brings to the earth's surface.

Gottwald Gallery of the Reeves Museum of Ceramics
W&L Art Museum and Galleries
Lexington, VA

“Taking Place” invites viewers to reflect on how nature is deeply transformed through the human production of modern-day comforts. Burtynsky’s large-format aerial photographs are both compelling and troubling, blurring lines between abstract art and documentation. The pieces capture the magnitude of lands deeply marked and affected by human industry, and visually contradict the realities they are meant to document: the harmful and disturbing aftermath of modern-day processes used to maintain a growing global population. With “Taking Place,” Burtynsky bears witness to the impact of human beings on nature, inviting us to reflect on our environmental impact and how we shape the world in which we live.

Howard Greenberg Gallery
New York City

Featuring images made between 2022 and 2024, Natural Commodities draws a stark visual contrast between Earth’s untouched beauty and its transformation under industrial pressure. From the ancient, verdant rain forests of Washington State to massive cobalt mining operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the exhibition charts what Burtynsky describes as “a continuum—from pristine ecosystems to the engineered terrains shaped by human need.”

Full exhibition details here: www.howardgreenberg.com/exhibitions/edward-burtynsky-G95

Nicholas Metivier Gallery
Toronto, ON

Edward Burtynsky: Unearthed features newly released photographs from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is one of several locations Burtynsky has selected to focus on for his forthcoming project, titled Mining for the Future. In order to reach net zero in the context of climate change, there is an increased demand for minerals such as lithium, copper, and cobalt which has resulted in a need for an acceleration in mining. Due to aircraft restrictions in the DRC, Burtynsky used a drone to capture the copper mine's remarkable colour and scale. Tiny figures can be seen upon close inspection in some of the images. They are independent miners that are sifting through the dry tailings for trace amounts of cobalt which they sell in what is a complex and unregulated supply chain that ultimately lands in cell phones, among other devices, across the globe.

International Center of Photography
New York, NY

The Great Acceleration, the first solo institutional exhibition of world renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky’s work in New York City in over twenty years, reveals the depth of Burtynsky's investigation into the human alteration of natural landscapes around the world, showing their present fragility and enduring beauty in equal measure.

Villa Créative – Avignon Université
Avignon, France

Curator : Catherine Bédard

Produced by the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, in partnership with Villa créative, Avignon

A renowned Canadian photographer, travelling around the planet for decades and exploring the residual landscapes left behind by our modern existence, Edward Burtynsky’s striking images evoke abundance and absence, the local and global issues around water and oil, the exploitation of resources and the resulting impact on labour forces and populations. The Canadian Cultural Centre exhibition proposes a new, intimate and subjective crossing of the corpuses of this colossal body of work.

Flowers Gallery
Hong Kong

Edward Burtynsky: China in Africa explores China’s evolving role in global manufacturing, from the transformation of its domestic production systems to the expansion of its industrial footprint across the African continent. Captured between 2018 and late 2024, the works in this show continue Burtynsky’s decades-long engagement with the infrastructures of extraction, energy, and logistics, offering a visual record of China’s pivotal influence on the contemporary industrial landscape.

Audain Art Museum
Whistler, BC

The internationally acclaimed Toronto-based artist Edward Burtynsky will present a selection of large-scale photo-based works for this exhibition at the Audain Art Museum. Over the past 40 years, Burtynsky has focused his camera lens on the impact of human industry around the planet. This display of recent works in Whistler entitled The Coast Mountains captures the pristine grandeur of British Columbia’s natural environment, while highlighting the pressing issue of glacier retreat due to global warming.

Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Winona, MN

Over the course of five years, Canadian Edward Burtynsky (b. 1955) traveled across the globe, from the Gulf of Mexico to the shore of the Ganges, while weaving together an ambitious representation of water’s ever more fragmented lifecycle. In colorful aerial images, many bordering on the edge of complete abstraction, Burtynsky traces the various roles that water plays in modern life; as a source of healthy ecosystems and energy, as a key element in cultural and religious ritual, and as a rapidly depleting resource.

Chaumont-Photo-sur-Loire

Upper Galleries
Domain de Chaumont-sur-Loire

In the Château’s upper Galleries, Edward Burtynsky presents a major series of photos taken in Africa. Although many may believe that nature is unspoilt on this continent, in fact it is endangered. Without our realising it, the Canadian photographer’s spectacular views with their faultless aesthetic quality bring us face-to-face with perilous ecological realities. When humans overstep the mark, Burtynsky captures the full extent of the issue.

Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Kitchener, ON

Curated by Jennifer Bullock

Drawing on the KWAG Permanent Collection, A Broken Planet builds on the themes of SOS: A Story of Survival, Part III – The Planet by looking at ways that environmental harm can be found in the collection. Featuring the industrial devastation unfolding before Edward Burtynsky’s camera lens, the exhibition uses aesthetic and compositional beauty as a way to approach difficult subjects that are otherwise much easier to look away from.

Tides Institute & Museum of Art
Eastport, Maine

A selection of large scale photographs by Edward Burtynsky (Canadian, 1955–) from the collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Frederiction, New Brunswick, Canada.

M9 - Museum of the 20th Century
Venezia Mestre

After the worldwide success of the exhibition Anthropocene, a multimedia exploration that documented the indelible human footprint on the earth, the photographer Edward Burtynsky continues its exploration on the impact of human action on the planet through a new exhibition which will be hosted in Italy for the first time in M9 – Museum of the 20th Century starting from 21 June 2024, after its debut at the Saatchi Gallery in London, UK.

The exhibition is the largest retrospective on the over forty-year career of the great Canadian artist Edward Burtynksy who dedicated his life to testifying to the environmental impact of the industrial system on our planet.

Cultuurcentrum Knokke-Heist
Belgium

The photo exhibition WATER explores the controversial relationship between humanity and water: a basic part of our body, an essential resource for our lives and that of our planet. Indispensable and of vital importance. That makes water the most precious liquid; the new gold.

Edward Burtynsky's abstract photographs, sometimes elegant, sometimes haunting, float between the worlds of painting and photography and form a compelling portrait of water that presents itself as an open question about humanity's relationship with nature.

Full exhibition details here: www.donkerekamer.com/foto-expo-edward-burtynsky-knokke-heist-water

Nicholas Metivier Gallery
Toronto, ON

Nicholas Metivier Gallery is delighted to announce that we will be presenting an exhibition of new photographs by Edward Burtynsky titled Rare Earth: New Works, opening on May 11th.  The photographs in this exhibition include those debuted at BURTYNSKY: Extraction/Abstraction, as well as never-before-seen works from Burtynsky's latest explorations in Australia and British Columbia.

Galerie Springer Berlin

On 14 February 2024, the Saatchi Gallery in London opened Edward Burtynsky's most extensive solo exhibition to date. The Springer Gallery is taking this important exhibition as an opportunity to present new works by Burtynsky from the years 2022 and 2023.

PHOTO Australia 2024
Museum of Australian Photography

In 2022, Burtynsky photographed Ravenworth Mine in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, an open cut mine producing coal for export. Presented through ten large-format photographs, these aerial images show the scale of active industry and seduce the viewer via sensual patterns and topography. The photographs provide vantages for discussion of the future of the environment. Whether the landscapes are seen as an environmental disaster or human progress, these works bear witness to the changing planet.

Flowers Gallery
Cork Street, London

Flowers Gallery is proud to present Edward Burtynsky - New Works, opening on 28 February 2024. The solo exhibition will coincide with Saatchi Gallery's upcoming major 2024 retrospective, BURTYNSKY: Extraction/Abstraction, the largest exhibition ever mounted in Edward Burtynsky's 40+ year career.

Edward Burtynsky - New Works offers a compelling journey into the intersection of nature and industry, capturing the awe-inspiring beauty and the environmental consequences of human industrial activities. This exhibition brings together a selection of Burtynsky's recent works, focusing on three geological themes: Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada; erosion in Türkiye; and the coal mines in Australia.

Palazzo Arese Borromeo,
Cesano Maderno, Italy

Photographs by Edward Burtynsky: an exhibition dedicated to the famous Canadian photographer which, for over 40 years, celebrates the beauty of nature, while showing the impact of human action on the planet.

📌 from February 24 to April 28: can be visited every day from 10.00 to 13.00 and from 3.00 to 6.00 and included in the entrance ticket to Palazzo Arese Borromeo.
Inauguration on Saturday, February 24, at 11.30 am at the Aurora Room.

Saatchi Gallery,
London, UK

This exhibition marks the largest exhibition ever mounted in the 40+ year career of world-renowned photographic artist, Edward Burtynsky, who has dedicated his practice to bearing witness to the impact of human industry on the planet.

Curated by Marc Mayer, former Director of the National Gallery of Canada and Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the exhibition will feature 94 of Burtynsky’s large-format photographs as well as 13 high-resolution murals, and an augmented reality (AR) experience. A centrepiece of the exhibition will be an immersive film presentation of In the Wake of Progress (2022).  A never-before-seen element in this exhibition, referred to as the “Process Archive,” will also showcase Burtynsky’s navigation through each of the technological shifts in the photographic medium that have occurred over recent decades. The exhibition will reveal Burtynsky’s life-long observation of humanity’s incursion into the natural world, and the environmental consequences of industrial processes.