Born 1955 in St. Catharines, Ontario
Lives and Works in Toronto, Ontario
EDUCATION
1982 BAA in Photography/Media Studies, Ryerson University
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Edward Burtynsky Manufactured Landscapes: A Selection of Early Works, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Edward Burtynsky: Megaresources, Atelier FAS Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Edward Burtynsky: Anthropocene - New Photographs, Galerie Springer Berlin
2018
Edward Burtynsky: Anthropocene, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY
Edward Burtynsky: The Human Signature, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
Anthropocene, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Man and Earth, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway
Witness: Edward Burtynsky, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
2017
Edward Burtynsky: The Scarred Earth, Audain Art Museum, Whistler, British Columbia
Intentional Landscapes, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
L'uomo E La Terra, Centro Saint-Benin di Aosta, Italy
Industrial Abstract, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Salt Pans, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore
2016
Salt Pans/Essential Elements, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY
Essential Elements, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
Edward Burtynsky Aqua Shock: Selections from the Water Project, Brousan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
Relationships and Reconfigurations: Edward Burtynsky, Okotoks Art Gallery, Okotoks, Alberta, Canada
2015
Art/Act: Edward Burtynsky, David Brewer Center, Berkeley, CA
Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime, Mulvane Museum of Art, Washburn University, Topeka, KA
Edward Burtynsky: Nature Transformed, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
A Terrible Beauty: Edward Burtynsky, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Edward Burtynsky: Water, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Edward Burtynsky, Canada House Gallery, London, UK
2013
Burtynsky: Water, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Edward Burtynsky: The Landscape That We Change, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinberg, CA
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK
Material Matters, UNB Art Centre, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, CA
2012
Burtynsky: Oil, The Photographer's Gallery, London, U.K.
Burtynsky: Oil, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, Virginia.
Burtynsky: Oil, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada.
Burtynsky: Oil, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winterpark, Florida.
Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee.
Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming.
2011
Burtynsky: Oil, McCord Museum, Montréal, Quebec.
Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime, Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah.
Burtynsky: Oil, Ryerson University in association with the Institute for Contemporary Culture, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario.
Burtynsky: Oil, Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Burtynsky: Oil, Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg, Germany.
Edward Burtynsky: L'Uomo e la Terra. Luci e Ombre, Centro Culturale di Milano, Milan, Italy.
2010
Edward Burtynsky: Making and Breaking, Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.
Gulf Oil Spill, Art 45, Montreal, Canada.
Burtynsky: Oil, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Edward Burtynsky, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, China.
Gulf Oil Spill and Pentimento, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Gulf Oil Spill and Pentimento, Hasted Kraeutler Gallery, New York.
Oil, Galeria Arnés y Roepke, Madrid, Spain.
Australian Minescapes, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane, Australia.
Burtynsky: Oil, The Rooms - Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.
Australian Minescapes, Sovereign Hill Gold Museum, Ballarat, Australia.
Edward Burtynsky: Min(d)ing the Landscape, Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania.
2009
Burtynsky: Oil, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Australian Minescapes, Western Australian Museum, Geralton, Australia
Burtynsky: Oil, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Burtynsky: Oil, Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Burtynsky: Oil, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Burtynsky: Oil, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Burtynsky: Oil, Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery, New York.
Australian Minescapes, Australian Centre for Photography, Melbourne, Australia.
Manufactured Landscapes, Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts.
Edward Burtynsky: Quarries, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Christ Church University, Canterbury, U.K.
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Australia - Edward Burtynsky, Art45, Montreal, Canada. Burtynsky Australian Mines, Gallerie Stefan Roepke, Köln,
Germany.
Edward Burtynsky: Uneasy Beauty, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
Burtynsky Australian Mines, Flowers East Gallery, London, U.K
2008
Material World, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
New Quarries, Galeria Toni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain.
Iberia Quarries, Galería Arnés y Röpke, Madrid, Spain.
Australian Minescapes, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle, Australia.
In Pursuit of Progress, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada.
New Quarries, Flowers East Gallery, London, U.K.
2007
Selected Works, Galerie Stephan Roepke, Berlin
New Quarries, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California,
New Quarries, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
New Quarries, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York City
Manufactured Landscapes, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, Netherlands.
China Works, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián, Spain.
Burtynsky Photographs, (major survey exhibition), Gemeentemuseum Helmond, The Netherlands.
Edward Burtynsky: Photographs, Canadian Cultural Institute, Paris, France
Edward Burtynsky: The China Series, (touring exhibition) curated by David Brown, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.
2006
Edward Burtynsky: Eight China Works, The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Edward Burtynsky: China, FotoFo - Month of Photography, Palace of Art, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Fabryka Krajobrazu: Manufactured Landscapes, Yours Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
Edward Burtynsky: Quarries, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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.
Shipyards, Building and Breaking, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany.
2005
Manufactured Landscapes, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York.
Manufactured Landscapes, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California.
Photowork, The Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Manufactured Landscapes, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Art, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Entropia, Fundacion Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa, Bilbao, Spain.
Burtynsky: China, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Burtynsky: China, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (touring exhibition –
see above).
Burtynsky: China, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Burtynsky: China, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York.
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, Canada; Finnish Museum of Photography at Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; 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
Before the Flood, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California. (cat)
Before the Flood, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario. (cat)
Before the Flood, Flowers Gallery, London, U.K. (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.
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.
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. (cat)
1993
The Stone Quarries, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1988
Breaking Ground - Produced by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography Exhibition tour.
Traveled to Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario; Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, Ontario; Floating Gallery - Winnipeg, Manitoba; Cedarbrae District Library, Scarborough, Ontario; Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta; Bibliotèque municipale de Mont-Joli, Mont-Joli, Québec; Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta; The Gallery/Stratford, Stratford, Ontario; Galerie d'art de Matane, Matane, Québec; Lacham Gallery, Stouffville, Ontario; Cambridge Public Library and Art Gallery, Cambridge, Ontario; Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia; Alberni Valley Museum, Port Alberni, British Columbia (through 1992).
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 & Greenhouses, Ryerson Photographic Arts Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
The Awesome and Awful: Works from the Permanent Collection, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
Life is a Highway: Art and American Car Culture, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Summer Exhibition 2019, Gallery III, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
MELTDOWN: A Visualization of Climate Change by Project Pressure, Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria
2018
Ear to the Ground: Earth and Element in Contemporary Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape, UB Art Gallery, CFA, Buffalo, NY
New Territory: Landscape Photography Today, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2017
Perfect Brightness: Discovery and Escape in Contemporary Photography, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Stone and Sky: Canada's Mountain Landscapes, Audain Art Museum, Whistler, British Columbia
Ambiguous Territory, Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural, Taubman College Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Land and Lens: Photographers Envision the Environment, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
Man-Made Landscapes, Galerie Clairfontaine, Luxembourg
2016
Watershed: Contemporary Landscape Photography, Jepsen Center, Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA
The Edge of the Earth: Climate Change in Photography and Video, Ryerson Image Centre, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Indestructible Wonder, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Water, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, Ontario, Canada
Gyre: The Plastic Ocean, San Jose State University Thompson Gallery, San Jose, CA
2015
The Force of Ruins, Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
Foto/Industria, Mast Foundation, Bologna, Italy
Frontiers Reimagined: Art That Connects Us, Palazzo Grimani, Venice Biennale, Italy
Dawn to Dusk: Unsettled, Unravelled, Unreal, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Black Diamond Dust, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
View from a Window, Art Gallery of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
The Power of Water, Fotodok, Space for Documentary Photography, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Nets: Weaving Webs in Art, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
2013
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK
Landmark: The Fields of Photography, Somerset House, London, UK
Format, International Photography Festival, Derby, UK
Big Pictures, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, USA
2012
No Strangers: Ancient Wisdom in a Modern World, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Newtopia, Van Busleyden Court, Mechelen, Belgium
Subverted, Ivory Press, Madrid, Spain
2011
The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada.
Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS.
The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography, The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX.
The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FLA.
Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD.
The Kasper Collection: Mannerism and Modernism, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York.
2010
Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
Developed and Undeveloped: Photographic Landscapes, de Young Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco.
Energy = Labour, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, Germany.
In Light: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA.
Bearing Witness: Works from the Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia.
In Focus: Photography from the Permanent Collection, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine.
Water: National Geographic, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, California.
The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography, The Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Prix Pictet: Earth, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; The Empty Quarter, Dubai.
2009
Into The Wild, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Uneasy Pieces, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
Vanishing Landscapes/Verschwindende Landschaften, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria.
In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes before the Digital Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Earth: Art of a Changing World, Royal Academy of Arts, London, U.K.
Les Visages de l'industrie, Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle, Switzerland.
Connecting to Collections 2: Destinations, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.
Una fábrica, Una Máqina Un Cuerpo, Centre de Documentació Panera, Lleida, Spain.
Chelsea visits Havana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.
The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photohgraphy, New Orleans Museum of Art, LA. (touring exhibition)
Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York.
Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord Between Nature and Society, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona.
Evolving Eden, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska.
2008
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.
Manufactured Landscapes, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine.
Twenty-First Century Points of View, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York.
Somewhen, Jarach Gallery, Venice, Italy.
The Tropics, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin.
Moving Walls, Open Society Institute, Washington, D.C.
1% - Water and Our Future, Hasselt, Belgium.
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, North Adams, MA.
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, Nova Scotia.
Enfants De Cartier, Photographie Canadienne Contemporaine, Théâtre de la Photographie et de l'Image, Nice, France.
Ingenuity, Gulbekian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
2006
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
Altered States: Landscape Transformation in the Wake of Progress, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Curator's Forum: Collecting Contemporary Art, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
The Eye of the Beholder: A History of Photography from the LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
2001
Detourism, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
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 traveled to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec; Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia; Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario (through 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
Transitions: The Landscape, Produced and toured by The National Film Board (now CMCP). Exhibition traveled to The Photo Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; The Canadian Centre of Photography, Toronto, Ontario; The Photography Gallery, La Jolla, S. California (through 1983).
AWARDS AND HONOURS
2019
Achievement in Documentary, Lucie Foundation, New York, NY
Arts & Letters Award, Canadian Association of New York, NY
2018
Master of Photography, Photo London, London, UK
Peace Patron, Mosaic Institute, Toronto, Ontario
Honorary Degree, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario
2017
Insight and Impact Award, Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY
Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
2016
Lifetime Achievement Award in the Arts, St. Catharines Arts Awards, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts
2014
Rogers Best Canadian Film Award, Canadian Screen Awards, Watermark - Best Feature Length Documentary
Best Canadian Film for Watermark, Toronto Film Critics Association
2013
Honorary Degree, Middlebury College, VT
Honorary Doctoral Degree, University of British Columbia, Canada
2012
Tiffany Mark Award
2011
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
2004
TED Prize - (inaugural) Monterrey, California
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
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, January 21, 2009
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
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Ackerman & Co. Atlanta, Georgia
Air Canada, Montréal, Québec
Allied, Torono, Ontario
Arrow Hedge, Toronto, Ontario
AstraZeneca
Bank of Nova Scotia, Toronto, Ontario
Beamscope
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, NY
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, NY
Wood Gundy