Edward Burtynsky
Biography
Date and Place of Birth:
February 22, 1955
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Key Education Dates:
1976 - 1982
Ryerson University, Toronto
City/location where you live and work: Toronto, Canada
BIOGRAPHY
EDWARD BURTYNSKY
Inaugural winner of the prestigious TED prize the Roloff Beny book award, and the 2008 International Centre for Photography (ICP) Infinity Award for art, Edward Burtynsky is a graduate of the Media Studies program at Ryerson University's department of Film and Photography. The author of three books of photography, he is the founder and president of Toronto Image Works, a full service photographic lab and education facility, Mr. Burtynsky also sits on the board of directors for CONTACT, Toronto’s international festival of photography. He holds three honorary doctorate degrees.
Burtynsky's large format color photographs of man-altered landscapes have been exhibited at Museums such as the National Gallery of Canada, The Albright Knox Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montreal. A large touring exhibition is planned starting November of 2009 by the Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C.. Speaking engagements include the Library of Congress in Washington, George Eastman House, Rochester, the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, Idea City in Toronto and the TED conference Monterrey, California.
His works are housed in many private, corporate and (over 50) major public collections worldwide including: The National Gallery of Canada, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, The Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
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