Edward Burtynsky

Education

1982

Bachelor of Applied Arts - Photographic Arts (Media Studies Program), Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario

1974 - 1976

Graphic Arts, Niagara College, Welland, Ontario

Selected solo exhibition

2022

Edward Burtynsky: Troubled Waters, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland

Edward Burtynsky: Earth Observed, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

2021

Edward Burtynsky: Troubled Waters, Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier, France

Edward Burtynsky: No Small Terror, Museum London, London, Ontario

2020

Edward Burtynsky: Anthropocene, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

Mounds and Voids: From Human to Global Scale, Centre Cultural Canadien, Paris, France

Edward Burtynsky: Natural Order, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Building Your AGA With Photographs By Edward Burtynsky, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

2019

Edward Burtynsky Manufactured Landscapes: A Selection of Early Works, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Anthropocene, Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy

Water: Edward Burtynsky, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Edward Burtynsky: Megaresources, Atelier FAS Gallery (via Philadelphia Contemporary), Philadelphia, PA

Edward Burtynsky: Anthropocene – New Photographs, Galerie Springer Berlin

2018

Anthropocene, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY

Anthropocene, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY

The Human Signature, Flowers Gallery, London, UK

Anthropocene, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Anthropocene, Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Anthropocene, Nicholas Metivier Gallery

Anthropocene, National Gallery of Canada

Anthropocene, Art Gallery of Ontario

Acqua Shock, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz Germany

Water Matters, London, UK Man and Earth, Horten, Norway Edward Burtynsky, Selected Work, Denver, Colorado

Witness: Edward Burtynsky: Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON

2017

Edward Burtynsky: The Scarred Earth, Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC

Salt Pans, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore

Industrial Abstract, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Edward Burtynsky: Water, Kunst Haus Wein, Vienna, Austria

L’uomo E La Terra, Centro Saint-Benin di Aosta, Aosta, Italy

Intentional Landscapes, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA

2016

Salt Pans/Essential Elements, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Salt Pans/Essential Elements, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Essential Elements, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong

Edward Burtynsky: Salt Pans | Essential Elements, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Edward Burtynsky: Salt Pans | Essential Elements, Flowers Gallery, London, UK

Edward Burtynsky Aqua Shock: Selections from the Water Project,

Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey

Burtynsky: Matières résiduelles / Tailings, Galerie d’art du Centre Cultural, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Edward Burtynsky: Infinite Change: Works from the Permanent Collection, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario

Edward Burtynsky: Oil, UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Edward Burtynsky: Oil, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Relationships and Reconfigurations: Edward Burtynsky, Okotoks Art Gallery, Okotoks, Alberta, Canada

Houston Fotofest Biennial 2016: Changing Circumstances, Looking at the Future of the Planet, Edward Burtynsky (featured exhibition), The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Houston, Texas, Edward Burtynsky: Water, Pheonix Art Museum, Pheonix, Arizona, USA Edward Burtynsky: Water, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfold, Virginia, USA

Burtynksy: Photographs From Water, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey

2015

Art/Act: Edward Burtynsky, David Brower Center, Berkeley, California, USA

Edward Burtynsky: Acqua Shock, Expo Milano, Palazzo Ragione, Milan, Italy

Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime, Mulvane Museum of Art, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, USA

Edward Burtynsky: Water, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Chaumont-sur-Loie, France

Edward Burtynsky: Water and More, Innsbruck, Austria

The Industrial Sublime: Edward Burtynsky, Fruitlands Museum, Devens, MA, USA

Edward Burtynsky: Nature Transformed, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2014

Edward Burtynsky: Water, Flowers Gallery, London, UK

Edward Burtynsky: Water, Grinnell College, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, Iowa, USA

Water! Neue Fotografien von Edward Burtynsky, Altana Kultur Stiftung Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany

Edward Burtynsky: Water, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong

Edward Burtynsky: Water, Galerie Springer, Berlin, Germany

Edward Burtynsky: Water, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore

Edward Burtynsky: Water, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary Alberta

A Terrible Beauty: Edward Burtynsky,Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada

Edward Burtynsky, Canada House Gallery, London, U.K.

2013

Burtynsky: Water, New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) / Contemporary Art Center (CAC), New Orleans, USA

Edward Burtynsky: The Landscape That We Change, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinberg, Canada


Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK

Nature Transformed: Edward Burtynsky's Vermont Quarry Photographs in Context, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, USA

Burtynsky: Oil, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada Material Matters, UNB Art Centre, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

2012

Edward Burtynsky, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont, USA

Burtynsky: Oil, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, Virginia, USA

Burtynsky: Oil, c/o Berlin, Germany

Nature Transformed: Edward Burtynsky's Vermont Quarry Photographs in Context, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA


Burtynsky: Oil, The Photographer's Gallery, London

Burtynsky: Oil, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, USA

Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

2011

Burtynsky: Oil, McCord Museum, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Edward Burtynsky: L'home I La Terra, Llums I Ombres, Centre d'Art Tecla Sala, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime, (touring exhibition) Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, USA

Edward Burtynsky: El hombre y la tierra. Luces y sombras, Sala Municipal de Exposiciones de San Benito, Valladolid, Spain

Burtynsky: Oil, Ryerson University in association with the Institute for Contemporary Culture, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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

Burtynsky: Oil, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Australian Minescapes, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane, Australia

Burtynsky: Oil, The Rooms - Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

2009

Australian Minescapes, Western Australian Museum, Geralton, Australia

Burtynsky: Oil, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 


Burtynsky: Oil,Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA 


Australian Minescapes, Australian Centre for Photography, Melbourne, Australia

Edward Burtynsky: A Survey, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta

Edward Burtynsky: Uneasy Beauty, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada,

2008

Material World, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Australian Minescapes, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle, Australia

In Pursuit of Progress, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

2007

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, 
— Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA,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

2006

Edward Burtynsky: The Edmonton Art Gallery Gift, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

PhotoEspana, Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain

2005

Manufactured Landscapes, (includes 24 new China images), Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA

Manufactured Landscapes, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, USA

Manufactured Landscapes, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Art, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

Entropia, Fundacion Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa, Bilbao, Spain Burtynsky — China, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA (touring exhibition - see above)

2004

Manufactured Landscapes, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

2003

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, NY, USA
— The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, USA 
— Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, California, USA

2002

Burtynsky, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Burtynsky, The Prairie Art Gallery, Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada

2001

Survey Show, Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Vues et points de vue: L'architecture de Borromini dans les photographies d'Edward Burtynsky, - Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec, Canada

2000

Edward Burtynsky Photographs, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Vues et points de vue: L'architecture de Borromini dans les photographies d'Edward Burtynsky, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec, Canada

1988

Breaking Ground, - Produced by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography Exhibition tour: 
— Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - 1988
— Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, Ontario, Canada – 1988
— Floating Gallery - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - 1989
— Cedarbrae District Library, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada - 1989
— Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta, Canada - 1990
— Bibliotèque municipale de Mont-Joli, Mont-Joli, Québe, Canadac - 1990
— Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - 1991
— The Gallery/Stratford, Stratford, Ontario, Canada - 1991
— Galerie d'art de Matane, Matane, Québec, Canada - 1991
— Lacham Gallery, Stouffville, Ontari, Canadao - 1992
— Cambridge Public Library and Art Gallery, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada - 1992
— Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - 1992
— Alberni Valley Museum, Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada - 1992

1985

Earthworks, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

1984

Earthworks, A Moment in Time Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1982

Landscapes & Greenhouses, Ryerson Photographic Arts Gallery, Toronto, ON

Selected group exhibition

2022

Return to Nature, Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, Australia

Perspectives: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art, Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York

Industrial Revolutions, Cité Sciences et Industrie, Paris, France

Climate Crisis: Niagara Artists' Perspectives, Dennis Tourbman Members Gallery, Niagara Arts Centre

The Image of the Environment, By Oakville Galleries at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville, Ontario

Re-Connections: In Kinship with Nature (A Virtual Exhibition), UNDP Global Environment Facility & UNEP

Hold Fast, Coppa Gallery and Jill Dyall Community Gallery, Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario

20 Works, Museum London, London, Ontario

The MAST Collection. A Visual Alphabet of Industry, Work and Technology, Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy

2021

Hello, Robot. Design Between Human and Machine, Hyundai Motorstudio Busan, Busan, Korea

Photographing the Fantastic, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Another Look at Man Altered Landscape, Catherine et André Hug – PhotoSaintGermain

Edward Burtynsky & Sebastião Salgado, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON

Waste Age: What Can Design Do?, Design Museum, London, UK

Oslo Negativ, Det Gamle Biblioteket, Oslo, Norway

Oil. Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfberg, Wolfberg, Germany

Landlieb. Art and Agriculture, Art Museum Graubünden, Chur, Switzerland

Reimagining: A Better World, UBS Art Gallery (A Virtual Exhibition)

Pandemical Loneliness, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, ON

Hello, Robot. Design Between Human and Machine, Hyundai Motorstudio Busan, Busan, Korea

Unsettled Nature: Artists Reflect on the Age of Humans, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.

The Long View: From Conservation to Sustainability (Works from the Bank of America Collection), Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA

Ecologies: Ode to Our Planet, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, QC

Making Space, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS

Civilisation. What a Time!, MUCEM, Marseille, France

The Drive, Confederation Art Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI

The Art of Trees, THe Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio

Unbearable Beauty, Ruth C. Horton Gallery, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

2020

Changes: Transforming Landscapes, Western Australia Museum, Perth, WA

Resolution: A Century of Photographic Art, Museum London, London, Ontario

From the Mundane World, HE Art Museum, Foshan, Guangdong Province, China

Hello, Robot, Nouveau Museé Bienne, Bienne, Switzerland

Anthropocène: La Contemplation de la Menace, Maison Hamel-Brueau, Quebec City, QC

the Quarry of Time. Earth Stories and the Beginnings of Geology, Annual Exhibition of the Francke Foundations

Accelerate Your Escape: Gary Hume Explores the Hiscox Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

The Uncanny Outdoors, MacLaren Arts Centre, Barrie, Ontario

Flowing Waters Never Return to the Source: Photographers Gazing at the River in China, Abbaye de Jumièges, Jumièges, France

Civilisation, Photography, Now, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand

Magnetic West: The Enduring Allure of the American West, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa

Works From the Arup Collection (A Virtual Exhibition), Arup Phase 2, London, UK

On Paper: Part II (A Virtual Exhibition), Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

Open Air Exhibition, Fotografiska, Stockholm

Honoring Trees (A Virtual Exhibition), Honoring the Future

Unsettled Nature: Artists Reflect on the Age of Humans, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.

Lineages and Land Bases, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia

Landmarks, Williams College Museum of Arts, Williamstown, MA

Extending the Frame: 40 Years of Gallery TPW, University Gallery, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Ontario

Realisms: Canadian Art, 1850 to the Present, Museum London, London, Ontario

2019

Cars: Accelerating the Modern World, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK MELTDOWN – a visualization of climate change by Project Pressure, Horniman Museum & Gardens, Forest Hill, London

Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois

Dwelling: People and Place, Gordon Smith Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia

Warning Signs by Project Pressure, Lake Taillères, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Civilization: The Way We Live Now, NGV Australia

The Awesome and Waful: Works from the Permanent Collection, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario

Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA

The Prennials: 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

Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

Photography in Canada:1960–2000, Judith & Normin Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario

Tomorrow is the Question, RoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark

Nature, Life Human, MoCA Busan, Busan, South Korea

Overture: Selections from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey

2018

Ear to the Ground: Earth and Element in Contemporary Art, New Orleans Musuem of Art, New Orleans, LA

Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ

The World to Come, The Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL

The Beauty of Lines, Masterpieces From the Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection, Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne Switzerland

Photography in Canada: 1960-2000, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland

2017

Photography in Canada: 1960 – 2000, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Past Imperfect: A Canadian History Project, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

The Amended Landscape, The Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, ON

Alternation, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC

In Our Nature, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

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, Michigan

Land And Lens: Photographers Envision The Environment, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont

Hello Robot, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany (Touring Exhibition)

Nuit de la Photo, (HD projections) La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

Auto Photo, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France

2016

Watershed: Contemporary Landscape Photography, Jepsen Center, Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia, USA

The Edge of the Earth: Climate Change in Photography and Video, Ryerson Image Centre, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Indestructible Wonder, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, USA

Water, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, Ontario, Canada

Landscapes Reconstructed, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Banff, Alberta, Canada

The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2016, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The World We Live In: Through The Lens of Contemporary Photography, Ayala Museum Metro Manila, Philippines

Sublime. The Tremors of the World, Pompidou Centre, Metz, France

The 4 Elements: Water, Museum of Breadculture, Ulm, Germany

2015

A Terrible Beauty: Edward Burtynsky in Dialogue with Emily Carr, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Transformation of Canadian Landscape Art: Inside and Outside of Being, Today Art Museum , Beijing China

Edward Burtynsky and David Shapiro, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Frontiers Reimagined: Art That Connects Us, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2014

Shine a Light: Canadian Biennial 2014, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The Marseillaise/ fifteen years of collecting, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

A Terrible Beauty: Edward Burtynsky in Dialogue with Emily Carr, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

Black Diamond Dust, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

Transformation of Canadian Landscape Art: Inside and Ouside of Being, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, Shaanzi, China

Creation and Erasure: Art of the Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

View from a Window, Art Gallery of Alberta, October 18 – December 31, 2014 The Power of Water, Fotodok, Space for Documentary Photography, Utrecht, The Nederlands

Nets: Weaving Webs in Art, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany

Blue: Matter, Mood and Melancholy, 21c Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

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

Climate of Uncertainty, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Picturing the Sublime, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., USA

2012

No Strangers: Ancient Wisdom in a Modern World, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, California, USA

Down to Earth: Herblock and Photographers Observe the Environment, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. USA

America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Newtopia, Van Busleyden Court, Mechelen, Belgium

Freedom Of/For/To, The Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Looking Back at Earth: Contemporary Environmental Photography, The Hood Museum, Hannover, New Hampshire, USA

Subverted, Ivory Press, Madrid, Spain

2011

Infinite Balance, Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA), San Diego, California, USA

Songs of the Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

The Ocean Reglitterized, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, New York, NY, USA

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK

The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, USA

The Eye is a Lonely Hunter: Images of Human Kind - Ecological Circuits, Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany

Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA

The Kasper Collection: Mannerism and Modernism, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY, USA

2010

Weltbilder 4, Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland

Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Developed and Undeveloped: Photographic Landscapes, de Young Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, USA

Energy = Labour, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, Germany

In Light: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, USA

Bearing Witness: works from the collection,Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Water: National Geographic, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, California, USA

The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography, The Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Prix Pictet: Earth,
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

The Empty Quarter, Dubai

2009

Vanishing Landscapes/Verschwindende Landschaften, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria

In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes before the Digital Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA

Earth: Art of a Changing World, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

Prix Pictet 2009: Earth,
Passage de Retz, Paris, France

Moor House, London, U.K.

Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, U.K.

Les Visages de l'industrie, Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle, Switzerland

Substantial Resources, Art Gallery of Sudbury, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Una fábrica, Una Máqina Un Cuerpo, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City

Nature Nation, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel

Una fábrica, Una Máqina Un Cuerpo, Centre de Documentació Panera, Lleida, Spain

The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photohgraphy, New Orleans Museum of Art, LA

Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, USA

Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord Between Nature and Society, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona

Prix Pictet 2008 Shortlisted Artists Exhibition: Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki

Royal Geographical Society, London, U.K., The Intelligence Squared Green Festival

2008

La Grande Image: Histoire de la Photographie Panoramique de 1839 à nos jours, Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier, France

Prix Pictet, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

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, USA

The Tropics, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate, 
— National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 
— Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa — Moving Walls, Open Society Institute, Washington, DC, USA

1% - Water and Our Future, Hasselt, Belgium

Sound the Alarm: Landscapes in Distress, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, The Bronx, New York, NY, USA

Shifting Landscapes, Power House Arena, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA

Eastern Standard: Western Artists in China, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, USA

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

Moving Walls, Open Society Institute, New York, NY, USA

We are All Photographers Now!, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

A History of Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Imaging a Shattering Earth, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax

Ingenuity, Gulbekian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

2006

C On Cities, Venice Bienalle, Pavillion Padiglione Italia, Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy

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, USA

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, Ontario, Canada

2005

Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

Disaster Topographics, Toronto Photographer's Workshop, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2003

Industry and Entropy, Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA, (cat)

In Praise of Plenty, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, USA

2002-2003

Altered Landscape: The Carol Franc Buck Collection, Norsk Museum for Fotografi – Preus Fotomuseum, Horten, Norway & Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, USA

2002

New Acquisitions: New Work / New Directions3 / Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA

Altered States: Landscape Transformation in the Wake of Progress, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

2001

Detourism, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Constructed Identities: Edward Burtynsky & Suzy Lake, Burlington Arts'Centre, Burlington, Ontario, Canada Site/Seeing, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1999

Virgin Land, Nassauischer KunstVerein, Weisbaden, Germany The Sudbury Basin: Industrial Topographies, The Art Gallery of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

1998

On the Nature of Landscape, Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA

1997

Work, Workers, Works: Rearranging the Land, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

The Big Picture, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY, USA

1996

Before the Land Behind the Camera, Canadian Museum of

Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada

1994

Burtynsky/Maynard, Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada

1993

Embodied Spaces, Le Mois de la Photo, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (cat)

1992

Beau: A Reflection on Beauty of Nature in Photography, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (cat)

1991

Tainted Prospects: Photographers and the Compromised Environment, Co-curated by John Pfahl and Sandra Olsen, Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, New York, NY, USA (cat)

1990

The Landscape: Eight Canadian Photographers, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada (cat)

Le Mois de la Photo, Curator: Katy McCormick, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

1989

Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA, (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, Canada

What is Photography: 150 Years of Photography, Prague, Czechoslovakia (cat)

1987

Focus '87, Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario

1982-1983

Transitions: The Landscape, Produced and toured by The National Film Board (now CMCP)
Exhibition tour: 
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The Photo Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - 1982
—Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - 1982
—The Canadian Centre of Photography, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 1983
—The Photography Gallery, La Jolla, S. California, USA- 1983

Collections

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY, USA

Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada


Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA


Bibliothèque National, Paris, France


Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswisk, ME

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA


Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec, Canada


Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


Cincinatti Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, USA


Fondation Arts et Culture, Jouxtens-Mezery, Switzerland


Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario, Canada


George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, USA


Gemeentemuseum Helmonds, The Netherlands


Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada


Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA


Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA


Kaspar Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA

Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada


Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal, Québec, Canada


Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA


London Museum, London, Ontario, Canada


Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario, Canada


McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA

Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Québec, Canada


Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Museum London, London, Ontario

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, USA


Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA


Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA, USA


National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA


National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, USA

Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada


Presentation House, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain


Ryerson Polytechnic University/School of Image Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, USA

San José Museum of Art, San José, CA, USA


Scottsdale Museum of Contempoary Art, Linhart Collection, Scottsdale, AZ, USA


Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA


Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN. USA


Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA


Spencer Museum of Art, The University of KS, USA


Saint Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO, USA


Thessaloniki Museum of Art, Thessaloniki, Greece


Tom Thompson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA


Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, UK


Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, USA


Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

Wilson Centre for Photography, London, UK


Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Ackerman & Co. Atlanta, Georgia, USA


Air Canada, Montréal, Québec, Canada


Allied, Torono, Ontario, Canada


Arrow Hedge, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


AstraZeneca

Bennett Jones
Beutal, Goodman, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Blackburn Group, London, Ontario, Canada


Blaney, McMurtry, Stappells, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


BMO, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Boston Red Sox, Boston, Massachusetts, USA


CB Richard, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Ciba-Geigy Canada Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada


CI Funds
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
 Cafritz Interests, Washington, DC, USA

Charles Schwab & Co.
Chase Bank, New York, NY, USA


Claridge Incorporated Delaney Capital Devon Petroleum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Dow Jones, New York, NY, USA
 Elton John Foundation, London, UK

Encana Resources, Calgary, Alberta, Canada


Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Fidelity Investments
Foreign Affairs Canada


Goldman Sachs Granite Club, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Grosvenor Capital Management, Chicago, Illinois, USA


Hunt Oil Company, Calgary, Alberta, Canada


INCO, Head Office, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


J.P. Morgan Bank
Kelly Company, New York, NY, USA


Lax, O’Sullivan, Cronk
Lenczner, Slaught, Royce, Smith, Griffen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Likrilyn Capital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


London Life, London, Ontario, Canada


LW Capital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA


Morris, Rose, Ledgett, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


McCarthy, Tetrault


McMillan, Binch


National Bank, Montréal, Québec, Canada


Novell, Incorporated


OMERS, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


ONEX, New York, NY, USA


Ontario Mining Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Ontario Public Service Employees Union, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Ove Arup & Partners International, London, UK


The Parnassus Foundation, New York, NY, USA


Phillip Morris Corporation, New York, NY, USA


Pictet & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland


Power Corporation, Montreal, Québec, Canada


Price Waterhouse
Refco Group, Ltd.


Royal Bank

Schulich School of Business

Scotiabank

Sunlife of Canada


Swiss Bank
Swiss Re Life and Health


TD Bank, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Teleglobe Canada, Montréal, Québec, Canada


TELUS, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Templeton Management
Tory, Tory, Deslauriers & Binnington


TransAlta, Corporation, Calgary, Alberta, Canada


Tremblanc Capitol, New York, NY, USA


Vertical Screen Inc., Warminster, PA, USA