Biography

Born in St. Catherines, Ontario in 1955, Edward Burtynsky attended Niagara College in Welland, Ontario and Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, where he earned a B.A. in photographic arts. In 1985, he established Toronto Image Works, a darkroom rental facility, custom lab digital imaging and new media training center. Burtynsky is an established Canadian photographer whose work is exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions including The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. His work is included in museum collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. These would be the first works by Burtynsky to enter SJMA’s permanent collection. (SJMA Collections Committee, 2005)

Burtynsky trained in photography at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto in the 1970s. In 1981 Burtynsky photographed coal mines in Frackville, Pennsylvania, United States. In 1983 Burtynsky photographed in Georgian Bay, Ontario. He also photographed homesteads in British Columbia, Canada and Montana, United States. In the early 1980s, Burtynsky photographed mines in Utah and Montana, United States, and in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. In 1985 Burtynsky established Toronto Image Works, a darkroom rental facility, custom lab and photography gallery. In the same year he photographed rail cuts in British Columbia. Canadian landscape photographer. Canadian photographer, Toronto. (Getty ULAN, 2012)

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