b. 1955, St. Catharines, Ontario
Lives and works in Toronto, Ontario

Edward Burtynsky is widely recognized for his monumental photographs that explore the complex intersection of nature and industry. Across a career spanning decades, his lens has documented the global appetite for progress and the environmental cost that follows oil fields and tailings ponds to shipbreaking yards and lithium mines. The result is a body of work both seductive and unsettling, revealing the scale of human intervention with an almost painterly precision.

Burtynsky’s images are not merely records of ecological transformation, but inquiries into power, consequence, and the constructed landscapes we inherit. His practice offers a sustained meditation on beauty, destruction, and the fragile systems that bind them together.

Edward Burtynsky holds a place among Canada’s most celebrated contemporary artists. His large format photography has been exhibited worldwide and is held in the collections of over sixty major institutions, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Tate (London), and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

He is the recipient of the TED Prize, the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, and has been named an Officer of the Order of Canada. Burtynsky is also co-founder of the Anthropocene Project, a multidisciplinary investigation of humanity’s impact on the planet.

Through a rigorous practice grounded in aesthetics, geography, and ethics, Burtynsky continues to shift the conversation on climate, capitalism, and visual culture.

de Montigny Contemporary is pleased to offer this work on behalf of a private collector.