Robert Burley

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Fellow, Royal Society of Canada Professor The Creative School School of Image Arts Toronto, Ontario rburley@torontomu.ca

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Robert Burley is an artist working in photo-based media whose practice explores the built environment, history and visual studies. His past projects have received widespread recognition through numerous grants, awards and media coverage. Burley’s works have been exhibited around the globe and can...

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Robert Burley is an artist working in photo-based media whose practice explores the built environment, history and visual studies. His past projects have received widespread recognition through numerous grants, awards and media coverage. Burley’s works have been exhibited around the globe and can be found in museum collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Musée de l’Elysée, George Eastman House–International Museum of Photography and Film, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal and Musée Niepce. His publications include Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander and Geoffrey James and The Disappearance of Darkness: Photography at the end of the analog era. Burley has lectured about his photographic projects through the Rouse Visiting Artist Program at Harvard University and the Senior Mellon Fellowship Program at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. In addition to his activities as an artist, Burley has undertaken many initiatives as an educator with the goal of expanding resources and curricula at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU, formerly Ryerson). These include his role as founding Program Director of the MA program in Film & Photographic Preservation, his work to establish and expand collections in The TMU Image Centre and Special Collections – TMU Library, and the management of numerous cultural programs such as the Kodak Lectures and The Ryerson Gallery.

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