Ian Burns Bio

Education:

PhD, 2008

Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
MFA, 2003

Hunter College of CUNY, New York, NY
BFA, 2000

The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
BEng, 1989

Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia

Selected Exhibition Details

2024

•Whose Body, What Mind, What Body, Whose Mind. (Solo), The Renshaws, Brisbane, Australia

2022

•Artist - Collector - Public. The Hilger Collection, The Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana City Art Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2021

•Systematic, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport, TAS, Australia

2020

•Present Company, Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie, Australia

•Systematic, Artspace Mackay, Mackay, Qld, Australia

•Turn Your Lights On, Suwon Museum of Art (Art Space Gwanggyo), Korea

•Systematic, Academy Gallery, Launceston, TAS, Australia

2018

•Systematic, Plimsoll Gallery, The School of Creative Arts, Hobart, TAS, Australia

•Symbiotic Spheres: The Interlocking Worlds of Glass. Science and Art, Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ

•Pushing Buttons, UrbanGlass Agnes Varis Art Center, Brooklyn, NY

2017

•A Working Model of the World, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School, NY, NY

•Lighting Guerilla Festival, Vzigalica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

•A Working Model of the World, UNSW Gallery, Sydney, Australia

•(Solo) Hilger NEXT, Volta Art Fair, NY

2016

•Every Breath, The Lock-Up, Newcastle, Australia

•Your Collection: Off the Wall, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Australia

•Creative Accounting, Manningham Art Gallery, Doncaster, Australia

•New Romance: art and the post-human, MCA, Sydney, Australia

•Creative Accounting, Hawkesbury Region Art Gallery, Windsor, Australia

•Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial, Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates

2015

•Technologism, MUMA, Melbourne, Australia

•New Romance: art and the post-human, MMCA Seoul, Korea

•Ian Burns, Clifton Childree, Simón Vega; Hilger @ MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey

2014

•Fragment - Moment, Galerie Hilger NEXT, Vienna, Austria

•Watt 25 - Watt Space 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Watt Space Gallery, The University of Newcastle, Australia

•Extended Stage, (Solo), Site specific project, Goods Line Tunnel, Ultimo, Administered by the University of Technology Sydney, Australia

•TOO MUCH IS REAL, (Solo) University of Technology Sydney Gallery, Australia

•Dark Heart. Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia

2013

•Art Speaks. A way with words, i.d.e.a. Museum, Mesa, Arizona

•Afloat Asunder (Solo), Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia

•I Love You Too, Watou Art Festival, Belgium

2012

•Clouds, Melbourne Art Foundation Commission, Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Australia

•Experimenta: Speak to Me; 5th International Biennial of Media Art, Melbourne, Australia (In the Telling at ACMI part of the Experimenta program)

•In the Telling (Solo), Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia

•ONLY YOU ONLY ME - Liége Biennial, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Liége, Belgium

2011

•Toward a Philosophy of the Everyday, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY

•Supreme Fiction (Solo), Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland

•Australia Felix, ICE Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

•Unguided Tours, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia

•Going where the weather suits my clothes… a fall of light on fabric, mother's tankstation, Dublin, Ireland

2010

•Contemporary Encounters, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

•Lake, Lake Macquarie City Gallery, Australia

•AND THEN... (Solo) Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

•Here, There and Everywhere, Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria

•Schrapnell from Märchenland, (Solo) Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

•Sensescapes, Nettie Horn, London, UK

•Housebroken, Flux Factory, Long Island City, New York

2009

•Almanac: The Gift of Ann Lewis AO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

•Fax, The Drawing Center, New York, New York

•Mixing it Up, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York

•Fantopia – A state of impossible perfection, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland

2008

•New Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

•Im Gegenlicht, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany

•Coming to You LIVE , Art in General (Bloomberg building), New York, NY

•The Front Room, (solo project) St Louis Museum of Contemporary Art, St Louis, MO

•Do not try this at home (Solo) Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland

•Domestic Appliance Flowers East, London, England

•Its all good, (Solo) Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, Australia

•On a clear day you can see forever, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

•The Ideal Cloud, ISE Foundation, New York, NY

•Cover Me, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

•Replicant Virgil de Voldere Gallery, New York, NY

2007

•New York, New York, New York, Flux Factory, New York, NY

•New York State of Mind Queens Museum, New York, NY

•The Manner of Work (Solo) Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY

•AniMotion Galerie F15, Oslo, Norway

•New York State of Mind, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

•’Til I Die, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY

•StereoVision, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL

•The End (Solo) Galeria Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain

•Deconstructing Frank Pianissimo, Milan, Italy

•The Last Blue Sky Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland

2006

•(Solo) Big Orbit, Buffalo, NY

•(Solo) Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

•The Human Touch Ernst Hilger Gallery, Salzburg, Austria

•Re-Dis-Trans Apex Art, New York, NY

•Now Voyager Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY

•Kiss my Object Diesel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

•The Studio Visit Exit Art, New York, NY

2005

•Art Positions – Art Basel Miami (Solo) with Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY at Miami, FL

•T1 – Torinotriennale tremusei, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy

•(Solo) Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY

• Red, White, Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY

•Comix Ex-Machina Flux Factory, LIC, NY

•Jack (3 person show) Cuchifritos, New York, NY

•(Solo) No Name Exhibitons The Soap Factory, Minneapolis. MN

•Greater New York, PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art, LIC, NY

2004

•Between Interconnectedness Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

•Light, Sound, Art & Science, Miami Museum of Science, FL

•In-Practice Series The Sculpture Center, LIC, NY

•Giganticism Gigantic Art Space, New York, NY

•Capitals and Constructs, Year, Brooklyn, NY

•Fresh, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY

Residencies and Awards

2016

• Artist in Residence, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, New York

2014

• 2012-14, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Australia

• Artist in Residence - Marble House Project, Vermont

• Artist in Residence - University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

2013

• Artist in Residence - Pilchuck Glass Art School, Washington State

• Artist in Residence - Detached, Hobart, Australia

2012

• Melbourne Art Foundation Commissioned Artist

• Australian Center for the Moving Image Commissioned Artist

2011

• Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Research Fellow

2010

• The Lock-Up, Artist in Residence, Newcastle, Australia

• Thirning Villa, Artist in Residence, Ashfield Municipal Council, Australia

2009

• Australia Council – Emerging Artist New Work Grant

• The Arctic Circle, Farm Foundation for Arts and Sciences Vessel, Arctic Circle

• Jerome Foundation – Travel and Study Grant

• Irish Museum of Modern Art, Artist in Residence Program, Dublin, Ireland

2008

•Queensland College of Art, Resident Artist, Brisbane, Australia

•NYFA - 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in video

2006

•Big Orbit Gallery Summer Residency, Buffalo, NY

2005

•ArtOmi International Residency, Omi, NY

•Triangle Arts Studio Residency, New York, NY

2004

•Triangle Workshop, Brooklyn, NY

Major Collections

•MAK Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

•Frankfurt Museum für Moderne Kunst, Germany

•National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

•Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia

•Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

•Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

•Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia

•Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie, Australia

•Chartwell Collection, Auckland, New Zealand

•2IC Museum, Louisville, USA

•Detached Collection, Hobart, Australia

•Jumex Collection, Mexico

•Berge Collection, Spain

Selected Publications

• Gail Preist, "The Melancholy Poetry of Machines"; RealTime issue #121 June-July 2014 pg. 49

• Joel Meares, "Tunnel Vision makes all the underworld a stage"; Sydney Morning Herald, April 9, 2014, on-line edition

• Louise Martin-Chew, “Ian Burns”; Artist Profile, Issue 19, 2012; p102-6

• Ashleigh Wilson, “Sculptor’s work proves he’s a big wheel in the art world”; The Australian, Aug 1st, 2012, p3

• Liza Power, “A message in the madness”; The Saturday Age, July 21, 2012, Life & Style, p 23-4

• Cristin Leach, “Review – Ian Burns. Supreme Fiction”; The Sunday Times Magazine, Sept. 4th, 2011

• Gemma Tipton, “What you see is what you get – or is it”; The Irish Times, August 24th, 2011

• Jeff Khan, “Review – Unguided Tours”; Art & Australia, Vol 49, No.1, Spring, 2011, p158

• Christopher Allen, “Review – Unguided Tours”; The Australian, June 26th, 2011

• Tim Stott, Frieze Magazine, March 2009, p168

• John Gayer, Art Papers, January/February 2009, p58

• Flash Art, New York Artists Dictionary, January/February 2009, p74

• Peter Hill and Steve Bush, ArtWorld (Aus/NZ ED), Issue 5, October, November, 2008, p182

• Paddy Johnson, TimeOut NY, June 19-25

• Sue Canning, Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2008

• Julia Morrisroe, “Art Basel – Miami” Sculpture Magazine, April 2008, p 79

• Jonathan T.D. Neil, “Future Greats”, Art Review, March 2008, p92-3

• Kim Levin, ArtNews, December 2007, p158

• Barbara A. MacAdam, “Object Overruled”, ArtNews, December 2007, p124-7

• Cover artwork, FlavorpillNYC, #383, October 9-15, 2007, http://flavorpill.net/m4/1/10.09.07/designby/

• Art Listings, FlavorpillNYC, #382, October 2-8, 2007, http://nyc.flavorpill.net/145412

• Flash Art, July/ Septmber 2007, p61

• Valentina Sansone, Flash Art, (Italian ed) April 2007

• Elisabeth Byre, Animotion, Galerie f15, Moss, Norway, 2007

• Shaheen Merali, New York: States of Mind. Art in the CIty, Saqi, London, 2008, p90-93

• Richard Huntington, Buffalo News, , October 13, 2006

• K. O’Day, ArtVoice, September 7-13, 2006, p36

• Helen A. Harrison, The New York Times, March 5th, 2006

• Vienna Listing, ArtKrush, Issue#41, September 30, 2006, p5

• Charlotte Laubard, Text and Image, O2 (France), Vol 36, p12-13

• Vineta Kaulaca, Studija (Latvia), No 44, Oct/Nov 2005, p50,-53

• Klaus Beisenbach ed., “Greater New York, 2005”, PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York, 2005; pp34-41, pp100-1

•Francesco Bonami & Carolyn Christov Bakargiev, “The Pantagruel Syndrome: T1 Torino Trienniale Tremusei 2005, Skira Editore, Milano, Italy, 2005; p212/5

• Jeffrey Kastner, ArtForum, December 2005, p281/2

• Jonathon T.D. Neil, Modern Painter, December 2005/January 2006, p120

• Stephen Hilger, Tema Celeste, No. 112, November/December 2005, p77

• New York Listing, ArtKrush, Issue#16, October 5, 2005, p5

• Ken Johnson, The New York Times, October 7th, 2005, pE35

• Ken Johnson, The New York Times, September 30th, 2005, pE36

• The New Yorker, October 3, 2005, p23

• “Work in Progress”, V Magazine, Fall Preview 2005, Issue#36, p43

• Nick Stillman “Art Review - Jack”, Time Out New York, Issue No.508, June 23-29, 2005, p65

• Eleanor Heartney “Report from New York I - Return to the Real, Art in America, June/July 2005, pp84-9

• Natasha Walter, Pulse of the Twin Cities, June 15, 2005, p11

• Elisabeth Kley, “Greater New York 2005”, ARTnews, Vol 104, No. 5, May 2005, p139