bill burns biography

Bill Burns was born into a book selling family in Regina, Saskatchewan. He received an MA from Goldsmiths College in London. His work about nature and civil society has been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul. He has published more than a dozen artist books and audio recordings with national and international publishers. He has been Artistic Director of the Dogs and Boats and Airplanes choir since 2010. Burns lives in Toronto, Canada.

His most recent titles include A Book About the Power 100, published by Verlag Mark Pezinger, Vienna (2018) and Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us, published by YYZ BOOKS and Black Dog Publishing, London, UK (2016). His artists’ editions are included in collections at Tate Britain, London, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Getty Center, Los Angeles. Mr Burns is also Artistic Director of the Dogs and Boats and Airplanes Experimental Children’s Choir. The choir has produced live performances and audio works at festivals in Australia, Argentina, the UK and Canada.

Bill Burns studied under Mowry Baden at University of Victoria, Canada and with Gerard Hemsworth and John Latham at Goldsmiths College, London, England.

Links:

• Artist website: http://billburnsprojects.com/

REVIEWS:

• Bill Burns: The Great Exchange Residency Galleries West

• Outdoor School: Contemporary Environmental Art BorderCrossings

• Ger Zielinski, On Observant Artists and Their Keepers UTP Journals

• Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us: Featuring Bill Burns, Bill Burns, Dan Adler, Jennifer Allen, Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda Journal of Curatorial Studies

• Directions to the Land of Milk and Honey: An Interview with Bill Burns C Magazine, Issue 127

• Of fauna and manufactured derivatives: bill burns and the lucrative didactics of environmental stewardship C Magazine, Issue 107