Canadian, b. 1968

David Burdeny (b. 1968. Winnipeg, Canada) graduated with a Master’s in Architecture and Interior Design and spent the early part of his career practicing in his field before establishing himself as a photographer. Burdeny translates his intimate appreciation for the structure, details, and metaphorical value of space into sublime observations on how the contemporary world is still pregnant with mystery and potential. His early work of square-format black and white images rendered space in stark, elemental terms. The spare landscapes seemed modeled to serve as liminal spaces - as thresholds and portals and points of departure that lead the viewer to a complex intimacy with the expressive force of empirical awareness. In subsequent series, Burdeny has explored both opulent and austere interior scenes that use the sensuality of color to full effect. Whether focused on ordinary spaces or iconic settings, Burdeny's photographs occupy an artistic middle ground between the physical and the atmospheric, the concrete and the spiritual, the actual and the idealized. They represent not strictly what he found but his personal experience of these enigmatic and luminous locations.

Burdeny has featured his photographic series in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the US and throughout Europe. His work has also been widely published - including most recently Casa Vogue, The Guardian, The Corriere Dela Sera and the Moscow Times - and has been recognized with multiple International Photography Awards. In 2016, Burdeny was selected as International Nature Photographer of the Year for his series Salt.

Education
1998 Master of Architecture, University of Manitoba, Faculty of Architecture
1993 Bachelor of Interior Design, University of Manitoba, Faculty of Architecture

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Photographs 2015-2019, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Toronto, ON, Canada
2019 Salt, Per van der Horst Gallery, Photo Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2019 New Photographs, Tew Galleries, Atlanta, GA
2019 Before Ever After, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada
2019 Svanire, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada
2018 Salt, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 Ephemera, Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2018 Cava Bianco, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada
2017 Oceans, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada
2017 Oceans, Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2017 Parallels and Meridians, Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 Tulips, Gillman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID
2016 Far and Away, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada
2016 Russia & Cuba, Bibliothèque publique Eleanor London Côte Saint-Luc, QC
2016 Salt, Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2016 Salt & Veld, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada
2016 Salt, Heather Gaudio Fine Art, New Canaan, CT
2015 A Bright Future, New Work from Russia, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada 

Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Coe and Co Photography Gallery, Nantucket, MA
2019 Coe and Co Photography Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2019 Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 Gillman Contemproary, Ketchum, ID
2019 Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada
2019 Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada
2018 Winter Retreat, Meritt Gallery, Haverford, PA
2018 Introspective Transitions, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 Bau-Xi Photo, Baux-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON 
2018 Art with Impact, Merritt Gallery, Haverford, PA
2018 All-American Inspired, Merritt Gallery, Haverford, PA
2018 Liminal: David Burdeny & Georg Kuttinger, Cynthia-Reeves Gallery, North Adams, MA
2018 Bring the World Home, Merritt Gallery, Haverford, PA
2018 Elsewhere, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID
2018 New Works by Gallery Artists, Foster-White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2016 Art Chicago, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Chicago, IL
2016 Art New York, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Miami Beach, FL
2016 Art Miami Context, Bau-Xi Photo, Miami Beach, FL
2016 Art Miami Context, Jennifer Kostuik Galley, Miami Beach, FL
2016 Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antiques Show, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Miami Beach, FL
2016 Art Palm Beach Galerie de Bellefeuille, Palm Beach, FL 

Selected Awards
2016 IPA Professional Photographer of the Year: Nature
2015 IPA Professional Photographer of the Year: Nature
2010 IPA Professional Photographer of the Year: Nature
2008 IPA International Photographer of the Year: Nature
2007 International B+W Portfolio Contest Award of Excellence
2006 IPA 1st place Landscape Division
2006 Photolucida Critical Mass Winner, Portland, Oregon
2006 Award of Excellence, Communication Arts Photo Annual
2005 IPA Nonprofessional Photographer of the Year: Nature
2005 IPA 1st Place, Nature, Nonprofessional
2005 IPA 2nd Place, Nature, Nonprofessional
2005 IPA 3rd Place, Landscape Fine Art, Nonprofessional
2005 Award of Excellence, Communication Arts Photo Annual