Curriculum Vitae

CATHERINE BURGESS RCA

1953 Born in Ponoka, Alberta, Canada

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

 

2012

 

Absence I Presence, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

2012 "Here I There," Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2007 "Small 3," Studio Exhibition, Edmonton Alberta
2005 "New Tables," Lando Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
2003 "Small 2," Studio Exhibition, Edmonton, Alberta
2003 "Words," Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2002 "Small," Studio Exhibition, Edmonton, Alberta
2001 "Catherine Burgess," The Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
1999 "Measuring," The Works Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
1999 "Measuring, " Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1996 Paul Kuhn Fine Arts, Calgary, Alberta
1994 "Things As They Are," Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, traveling to the
1995 Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta (catalogue)
1994 Kathleen Laverty Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1991 Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1991 "The Table Series," Kathleen Laverty Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1990 "Three Dimensions," Edmonton Art Gallery (catalogue)
1989 "Recent Sculptures - Catherine Burgess," Profiles Gallery, St. Albert, Alberta
1988 "Catherine Burgess: New Steel Sculpture," Kathleen Laverty Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1986 "Catherine Burgess: Bronze Table Sculptures," Robert Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton
1984 "Catherine Burgess: New Sculpture," Martin Gerard Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1983 Martin Gerard Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1982 "Catherine Burgess Recent Sculpture," Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, traveling to Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; Muttart Gallery, Calgary; Ring House Gallery, U. of Alberta, Edmonton (catalogue)
1982 "Catherine Burgess: Recent Sculpture," Gallery Moos, Calgary, Alberta
1981 Hett Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1980 Hett Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1980 "Catherine Burgess: Recent Sculpture," Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask. (catalogue)
1979

Edmonton Art Gallery (catalogue)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2013

2011



"1912-2012 Made in Alberta (Part One) Museum of Contemporary Art, Calgary, Alberta

"Hard Rock – Heavy Metal," MacKenzie Art Gallery,Regina, Saskatchewan

2010 "a Renaissance," Enterprise Square Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
2009 "Neo-Minimalism," Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary, Alberta (catalogue)
2008 "Virulent," McLeod Building, Edmonton, curated by artandlife
2007 "Drawings in Space," MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina
2007 "The New Alchemists: Catherine Burgess and Blair Brennan, Harcourt House Gallery, Edmon
2007 "Flat," Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
2005 "Form-Space-Concept-Metaphor: Contemporary Alberta Sculpture," Triangle Gallery, Calgar
2004 "Draw," Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
2004 "Thaw,"THE WORKS Festival, Red Strap Market, Edmonton
2003 "Frost,"Works Gallery, Commerce Place, Edmonton
2003 "Spirit and Matter," THE WORKS Festival, Edmonton (two-person show with Isla Burns)
2003 "Room Measures," McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
2002 "5°," Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
2002 "RCA X 12, "Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary Alberta
2002 "Utility," Profiles Art Gallery, St. Albert, Alberta
2001 "Revolve," Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta (catalogue)
2001 "Sculpture - The Works: 2001," Edmonton, Alberta (catalogue)
1998 "Collecting Alberta Art: The Legacy Celebrating 25 Years," Triangle Gallery of Visual A
1997 "Neoteric," Beaver House, Edmonton, Alberta
1997 "Pyroclastic,"Aggregate at Commerce Place, Edmonton, Alberta2
1996 "Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art," Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Glenbow Museum,
1996 "Alberta Attitudes," The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta
1996 "Artviews," The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Centennial Library, Edmonton, Alberta
1996 "Journeys," The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta
1996 "Looking Back IV 1991-95," Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
1995 "The Other Alberta Sculpture," Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario (catalo
1994 "Hidden Values: Ontario Corporations Collect," McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Klein
1994 "Contemporary Canadian Works from the collection of The Art Gallery, University of Leth
1994 Grand Opening Exhibition, Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
1994 "New Economy," The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary (catalogue)
1994 "Contemporary Canadian Abstraction: A Selection," Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskat
1994 "Transposition: Optical Producers in Collaboration," Southern Alberta Art Gallery (cata
1992 "Focal Point," Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
1991 "The Old Man River Expedition," Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
1990 "The Artists of the Old Man River Expedition," University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
1990 "Objects and Structures: 3-Dimensional Still Lifes," Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
1989 "Alberta Sculpture Survey '89," The Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary, Alberta
1988 "Drawing," Paul Kuhn Fine Arts, Calgary, Alberta
1988 "Visions of Alberta," Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1988 "Shared Studio," The Works Festival, Clifford E. Lee Pavilion, Edmonton, Alberta
1988 "Multiple Associations: Five Alberta Artists," Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta (catalo
1988 "Survey Alberta '88," Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta (catalogue)
1987 "Studio Watch," Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1987 "Edmonton Contemporary Art," Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1987 "In Touch With Abstract Art," McMullen Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1986 "Wall, Floor, Pedestal: Aspects of Some Contemporary Sculpture," Agnes Etherington Art
1986 "Sculpture By Invitation," Law Courts Building, Edmonton, Alberta
1985 "Canada Collects: Contemporary Sculpture from the Art Bank," traveling to Washington, D
1985 "Sculpture City," Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1985 "Sculpture '85," Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, B.C.
1985 "Studio Watch," Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1985 "Edmonton Contemporary Art," Centre Club, Edmonton, Alberta
1984 "Ten Years Later," Ellen Battell Stoeckle Estate, Norfolk, Connecticut
1983 "Art at the Muttart," Muttart Conservatory, Edmonton, Alberta
1983 "Connections," Martin Gerard Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1983 "Edmonton Steel," Beaver House Art Gallery, Edmonton
1983 "Universiade Steel Sculpture Exhibition," Sun Life Building, Edmonton, Alberta
1982 "Seven Sculptors," Studio Exhibition, Edmonton, Alberta
1980 "From the Collection Of...," Beaver House Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
1980 "Eight Sculptors," The Gallery/Art Placement, Saskatoon, (traveling)
1980 "Alberta Now," Edmonton, Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta (catalogue)
1979 "Alberta Works In Wood," A.C.A. Gallery, Calgary, Alberta (catalogue)
1978 "Staff Exhibition," SUB Art Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
1977 "Circa '77," Latitude 53 Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ainslie, Patricia and Laviolette, Mary-Beth – "Alberta Arts and Artists: An Overview," Fith House, 2007
Bell, Michael - "The Other Alberta Sculpture: Catherine Burgess, Isla Burns, Peter von Tiesenhausen," catalogue essay, Carleton University Art Gallery, 1995.
Burnett, David and Schidd, Marilyn - "Contemporary Canadian Art," Hurtig Publishers Ltd., 1983.
Fenton, Terry - "Catherine Burgess," catalogue essay, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta, 1982
Fenton, Terry, and Bingham, Russell - "Sculpture City" - Update, Volume 6, No.5, September / Oct. 1985, pp.6-11.
Grenville, Bruce - "Things As They Are," catalogue essay, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1995
Garneau, David - " Revolve/ Maxing out Minimalism," Border Crossings, Volume 20, No. 3, Fall, 2001.
Garneau, David - "Post-Ironic Re-enchantments," Border Crossings, Fall 1996, pp. 65-68.
Hume, Christopher - "Women Artists/Bright Young Newcomers on Canada's Art Scene," Chatelaine, Oct. 1981, pp.84-87.
Johnson, Terry and Cooper Kate -"The City Speaks in Steel," Alberta Report, May 25, 1987, pp.54-58.
Kidd, Elizabeth - "Objects and Structures: 3-Dimensional Still Lifes," Outlook, Volume 1, No.2, Summer 1990, p.4.
Koba, Halyna - "Horizontal Tendencies," Visual Arts Newsletter, Alberta Culture, Volume 8, No.2, Issue 34, April 1986, p.12.3
Laviolette, Mary-Beth – "An Art Chronicle," Altitude Publishing Canada Ltd., 2005
Laviolette, Mary-Beth - "Catherine Burgess / Muttart Gallery," Vanguard, Volume 12, No.7, September 1983, pp.46-47.
Moffett, Kenworth - "Kenworth Moffett Exhibition," Update, Second Issue, 1987, pp.10-11.
Moffett, Kenworth - Moffett's Artletter, Volume I, No. 10, December 1986.
Muehlenbachs, Lelde -"Catherine Burgess / Gordon Rice," ArtsCanada, Issue No.228-229, Aug/ Sept 1979, p.54.
Muehlenbachs, Lelde - "Edmonton - The Sculpture of Alan Reynolds and Catherine Burgess," Artpost, Volume 41, Summer 1991, p.10-12
Muehlenbachs, Lelde - "Long Tough Looks - Artists and Their Inspiration", Update, 3rd Issue, 1987, pp.14-15.
Muehlenbachs, Lelde - "Women of Steel," Visual Arts Newsletter, Alberta Culture, Volume 11, No.1, Issue 49, May 1989, p.3.
Pizanias, Caterina - "Dissident Acts - Spirit and Matter," Artichoke, Spring 2004, Volume 16, No. 1, pp. 38-41.
Pizanias, Caterina – "The New Alchemists: Catherine Burgess and Blair Brennan," catalogue essay, Harcourt House Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, 2007.
Richardson, Joan - "Full Houses - Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art 1996," Canadian Art, Spring 1997, Volume 14, No. 1.
Roed Cochrane, Bente - "Seven Sculptures: Studio Exhibition," Interface, Vol. 5, No.3, Mar. 1982, pp.27-29.
Tousley, Nancy - "Catherine Burgess," catalogue essay, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, 1990
Wagner, David - "Transposition, Optical Producers in Collaboration," notes for understanding the exhibition, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1994
Westra, Monique - "Public Art: An essential component of the streetscapes, plazas and parks of great cities." Alberta Views, Jan/Feb 2002, pp. 20-26.
Wilkin, Karen – "Eloquent Enigmas – Catherine Burgess," Sculpture, June 2009, Volume 28 No. 5, pp30-35.
Wilkin, Karen - "At The Galleries," Partisan Review 1, Volume LVIII, No. 1. 1991.pp.138-148
Wilkin, Karen - "Catherine Burgess: Recent Sculpture," catalogue essay, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, 1980.
Wilkin, Karen - "Rugged Individualists With No Urge To Roam," ARTnews, Volume 78, No.2, February 1979, pp.84-88.
Wilkin, Karen - "Toronto / Edmonton - A New Generation - Judy Singer and Catherine Burgess," Artmagazine 47, February/March 1980, pp.22-24.
Willard, Christopher – "Neo-Minimalism: When More is Less," catalogue essay, Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary, Alberta, 2009
Whyte, Ryan - "Voyeurism and Impenetrability at the Albera Biennial," Artichoke, Fall/Winter, 1996, pp. 44-47.
Wylie, Liz - "Catherine Burgess," Vanguard, Volume 15, No.3, Summer 1986, pp.46-47.
Wylie, Liz - "Modernist Sculpture on the Prairies: A Critical Appraisal," Arts Manitoba,Volume 3, No. 3, Summer 1984, pp.10-16.
Wylie, Liz - "The Art Scene in Edmonton," Newest Review, March 1985, pp.8-9.
Yilatalo, Katherine - "New Economy," catalogue essay, Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, 1994.
Ylitalo, Katherine - "Multiple Associations: Five Alberta Artists," catalogue essay, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, 1988

NEWSPAPER REVIEWS

Vue Weekly, April l8, 2008, "Greenberg Informs First Impressions and Flat Abstractions at AGA's new Home," by Mary Christa O'Keefe
Edmonton Journal, Nov 30, 2007: "Artists reclaim lost objects into their own works," by Gilbert A. Bouchard
Vue Weekly, Nov. 29 2007: "These New Alchemists do make gold," by Amy Fung
Vue Weekly, June 26, 2008: "Is it worth it? Let me Works it: art fest disappoints the critics," by Amy Fung
Edmonton Journal, Dec. 29, 2004: "Drawing is not Child's Play for EAG Artists," by Olenka Melnuk
Edmonton Journal, June 29, 2004: "Artists Appraising Artists," by Gilbert A. Bouchard
Edmonton Journal, Nov. 22, 2002: "Intimate Turn," by Gilbert A. Bouchard
Edmontonians, July, 2001: "Art that Works."
Edmonton Journal, June 29, 2001: "Dolling up the Downtown." by Alan Kellogg
Vue Weekly, May 3-May 9, 2001: "You say you want a Revolution?" by Maureen Fenniak
Edmonton Journal, April 27, 2001: "Emotional Geometry," by Gilbert Bouchard.
See Magazine, July 1 - 7, 1999: "Extensive tour of The Works turns up unexpected pleasures" and "Hey, there's politics in this art," by Gilbert A Bouchard.
Edmonton Journal, July 2, 1999: "Steel Sculpture Echoes with Action," by Pamela Anthony.
See Magazine, February 13-19, 1997: "Pyroclastic: an art show with an edge," by Maureen Fenniak.
The Globe and Mail, November 9, 1996: "Alberta Looks Beyond Tradition," by Alanna Mitchell.
The Calgary Herald, November 2, 1996: "Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art," by Nancy Tousley.
Edmonton Journal, June 30, 1996: "Distinctly Albertan Brand of Art Makes for a hot Works Exhibit," by CharlesMandel
The Calgary Herald, January 27, 1995: "Artist Probes Language Without Words," by Nancy Tousley.
The Globe and Mail, December 31, 1994: "Naming Names: Rising Stars of Canadian arts and culture."
The Globe and Mail, November 26, 1994: "The Coming of Age of the Corporate Collection," by John Bentley Mays.
The Globe and Mail, May 7, 1994: "Steel Magnolias," by John Bentley Mays.
Edmonton Journal, July 13, 1990: "EAG'S Scouting Venture Brings Out Great Variety," by Elizabeth Beauchamp.
The Globe and Mail, December 3, 1988: "The Medium is the Message in Glenbow Show," by Liam Lacey.4
Calgary Herald, November 26, 1988: "Five Sculptors Show - Range of Their Art in Alberta," by Nancy Tousley.
Edmonton Journal, April 2, 1988: "Portraits Cut, Welded Using Steel - Catherine Burgess, New Sculpture," by Helen Muskal.
Edmonton Journal, March 8, 1986: "Sculptures Like Prairie Landscape - Sculptures by Catherine Burgess at the Robert Vanderleelie Gallery," by Vivienne Sosnowski McRoberts.
Edmonton Journal, February 25, 1984: "Sophistication in Rectangles From Burgess," Metal Sculpture at Martin Gerard Gallery, by Phylis Matousek.
Calgary Herald, May 21, 1983: "Short Film Offers Perfect Introduction to Sculpture," by Nancy Tousley.
The Calgary Sunday Sun, March 6, 1983: "Film Nets 5 Awards," by Catherine Shapcott.
Edmonton Journal, February 19, 1983: "Edmonton Steel, a Creative Approach to Sculpture," by Phylis Matousek.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Department of Foreign Affairs
Carleton University Art Gallery
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Art Gallery of Hamilton
Mendel Art Gallery
Glenbow Museum.
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Edmonton Art Gallery
McDonald Stewart Gallery, Guelph
Art Gallery of Northumberland
University of Calgary
University of Alberta, Edmonton
Athabasca University
University of Lethbridge
Red Deer College
Canada Council Art Bank
Grant MacEwen Community College
Alberta Foundation of the Arts
Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary
The City of Edmonton
Mineral Springs Hospital, Banff
Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops
IPSCO, Inc., Westburne, Syncrude

COMMISSIONS

2011 "Prairie Walk," for Centre in the Park, Sherwood Park, Alberta, in collaboration with Walter Jule and Royden Mills and ISL Engineering and Land Services Ltd.
2011 "Momentum," for Centre in the Park, Sherwood Park, Alberta, in collaboration with Walter Jule and Royden Mills and ISL Engineering and Land Services Ltd.
2007 "Give," commissioned by the Wild Rose Foundation, Edmonton, Alberta
2001 "Return," commissioned by the Edmonton Community Foundation, Edmonton, Alberta
1995 "The Big Rock," commissioned by the City of Edmonton - a granite sculpture in Rice Howard Way made in collaboration with sculptor Sandra Bromley.
1990 Commissioned by the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario - a bronze sculpture for the Donald Forster Sculpture Park in Guelph, Ontario.
1987 Commissioned by the Mineral Springs Hospital, Banff, Alberta: two bronze bas-relief sculptures

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Edmonton Arts Council, 2007
Canada Council Mid-Career Grant: 2004, 2001
Canada Council "B" Grant: 1994, 1992, 1991, 1985, 1979
Canada Council Project Grant: 1987
Canada Council Travel Grant: 1978
Alberta Foundation of the Arts Artist's Grant: 2004, 2002
Alberta Culture Project Grant: 1990, 1987, 1985, 1981
Alberta Culture Travel Grant: 1982
Alberta Culture Study Grant: 1974, 1973, 1972
Ellen Battell Stoeckle Fellowship: 1974

FILM / VIDEO

"The Big Rock — the Works Festival, 1995 Legacy Project," produced by Alberta Part Art Publications (1981) Society, 8 minutes. © 1995.
"Oldman River Expedition Exhibition," produced by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Video Documentary: 33 minutes. ©1991
"Canadarts," produced by the Department of External Affairs, Length: 27 minutes, 50 seconds. © 1988.
"Catherine Burgess: Sculptor in Steel," produced and directed by Roger Vernon. Executive producer Elizabeth Kidd. 16 mm, colour. © 19825

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

EDUCATION

1971-1975 The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, B.F.A.
1974 Yale at Norfolk, YaleUniversity, Connecticut.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1978 - 1985 Part-time Sessional Lecturer, University of Alberta
2003 - 2008 Sessional Lecturer, University of Alberta

VISITING ARTIST

2002 Red Deer College, Red Deer Alberta
2001 Grant MacEwen Community College, Edmonton, Alberta
1996 Keyano College, Fort McMurray, Alberta
1995 University of Calgary
1995 Alberta College of Art
1988, 2000 University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta
1987 Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alberta , (artist in residence)
1982 Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta
1982 Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alberta
1982, 1984 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

JURIES AND BOARDS

2011 Inducted into City of Edmonton's Arts & Culture Hall of Fame
2010 - 2012 Governing Council and Prairie Chair, RCA
2008 - 2012 Edmonton Public Art Committee
2008 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Art Acquisition Juror
2005 Canada Council Mid-career and Established Artists' Grant Juror
2002 Inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Art
1998 Canada Council Mid-Career Grant Juror
1996 - 1998 Board of the Edmonton Art Gallery
1996 Canada Council "B" Grant Juror
1991 Canada Council Art Bank Juror
1986 Canada Council "B" Grant Juror
1986 Alberta Art Foundation Art Acquisition Juror
1984 Alberta Culture Project Grant Juror

SPECIAL ACTIVITIES

1991 The McIntyre Ranch Expedition, organized by Canadian Art Odysseys Society
1990 The Old Man River Expedition, organized by Canadian Art Odysseys Society
1988 Hardingham Sculpture Workshop, Norfolk, England
1982 Triangle Artists' Workshop, Pine Plains, New York
1977 Emma Lake Artists' Workshop, Emma Lake, Saskatchewan

REPRESENTED BY:

Paul Kuhn Gallery: 722 - 11 Avenue S.W., Calgary, AB, T2R 0E4
Telephone: (403) 263-1162
www.paukuhngallery.com