from the series How to Help Animals Escape from Natural History (The Llama Version) | Bill Burns
1994-2005
18.25 x 14 inches (27 x 22.5 inches framed)
Edition of 30
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
This image is part of a series depicting tableaux of books, toy animals, and vehicles. It is part of Burns’s widely exhibited larger body of work around animals, the environment, and human emergency response technologies.
ABOUT BILL BURNS
Born 1957 in Regina, SK
Bill Burns lives in Toronto, where he makes art about goat’s milk, honey bees, the art trade, and advanced industrialism. He received an MA from Goldsmiths College, London, and has received awards, grants, and residencies from the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada House Arts Trust, the MacDowell Colony, the Leon Levy Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, among other organizations. His has published more than a dozen artist books and audio recordings, the latest of which is Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us (2015).
Selected solo exhibitions: “The Bill Burns Show (Part 3),” MKG127, Toronto (2017); Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (2016); Bienal de Asuncion, Asucion, Paraguay (2015); Davis Museum, Barcelona (2013); Mendes-Wood Gallery, Sao Paulo (2011)
Selected group exhibitions: “Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto,” University of Toronto Art Museum (2016); “Oh Canada,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2012)
Selected public collections: Wellcome Trust, London; Museum of Modern Art Library, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1994-2005
18.25 x 14 inches (27 x 22.5 inches framed)
Edition of 30
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
This image is part of a series depicting tableaux of books, toy animals, and vehicles. It is part of Burns’s widely exhibited larger body of work around animals, the environment, and human emergency response technologies.
ABOUT BILL BURNS
Born 1957 in Regina, SK
Bill Burns lives in Toronto, where he makes art about goat’s milk, honey bees, the art trade, and advanced industrialism. He received an MA from Goldsmiths College, London, and has received awards, grants, and residencies from the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada House Arts Trust, the MacDowell Colony, the Leon Levy Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, among other organizations. His has published more than a dozen artist books and audio recordings, the latest of which is Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us (2015).
Selected solo exhibitions: “The Bill Burns Show (Part 3),” MKG127, Toronto (2017); Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (2016); Bienal de Asuncion, Asucion, Paraguay (2015); Davis Museum, Barcelona (2013); Mendes-Wood Gallery, Sao Paulo (2011)
Selected group exhibitions: “Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto,” University of Toronto Art Museum (2016); “Oh Canada,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2012)
Selected public collections: Wellcome Trust, London; Museum of Modern Art Library, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1994-2005
18.25 x 14 inches (27 x 22.5 inches framed)
Edition of 30
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
This image is part of a series depicting tableaux of books, toy animals, and vehicles. It is part of Burns’s widely exhibited larger body of work around animals, the environment, and human emergency response technologies.
ABOUT BILL BURNS
Born 1957 in Regina, SK
Bill Burns lives in Toronto, where he makes art about goat’s milk, honey bees, the art trade, and advanced industrialism. He received an MA from Goldsmiths College, London, and has received awards, grants, and residencies from the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada House Arts Trust, the MacDowell Colony, the Leon Levy Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, among other organizations. His has published more than a dozen artist books and audio recordings, the latest of which is Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us (2015).
Selected solo exhibitions: “The Bill Burns Show (Part 3),” MKG127, Toronto (2017); Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (2016); Bienal de Asuncion, Asucion, Paraguay (2015); Davis Museum, Barcelona (2013); Mendes-Wood Gallery, Sao Paulo (2011)
Selected group exhibitions: “Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto,” University of Toronto Art Museum (2016); “Oh Canada,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2012)
Selected public collections: Wellcome Trust, London; Museum of Modern Art Library, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa