TOM BURROWS
Education
1967-69 Postgraduate Sculpture, St. Martin's College, London, England
1964-67 B.A. in Art History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Solo Exhibitions
2024 ‘The Curve of Time,’ Bau-Xi Dufferin, Toronto Ont.
2023 ‘The Curve of Time,’ Bau-X Gallery, Vancouver BC
2022 ‘The Curve of Time,’ Foster/White Gallery, Seattle Wa.
2021 ’The Curve of Time,’ Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver BC
2019 ’The Curve of Time,’ Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto Ont
2018 ‘The Curve of Time,’ Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver BC
2017 ‘An Ineffable Presence,’ Foster/White, Seattle
2016 ‘Moths Drink the Tears of Sleeping Birds,’ Bau-Xi Toronto
2015 ‘Tom Burrows,’ a 50year survey, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, UBC
2014 ‘Here and Now, Boys,’ Foster/White, Seattle
2013 ‘The China Effect,’ Bau-Xi, Vancouver
2011 ‘Polar,’ Bau-Xi, Vancouver
2010 ‘Polar,’ Foster/White, Seattle
2009 ‘Polar,’ Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto
2007 ‘No Sleep,’ Galleria du Tableau, Marseille, France.
2006 ‘Rosebud,’ Foster/White, Seattle, Wa.
2005 ‘B.C. Binning + Tom Burrows,’ Belkin Satellite, Vancouver
2005-1995 six exhibitions at Bau-Xi. Toronto, & six at Bau-Xi Vancouver
2004 ‘Bandiere,’ Foster/White Gallery, Seattle
2003 ‘Tom Burrows,’ C.A.U.S.A., Vancouver
1994 ‘Drawn Objects and Blanket Statements,’ Canadian Embassy, Tokyo
1990 ‘Dialectical Totems,’ Library Gallery, Cambridge, Ont
1998 ‘Dialectical Totems,’ Issacs Gallery, Toronto
1984 ‘Berlin/South Bronx Transfer,’ Fashion Moda Gallery, New York, NY
1983 ‘Squat Doc,’ Carnegie Centre, Vancouver, BC
1981 ‘Squat Doc,’ Reedoma, Amsterdam; Sailor’s Mission Gallery, London; Bauhauf, Berlin
1977‘The Temptations of Mao Tes-Tung,’ Pender St. Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
1976 ‘Squat Doc,’ Habitat Forum, Vancouver, BC
1973 ‘Sand Pile,’ Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1969 ‘Tom Burrows,’ Saint Martin's Gallery, London, England Group Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
2024 ‘Black & White& Everything In Between: A Monochrome Journey,’ Vancouver Art Gallery, BC
2021 ‘The Trylowsky Collection,’ Griffen Art Projects, North Vancouver, BC
2020 ‘Face of the Sky,’ Agnes Etherington Art Centre, (from the permanent collection) Queens University, Kingston Ont.
2019 ‘Ionic Bonds,’ Kamloops Art Gallery, (from permanent collection) Kamloops, BC2012 2012 ‘Preview,’ NCECA’s 46th annual conference exhibition, Foster/White, Seattle2010 ‘Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver: 1954-69,’ SFU Gallery, Burnaby, BC
2007 ‘The Monochromatic Field’, (from permanent collection), Belkin Gallery, UBC 2006-07 ‘Paint,’ Vancouver Art Gallery, (from permanent collection), Vancouver, BC 2005-06 ‘Intertidal,’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
2003 ‘Here and There,’ Belkin Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, BC; ‘Various Properties,’ Belkin UBC
2002 ‘Contours: Extended Painting from the Pacific Northwest,’ Victoria, BC
2001 ‘Alignments,’ new Windsor Art Gallery inaugural exhibition, Windsor, Ont
1999 ‘Making It New,’ Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor; Glenbow Gallery, Calgary, Ab ‘Out of This Century,’ Vancouver Art Gallery (from permanent collection), Vancouver
1998 ‘Weak Thought,’ Vancouver Art Gallery (from permanent collection) Vancouver
1997 ‘The Body,’ Vancouver Art Gallery (from permanent collection) Vancouver
1996 ‘Context and Influences,’ Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
1995 ‘Milieu; of the order of presentation,’ S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto.
1994 ‘Wall to Wall,’ Or Gallery, Vancouver
1993 ‘Collection with Connections,’ Contemporary Gallery, Vancouver
1990 ‘Housing; A Right,’ Powerplant, Toronto ‘Interim Report: Tom Burrows, Robert Markle & Michael Snow,’ Issacs Gallery, Toronto
1989 ‘Bird & Frog’ (from permanent collection) Vancouver Art Gallery
1988 ‘Skwat Doc,’ Art Cultural Resource Centre, Toronto
1986 ‘Sand Pile,’ Art Cultural Resource Centre, Toronto
1985 ‘Hornby House,’ Baucentrum, Rotterdam; Piazza della Tavema, Rome
1984 ‘Skwat Doc,’ Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC;
1983 ‘ Skwat Doc’ International Bauausstellung, Berlin, Germany
1979 Victoria Art Gallery Invitational, Victoria, BC
1979 ‘Sand Pile,’ touring video exhibition in Japan
1977 ‘Chinese Landscape,’ Vancouver Art Gallery
1976 ‘Sand Pile’ Third International Video Symposium, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1974 ‘477-74-7, (Squat Doc),’ U of BC Fine Arts Gallery
1973 ‘Sand Pile,’ Canadian Trajectories, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
1971 International Sculpture Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand
1971 Tom Burrows, Duane Landen, Jeff Wall & Ian Wallace, U of BC Fine Arts Gallery 1970 ‘With a Little Help,’ (with Ian Wallace), Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver
1969 Tom Burrows, Hamish Fulton & Brower Hatcher, Galleria Ariete, Milan, Italy 1968 ‘The Egg Man,’ Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
1967 ‘Sculpture '67,’ a National Gallery of Canada exhibition, Toronto
‘Joy and Celebration,’ U of BC Fine Arts Gallery
1965-1967 Vancouver Art Gallery Annual Juried Exhibition, (1965, 1966, 1967)
Selected Bibliography:
2018 Watson, Scott & Wallace, Ian, ‘Tom Burrows’ a document of the 2015 survey exhibition at the Belkin Gallery, UBC,
2007 Nasgaard, Roald, Abstract Painting in Canada
2005 Watson, Scott, Intertidal, catalogue essay, Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp
2000 Wallace, Ian, From the Forth Decade, catalogue essay, Bau-Xi Galleries 1998 Titchener, Campbell, Reviewing the Arts
1997 Anderson, Andrea, Sculpture of Concrete, Sculpture of Dreams or looking for the utopian in the everyday, M.A. Thesis, University of British Columbia
1994 Hatt, Gordon, Blanket Statements, catalogue essay, Canadian Embassy, Tokyo
1989 Culley, Peter, ‘Notes on Tom Burrows,’ Capilano Review, series 2, No. 1
1985 Donegan, Rosemary, Berlin/South Bronx Transfer, Border Lines, No. 3
1982 Jenks, Charles, Architecture Today
1972 Burrows, Tom, ‘Only take for granted the things that you can touch’ Artscanada, June/July, republished in Artscanada March 1982
1967 Cameron, Dorothy, Sculpture 67, National Gallery of Canada Catalogue
Selected Commissions
2004 ‘Spectrum,’ The Gallery Building, Polygon, Vancouver, BC
1997 ‘Fowl Play,’ Spadina L.R.T., Toronto Transit Commission, Toronto, ON 1996 ‘Homage to Art Pepper,’ Sheridan Wall Center Hotel, Vancouver, BC
1985 ‘Stainless Grotto,’ Peter collection, Canada/Germany
1978 ‘Stainless Abacus,’ Government Taxation Centre, Greater Vancouver, BC 1972 ‘Sand Pile,’ (video sculpture), Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
1970 ‘Gas Works,’ Auckland, New Zealand
1969 ‘Chained Image,’ Federal Department of Public Works, Chilliwack, BC
Selected Collections
Art Bank Canada
Vancouver Art Gallery
The Cambridge Gallery, On
Windsor Art Gallery, On
Canada House, London
Canadian Embassy, Tokyo
HBC Global Art Collection, New York
Roer Collection, Germany
Shaw Collection (Vancouver, San Francisco, London and Hong Kong) Belkin Gallery, UBC
Queens University, On
University of Lethbridge, AB
Awards
The Canada Council for the Arts
The Ontario Arts Council
The British Columbia Arts Council
The Japan/Canada Fund for the Arts