Marsha Burns

Marsha Burns is an American photographer, born in 1945 in Seattle, Washington. Between 1963–65 she studied painting at the University of Washington and then continued her studies between 1967–69 at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Her first experiences with photography came from a photo course she took in Seattle in 1963. And yet it would take another six years before she decided to dedicate herself fully to the medium of photography as her primary means of artistic expression.

Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, [1] the Seattle Art Museum,[2] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[3] the Museum of Contemporary Photography,[4] the Portland Art Museum,[5] the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Centre Pompidou[6] in Paris, the Center for Creative Photography[7] at the University of Arizona in Tucson and in many collections.

Exhibitions

• 2019: Nine years, Marsha Burns, Dianne Kornberg, Jordan Wolfson, Photoraphic / KDR, Seattle, WA, USA
• 2019: Marsha Burns "Looking Back", Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, Germany
• 2018: “Gesture“, Marsha Burns, et al., Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA, USA
• 2017: “Women in Photography“, Marsha Burns, et al. Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
• 2017: “Marsha Burns: Look Again“, Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA, USA
• 2017: “Marsha Burns: Look Again“, Photoraphic / KDR, Seattle, WA, USA
• 2016: 25th Anniversary Show, Marsha Burns, et al., Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA, USA
• 2007: “Art Treasures from Our Vault” (group), Lee Hansley Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC
• 2005: “pARTners: Considerations Rather Than Constraints” Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
• 2003: “Marsha Burns: Portrait of America” (solo), Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth
• 2001: “Marsha Burns: New Photographs”, Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
• 1999: “Pictures from Antoher Place, continued”, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA
• 1997: “Eye of the Beholder” (group), International Center of Photography, New York, NY
• 1996: “Selections 6: Works from the Polaroid Collection” Weber State University, Ogden, UT
• 1994: “About Face” (group), Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
• 1992 Portraits from America, Susan Spiritus Gallery Costa Mesa, CA
• 1992: Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
• 1992: Photographs: Jock Sturges, Plauto, Marsha Burns, Jock Sturges, Pl, Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
• 1992: To Collect the Art of Women: the Jane Reese Williams Collection of Photography, Museum of New Mexico Santa Fe, NM
• 1991: Soho at Duke, Five Artists from Charles Cowles Gallery, Duke University Museum of Art Durham, NC
• 1991: People and Places, Northern Illinois University Art Museum Gallery Chicago, IL
• 1991: National Governors Association Art Exhibition, Washington State Convention and Trade Center Seattle, WA
• 1991: Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Culture Alden Beisen, Belgium
• 1991: Human Scenes, University of Illinois Chicago, IL
• 1990: Falio Gallery, Calgary, Canada
• 1990: Andrea Ross, Santa Monica, CA
• 1990: Recent Photographs, Portland School of Art Portland, OR
• 1990: Andrea Ross Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• 1990: Folio Gallery, Calgary, Canada
• 1990: Anniversary Show, Linda Farris Gallery Seattle, WA
• 1990: Western Women Photographers, Maveety Gallery Portland, OR
• 1990: China 1989, One Path Three Vision, Italia Seattle, WA
• 1990: Photography from Seattle, Committee for Visual Exchange Tashkent, USSR
• 1990: Photography from the 1990 Workshop Faculty, The Friends of Photography, Anselm Adams Center San Francisco, CA
• 1990: Northwest Annual, Center on Contemporary Art Seattle, WA
• 1989: Twelfth Annual Pilchuck Exhibition, William Traver Gallery
• 1989: Taboo, Greg Kucera Gallery Seattle, WA
• 1989: Behold: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, IL
• 1989: Attitudes Revisited, Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara, CA
• 1989: 100 Years of Washington Photography, Selected Artists, Tacoma Art Museum Tacoma, WA
• 1989: Faces of China: Photographs of Contemporary China, Photographic Center Northwest Seattle, WA
• 1989: The Cowles Art Show, Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
• 1989: Marsha Burns Photographs Rome, Italy
• 1989: Marsha Burns Poloroids, Whatcom Museum of History and Art Bellingham, WA
• 1989: Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Whatcom Museum of History and Art Bellingham, WA
• 1989: Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
• 1988: Laura Rosso Gallery, Portland, OR
• 1988: Ray Hawkins, Los Angeles, CA
• 1988: Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, OR
• 1988: Selections 4, Photokina 88 Cologne, Germany
• 1988: Musee de L'Eysee Lausanne, Switzerland
• 1988: Photographic Images/N.W., Laura Russo Gallery Portland, OR
• 1988: Nude: Male and Female, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery
• 1987: New Works, Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
• 1987: Focus Seattle, San Jose Museum of Art San Jose, CA
• 1987: Index Gallery, Clark College Vancouver, WA
• 1987: Gallerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris, France
• 1987: Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
• 1987: The Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• 1987: Photographs for Real Life, Baskin Gallery Tacoma Museum of Art, Tacoma, WA
• 1987: Galerie Arena, Ecole Nationale de la Photographie Arles, France
• 1987: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, The Friends of Photography Carmel, CA
• 1987: Likeness, Expression and Character: Presence in Photographs, The Museum of Contemporary Photography Columbia College, Chicago, IL
• 1987: The Silver Image Gallery, Ohio State University Columbus, OH
• 1986: Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
• 1986: Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
• 1986: Third Western States Arts Foundation Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY
• 1986: The Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, OR
• 1986: Commitment to Vision, University of Oregon Eugene, OR
• 1986: Trisolini Gallery, Ohio State University, Athens, OH
• 1986: Forum Fotogaleria, Tarragona, Spain
• 1986: Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
• 1985: Outside of Society, Seattle/Berlin, Linda Farris Gallery Seattle, WA
• 1985: Canon Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1985: Watari, Watari Tokyo, Japan
• 1985: Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Menen, Belgium
• 1985: Das Aktfoto, Museum of Moderner Kunst Vienna, Austria
• 1985: Exhibition of Works from Permanent Collection, Newport Harbor Art Museum Newport, CA
• 1985: Photo 15, Cleveland Institute of Art Cleveland, OH
• 1985: Das Aktfoto, Stadtmuseum Munich, Germany
• 1984: Charles Cowles Gallery, Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
• 1984: Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
• 1984: American Photography Today, University of Denber Denver, CO
• 1984: Arranged Image, San Francisco Camera Work Gallery San Francisco, CA
• 1984: Arranged Image Photography, Yellowstone Art Center Billings, MT
• 1984: The Nude: Classic Beauty, The Silver Image Gallery Seattle, WA
• 1984: Masterwork Show, Ledel Gallery New York, NY
• 1984: Attitutes and Expressions: Classic and Contemporary Portrait Photography, Mills House Visual Art Complex Garden Grove, CA
• 1984: American and Dutch Photography, Foto Biennale Enschede, Netherlands
• 1984: Paula Pia Gallery Antwerp, Belgium
• 1984: Arts, Balboa Park San Diego, CA
• 1984: American Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium
• 1984: Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
• 1984: Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
• 1983: Denver Art Museum Denver, CO
• 1983: Outside New York: Seattle, The New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, NY
• 1983: The Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
• 1983: Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
• 1983: The Individual: Five Contemporary Photographic Viewpoints, University Gallery University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
• 1983: Seattle Art Museum Seattle, WA
• 1983: Gallery Alphaville, Gallery Alphaville Placenza, Italy
• 1983: G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery Baltimore, MD
• 1983: Marsha Burns, Photographs, Nexus Gallery Atlanta, GA
• 1982: Dreamers, Glover/Hayes Books Seattle, WA
• 1982: The Baker Gallery, Kansas City, MO
• 1982: Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 1982: The Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA
• 1982: Gallery of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Gallery of the Chicago Cntr. for Cont. Photography Columbia College, Chicago, IL
• 1982: Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
• 1982: Paula Pia Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
• 1982: G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD
• 1982: California and the West Coast, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
• 1981: The Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
• 1981: Jeffrey Gilbert Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 1981: Glover/Hayes Books, Glover/Hayes Books Seattle, WA
• 1981: The Art Attack Gallery, Boise, ID
• 1980: Eastern Washington State College Gallery, Eastern Washington State College Gallery Cheny, WA
• 1980: Gallery Four, Gallery Four Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
• 1980: The Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, MI
• 1980: Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
• 1980: The Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA
• 1980: Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
• 1980: Glover/Hayes Books, Seattle, WA
• 1979: Jeffrey Gilbert Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 1979: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
• 1978: Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
• 1977: University of Oregon, Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Museum of Art Eugene, OR
• 1977: Sarah Reynolds Gallery, Sarah Reynolds Gallery University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
• 1977: Marsha and Michael Burns: Recent Photographs, Museum of Fine Art, Washington State University Pullman, WA
• 1975: The Photographer's Gallery, The Photographer's Gallery Seattle, WA
• 1973: Cheney Cowles Art Museum, Spokane, WA
• 1971: University of Denver, University of Denver Denver, CO
• 1969: Smith College, Smith College Northampton, MA

Publications

• Marsha Burns (1977): White Snow Goose Sequence, Silver Image Gallery, Seattle.
• James G. Alinder (Ed) (1980): Untitled 23 (The Friends of Photography): 9 Critics 9 Photographers: James G. Alinder, Paul Caponigro, Beaumont Newhall, David Featherstone, Arthur Ollman, Robert Baker, Eugene Richards, Evon Streetman, John L. Ward, Candida Finkel, Eileen Berger, James D. Burns, Marsha Burns, Thomas Barro, Robert Fichter, Olivia Parker, Gary Metz, Roger Mertin. Carmel, California. The Friends of Photography.
• David Featherstone (Ed) (1982): Postures': The studio photographs of Marsha Burns. Friends of Photography.
• Carrol T. Hartwell (Autor) (1984): The making of a collection. Photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Millerton. Minneapolis Institute Of Arts, Aperture.
• Michael und Gisela Barche (Ed), Köhler (Autor) (1985): Das Aktfoto. Ansichten vom Körper im fotografischen Zeitalter Ästhetik Geschichte Ideologie. Bucher, München.
• André Kirchner (Ed) (1986): Brief an Marsha Burns. In: Hier und Dort: Orte, Stadtlandschaften, Material zur Geschichte der modernen Fotografie. Berlin.
• Marsha Burns, Michael Burns, Randy Hayes and John Yau (1987): Cities. Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle.
• Suzuki Gyoh (Ed) (1988): Visions: Works by 8 Contemporary American Women. Sandy Skoglund, Karen Filter, Sandra L. Haber, Marsha Burns, Olivia Parker, Judy Coleman, Jan Groover, Barbara Kasten. Parco Pib. Japan.
• Peter Weiermair (Ed) (1988): Frauen sehen Männer: die Darstellung des männlichen Aktes durch zeitgenössische Fotografinnen. Dianora Niccolini, Bernis von zur Muehlen, Karin Rosenthal, Marsha Burns, Suzanne E. Pastor, Irene Peschick, Giuliana Traverso, Charlotte March, Nan Goldin, Sandi Fellmann, Barbara DeGenevieve, Lynn Davis, Rosella Bellusci, Maria-Theresia Litschauer, Anette Berns, Ernestine Ruben, Vera Hernandez Correa, Dominique Auerbacher, Lenni van Dinther, Jacqueline Livingstone, Jaschi Klein, Sharon Stewart. Photographie, Schaffhausen.
• Beth Goldberg (Ed) (1990): Photographs Updated': Similar Images / Dissimilar Motives. Marsha Burns, Jay Boersma, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eadweard Muybridge, Todd Walker, Hollis Frampton, Harry Callahan, Duane Michals, Imogen Cunningham, Anne W. Brigman, et al. University Art Gallery, Sonomoa State University, Rohnert Park.
• Peter Weiermair (Ed) (1995): The Male Nudes by Women: an anthology. photography by Dianora Niccolini, Bernis von zur Muehlen, Karin Rosenthal, Marsha Burns, Nan Goldin, et al. Edition Stemmle, Frankfurt.
• Weiermair, Peter (Ed) (1995): Frauen sehen Männer. Eine Anthologie. photography by Dianora Niccolini, Bernis von zur Muehlen, Karin Rosenthal, Marsha Burns, Nan Goldin, et al. Edition Stemmle, Zürich.
• Ed Marquand (Ed) (1998): Beyond Soap, Water and Comb: A Man's Guide to Good Grooming and Fitness, Marsha Burns. Abbeville Press.

References

1. "Marsha Burns. Untitled. August 1978 | MoMA".
2. "Marsha Burns – Artists – eMuseum".
3. "Marsha Burns | Smithsonian American Art Museum".
4. "Museum of Contemporary Photography".
5. "Marsha Burns".
6. "Marsha Burns". Centre Pompidou (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-17.
7. "Marsha Burns | Center for Creative Photography". ccp.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-17.