About Robert Burley
As an artist working in photography, Robert Burley has sought to describe and interpret the built environment in which he lives. Burley’s works have been exhibited around the globe, and can be found in museum collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Musée de l’Elysée, George Eastman Museum, FoMu, Art Gallery of Ontario and Musée Niepce.
His work often explores the transition between city and country and over a forty year career, he has undertaken numerous urban landscape projects including explorations of Toronto’s Don Valley, Chicago's O'Hare Airfield and, as part of the larger commission Viewing Olmsted, New York City's Central Park.
His other publications include Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander and Geoffrey James (1996) and The Disappearance of Darkness: Photography at the End of the Analog Era (2012). Burley currently lives in Toronto and teaches at The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University.
City of Toronto Parkland Initiatives
This project was a commission from the City of Toronto Planning and Parks, Forestry and Recreation Divisions and is in part, related to many City initiatives such as the Ravine Strategy, the designation of 86 new biodiversity areas called Environmentally Significant Areas (ESA's) and the establishment of the Rouge as Canada's first and only urban national park.