Diane Burko has had more than thirty solo exhibitions in galleries and museums across the U.S., including recent museum exhibits at the Tang Museum, Tufts University Art Gallery, James A. Michener Art Museum and at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School.Her numerous awards include NEA Visual Arts Fellowships (1985, 1991); Individual Artists Grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (1981, 1989); a Lila Acheson Wallace Foundation Residence Fellowship (1989); a Rockefeller Foundation Residence Fellowship (1993); and the Bessie Berman Grant, awarded by the Leeway Foundation in Philadelphia (2000). Burko’s works are in numerous private and public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Delaware Art Museum, The Woodmere Art Museum and The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum.

Combining the steadfast focus and zeal of a hunter pursuing her prey with the refinement of an artist who, back in her studio, would transform the raw facts of nature into the modulated pleasures of art, she convinces us that an endangered species of painting has been saved.

- Robert Rosenblum, art historian, curator, 1994

In her Politics of Snow series Burko has a keen interest in focusing our attention on the scientific realities of nature while remaining open to creative forms and materials when it comes to preserving that data . . . This work does not let us remain blind to the reality that this is happening now and begs us to consider what we can do about it.

- Ian Berry, Associate Director and Curator, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, 2010

Diane Burko has been represented by Locks Gallery in Philadelphia since 1976.