UPCOMING
Think About Water: Exquisite River, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, April 14 to June 2, 2024.
MADE in PA, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, State College, PA, June 1 to December 1, 2024
The Greatest Emergency is the Absence of Emergency, curated by Santiago Zabala, Minerva Hall, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain, September 2024 to January 2025
CURRENT
Biophilia: In Excelsis, Yale University Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven, CT, March 27 - May 3, 2024.
Risky Beauty: Aesthetics and Climate Change, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, March - May 2024.
NSF Grant in collaboration with ARION (Arctic Radium Isotope Observing Network), Rowan University, Glassboro NJ, 2021-2026
RECENT TALKS & EVENTS
(re)FOCUS Festival Takes a Renewed Look at Women’s Art, You Oughta Know, WHYY, Aired March 31, 2024.
Reception & Dialogue: Women in the City of Brotherly Love, with Kiki Gaffney & Lauren Mabry. Pentimenti Gallery, Friday March 8, 2024; Reception from 6-8pm, remarks at 7.
Panel Discussion: Diane Burko, Nicolo Gentile & Kristen Neville Taylor, Hicks Art Center Gallery, Bucks County Community College, Newton, PA, February 28, 2024 at 5:30pm.
PANEL: Muse Artists and Diane Burko, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, February 11, 2024 from 2:00pm - 4:00pm.
Artists’ Panel with Syd Carpenter, Anne Minich and Eileen Neff at Commonweal Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, September 30, 2023, 12:00-1:30pm.
From Painting the Landscape to Investigating the Environment in the Amazon Rainforest, Towson University Art Lecture Hall 2031, Towson, MD, Thursday, February 9, 2023 at 6:30 p.m.
On Art and Climate Change, public lecture at David Owsley Museum of Art, IN, October 12, 2022
Guest Lecture: Art Meets the Climate Crisis, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, September 29, 2022.
Art & Activism: A Conversation with Joe Baker & Diane Burko, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, September 16, 2022, 1:00 to 2:00 pm
Technelegy U.S. Launch Party: Sasha Stiles in conversation with artist Diane Burko, Frenchtown Bookshop, Frenchtown, NJ, April 14, 2022, 7pm
My Journey from Landscape Artist to Environmental Activist, Design Advocacy Group virtual presentation, March 24, 2022, 10:00 am to 11:30 am.
Artist Talk: Visualizing Environmental Change, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, March 22, 2022, 12:20 pm.
Transitional Environments: Patty Chang and Diane Burko in conversation with Jonathan Gilmore and Peter Eckersall, Arts-Science Connect at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Online public discussion, December 16, 2021, 4-6 pm.
Seeing Climate Change Symposium at American University, Washington DC, November 5-7, 2021.
Journey from Landscape artist to the intersection of art, science, and the environment talk at the Explorer’s Club, Washington DC, November 6th, 2021.
From Landscape Painter to Environmental Artist & Activist talk at the Fitler Club, Philadelphia, PA, November 2, 2021, 6-7pm
DASER Experiments: Art, Empathy, and Climate Change, online talk hosted by the Cultural Programs at the National Academy of Science, September 23, 2021 12:00pm
Understanding Our Climate Emergency Through Art and Aesthetics, debate at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, October 21, 2021.
Gallery Talk: Seeing Climate Change, for the exhibition at The American University Museum, Washington DC, October 12, 2021, 6-7pm
Virtual Studio Visit and Interview with Laura Igoe, James A. Michener Museum, Virtual, November 18, 2020
Guest Lecture: Virtual Educators Open House, James A. Michener Museum, Virtual, November 10, 2020
Panel Moderator: Discussion with Artist/Activist Stacy Levy and Eve Mosher, James A Michener Museum, Virtual, November 6, 2020
Keynote Lecture: My Practice From Landscape Artist to Activist, Climanosco Dear 2050 Conference, Virtual, October 25, 2020
Panelist: Rising Up: Diane Burko and Marguerita Hagan on the Future of Art and Climate Activism, James A. Michener Museum, Virtual, October 15, 2020
Diane Burko in Conversation with Ian Berry, Skidmore College, Virtual, October 7, 2020
Virtual Studio Visit: Coffee and Culture: In the Studio with Diane Burko and Sarah McEneaney at PAFA with Museum Director Brooke Davis Anderson, Virtual, June 16, 2020
Guest Lecture: Landscape Artist to Landscape Activist: An Evening With Diane Burko, Museum of Sonoma County, Virtual, June 4, 2020
Guest Lecture: Conversation about work since Canyon Series, 1977, Delaware Art Museum, May 21, 2020
Guest Lecture: The Landscape: from Awe and to Action, Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA, May 21, 2020 - Cancelled due to pandemic
Guest Lecturer and Panelist: Michener Museum of Art, Doylestown, PA, April 30, 2020
Parallax Podcast: “Diane Burko: A landscape artist and environmental activist,” April 22, 2020
Virtual Earth Day: Happy Hour with RISING TIDES Artists, Michener Museum, April 22, 2020
Virtual Lecture: Sci Art Initiative: LUNCH TIME BREAK with DIANE BURKO, Virtual, April 15, 2020
Earth Day Lecture: From Landscape Artist to Environmental Activist, Foulkeways at Gwynedd, Gwynedd, PA, April 20, 2020
Presentation and studio visit with 350.ORG Philadelphia, March 7, 2020
Weather the Weather, a group exhibition by SciArt Center at The New York Hall of Science, New York, NY, September 10, 2019 - February 29, 2020
Guest Lecture: Making the Invisible Visceral to Introduction to Environmental Studies classes at Haverford/Bryn Mawr College, Haverford, PA, February 10, 2020
Nordic Changes, American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, PA, September 29, 2019 - January 5, 2020
Guest Speaker, Talking About the Weather: The Science and Art of Climate Change (with Katherine Hayhoe, Cate Sandilands and Gavin Schmidt), University of Toronto, November 25, 2019
Guest Speaker, How Climate Change “FLOWS” Through My Practice, Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA, November 21, 2019
Talk at GLOBAL YOUTH CLIMATE PACT, Meetings, Santiago, Chile, October 10, 2019
Meeting with ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES NETWORK,Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, October 11, 2019
Climate Change: Art & Action, University of Rhode Island, Providence RI, September 3 - 26, 2019
Panelist, University of Scranton Schemel Forum: An Environmental Immersion, September 14, 2019
RECENT EXHIBITIONS & RESIDENCIES
Construction Time Again, Hicks Art Center Gallery, Bucks County Community College, Newton, PA, January 17 to March 8, 2024
(re)FOCUS: Then and Now, The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA, January 27 to March 16, 2024. Panel and opening reception from 3:30 to 7:00 pm on January 26. Recording of the Panel is available here.
Artist Voice, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, January 31 to February 25.
Anna Tas and Diane Burko: Lenticulars, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, February 2 to February 25, 2024. Opening reception on February 2 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm.
The Art of Collecting: The Luther W. Brady Bequest, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA, July 8, 2023 to January 7, 2024.
The Brodsky Center at Rutgers: Three Decades, 1987-2017, Zimmerli Museum of Art, New Brunswick, NJ, September 15 to December 22, 2023
Speculative Ecologies Residency, LABverde, Manaus, Brazil, August 2023.
Risky Beauty, Nature Nurture Center, Easton, PA, April 14 - June 26, 2023
Submerged: A Changing Global Climate, Fairmount Water Works, April 22- July 29, 2023; multiple dates for public tours and discussions.
Artists Reflect, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, Spring 2023.
Pour, Tear, Carve: Material Possibilities in the Collection, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, March 18 - May 14, 2023
DISordered Systems, Center for the Arts Gallery at Towson University, Towson, MD, January 27 to April 15, 2023
Art and Climate Change, Installation at 2400 Market as part of the Fitler Club’s Artists in Residence Program, Philadelphia, PA, May 2021 - April 2023
(re)Frame: Community Perspectives on the Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, June 18, 2022 to March 5, 2023
Forever is Composed of Nows, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse NY, February 1 to December 31, 2022
Regionalism, Surrealism, and Climate Change: Recent Loans and Acquisitions, David Owsley Museum of Art, Muncie, IN, September 29 to December 22, 2022
Artists Reflect, Minneapolis Institute of Art, September to November 2022
Risky Beauty: Aesthetics and Climate Change, Main Line Art Center, September 6 to October 28, 2022
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022, invited by curator Farshid Moussavi, London, UK, June 21 to August 31, 2022; press release here.
Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY, May 7 to June 4, 2022
SOLO: Our Endangered Earth, Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, Bryn Mawr, PA, April 3 to May 31, 2022
SOLO: Visualizing Environmental Change, Wesleyan’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, February 17 to March 3, 2022.
Luna Fête, New Orleans, LA December 16-19, 2021
SOLO: Diane Burko: Seeing Climate Change, 2002-2021, The American University Museum, Washington DC, August 28 - December 12, 2021
Part II: Intersecting Art, Earth Fire, Water & Air at West Strand Art Gallery, Kingston, NY. November 20 — December 19, 2021.
Intersecting Art, Earth, Fire, Water & Air at West Strand Art Gallery, Kingston, NY. October 2- November 14, 2021.
Think About Water Online Exhibition, curated by Doug Fogelson, March 21- June 7, 2021
Never Done: 100 Years of Women In Politics And Beyond, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY, September 17, 2020 - June 6, 2021
Rising Tides, Contemporary Art and the Ecology of Water, Michener Museum of Art, Doylestown, PA , April 4, 2020 – January 10, 2021
FINGERS CROSSED: “Ayer, Ahora y tal vez Mañana” (Yesterday, Now, and perhaps Tomorrow), CDAN, (Center of Art and Nature) Huesca, Spain, October 31, 2020 - April 4, 2021
Ecuadorian Biennial, Curated by Blanca De La Torre - Virtual Catalog
Co-Terminous, Union Hall, Denver, CO, October 22, 2020 - January 9, 2021
Entitled Through the Lens: Modern Photography from the Delaware Valley, Michener Museum, February 5 – August 15, 2021
Landscape: Awe to Activism, Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA, February 15 - November 29, 2020
SOLO: Nordic Changes, American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 2020
SOLO: ENDANGERED, Cindy Lisica Gallery, Houston, TX, 2020
Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, Tang Museum of Art, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2020
“It makes me think of that awful day…” The Natural World in the Anthropocene, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ, January 18, 2020 - May 17, 2020
Fingers Crossed: “Ayer, Ahora y tal vez Mañana” (Yesterday, Now, and perhaps Tomorrow), ADN Platform, Sant Cujat del Vallés, Spain, 2019
Rising Tides: Contemporary Art and the Ecology of Water, Michener Museum of Art, Doylestown, PA, 2019
Landscape: Awe to Activism, Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rose, CA, 2019
Weather the Weather, New York Hall of Science, New York, NY, 2019
Climate Change: Art & Action, University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI, 2019
WaterWorks, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Township, NJ, 2019
Environmental Impact, Hofstra University Museum of Art, Hempstead, NY, September 3, 2019 - December 13, 2019
From Durer to Digital: The Metamorphosis of the Printed Image, The City Museum of Trenton at Ellarslie, Trenton, NJ, 2019
SOLO: Repairing the Earth (Tikkun Olam): Diane Burko, Artist and Environmental Activist, Rodeph Shalom, Philadelphia, PA, 2018
SOLO: Endangered: from Glaciers to Reefs, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C, 2018
SOLO: Diane Burko: Vast and Vanishing, Rowan University Gallery, Glassboro, NJ , 2018
Earth, Fire, Water, and Ice – Four Artists and the Climate, Princeton Arts Council, Princeton, NJ, 2018
Complete Set II, Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 2018