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Ian Burns

Ian Burns is an Australian artist, born in Newcastle, NSW, who currently lives and works in New York City. His works reimagine the consumer technologies that now define many human activities. Burns' work have been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including an exhibition in 2022 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in Korea in 2020, and in New York in 2018. His works are represented in major public and private collections, including MAK Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria; Frankfurt Museum für Moderne Kunst, Germany; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Chartwell Collection, Auckland, New Zealand; 2IC Museum, Louisville, USA; Frankfurt Museum für Moderne Kunst, Germany; Jumex Collection, Mexico; Berge Collection, Spain.

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Ian Burns