Ian Burns
Biography
Ian Burns was born in 1964 in Australia and lives and works in New York, US.
His works reimagine the consumer
technologies that now define many human activities. He is known for witty assemblages
often animated by light and movement. The artist’s work encourages a playful
spirit of investigation and promotes an active viewing position challenging
passive mode of consumption.
“Like the eighteenth-century philosophers Rousseau and Burke, I see curiosity
as the first of all passions. I believe that by provoking the investigative
impulse in the viewer there is scope to challenge their expectations and
self-awareness.”
Public collections that show his work include: Art Gallery of South Astralia, Australian Center for the Moving Image, National Gallery of Victoria, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt) and prominent private and corporate collections across Australia and the United States.