19 Facts About Diane Burko

Diane Burko was born on 1945 and is an American painter and photographer.

Diane Burko is based in Philadelphia and Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Diane Burko was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1945.

Diane Burko is professor emeritus at the Community College of Philadelphia, and has taught at various schools across the country such as Princeton University, Arizona State University and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Diane Burko has served on the College Art Association board of directors.

Diane Burko's work has been shown at Locks Gallery, Cindy Lisica Gallery, LewAllen Gallery, Tufts University, the Michener Museum, the Bernstein Gallery at Princeton University, Rowan University Art Gallery, Walton Arts Center, Zimmerli Art Museum, the Tang Museum, the National Academy of Sciences, the American University Museum in Washington, DC, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, UK.

In 1977, while flying with Light and Space artist James Turrell in his Helio Courier over the Grand Canyon, Diane Burko captured her first aerial photographs of the landscape.

Diane Burko's paintings draw from art historical sources such as the Hudson River School and the appropriation of landscape imagery in popular culture.

Diane Burko depicts scientific data through visual motifs, incorporating Landsat imagery, mapping data and USG.

From 2007 through 2011, Diane Burko developed the project Politics of Snow, investigating the historical comparisons of global climate change through images culled from glacial geological data recorded throughout the world.

Since 2013, Diane Burko has embarked on research expeditions to various glaciers and reefs around the world.

In 2013, Diane Burko traveled to Antarctica in January and the high Arctic in October.

Diane Burko has spoken about the role of art in climate discourse at universities and conferences including the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, the Atlantic Council, the Michener Museum, the Zimmerli Museum, The Painting Center, the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Diane Burko was represented by Locks Gallery from 1976 through 2012.

Critics and curators who have written about Diane Burko's work include: Lawrence Alloway, Roberta Fallon, Pat Hogan, Leslie Kaufman, Cate McQuaid, Preston McLane, Edith Newhall, John Perreault, Carter Ratcliff, Libby Rosof, Julie Sasse, Amy Schlegel, Ed Sozanski, and Michael Tomor.

In 1993 Diane Burko was awarded a residency at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center in Bellagio where she painted en plein air for five weeks.

Diane Burko has received two NEA Visual Arts Fellowships ; two Individual Artists Grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts ; a Lila Acheson Wallace Foundation Residence Fellowship ; a Rockefeller Foundation Residence Fellowship ; and the Bessie Berman $50,000 Grant, awarded by the Leeway Foundation in Philadelphia.

In 1996, Diane Burko won a $200,000 Public Art commission sponsored by the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia and the Marriott Hotel.

Diane Burko has been an active member in the Feminist art movement.