Untitled landscape #1, 2006
a/p, colour archival inkjet print, 39" x 40"
courtesy the artist
estimate $1,600 framed
Jim Verburg is a citizen of both Canada and The Netherlands. Born in 1977 in Belleville Ontario, he currently divides his time between Montreal and Toronto. His artistic practice is mainly concerned with the complexities of relationships, using photography, video, text, installation, and print to explore his love of modernist aesthetics, emotional matters, and the interpersonal. His second film For a Relationship won the 2008 Jury Prize for the “Best Canadian Short Film” at the Inside Out Film Festival in Toronto. The work was also nominated for the Iris Prize in the UK. He has held residencies at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in Montreal, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography in Toronto and the Banff Centre for the Arts. In the spring of 2009 he produced work for a solo exhibition/ installation at Widmer and Theodoridis Contemporary in Zurich, and was featured by the gallery at the HOT ART Fair 2009 in Basel Switzerland. He recently premiered the video installation “Portrait Study” at the New Stage of National Theatre in Prague and is currently working towards a solo exhibition for Le Mois de la Photo in Montreal in the fall of 2011. www.jimverburg.com
