RALPH BURNS

Ralph Burns
1 + 828 713 9603
ralphburns@earthlink.net
www.ralphburnsphotography.com

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts / Political Science 
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana

GRANTS, AWARDS, CATALOGUES

Art commission from the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation 2023
Featured Photographer, LFI (Leica Fotografie International) Magazine Hamburg, Germany 2021
Subject of Documentary Film, In Love’s Shadow www.vimeo.com/244980621 2018
Ralph Burns: A Persistence of Vision Photographs 1972 – 2013 (exhibition catalog) Asheville Art Museum / Richard Gruber, PhD (ISBN978-1-4951-7610) 2015
Somewhere Beyond the Constellation Norma: Ralph Burns (exhibition catalogue) J. Richard Gruber, PhD 2013
Fellowship Recipient, Institute on Religions and World Affairs, Boston University. One of eighteen international fellowship recipients for the institute’s inaugural workshop on religion as a transnational actor 2002
North Carolina / Israel Artist Residency Fellowship Awarded by the North Carolina Arts Council  1996
Photography Residency, Vermont Studio Center Awarded by The Southeastern Artist Federation 1995

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC Shifting Perceptions: Photographs from the Collection 2024
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC From Alpha to Creation: Religion in the Deep South 2024
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC From Alpha to Creation: Religion in the Deep South 2024
North Carolina Museum of Art, Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park, Raleigh, NC Fall 2022 Billboards: Ralph Burns 2022-2023
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC Outlandish: Photographs by Ralph Burns (solo) 2023
Bascom Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, NC Imaginary Landscapes 2022
Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC A Time Before: Asheville and Beyond, 1975-1999 (solo) 2020
Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN How Great Thou Art (solo) 2018
Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC Created By Light - Photographs from North Carolina Collections 2017
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC You + Me 2017
Blowing Rock Art and History Museum, Blowing Rock, NC Ralph Burns: A Persistence of Vision Photographs 1972-2013 (solo) 2016
Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC Selections from Field Notes from the Anthropocene 2014
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC Ralph Burns: A Persistence of Vision Photographs 1972-2013 (solo retrospective) 2014
Pink Dog Creative, Asheville, NC Somewhere Beyond the Constellation Norma (solo) 2012
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC Limners to Facebook: Portraiture from the 19th to the 21st Century, Asheville, NC 2010
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC Make It New 2007
Brevard College, Brevard, NC (solo) 2005
Meredith College, Raleigh, NC North Carolina Photographers Exhibition 2004
Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC 2004
Studio 354, Brooklyn, NY 2002
Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool, England 2000
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA How Great Thou Art (solo) 1999
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany 1999
Weizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, NC (solo) 1999
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC 1998
Kumamoto Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Japan 1998
Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan 1998
Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA (solo) 1997
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 1997
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio (solo) 1997
Sogo Museum of Art Sogo, Japan 1997
Takamatsu City Museum of Art Takamatsu, Japan 1997
Daimaru Museum Umeda, Osaka, Japan 1997
Hokkaido Museum of Art Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan  1997
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI  1997
St John’s Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC  1997
Wellington B. Gray Gallery East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 1997
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC 1997
The Light Factory Charlotte, NC 1997
Portland Museum of Art Portland, OR 1996
Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL 1996
California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside How Great Thou Art (solo) 1996
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH 1996
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN 1996
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK 1996
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH How Great Thou Art (solo) 1995
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC 1995
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX 1995
University of South Carolina, Sumter, SC How Great Thou Art (solo) 1995
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA 1994
Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC How Great Thou Art (solo) 1994
Fayetteville Art Museum, Fayetteville, NC 1994
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV 1994
Lagrange National Biennial, Lagrange, GA 1994
Weizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill University, Mars Hill, NC (solo) 1991
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC (solo) 1990
Carroll Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN (solo) 1988
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC 1987
Sawtooth School for Visual Arts, Winston Salem, NC 1985
Iris Photographics, Asheville, NC (solo) 1985

COLLECTIONS 
North Carolina Museum of Art Permanent Collection
Asheville Art Museum Permanent Collection
Numerous Private Collections

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
LFI (Leica Fotografie International) Magazine 2021
Mountain Xpress 2020
Asheville Made 2020
The Southern Photographer 2018
Asheville Citizen-Times 2014
Mountain Xpress 2014
Louisiana Cultural Vistas 2013
Asheville Citizen-Times 2012
ADbusters 2004
Stern (Germany) 1999
Westdeutsch Zietung (Düsseldorf) 1999
Hamburger Morgenpost 1999
Frankfuter Neue Presse 1999
Zurichsee Zeitung 1999
Independent (London) 1999
The Sunday Telegram (London) 1999
The Times (London) 1999
The Sunday Times (London) 1999
Tate, The Art Magazine 1999
Contemporary Visual Arts Magazine 1999
Time Magazine, International Edition 1999
Heaven, Hatje Cantz Publisher (Germany) 1999
Los Angeles times 1996
New York Times 1994
Elvis + Marilyn: 2 x Immortal, Rizzoli International 1994

OTHER
Instructor, Penland School, Penland, NC   1992, 1993, 1995, 1997 1998, 2001, 2004, 2006

Member, Board of Directors, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center                2024-present