About the work

Burin’s work takes variable forms and is profoundly informed by the history of architecture, with a particular emphasis on Modernism, female architects, and historical documentation. Burin executes drawings, models, collages, and installations. 

Date and country of birth

1975, SK

About the artist

Born in Bratislava, Katarina Burin lives and works in Cambridge. Graduated from BA Fine Arts, University of Georgia, Athens (1999); ME at Skowhegen School of Painting and Sculpture (2001); and MA Fine Arts at Yale School of Art, New Haven (2002).

Selected solo and two person exhibitions include Katarina Burin: Irrational Attachments, Providence College Galleries (PC–G), Providence (2020); a low storey between two others, Katarina Burin and Farhad Mirza, Anthony Greaney, Somerville (2019); Authorship, Architecture, Anonymity: The Impossible Career of Petra Andrejova-Molnàr, Bennington College (2019); Žijeme (We Live or Living), VI PER Gallery, Prague (2018); and Petra Andrejova-Molnár – Contribution and Collaboration, The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, Chicago (2015). Selected group exhibitions include Model Shop, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2015); The Ultimate Vessel, Koppe Astner, Glasgow (2015); Trapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands, Aspen Art Museum (2013); Brute, Carpenter Centre for Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2013); Permutation 03.4: Re-Mix Documentation, P!, New York (2013); and Abstract Location, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago (2011).

Awards include the Radcliffe Institute Fellow at Harvard University (2017-2018); the Graham Foundation Publication Grant (2014); the James and Audrey Foster prize from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2013); and the Schloss Solitude fellowship (2012). Residencies include IASPUS in Stockholm (2020-2021).