Nancy Burson
artist, b. 1948.
Nancy Burson is an artist/photographer whose work combining art and innovation challenged photographic truth at the birth of digital manipulation. She is best known for her breakthrough work in morphing technologies which age enhance the human face and still enable law enforcement officials to locate missing children and adults. Her Human Race Machine, commissioned by Zaha Hadid for London’s Millennium Dome, was used for over a decade as a diversity tool that provided viewers with the visual experience of being another race. Her work is shown in museums and galleries internationally. She has served as a visiting professor at Harvard and was a member of the adjunct photography faculty at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts for five years. Burson currently produces the New York Film Academy Photography Guest Speaker Series and also teaches Portfolio Development there.
Burson’s work is held in museums worldwide including MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; V&A, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; LACMA and the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; SFMOMA; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.; as well as many others. The ’s TogetherAllOne concepts and designs promote the concept of global unity and encompass everything from interactive children’s books to projected lighting installations and public sculptures. Her fine art is available through in New York and in Zurich.
