Ed Burnam is a contemporary fine artist. His work encompasses various media, including painting, drawing, printmaking and installations. Burnam taught for many years at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University and Central Piedmont Community College, North Carolina. His work deals with the Power of Place, the Importance of Culture, Haudenosaunee, and the Ephemeral Nature of Family. Burnam has collaborated with Katsitsionni Fox on several culture based projects in the past ten years. “Two Row Wampum” is the most recent example of these collaborative efforts.
Ed Burnam received his Bachelors of Fine Arts in Printmaking from San Francisco Art Institute in 1992, Graduating with Honors. He also has a Masters in Ethnic Studies from San Francisco State University (1994, with an emphasis on American Indian Education), and a Masters of Fine Art from Vermont College at Norwich University in Montpelier, Vermont (2000).
Burnam’s work has been included in several exhibitions in recent years, notably; Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, 2012; Haudenosaunee: Elements, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, 2010; When Did We Meet, Solo Show, Ross Gallery, Charlotte, NC, 2007; From the Iroquois to Haudenosaunee, Gary Famer Gallery, Sante Fe, NM, 2006; Following in the Footsteps of our Ancestors, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, Canton, NY, 2005; Exposing Scarlet, Boston Center For the Arts, 539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, 2004; Artscapes – Contemporary Iroquois Art, Gallery 37, Frankfurt, Germany, 2003.
