Ottawa from 1980 to 1994. In 1999, he was awarded
the Advertising & Design Club of Canada Award
for Still Life Photography.
SOPHIEHACKETT
Seealso:Abbott, Berenice; Becher, Bernd and Hilla;
Bourke-White, Margaret; Krull, Germaine; Sheeler,
Charles; Stieglitz, Alfred; Strand, Paul; White,
Minor
Biography
Born in Kingston, Ontario, November 14, 1931. Studied
architecture at the University of Toronto in 1957–1958.
Marries Mary Eardley in 1961; son Robbie born in 1962
and son Sean born in 1965. Began to photograph after
meeting Minor White in Rochester in 1958; from 1958–
1968 White becomes a significant influence through cor-
respondence. Meets Paul Strand in New York in 1965.
First exhibition in 1966 at National Film Board of
Canada (now the Canadian Museum of Contemporary
Photography). From 1960 to 1985, works as an architec-
tural technologist. In 1980, Jane Corkin agrees to repre-
sent him. Teaches photography at the University of
Ottawa from 1980–1994. Pursues photography full-time
from 1985. National Gallery of Canada exhibits a retro-
spective in 1990, the same year he begins his break-
through series Industrial Sites. Lives and works in
Ottawa, Ontario.
Individual Exhibitions
1968 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1976 Yajima Gallery, Montreal, Canada
1977 Secession Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1979 Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada
1980 Landscapes; International Centre of Photography,
New York, New York
1981 Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1981 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1983 Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich, Switzerland
1983 Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1984 The Afterimage Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1985 Landform & Architecture; Jane Corkin Gallery, Tor-
onto, Canada
1988 49th Parallel Gallery, New York, New York
1988 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1988 Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada
1988 London Regional Gallery, London, Ontario
1988 Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
1988 Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
1989 Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff, Alberta
1989 Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada
1990 Beaverbrook Museum, Fredericton, New Brunswick
1990 Robert Bourdeau, A Retrospective; National Gallery of
Canada, Ottawa, Canada
1992 Recent Work; Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1994 From Light to Dark; National Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa, Canada
1994 Recent Work; Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1997 30 Years of Collecting Photographs; National Gallery
of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
1997 The Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
1998 Industrial Sites: Europe and United States; Jane Corkin
Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1999 La surface du re ́el: images; CIPRA, Briey-en-foreˆ t,
France
1999 Industrial Sites; Michael Hoppen Galley, London,
England
2000 Industrial Sites; Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York,
New York
2001 Industrial Sites; ForumGallery,LosAngeles,CaliforniaGroup Exhibitions
1970 The Photograph as an Object; Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto, Canada
1983 Perceptions; The Gallery /Stratford, Stratford, On-
tario, Canada
1986 Masterpieces from the Gallery Collection; Jane Corkin
Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1986 Contemporary Photography; Watson Gallery, Hous-
ton, Texas
1987 10 Ways of Looking at Landscapes; Watson Gallery,
Houston, Texas
1988-90The Meditated Image; Glenbow Museum, Calgary,
Canada
1990 Is There Life in the Still Life or is Nature Morte?
Watson Gallery, Houston, Texas
1990 The Landscape: Eight Canadian Photographers; McMi-
chael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario,
Canada
1990 Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architec-
ture; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, and
traveling
1990–1992Children in Photography; Dalhousie Art Gallery,
Halifax, Canada, and traveling
1991 Four Canadians; Vision Gallery, San Francisco, Cali-
fornia
1993 Magicians of Light; National Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa, Canada
1993 Observing Traditions: Contemporary Photographs;
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
1993 Flora Photographica: The Flower in Photography from
1835 to the Present; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver,
Canada
1999 Icons and Iconoclasts; Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto,
Canada
2000 Building Images: Architecture 1851 to the Present; Jane
Corkin Gallery, Toronto, CanadaSelected Works
Granite quarry, Vermont, 1995
Steel plant, Pennsylvania, 1996
Coal mine, Nord Pas-de-Calais, France, 1998
Steel plant, Luxembourg, 1998
Steel plant, Lorraine, France, 1999Further Reading
Corkin, Jane, ed.12 Canadians, Contemporary Canadian
Photography. Toronto: McClelland & Stuart, 1980.
Dault, Gary Michael. ‘‘Robert Bourdeau Makes a Photo.’’
Canadian Art(Fall 1998).BOURDEAU, ROBERT