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JIM VERBURG

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Jim Verburg is a Dutch/Canadian artist currently based in Toronto.

Notable solo projects and exhibitions include Within and Without at Galerie Nicolas Robert in Montréal and Zalucky Contemporary in Toronto (2022), Shape and Light #1, a choreographed work for the Toronto Dance Theatre (2016), and One and Two at Galerie B-312, Montreal for Mois de la Photo Festival (2011) which received the Dazibao Prize. Verburg has been included in group exhibitions at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2013), Luciana Caravello, Rio de Janeiro (2014), Access Gallery, Vancouver (2014), Inman Gallery, Houston (2015), Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary (2016), and Cydonia Gallery, Dallas Texas (2017). He’s been featured at Tokyo Gendai (2026), Art Brussels (2024 and 2025), Expo Chicago (2018), Untitled Miami (2016, 2018, 2019), and featured solo projects at VOLTA NY (widmertheodoridis Zurich, 2015), and at the Texas Contemporary Art Fair (2015).

His film For a Relationship won the 2008 Jury Prize for the Best Canadian Short Film a the Insideout Film Festival (Toronto) and was nominated for the Iris Prize (UK). His book O/ Divided/Defined, Weights, Measures, and Emotional Geometry was shortlisted for Best Printed Publication at the Gala des Arts Visual, Montreal (2014). Another book project A New Relationship Between Reflective Sides was launched at MoMA Ps1 at the New York Art Book Fair (2015). He installed The shape this takes to get to that, a public art installation for the city of Ottawa in 2019. His work appears in several private and corporate collections around the world including a recent commission for the Pantoptes Collection in Brussels (2025).

©2015 Jim Verburg