Awards / Residencies
2018 KunstOrt ElevenArtSpace – Börstingen, Germany
2016 Picture Berlin – Berlin, Germany
2014 Art Farm – Nebraska, USA
2012 The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award Finalist – Australia
2011 Winner Kodak Professional Excellence in Photomedia – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2022 Re-connect Art, Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic
2021 I think I’m done with the kitchen table, baby, WIR WIR, Berlin, Germany
2021 I found out – Galerie Tokonomo, Kassel, Germany
2018 Mighty Good Men – Galerie Im Turm, Berlin, Germany
2014 Armour – Platform, Melbourne, Australia
2013 The Man, The Legend – Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Bedroom Chronicles - SAP Space, Berlin, Germany
2019 Queering the kiez – Interiors to being, Berlin, Germany
2019 Same time, Same place – Twenty Years, Berlin, Germany
2018 FLUENT 1 – Osnabrück, Germany
2017 Posture – Superchief Gallery, NYC, USA
2017 III Video Art Festival – nodoCCS, Caracas, Venezuela
2017 London Photo Diary – London, UK
2017 Johnny Guitar – Glogauerair, Berlin, Germany
2016 Artist Presentation – Tete, Berlin, Germany
2013 Filling The Void – Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Hung – Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Kodak Salon – CCP, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Typical Girls – The Grace Darling, Melbourne, Australia
2009 All Photographers Now! – NYPH’09, New York, USA
Andrew J Burford is a queer artist born in Cape Town, South Africa, and based in Berlin. His work spans video, performance, photography, and installation, and is rooted in a sustained examination of what it means to move through the world in a body shaped by queerness, whiteness, and the particular inheritance of a society built on enforced division.
Growing up in post-apartheid South Africa and later living across London, Melbourne, and Berlin, Burford's practice draws on autobiography not as confession but as evidence; a way of tracing how systems of power, masculinity, and heteronormativity are transmitted, absorbed, and eventually, resisted. His work is often funny, sometimes uncomfortable, and consistently refuses to let its subjects, including himself, off the hook.
Alongside his gallery practice, Burford works in public contexts, organising performance walks, open studios, and readings that extend the conversation around queer experience and wellbeing beyond the white cube.
His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Prague Biennale, Galerie Im Turm and Galerie Tokonoma in Kassel, Superchief Gallery in New York, and the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne.