Biography
Jeff Burton (b. Anaheim, California, USA 1963) studied fine art at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth in 1985 and at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia in 1989. He then moved to the San Fernando Valley and began working for Catalina Videos as a still photographer on their gay adult film sets. His Untitled series (1998) observed the subtle connections between the production of pornographic films and larger American culture, attending to the detritus of the ordinary interiors in which porn films are usually made—details that suggest a mundane world outside the seemingly transgressive situation of the filming.
Burton had his first solo exhibition at the Casey Kaplan Gallery in New York in 1995 and has shown at Sadie Coles HQ in London (1999, 2000, and 2003) and Galleria Franco Noero in Turin (2002, 2004, and 2007), amongst others. He has participated in many group exhibitions, including Stills: Emerging Photography in the 1990s at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (1997), International Biennial Exhibition at SITE Santa Fe (2001), Majestic Sprawl: Recent Los Angeles Photography at Pasadena Museum of California Art (2002), Moving Pictures at the Guggenheim Museum Bilboa (2003), and Into Me/Out of Me organised by P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center in New York, which travelled to the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and MACRO in Rome (2006–07). He received an Art Matters grant in 1996.
