Bobbie Burgers

Bobbie Burgers is a Vancouver-based contemporary painter best known for her large-scale floral works. Born in Vancouver in 1973, she studied at the Université d’étudiantes étrangères in Aix-en-Provence, France, 1992, completed a BA in Art History at the University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., 1996, and attended the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C., 1997.

Burgers describes flowers as the opposite of still, seeing them as symbols of change, desire, decay, and renewal. This sense of constant transformation is mirrored in her technique, which combines acrylic paint, oil sticks, spray paint, and pastel, applied in layers that range from thick, sculptural impasto to fluid stains and drips.

Her influences include Helen Frankenthaler’s expansive use of colour, Joan Mitchell’s complex interpretations of nature, Georgia O’Keeffe’s charged florals, Willem de Kooning’s dissolution of form, and Niki de Saint Phalle’s embrace of imperfection and play. These references inform a practice that is grounded in painting’s history while remaining distinctly contemporary.

Burgers has exhibited extensively in Canada and internationally, with solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions such as Equinox Gallery, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, Galerie de Bellefeuille, and the West Vancouver Art Museum. Her work has been shown at major art fairs in Canada and the United States and internationally in Sweden and China. She is scheduled to have a solo exhibition at the Burnaby Art Gallery in February 2026.

Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, including Global Affairs Canada, the Royal Bank of Canada, Vancouver General Hospital, Berost Corporation, Nordstrom’s New York, and Norwegian Cruise Lines.