The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) has selected the Toronto-based photographer Edward Burtynsky as the recipient of the 2011 MOCCA Award in Contemporary Art. The award comes with a $20,000 prize.

In naming him as the third recipient of the award, MOCCA cited the national and international acclaim Burtynsky has received for his bodies of work produced over the course of nearly three decades. In recent years he has exhibited his work at the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, among many others. His most recent museum exhibition, "Oil," was organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art.