She has served as a visiting professor at Harvard and was a member of the adjunct photography faculty at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for five years.
[2] Burson is best known for her work in morphing technologies which age enhance the human face and still enable law enforcement officials to locate missing children and adults.
Set in the futuristic environment of Zaha’s Mind Zone, there were four machines and wait lines of sometimes two hours long to use the all new, race morphing technology that had been developed throughout 1999.
[1] Burson has collaborated with Creative Time,[4] the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), and Deutsche Bank in completing several public art projects in New York City.
Burson's work has been featured in all forms of media including segments on Oprah (Skin Deep, 2/16/06),[5] Good Morning America (1986, 2002), CNN (2002,1986,1983), National Public Radio (2002),[6] PBS (2001, 1987),[7] and Fuji TV News (2002).
Articles featuring her work have appeared in The New York Times (March 15, April 14, 2002[8]), The Washington Post (2005),[9] The Houston Chronicle (2002), and Scientific American (December, 2003).