biography / bibliography
Michael Snow: The Walking Woman Works, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
MICHAEL SNOW
Born in 1929, Toronto
Lives and works in Toronto
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Spring/Summer 2013. (Forthcoming)
The Viewing of Six New Works, Martine Aboucaya, Paris, February 2–March 23, 2013.
2012
Michael Snow: Objects of Vision, Art Gallery of Ontario, July 18–December 9, 2012.
Solo Snow: Works of Michael Snow, Akbank Sanat, Instanbul, January 18–February 25, 2012.
Michael Snow, Vienna Secession, Association of Visual Artists, Vienna, Austria, February 23–April 15, 2012.
Michael Snow: In The Way, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, January 7–February 4, 2012.
2011
Sequence Gallery, Chicoutimi, Quebec, September 16–Winter 2011.
Solo Snow, Le Fresnoy, Fresnoy, France, February 10–April 24, 2011. Curated by Louise Déry.
In the way. Loop 2011, Àngels Barcelona, Spain
2010
Piano Sculpture and Sex, Klosterfelde gallery, Berlin
Recent Snow, The Power Plant, Toronto
Martine Aboucaya, Paris
2009
Condensation – A Cove Story, Àngels Barcelona, Spain, May 5–June 13, 2009.
2008
Yes Snow Show, BFI Southbank Gallery, London
2007
Carte grise à Michael Snow, Dazibao, Montreal
Michael Snow retrospective at Lucca Film Festival, Italy
2006
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, February 9–March 11, 2006.
2005
Stillness: Michael Snow/Sam Taylor-Wood, Yoshiko and Akio Morita Media Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 5–November 28, 2005.
Michael Snow: La Box, École Nationale Superieure d´Art de Bourges, France
2004
Michael Snow: Powers of Two, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, February 12–March 13, 2004.
2003
Michael Snow: Selections from the Spectrum, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2002
Invite #4: Michael Snow – Hearing Aid – Klosterfelde, Berlin
Michael Snow, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin
Michael Snow: Almost Cover to Cover, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom
Sunset & Close-Up, Moore Gallery, Toronto
Instant Snow, exhibition and film retrospective, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris
Video Fields, salle d’expositions, Paris Université 1, Paris
Corpus Callosum, a 2-week run at Film Forum, New York
Waiting Room, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Hearing Aid, Sound Works 1970–2002, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin
Bookworks and Catalogues, Barbara Wien Gallery, Berlin
Video Fields, Canada House, London England
Michael Snow almost Cover to Cover, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (travels to John Hansard Gallery, Southampton UK, 2002)
Early Snow, Moore Gallery, Toronto
That/Cela/Dat, White Box, New York N.Y.
Couple, video installation, SAW Gallery, Ottawa
2000
Snow Alert, White Box, New York
Michael Snow: Fragments d’un retrospective 1962–1999, Musée d´art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva
1999
Panoramique: Oeuvres photographiques & films/Photographic Works & Films 1962-1999, Bruxelles: Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts
Travels in 2000 to Centre national de la photographie, Paris and Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Saint-Gervais and Mamco, Geneva
1998
Transparenté, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel (France)
Redifice, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris
1997
Stux Gallery, New York
1995
Michael Snow, Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Quebec
Michael Snow: The Walking Woman Works, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
Michael Snow: Works from the Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal
1994
Light, Surface and Sound, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
The Michael Snow Project, four simultaneous exhibitions: Exploring Plane and Contour, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Around Wavelength, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Presence and Absence: The Films of Michael Snow, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Embodied Vision, The Power Plant, Toronto
1993
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
1992–1993
Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris France
1992
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
1988
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
#720 (Thanks to Robert Crumb), Ruine der Künste, Berlin
1986
The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto
The Spectral Image, Expo '86, Vancouver
Visionary Apparatus (with Juan Geuer), List Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
1983–1984
Walking Woman Works: Michael Snow 1961–1967, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston Ontario; Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Halifax; London; Victoria; Toronto
1983
Michael Snow, Frederick S. Wright Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles
Snow in England, Canada House, London
1978–1979
Michael Snow, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland; Museum
Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn; Musée des Beaux
Arts, Montreal; Vancouver Art Gallery
1976
Michael Snow: Ten Photographic Works, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972
Center for Inter-American Relations, New York
Bykert Gallery, New York
1970
XXV Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Bykert Gallery, New York
Michael Snow: A Survey, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1967
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Poindexter Gallery, New York in 1968, 1965 and 1964
The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto in 1991, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1984, 1982, 1969, 1964, 1962, 1960, 1958 and 1957
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012–2013
Builders: Canadian Biennial 2012, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, November 2, 2012–February 18, 2013.
2012
Oh, Canada, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, May 27, 2012–April 1, 2012.
The Box: The Single Channel Exhibition Space, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, February 1–29, 2012.
2011
Videosphere: A New Generation, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, July 1–October 9, 2011.
Still Films, Yukon Arts Centre, Canada, March 23–May 21, 2011.
1 + 1 + 1 = 3: Hermann Pitz, Michael Snow, Bernard Voïta, Culturgest, Lisbon, February 18–May 22, 2011. Curated by Friedrich Meschede.
2009
Works on View, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
1969, PS 1, New York
2007
Projections, Presented at the Blackwood Gallery, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Justina M Barnick
gallery, and The University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto.
2006
Acting the Part: Photography as Theater, Musee des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Traveling to: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2007
Contemporary Photographic Art From Canada, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
2005
Imposition, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2004
A Charge to Keep, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2003
X-Screen. Filmische Installationen und Aktionen der 60er und 70er
Jahre, MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien), Vienna. (includes Two Sides to Every Story)
Future Cinema, mounted by ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (Germany) includes *Corpus Callosum and Anarchive 2 : Digital Snow (touring)
Les enfants du Paradis, video installations, Galérie Yvon Lambert, Paris, included Souffle solaire (cariatides du nord)
Le Diaphane et l’Obscure, A History of Slides in Contemporary Art, Maison Européean de la Photographie, Paris
Panorama 3, Le Fresnoy, Studio nation al des arts contemporains
Sans commune mesure, image et texte dans l’art actuel, Le Fresnoy, Studio nation al des arts contemporains
2001
Into the Light, the projected image in American art 1964-1977
Whitney Museum, New York (curator: Chrissie Iles). Travels to The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2002
Festival en Lumière, Montréal
Flashing into the Shadows: The Artist’s Film after Pop and Minimalism 1966-1976, Whitney Museum, New York (curator: Chrissie Iles)
2000
Tout le temps/Every Time, La Biennale de Montréal 2000, Montréal
Movimento Aparente, Castellò Spain, 2000 (curator: Eugeni Bonet)
Voici, 100 ans d’art contemporain. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.
Paris en 3D, Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Le temps, vite, Musée National des Beaux-Arts, Centre GeorgesPompidou, Paris
1999
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York. Travels to Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Miami Art Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery in 1999/2000
Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Making It New! the big sixties show, Art Gallery of Windsor (Canada)
Musiques en scène, Musée d’art contemporain Lyon (France)
Helio Oiticica e a Cena Americana, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
1998
Projections, Studio national d'art contemporain, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing (France)
Layers, Wynick-Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1997
Les Pêches Capitaux: La Gourmandise, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Timeframes, Freedman Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania
1996
Emotion, McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg, Ontario
Walking and Thinking and Walking, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Traveled to: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Magritte, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal
1995–1996
Biennale de Lyon, Musée Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyons France
How Red Works, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton ON
1995
Reconsidering the Object of Art 1965–1975, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Notion on Light, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Sculpture Montréal 95, Le vieux-Port de Montréal, Montreal
Edward Muybridge, Michael Snow, Haim Steinbach, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
1990–1992
Passages de l'Image, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Traveled to: Barcelona, Spain; Columbus, Ohio; San Francisco, California
1988–1990
Vanishing Presence, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis. Traveled to: Detroit; Winnipeg; Atlanta; Ithaca; Richmond
1988
Images du Futur 88, Art et Nouvelles Technologies, Montreal
Festival des Arts Electroniques de Rennes, Rennes France; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Galerie Vu, Quebec City
1987–1998
Snow/Weiner/Nannucci, circulated nationally by Art Metropole, Toronto
1987
International Holography Exhibition and Conference, Copenhagen
Photography and Art, 1984–1986 , Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Photographers Who Make Films, New York University Photo Center Gallery
Holography: Light in the Third Dimension, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto
Toronto: A Play of History (Jeu d'Histoire), The Power Plant, Toronto
1986
Fokus: Contemporary Canadian Art 1960–1985, Department of External Affairs, Cologne Art Fair, Germany
1985
Aurora Borealis, Centre International d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal
1984
Seeing People -- Seeing Space, The Photographers' Gallery, London England
1983
Toronto Painting of the 1960's, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1982
Photoalchemy, The Robert Friedus Gallery, New York
1979
Re-Visions: Projects and Proposals in Film and Video, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1977–1978
Another Dimension, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1977
Documenta 6, Kassel, West Germany
1975
A Response to the Environment, Rutgers University, New Jersey. Traveled to: Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
1969
Information, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Anti-Illusion: Procedures and Materials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1968
Art d'Aujourd'hui, France, Italy, Netherlands
Canada 101, Edinburgh Festival, Scotland
1965
Biennale of Canadian Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Outdoor Exhibition, Sculpture Society of Canada, Stratford Ontario
Polychrome Construction, The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto
1964
Carnegie International, Pittsburgh PA
Contemporary American Figure Painters, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CN
1963
Detroit Cultural Center, Detroit MI
1959
Biennale of Canadian Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Carnegie International, Pittsburgh PA
1958
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1957
Biennale of Canadian Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1956
Hart House (with Graham Coughtry), University of Toronto, Toronto
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston ON
Albright-Know Art Gallery, Buffalo N.Y.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Art Gallery of Windsor (Ontario)
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Confederation Art Centre and Museum, Charlottetown P.E.I.
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa
Edmonton Art Gallery (Alberta)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Ludwig Museum, Cologne and Vienna
McMaster University, Hamilton ON
Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina SK
Pearson International Airport, Toronto
Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts
University of Waterloo (Ontario)
University of Western Ontario, London ON
Vancouver Art Gallery (British Columbia)
Winnipeg Art Gallery (Manitoba)
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2011
Gershon Iskowitz Prize
2000
Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (Film)
1999
University of Toronto
1997
Honorary degree, University of Victoria
1995
Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres, France
1990
Honorary degree, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
1982
Order of Canada
1975
Honorary degree, Brock University
1972
Guggenheim Fellowship
TEACHING
2001
Visiting Artist/Professor, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1997–1998
Visiting Artist/Professor, le Fresnoy, Tourcoing France
1996
Visiting Professor, l'Ecole Nationale de la Photographie, Arles France
1988
Visiting Professor, Princeton University
1981
CCMC artists in residence, La Chartreuse, Avignon Festival, France
1976
Member of CCMC since 1976
1970
Professor of Advanced Film, Yale University
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2004
Exposures, Pantages Hotel/Condominium complex, Toronto (installation spring 2004)
1992
Red, Orange and Green, Confederation Life, Toronto
1989
Reflections, Photo Mural, Canadian Embassy, Washington USA
Via Rail, Train Installation
1988–1989
The Audience, SkyDome, Toronto
1986
The Spectral Image, Expo '86, Vancouver
1981
Ducks Drawn Back, Shaw Industries Limited, Toronto
1979
Flightstop, Cadillac Fairview, Eaton's Centre, Toronto
1978
Government of Canada Building, North York ON
Video-Photo Environmental Sculpture, Brock University,St. Catherines ON
1967
Ontario Pavilion, Expo '67, Montreal
1954
Mobile, Victoria College, University of Toronto