Artist Statement
Photography as an observational technology has become a foundational presence in our digital-media saturated contemporary society. The design of the systems through which we sense, measure, communicate and consume visual information must be considered as political questions. Examining how the medium functions at a fundamental level shines a metaphorical light on its role and function in larger social, technological and political contexts. Defining the medium expansively, I bend and remix my process to engage photography's telematic interactions with/in society.
Michael is a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts from The New York Foundation for the Arts.
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C.V.
Solo Exhibits
Slew / Sync, Robert C. Turner Gallery's Immersive Gallery, Alfred, NY 2021
Selection of Facts, Littlefield NYC, Brooklyn, NY 2013
Works in Process, Atrium Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA; curated by Cally Iden and Julia Staples; 2011
Journeys, 88 Orchard, New York, NY 2010
Natural Construct, AFA Gallery, Scranton, PA 2009
Abstractions, TBS, New York, NY 2008
Direct Forms, Safe T Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2006
shift, space, span, Positive Focus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2006
Selected Group Exhibits
Fresh 2022, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; curated by Debra Klomp Ching and Darren Ching; 2022
8x12, Floor_ Seoul, Seoul, South Korea; 2022
Smart Objects / Flattened Images, Well Well Projects, Portland, OR; curated by Kelda Van Patten; 2022
New Directions, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY; Curated by Vivian Li (Dallas Museum of Art); 2021
Chronologies and Circumstances, Kunstraum LLC, Brooklyn, NY; Curated by Anthony Huffman; 2021
Signal/Trace, /’fu:bar/ Glitch Art Festival, Zagreb, Croatia 2020
Future Cities, Cities and Memory, Oxford, UK; curated by Stuart Fowkes; 2020
ESC - Wave #2030, VVOVVA; The Hague, Netherlands; curated by Ksenia Nunis; 2020
Soundscapes in the Pandemic, Radio Aporee; 2020
Synesthesia: The Space Between, Datz Museum, Gwangju, South Korea; curated by Kwan-Hoon Lee and Minjung Kang; 2019-2020; (info)
Ten Artists to Watch, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA; curated by Meghan Doherty (LACMA) and Leigh Gleason (California Museum of Photography); 2019
Inter / Section, Rotterdam Photo, Rotterdam, NL; 2019 (info)
Exhibition Lab 2018, Foley Gallery, New York, NY 2018
Ten to Watch, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA; curated by Leigh Gleason; 2018
Camera Works, Rotterdam Photo, Rotterdam, NL; curated by John A. Tyson; 2018 (info)
The Swap, theswap.info; curated by Stuart Pilkington; 2015
Evolution, P&I Gallery, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY; curated by Mea Cole Tefka; 2010
Annual Photography Exhibit, 12 12 Gallery, Richmond, VA; juried by Patrick Amsellem; 2010
Showcase, Under Minerva Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2009
Recherche, Stonybrook University, Setauket, NY; curated by Monica Bravo, Kelly Presutti and Julianne Gadoury; 2009
The Alphabet Project, alphabetproject.co.uk; curated by Stuart Pilkington; 2009
What, Me Worry?, CCCP Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Curated by John Allan Holt; 2009
Up Close and Personal, Gallery 5, L/A Arts, Lewiston, ME 2009
Solstice Salon, Daniel Kany Gallery, Portland, ME 2008
Impermanence, La Lutta Project Space, Brooklyn, NY 2008
Hocus Pocus, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ 2008
GPS, Gallery 5, L/A Arts, Lewiston, ME 2008
S-T-G V, Safe T Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2007
Photographs of the Lower East Side, Ernst Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY 2007
Failure: Loss, Breakdown, and Other Related Signs of Life, Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ 2007
Beyond the Obvious: The Esoteric Photograph, Impromptu Gallery, Huntington, NY 2005
Space and Structure, Waverly Commons, New York, NY 2000
Commissions
Steven Hackman's THE BRINK | PART TWO World Premier [visual media], Water Garden, Santa Monica, CA 2023
Awards and Residencies
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Digital/Electronic Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, NY 2023
Experimental Arts Residency, Institute of Electronic Arts, Alfred, NY 2021
Member Residency, Kunstraum LLC, Brooklyn, NY 2021
Artist House Residency, St. Mary’s College, MD 2015
Press & Publications
Video Art Zine 1.2, Print Cache, Detroit, MI 2022
Inter/views, Studio Afraz, Berlin, DE 2021
Cities and Memory, Oxford, UK 2020
Cafe Obscura, Rotterdam, NL 2018
Feature Shoot, Brooklyn, NY 2015
Verbs on Asphalt, New York, NY 2008
Burrow Magazine, Brooklyn, NY 2008
Darksky Magazine, Issue 5.3, Charleston, SC 2008
SLAMbook, Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe, NYC, NY 2000
Book Fairs (as Spectacle Box)
Acid Free, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA 2019
New England Art Book Fair, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME 2019
Bound, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH 2019
Press Play, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY 2019
New England Art Book Fair, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME 2018
Teaching
Adjunct Professor, The Laboratory Institute of Merchandising, New York, NY 2019 - present
Instructor, Educational Alliance Art School / Young Artist Program, New York, NY 2006 - 2011
Instructor, Downtown After 3, New York, NY 2007 - 2008
Workshop Facilitator, Guga S'thebe, Langa, South Africa 2001
Education
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Photography BFA with Honors 2002
School for International Training, Cape Town: Arts, Culture and Social Change, 2001
