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Michael Snow Biography
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1929 |
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Born in Toronto Canada
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1970 |
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Professor of Advanced Film, Yale University
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1988 |
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Visiting Professor, Princeton University
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1995 |
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Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres, France
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1996 |
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Visiting Professor, l'Ecole Nationale de la Photographie, Arles France
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1997 - 1998 |
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Visiting Artist/Professor, le Fresnoy, Tourcoing France
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2001 |
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Visiting Artist/Professor, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
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A major solo exhibition of Michael Snow’s photo, holographic and projection works was held at the Centre Pompidou, Paris in 2002-2003. The exhibition coincided with a continuous film retrospective of his work and the release of Snow’s interactive DVD-rom, Digital Snow (an encyclopedia of his work), a solo piano concert, and the launch “Des écrits“ a book of his collected writing. A second exhibition, at the Sorbonne University Gallery of Video Fields, a new projection installation, was held to coincide with the Centre Pompidou exhibition.
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In, January 2003, Snows recent film *Corpus Callosum won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award. Speaking of the film in the Village Voice, J. Hoberman stated: “Rich with new possibilities, *Corpus Callosum heralds the advent of the next [film era]. Whatever it is, it cannot be too highly praised.”
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In June 2002. Snow exhibited Sound Works at Galerie Klosterfeld, Berlin, and showed Waiting Room, an installation, at Kunstwerke, Berlin. A complete retrospective of his book works appeared at Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, as well as a concert by Snow with CCMC.
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Retrospectives of Michael Snow’s painting, sculpture, photoworks and holography have been presented at the Hara Museum (Tokyo). Retrospectives of his films have appeared at the Cenémathèque Francaise (Paris), Anthology Film Archives (New York) and L’Institut Lumière (Lyons). In 1994, a retrospective of his work in all media was held simultaneously at the Power Plant and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. A retrospective of his photoworks 1962-99 was presented at the Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels) and traveled to the Centre national de la photographie (Paris) and Mamco and Saint-Gervais (Geneva). Additional retrospective exhibitions have been mounted at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Musée d’art contemporain (Montreal).
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Solo and group shows of his visual-arts works have been presented at museums and galleries in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Berlin, Bonn, Boston, Brussels, Kassel, Los Angeles, Lucerne, Lyons, Minneapolis, Montreux, Munich, New York, Ottawa, Paris, Pittsburgh, Quebec City, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Toronto and elsewhere.
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Michael Snow has executed several public sculpture and commissions, the most well known being Flight Stop at Eaton Centre and The Audience at Skydome, both in Toronto.
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He has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1972) the Order of Canada (1982) and the first Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2000) for cinema.
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His most recent New York appearance was in the exhibition Into the Light: The Projected Image In American Art 1964-1977, at the Whitney Museum.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2005
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Stillness, Film and Media Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
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2004
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Michael Snow: Powers of Two, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2002
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Michael Snow: Selections from the Spectrum, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (solo)
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2002
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Sunset & Close-Up, Moore Gallery, Toronto (solo)
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2002
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Instant Snow, exhibition and film retrospective, Centre Georges- Pompidou, Paris (solo)
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2002
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Video Fields, salle d’expositions, Paris Université 1, Paris (solo)
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2002
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Corpus Callosum, a 2-week run at Film Forum, New York (solo)
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2002
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Waiting Room, Kunst-Werke, Berlin (solo)
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2002
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Hearing Aid, Sound Works 1970-2002, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin (solo)
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2002
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Bookworks and Catalogues, Barbara Wien Gallery, Berlin (solo)
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2002
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Video Fields, Canada House, London; England (solo)
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2002
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Michael Snow almost Cover to Cover, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (solo)
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2002
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Early Snow, Moore Gallery, Toronto (solo)
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2002
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That/Cela/Dat, White Box, New York N.Y. (solo)
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2002
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Couple, video installation, SAW Gallery, Ottawa (solo)
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2001
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Michael Snow almost Cover to Cover, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
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2001
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Early Snow, Moore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
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2001
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That/ Cela/ Dat, White Box, New York
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2001
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Couple, video installation, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
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2000
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Snow Alert, White Box, New York N.Y. (solo)
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1999
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Panoramique: Oeuvres photographiques & films/Photographic Works & Films 1962-1999, Bruxelles: Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts (solo)
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1998
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Transparenté, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel (France) (solo)
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1998
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Redifice, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris (solo)
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1997
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Stux Gallery, New York (solo)
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1995
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Michael Snow: Works from the Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal (solo)
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1994
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Light, Surface and Sound, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver (solo)
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1993
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S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto (solo)
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1992
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Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris, France (solo)
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1992
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San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco (solo)
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1988
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Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (solo)
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1988
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#720 (Thanks to Robert Crumb), Ruine der Künste, Berlin (solo)
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1986
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The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto (solo)
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1986
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The Spectral Image, Expo '86, Vancouver (solo)
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| Links to further information |
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