Receives Princeton University's Francis LeMoyne Page Award in the Visual Arts.
Awarded Bachelor of Arts with summa cum laude distinction from Princeton University (Department of Art & Archaeology).
1990
Awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts' Individual Visual Artists' Fellowship.
1992
Receives Opsis Foundation Photography Award.
2004
The Lake Project monograph published by Nazraeli Press, and selected as one of the Top 25 Photography Books of 2004 by Vince Aletti of the Village Voice.
2006
Oblivion monograph published by Nazraeli Press.
2007
Visiting Scholar Residency, Getty Research Institute. September-December.
2008
Visiting Artist Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts. Sausalito, California. March-May.
Cascade Effect published by Nazraeli Press.
Library of Dust monograph published by Chronicle Books.
Shortlisted for the first Prix Pictet Award in Photography.
2009
Library of Dust symposium, New York Institute for the Humanities.
2010
David Maisel & Alan Rapp: The Photographer/Editor Collaboration: Publishing a Photographic Book,
Center for Photography at Woodstock. Woodstock, New York. Workshop: September 25-26, 2010. Lecture: September 25, 2010, 8:00 PM.
2011
Featured Lecturer, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. February 10, 2011.
A conversation between David Maisel & Julian Cox, Chief Curator, de Young Museum. Haines Gallery, San Francisco California. April 26, 5:30-7:00 pm.
Lecture: Artist's and Writer's Talk: David Maisel and Jonathan Lethem. Pomona College, Smith Campus Center 208, Claremont, California. October 20, 7 pm.
Trustee, Headlands Center for the Artists, San Francisco, California.
Center for Cultural Innovation, Investing In Artists grant.
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (nominated).
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