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Post Office Box 460428
San Francisco, CA 94146
vox 415.285.2926 fax 415.821.2927
studio@michaellight.net www.michaellight.net
BORN Florida 1963
EDUCATION
MFA, Photography, San Francisco Art Institute 1993
BA, American Studies, Amherst College 1986
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
UCLA Young Research Library, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Nevada Museum of Art, NV
American Museum of Natural History, NY (Permanent Exhibition)
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
New York Public Library, NY
Center For Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden
Australia Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
Huis Marseille Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
SELECTED AWARDS
2007 John Simon
Memorial Foundation Guggenheim Fellow; Photography
2004 “100
SUNS: Honorable Mention Best Edited Historical Book,” Golden
Light Awards, New York
2001 “FULL MOON:
Special Commendation, 2000 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Awards,” London
2000 “FULL
MOON: Best Visual Anthology of 1999”, 7th Annual Photo-Eye Book Awards,
Santa Fe
1999 “FULL
MOON: Kodak Fotobook Preis ‘99,” Stuttgart
1994 Marin
Arts Council: Individual Artist’s Grant, San Rafael, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2003 100 SUNS,
American, British, French, German, Swedish and Italian editions
1999 FULL
MOON, American, British, French, German, Swedish, Spanish and
Japanese editions
1993 RANCH,
Twelvetrees Press/Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, NM
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 “Dry Dreams:
The Inhabited West,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
“100
Suns,” Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington
“100
Suns,” Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee
2007 “Bookworks,” Hosfelt
Gallery, New York
“Near
Planet,” Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
“100
Suns,” Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada
2006 “100
Suns,” Hosfelt Gallery, New York
“Full
Moon,” Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden
2005 “Hover,” Hosfelt
Gallery, San Francisco
“Arid
Flows: Los Angeles and Its Deserts,” Natural History Museum of
LA County, CA
“100
Suns: For Robert, Ernest & Edward’s Berkeley, 1945-1962”,
University of California, Berkeley
2004 “100
Suns,” Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
“Silence
and the Big Blast,” Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
“100
Suns,” Auditorium Arte, Rome
“100
Suns,” Frehrking + Wiesehofer Gallery, Cologne
“Some
Dry Space,” Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica
2003 “100
Suns,” Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
2001 Metropolitan
Transit Authority/Arts For Transit, Grand Central Station, New York
2000 “Full
Moon,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
“Full
Moon” American Museum of Natural History, New York
1999 “Full
Moon,” Hayward Gallery, London
“Full
Moon,” Huis Marseille/Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
“Full
Moon,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1995 “Blue
Fall,” Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
“Ranch & Oblivion,” Robert
Koch Gallery, San Francisco
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007 “Something
That I’ll Never Really See: Contemporary Photography from the
V&A,” Victoria & Albert Museum, London
“Re-SITE-ing
the West: Contemporary Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
2006 “City
Limits,” University Art Museum, California State University Long
Beach, CA
“Horrors
of War,” Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
“To
The Human Future: Escape From The Dark Side,” Art Tower Mito,
Mito, Japan
2005 “Making
Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy,” ZKM Center for Art
and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
“Nuclear
Realities: Images of the Bomb,” Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
“Techno-Sublime,” Colorado
University Art Museum, UC Boulder, Colorado
“Les
Grands Spectacles: 120 Years of Art and Mass Culture,” Museum
der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2004 “Wirklich
Wahr! Realitatsversprechen von Fotografien,” Ruhrlandmuseum,
Essen, Germany
“Kurzdavordanach,” Die
Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, Germany
“Building
the Unthinkable,” apexart, New York
“The
Nuclear West,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV (traveling)
“Wanderers,
Travelers & Adventurers,” Museum of Photographic Arts, San
Diego, CA
2005 “Techno-Sublime,” Colorado
University Art Museum, UC Boulder, Colorado
2003 “The
New Sublime,” Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe,
AZ
“Paper,” Hosfelt
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 “Deep
Space: Sensation and Immersion,” Australian Centre for the Moving
Image, Melbourne
“Night
Skies and Imaginary Coordinates: The Artist as Navigator,” Palo
Alto Art Center, Palo Alto
2001 “Devices
of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen,” Getty
Museum, Los Angeles
“The
World From Here,” Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles
“Space
Odyssey,” Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
2000 “Multiple
Sensations,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
“Deep
Distance,” Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
“The
Desert,” Fondation Cartier pour L’Art Contemporaine, Paris
1999 “Cosmos:
From Romanticism to the Avant-garde,” The Montreal Museum of
Fine Arts
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007 Baker, Kenneth, “Light
on Landscape,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 11,
San Francisco
Ray
Huston, Johnny, “Pick: Near Planet”, SF Bay Guardian,
January 24, San Francisco
2006 Westerbeck,
Colin, “SUGAR,” West Magazine, Sunday Los Angeles
Times, August 27, Los Angeles
Baker,
R.C., “Best In Show: Apocalypse Porn,” The Village
Voice, May 1, New York
“Goings
On About Town,” The New Yorker, May 1, New York
2005 Greenwald,
Jeff, “Moonscapes and Mushroom Clouds: The Eye of Michael Light,” Tricycle,
Winter, New York
Hirsch,
Robert, “100 SUNS and the Nuclear Sublime: An Interview with
Michael Light”, Afterimage, July/August, Rochester,
NY
2004 Regnier,
Isabelle, “La Beaute Veneneuse des Champignons Nucleaires Americaines,” Le
Monde, December 26, Paris
Crump,
James, “To The Ends of the Earth,” ArtReview,
October, London
Smith,
Roberta, “Building the Unthinkable,” New York Times,
October 1
Ribbat,
Christoph, “Michael Light: 100 Sonnen,” European Photography,
Spring/Summer, Berlin
Masters,
Alexander, “Eternal Flames,” Times Literary Supplement,
June 18, London
Di
Forti, Massimo, “Quei Soli Destinant Ad Annientare La Terra,” Il
Messagero, May 26, Rome
Thompson,
David, “Exposure: Michael Light Profile,” Eye Magazine,
Issue #51 Spring, London
James,
Simon, “100 SUNS,” Royal Photographic Society Journal,
January/February, London
Morrison,
Philip, “Metaphorical Suns . . .” Scientific American,
January, New York
2003 Thompson,
David, “Terrible Sunrise,” The Observer, December
21, London
“Best
of 2003,” Publisher’s Weekly, November 17, New
York
Von
Rauchhaupt, Ulf, “Vorwarts Marsch, Unter den Atompilz!,” Frankfurter
Allgemeine, November 16, Germany
Baker,
Kenneth, “100 SUNS Puts Spotlight back on Doomsday Clock,” SF
Chronicle, November 1
Winn,
Steven, “Artist Explores Aesthetic of Nuclear Test Explosions,” SF
Chronicle, November 1
“Michael
Light and Jim Sanborn,” The Art Newspaper, November,
London
Helfand,
Glen, “Critic’s Picks: Michael Light,” Artforum.com,
November, New York
“Through
the Lens, the Severe Beauty of Nuclear Test Blasts,” New
York Times, October 21
“100
SONNEN,” Suddeutsche Zeitung, October 6, Germany
DeLano,
Sharon, “On Photography: Darkness Visible,” The New
Yorker, October 6, New York
Mobilio,
Albert, “100 SUNS: 1945-1962,” BOOKFORUM, Fall
Issue, New York
Olsen,
Marisa, “Suns of Destruction,” Planet Magazine,
Fall Issue, San Francisco
Dyer,
Geoff, “A Great Space,” Modern Painters, Spring
Issue, London
2001 Hochman,
David, “Cabinets, Ancient & New, Full of Wonder,” New
York Times, December 30
Dyer,
Geoff, “The Desert,” Bay Area Guardian, February
24, San Francisco
Cosgrove,
Denis, “Anti-Ecumene,” Ecumene: Cultural Geographies,
Volume 8, #1, London
2000 Riding,
Alan, “Timeless Magic Within the Desert’s Sand,” New
York Times, August 29
Knight,
Christopher, “Puzzling Landscapes Happily Lost in Space,” Los
Angeles Times, August 4
Carroll,
Jon, “Alien Races On the Moon,” The San Francisco Chronicle,
April 18, San Francisco
Lane,
Anthony, “The Light Side of the Moon,” The New Yorker,
April 10, New York
“10
Best Photography Books of 1999,” The Village Voice,
February 8, New York
1999 Brown,
Neal, “FULL MOON,” Frieze, November/December,
London
Glendinning,
Victoria, “FULL MOON: Book of the Year,” The Daily
Telegraph, Nov 27, London
Long,
Andrew, “Earth, Moon and Stars,” Salon.com, November
11, New York
Byfield,
Ted, “FULL MOON: Not Pale Fire,” Mute, September/October,
London
“Steps
in Space,” Aperture, Autumn Issue, New York
“An
Exhibition of Moon Photos,” The Economist, September
25, London
“Briefly
Noted: FULL MOON by Michael Light,” The New Yorker,
August 23 and 30, New York
Morton,
Oliver, “They Could See The Stars,” Times Literary
Supplement, August 20, London
Sanford,
John, “The Long Shadow,” Los Angeles Times Book
Review, June 13
Loke,
Margarett, “How the Moon Turns Pilots Into Poets,” New
York Times, May 18
1998 Van Proyen,
Mark, “Burning Man 1998,” New Art Examiner, November,
Chicago
1995 Schumacher,
Donna, “Michael Light: Ranch & Oblivion,” Art Papers,
Sept/Oct, Atlanta
“BLUE
FALL,” SEE: A Journal of Visual Culture, Issue 1:2,
Friends of Photography, San Francisco
1994 “RANCH:
Photographs by Michael Light,” Umbrella, Vol. 17 No.
2, June, Pasadena, CA
CATALOGUES/BOOKS
2007 Landscapes
For Politics, Rebecca Solnit, University of California Press, Berkeley
2006 To
The Human Future/Flight From the Dark Side, Contemporary Art Center,
Art Tower Mito, Japan
2005 AfterBurn:
Reflections on Burning Man, Lee Gilmore and Mark Van Proyen, eds, University
of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque
Les
Grands Spectacles: 120 Years of Art & Mass Culture, Museum der
Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Looking
at Los Angeles, Metropolitan Books, New York
TECHNO/SUBLIME,
CU Art Museum, University of Colorado at Boulder
2004 Kurzdavordanach:
Gegenwart als Zwischenraum, Die Photographische Sammlung, Koln
Take
Five!, Huis Marseille Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
2003 Theatrum
Mundi: Kikuji Kawada, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
2001 Devices
of Wonder: From The World In a Box to Images on A Screen, Getty Research
Institute, Los Angeles
From
the Dark Room, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
Space
Odyssey, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Japan
2000 The
Desert, Fondation Cartier Pour l’Art Contemporain/Thames & Hudson,
London and New York
The
Sea and the Sky, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania
Deep
Distance/Die Entfernung der Fotografie, Kunsthalle Basel #36, Basel
SELECTED LECTURES/BROADCAST INTERVIEWS
2007 Getty Research
Institute, “God’s Eye View” panel
Nevada
Public Radio, Las Vegas
Atomic
Testing Museum, Las Vegas
2005 UC Berkeley, “Aesthetics
of the Bomb and the Aesthetics of Dr. Atomic” panel
UCLA
Library, 8,000,000th Book Lecture
2004 San Francisco
Art Institute, Graduate Lecture Series
CNN
Newsnight With Aaron Brown
2003 Kulturreport
TV, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich
2001 Getty Museum,
Los Angeles
2000 American
Museum of Natural History, New York
ABC
Nightly News
1999 Ilinois
Public Radio, Illinois
Wisconsin
Public Radio, Wisconsin
NPR “West
Coast Live,” San Francisco
BBC
Radio 3, “Nightwaves,” London
BBC
Greater London Radio
BBC
Radio, “GLR,” London
Channel
4 News, London
SKY
TV, “Books Show,” London
NASA
Headquarters, WDC
NBC
Nightly News, New York
Good
Morning America, ABC-TV New York
San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art
National
Public Radio, “Science Friday,” July 16, New York
WNYC-National
Public Radio, New York
WBAI-FM, “Art
News,” New York
1998 Cranbrook
Academy of Art, Michigan
1994 SF Camerawork,
San Francisco
REPRESENTATION
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco and New York
Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles
Frehrking + Wiesehofer, Cologne |
