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David Maisel

(American, born 1961)

David Maisel

Terminal Mirage #828-9, 2004

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Biography

Timeline

1961: Born in New York City
1984: Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University
: Princeton University, Francis LeMoyne Page Award in the Visual Arts, Princeton, NJ
1988 - 1989: Graduate school of Design, Harvard University
1990: National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts, Individual Visual Artists’ Fellowship, Washington, D.C.
: International Center of Photography, Infinity Award, (nominated finalist), New York, NY
1992: Opsis Foundation, Photography Award, New York
2002 - 2004: Vice President, Board of Directors, Photo Alliance, San Francisco, CA
2005: Vince Aletti of The Village Voice selects The Lake Project as one of the Top 25 Photography Books of 2004, New York, NY
2006: Master of Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2007: Getty Research Institute, Visiting Scholar, Los Angeles, CA
: Prix Pictet Award in Photography (shortlisted), London, United Kingdom
2008: Headlands Center For The Arts, Visiting Artist Residency, San Francisco, CA
: California Institute for the Arts, Alpert Award in the Arts (nominated), San Francisco CA
2009: New York Institute for the Humanities, “Library of Dust” Symposium, New York, NY
: Alpert Award in the Arts (nominated), Los Angeles, CA
2011: Trustee, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
: Center for Cultural Innovation, Investing In Artists Grant, San Francisco, CA
: Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (nominated), Washington, D.C.
2012: Prix Pictet Award in Photography (shortlisted), London, United Kingdom
: Center for Cultural Innovation, Investing in Artists Grant, San Francisco, CA
2013: Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (nominated), Washington, D.C.
: Tyler Green’s Modern Art Notes selects Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime as a Best Book of 2013

Exhibitions

2014: History Recast: Contemporary Photography of Classical Sculpture, American Academy, Rome, Italy
: Toledo Contemporanea, Toledo, Spain
: Fundamental Abstraction III, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: The Sleep of Reason, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
: David Maisel-Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM (solo)
: David Maisel-Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime, Western Washington University Art Gallery, Bellingham, WA (solo)
: Mining, Miller Yerzerski Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
: Landmark: The Fields of Photography, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
: Moving: Norman Foster on Art, Carré d'Art –Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes, France
: Surveying the Terrain, Raleigh Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC
: Memory Theater, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
: From Above, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
: David Maisel-Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
: David Maisel-Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO (solo)
2013: Mining, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Staking Claim: A California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2012: History's Shadow, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC (solo)
: Subverted, Ivorypress Gallery, Madrid, Spain
: Flesh and Bone: Photography and the Body, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
: Looking Back at Earth: Contemporary Photography from the Permanent Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
: Hiding Places: Memory in Ar, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
: Place As Idea, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
: Art & Science: Highlights from the Collection, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
: Imagination Earth, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
: Public Works, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
: Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
: Earth Now: American Photography and the Environment, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
: Infinite Balance: Artists and the Environment, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
: History's Shadow, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2011: History's Shadow, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
: Dirty Pictures, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
: The Altered Landscape, Lobby Gallery of 499 Park Avenue, New York, NY
: The Future Lasts Forever, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
: Water: Our Thirsty World, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
: Permanent Impermanence, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.
: The Lake Project, Breda International Photography Festival, Breda, The Netherlands
: Library of Dust, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
: Terminal Mirage and The Lake Project, Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL (2-person exhibit)
: The Lake Project, Hazel Wolf Gallery, David Brower Center. Berkeley, CA (solo)
2010: David Maisel- Shadow & Dust, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA (solo)
: ECOAesthetic: The Tragedy of Beauty, Exit Art, New York, NY
: LandMark, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Photocartographies: Tattered Fragments of the Map, G727, Los Angeles, CA
: First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
: Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord Between Nature and Society, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
: Post Memory: Makeshift Memorials in Contemporary Art, EFA Project Space, New York, NY
: The Edge of Intent, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
: Anxious Ground, College Art Gallery, College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
: Living and Breathing, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
: Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
: Looking Forward Looking Back: The Collection in Context, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
: Variations on a Theme, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: Shadows and Light: Memory and the Visual Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2009: Black Maps, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX (solo)
: Photocartographies: Tattered Fragments of the Map, G727, Los Angeles, CA
: Its Not Easy Being Green, Tampa Art Museum, Tampa, FL
: New on the Wall: Recent Photography Acquisitions Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
: Grounded: Photography and our Contemporary Environment, Ellen Curley Gallery, St. Louis, MO
: Shifting Landscapes, PowerHouse Arena Gallery, New York, NY
: We Remember the Sun, San Francisco Art Institute, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco, CA
: Prix Pictet Award, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, Artisterium, Tiblisi, GA
: Oblivion, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (solo)
: Library of Dust, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR (solo)
: Library of Dust, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (solo)
2008: Library of Dust Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
: To Fly, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
: The City Through the Lens, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
: Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate, Dalhousie Art Gallery, New York, NY
: Comfort Zone, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
: Apocalypse, Candace Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
: Re-SITE-ing the American West: Contemporary Photography from the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Dark Matters: Artists See The Impossible, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
: Global Anxieties: 9 Perspectives on a Changing Planet, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
: Contemporary Aerial Photography, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
: Strange Weather, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, CA
: Green Horizons, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
: Oblivion, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Oblivion, Evo Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
: Black Maps, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. (solo)
2007: Black Maps, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV (solo)
: Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY, C International Photo Magazine
: Black Maps, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL; National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2006 - 2007: Oblivion, EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY; Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005: Terminal Mirage: Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY; James Nicholson Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA; Bolinas Art Museum, Bolinas, CA.
: Critical Mass; traveling group exhibit organized by Blue Sky Gallery; 10 venues for exhibition throughout the United States
: New Turf: Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont. Curated by Evelyn Hankin.
2004: No Man’s Land: Contemporary Photographers and Fragile Ecologies: David Maisel, Ed Burtynsky, and Emmet Gowin. Halsey Gallery, Institute for Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, SC. Curated by Mark Sloan
: The Lake Project: James Nicholson Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Fotofest International, Houston, TX; Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR; Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA;
: Abstraction and Photography; Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
: Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO (curated by Kathy Aron)
: Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003: Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
: Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: Bolinas Art Museum, Bolinas, CA (curated by Rick Chapman)
2002: Picturing the Wilderness: Photographs by David Maisel, Macduff Everton,and Josef Muench; Wildling Museum of Art, Los Olivos, CA (curated by Karen Sinsheimer, curator of photography, Santa Barbara Museum of Art)
: New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (curated by Robert Sobieszek and Tim Wride, curators of photography)
: Summer Group Show; Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
: The Blue Earth; Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA
: The Peter C. Bunnell Collection; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ (curated by Toby Jurovics, associate curator of photography)
2001: Captured Landscapes: Seven Views; Gallery @ 49, New York, NY (curated by Mark Haven)
1992: Landscapes of Consequence; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art; Ridgefield, CT (curated by Robert Mann)
: Black Maps; Opsis Foundation, New York, NY (curated by Allan Albert)
1991: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Barbara Millstein, curator of photography)
1990: The New American Pastoral: Landscape Photography in the Age of Questioning; International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY, and Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, NY (curated by Robert Sobieszek/ Catalogue by Robert Sobieszek)

Literature

2004: Scheduled: R. Sobieszek, The Lake Project, monograph, publication by Nazraeli Press
2003: D. Gaston, Immaculate Destruction; Aperture Magazine
: M. Olson,The Abstract Aerial Landscape: Photography of David Maisel, Camera Arts Magazine
1995: Burying Our Nation’s Radioactive Waste, New York Times Magazine, commissioned by Kathy Ryan
1992: Power Struggle: Flooding Quebec to Light New York, New York Times Magazine, cover story, commissioned by Kathy Ryan
1990: R. Sobieszek, The New American Pastoral: Landscape Photography in the Age of Questioning; catalogue accompanying exhibition; published by International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY

David Maisel

(American, born 1961)

David Maisel

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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