Timeline

1929

Born in Toronto Canada

1970

Professor of Advanced Film, Yale University

1982

Order of Canada

1988

Visiting Professor, Princeton University

1995

Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres, France

1996

Visiting Professor, l'Ecole Nationale de la Photographie, Arles France

1997 - 1998

Visiting Artist/Professor, le Fresnoy, Tourcoing France

2001

Visiting Artist/Professor, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

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.

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.”

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.