MICHAEL LIGHT

*1963 Florida, lebt und arbeitet in San Francisco

1993 MFA, Photography, San Francisco Art Institute
1986 BA, American Studies, Summa Cum Laude, Amherst College


EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN (Auswahl)

2008 "SOME DRY SPACE - Bookworks and Photographs", Galerie Michael Wiesehoefer Cologne
"Edge of the West", Luc Bellier Paris
2007 "Near Planet", Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
"100 Suns", Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee, USA
"100 Suns", Atomic Testing Museum Las Vegas, USA
2006 "Hover", Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne
"Outer Space - Full Moon", Hasselblad Center, Göteborg
"100 Suns", Hosfelt Gallery, New York
2005 "Hover", Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
"Nuclear Realities: Images of the Bomb", Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (with P. Shambroom)
"Arid Flows: Los Angeles and Its Deserts", Natural History Museum of LA County, CA
2004 "100 SUNS", Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Köln
"100 SUNS", Auditorium Arte, Rom
"SOME DRY SPACE", Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles
2003 "100 SUNS", Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
2002 "100 SUNS", Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, Nevada
2001 Adamski Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Köln (mit Jan Henle)
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
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" Circulo De Bellas Artes, Madrid
"FULL MOON" Huis Marseille/Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
"FULL MOON" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1995 "BLUE FALL," Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco


GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN (Auswahl)

2004 "Really True! Photography and the Promise of Reality“, Ruhrlandmuseum Essen
"Techno-Sublime", Colorado University Art Museum, UC Boulder, Colorado
2003 2003 “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, Mito, Japan
2000 "Multiple Sensations", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
"Deep Distance," Kunsthalle Basel
"The Desert," Fondation Cartier, Paris
"The Sea & The Sky," Gallagher Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
"The Sea & The Sky," Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA "Cosmos: From Romanticism to the Avantgarde", Palazzo Grassi, Venedig
1999 "Nightfall," San Francisco Art Commission Gallery
"Full Moon/Destination Moon," Newseum, Arlington, VA
"Cosmos: From Romanticism to the Avantgarde," Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1998 "Fresh Work," Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
1997 "Farenheit 451," San Francisco Art Commission Gallery
1995 Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
1994 Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
1992 Upaya Gallery, San Francisco
1991 "Salt," Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
"Spring„" bus shelter Haight & Fillmore Streets, San Francisco
"Canal," Corte Madera Tidal Slough, CA
1990 "California Home," Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA



ÖFFENTLICHE SAMMLUNGEN

American Museum of Natural History, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Center For Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Getty Research Institute, Santa Monica, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
huis Marseille Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
Australia Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne


PUBLIKATIONEN

2003 100 SUNS, Knopf, New York; Jonathan Cape, London
100 SOLEILS, Editions de La Martiniere, Paris
100 SONNEN, Knesebeck, München
100 SOLI, Contrasto, Roma
1999 FULL MOON
Knopf, New York; Jonathan Cape, London; Frederking & Thaler, Munich;
Editions de La Martiniere, Paris; Mondadori - Libre lllustrati, Verona;
Lunwerg Editores, Madrid; Max Strom, Stockholm; Shinchosha Publishing, Tokyo.
1993 RANCH, Twelvetrees Press/Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, NM