Michael Spano

 

Michael Spano

 

Education

Yale University, School of Art, Photography, MFA 78

Queens College, CUNY, NY, BA 76

 

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

Laurence Miller Gallery, Auto Portraits 06

Laurence Miller Gallery, NY Time Frames: City Pictures 02

The Museum of Contemporary Photography, IL Diptychs 00-01

Laurence Miller Gallery, NY Bunkerscapes 95

Jane Corkin Gallery, Canada, Torsos 93

Laurence Miller Gallery, NY News 92

Stephen Cohen Gallery, CA, Constructions 92

Jackson Fine Arts, GA, Two Suites 92

Halsted Gallery, MI, Constructions 91

Jane Corkin Gallery, Canada, Grids 91

Laurence Miller Gallery, NY Constructions 90

Cleveland Museum of Art, OH Sequential Photographs 90

Laurence Miller Gallery, NY Grids 89

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art TN Portraits 88

Edwynn Houk Gallery, IL Portraits 88

Laurence Miller Gallery, NY Portraits 88

Camera Work, CA Panoramas & Grids 88

Blue Sky, Portland, OR Panoramas & Grids 87

Robert Miller Gallery, NY Torsos 86

Zabriskie Paris, France Photograms 86

Clearance Kennedy Gallery, MA Grids 85

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, MA Panoramas 84

Ledel, New York, NY Panoramas 84

Light Work/Community Darkrooms, Syracuse, NY Panoramas 81

Florence Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA Panoramas 81

Midtown Y Photography Gallery, NY Panoramas 81

 

Museum Group Exhibitions (selection)

Museum of Modern Art, NY The Shape of Things: Photographs from R.B. Menschel 16/17

Museum of Modern Art, NY Cut’n Paste: From Architectural Assemblages to Collage City 13/14

Museum of Modern Art, NY Permanent Collection 11/12

Museum of Modern Art, NY Permanent Collection 08

Museum of Modern Art, NY Recent Acquisitions 07

Museum of Modern Art, NY Object and Aspect 06

Addison Gallery of American Art, MA 75 Years of Collecting American Photography 06

Museum of Modern Art, NY Permanent Collection 04

L. A. County Museum of Art, Revisiting The Audrey And Sidney Irmas Collection of

Photographic Self-Portraits 04

Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg Looking at Photographs: 125 Masterpieces from MoMA 03

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Looking at Photographs:125 Masterpieces from MoMA 03

Museum of Modern Art, NY Life of the City 02

Yale University Art Gallery, Alumni Exhibition 01

The New-York Historical Society, Walk About 01

Museum of Modern Art, NY Seeing Double 00

Addison Gallery of American Art, MA Pictures From The Collection 00

Katonah Museum of Art, NY Hope Photographs 00 -02 Traveling

DeCordova Museum, MA Contemporary Art: Recent Acquisitions 00

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA From The Permanent Collection 00  

Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA Romancing the Brain 99

Susquehanna Art Museum,  PA Contemporary Photography 99

Columbus Museum of Art, OH Shadows and Light: Man Ray & His Legacy 98

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA Out of Sight 98

Brooklyn Museum of Art, 5 Photographers Working in Brooklyn 98

Museum of Modern Art, NY Permanent Collection 97-98

Museum of Modern Art, NY Object and Abstraction 97

The Art Institute of Chicago, IL Moholy-Nagy and Present Co. 95

Fogg Art Museum, MA Chasing Shadows 95

The Museum of Fine Arts TX Tradition and the Unpredictable 94

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art American Century of Photography 94

Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, PA The Alternative Eye 93

Katonah Museum of Art, NY The Portrait in America 93

Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway Photos from the Real World 93

Museum of Modern Art, NY Permanent Collection 92-94

Long Beach Museum of Art, CA Motion & Document 92

Museum of Modern Art, NY More Than One Photography 92

Museum of Modern Art, NY Mean Streets 91

Museum of Modern Art, NY Artists Choice: Chuck Close 91

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada Children In Photography 91 Traveling

Addison Gallery of American Art, MA Motion and Time 91

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA From The Nash Collection 90

Museum of Modern Art, NY Permanent Collection 86-90

Museum of Photographic Arts, CA Points of Convergence 89

Film in the Cities, MN Historic Process 89

The Second Israeli Photography Biennial, Ein Harod 88

National Portrait Gallery, DC Legacy of Light 88 Traveling

Corcoran Gallery of Art, DC Future of Photography 88

Chrysler Museum, VA A Collection Revisited 87-88

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, VA Faces of the 80's 87

Museum of Modern Art, NY New Photography 85

International Center for Photography, NY Portrayals 87 Traveling

Addison Gallery, MA Contemporary Panoramic Photography 84

Museum of Modern Art, NY Big Pictures Contemporary Photographers 83

Tampa Museum, FL Photography in America 1910-1983

Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany Lichtbildnisse 82

 

Museum Permanent Collections (selection)

Museum of Modern Art, NY

Cleveland Museum of Art, OH

Chrysler Museum, VA

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, TN

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, MA

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada

Museum of the City of New York, NY

Addison Gallery of American Art, MA

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, VA

DeCordova Museum, MA

Lehigh University, PA

University Of Massachusetts, MA

Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Princeton Museum of Art, NJ

Baltimore Museum of Art, MY

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

New Orleans Museum of Art, LA

Museum of Fine Arts, TX

Saint Louis Art Museum, MO

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA

Museum Für Kunst Und Gewerbe, Germany

Toledo Museum of Art, OH

Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA    

Birmingham Museum of Art, AL

Allen Memorial Art Museum, OH

Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY

 

Fellowships

Sarah Lawrence College, Julie & Ruediger Flik Travel Grant 01

New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship 85, 92, 00

Sarah Lawrence College, Marilyn Simpson Faculty Development Grant 00

Camera Works, Inc. 95, 97

Art Matters, Inc. 88

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 84

Creative Artists Public Service Fellowship, CAPS 82

 

Lectures (selection)

Yale University, School of Art, CT 86, 89, 91, 96, 10

Columbia University, NY 97, 09, 13, 14

Haverford College, PA 81, 08, 

Fordam University, New York 87, 08

Bard College, NY 80, 89, 02

Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, MA 84, 01

The Cooper Union, New York, NY 80, 88, 02

Museum of Contemporary Photography, IL 00

Columbia College, IL 00

International Center of Photography, NY 87, 96

Katonah Museum of Art, NY 93

University of Akron, OH 92, 04

Oberlin College, OH 92

The Municipal Arts Society, NY 92

Society for Photographic Education, PA 89

Society of Publication Designers, NY 89

Aperture, New York, NY 89

Museum of Modern Art, NY 88

International Design Conference, CO 88

El Museo Del Barrio, NY 87

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 85

SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY 85

Philadelphia College of Art, PA 84

Swarthmore College, PA 80

Yale University, School of Art, Summer CT 78

 

Publications (selection)

powerHouse Books, Auto Portraits, Spano, 08

Museum of Modern Art, Life of the City, NY photographs from MoMA, Meister 07

powerHouse Books, pH Classics Time Frames: City Pictures, Spano 03

powerHouse Books, Time Frames: City Pictures, Spano 02

Art On Paper Michael Spano: Where The Sidewalk Ends, Rexer 02

Photography in New York, Portrait of A Man, About the Cover, Dykstra 02

Bookforum Time Frame: City Pictures, by Michael Spano, Grundberg

Whitney Museum Visions from America Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1940-2001

Museum of Modern Art, Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA Since 1980 Varnedoe 00

Museum of Modern Art, Walker Evans & Company, Galassi 00 

Abrams, One Man's Eye, Siegel 00

McGraw-Hill, Seizing The Light: A History of Photography, Hirsch 99

Hallmark, American Century of Photography, Abrams 94, 99

Thames and Hudson, Our Future Self, Whittemore 98

Thames and Hudson, Hope Photographs, George & Marks 98

Oxford History of Art, The Photograph, Clarke, Oxford Univ. Press 97

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of Art Photography 96

Artforum, Bunkerscapes, Kuspit 10/95

The United Nations, Silent Witnesses, Harper Collins 95

Los Angeles County Museum, The Camera i, Abrams 94

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Tradition and the Unpredictable 94

Art in America, Complex Vision 3/93

Lillehammer Art Museum, Photographs From the Real World 93

New York Post, Weekend, Bronx Post Modern 6/5/92                                                                       

Aperture, issue #91 #114 Self and Shadow, 90, The Encompassing Eye  91, Food  96

Arts Magazine, Legal Fictions 11/91

Abrams, The Horse 91

Simon & Schuster, Flora Photographica 91, 20th Anniversary 93

Laurence Miller Gallery, Catalogues, Portraits, 87, Constructions 90

ArtNews, All That Jazz 2/90

Village Voice, Making Change: Michael Spano Keeps It New 12/90

Yale University, School of Art, The Human Presence, Catalogue Essay 89

Chrysler Museum, Photography Speaks 89

Flash Art, Michael Spano 88

Artforum, Nine Beatitudes on Eight Pages 3/87

ArtNews, Prints and Photography 2/88

New England, Sequence Photographs 11/85

Alfred A. Knopf, Legacy of Light 9/87

Museum of Modern Art, Members Calendar 9/85

American Arts, State of the Arts 7/84

New Art In America, Big Pictures at MoMA 9/83

York Times, Big Pictures 8/83

Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany Lichtbildnisse, 82

 

Teaching Positions

Sarah Lawrence College, Tenured Faculty 99 to present

Cooper Union, Adjunct Professor 92-99

School of Visual Art, Graduate Faculty 88-99

Yale University, School of Art, Visiting Photography Critic, Photography Seminar 96

Baruch College, CUNY Adjunct Professor 86-92