
Midnight Blue, 1973–74, by Michael Snow (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris: Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre de Création Industrielle) © CNAC/MNAM/Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, New York

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Please note: Some images in this exhibition contain adult subject matter.
Please note: Some images in this exhibition contain adult subject matter.

About the Artist
Michael Snow was born in 1928 in Toronto, where he currently lives and works. First a painter and sculptor, he has been intensely involved since 1962 in creating videos, films, slide and audio installations, and photographic and holographic works as well as public art. His work, particularly his experimental films such as the landmark Wavelength (1967), has had international exposure at prestigious institutions and events. In 1970 Michael Snow represented Canada at the 35th Venice Biennale, and in 1977 his work was included in Documenta 6, Kassel. Major solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery (1967, 1979); the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (1970, 1994); the Centre Pompidou, Paris (1978, 2003); the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1988); the Power Plant, Toronto (1994, 2009); the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (1995); the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, and the Cinémathèque Française, Paris (1999); the Centre National de la Photographie, Paris (2000); and the Galerie de l’UQAM (the Université du Quebec à Montréal) (2005). Snow has been active as a professional musician since the 1950s, playing piano and other instruments with various ensembles but most often in free improvisation with the CCMC, Toronto. Most of his writings have been published in The Michael Snow Project: The Collected Writings of Michael Snow (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1994). He has produced artistic projects in book format, including Cover to Cover (Halifax: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; New York: New York University Press, 1975); and Biographie of the Walking Woman/de la femme qui marche: 1961–1967 (Brussels: Lettre volée, 2004). The artist has received many honorary titles and distinctions, including first prize at the Knokke-le-Zoute film festival, Belgium, for Wavelength (1967); a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship (1972); Officer of the Order of Canada (1982); a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for So Is This (1983); Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1995); the Governor General of Canada Award in Visual and Media Arts (2000); a Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Metal (2002); the Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for *Corpus Callosum (2003); the Prix Samuel-de-Champlain (2006); and Companion of the Order of Canada (2007).Exhibition Minutes
Curator Adelina Vlas introduces "Michael Snow: Photo-Centric"

The curator of the exhibition introduces Canadian conceptual artist Michael Snow, whose photographic work in this installation is intertwined with drawing, sculpture, collage, reflection, and the interactions of the visitors in the gallery.
Watch Video >>Photographic Beginnings: "Four to Five"

While making this piece in 1962, Michael Snow discovered his interest in combining his own sculpture, documentary photographs, and the world outside the studio, sparking what would become a decades-long interest in multi-disciplinary work.
Watch Video >>Space Made Flat: "In Medias Res"

Michael Snow talks about the making of this piece, a large-scale photograph looking down from a bird
Watch Video >>Seeing Through the Other Side: "Powers of Two"

Viewers are encouraged to walk around the four transparent hanging panels of this work, observing its intimate life-sized scene and, at the same time, becoming part of it.
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