EDUCATION
1970 Professor of Advanced Film, Yale University
1972 Guggenheim Fellowship
1981 CCMC artists in residence, La Chartreuse, Avignon Festival,
France
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
1997-8 Visiting Artist/Professor, le Fresnoy, Tourcoing France
2000 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (Film)
2001 Visiting Artist/Professor, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts,
Paris
Honorary degrees:
Brock University (1975)
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1990)
University of Victoria (1997)
University of Toronto (1999)
Since 1976, Member of CCMC
2011
In the way. Loop 2011, àngels barcelona, Barcelona
Solo Snow. Le Fresnoy, Paris
2010
Piano Sculpture and Sex I Klosterfelde gallery, Berlin
Recent Snow, The Power Plant, Toronto
Martine Aboucaya, París
2009
Àngels Barcelona, Spain
2008
Yes snow show, at BFI Southbank Gallery, London
2007
Carte grise À Michael Snow, Dazibao, Montréal, QC, Canada
Michael Snow retrospective at Lucca Film Festival, Italy
"Little Walk" (1964) and "Solar Breath (Northern Caryatids)" Jack Shainman
Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Powers of two - Martine Aboucaya, Paris
2005
Michael Snow - La Box - École Nationale Superieure d´Art de Bourges, France
"Stillness", Film and Media Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2004
"Michael Snow: Powers of Two", Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Michael Snow: Selections from the Spectrum - MMCA Macedonian Museum of Contemporary
Art, Thessaloniki
2002
Invite #4: Michael Snow - Hearing Aid - Klosterfelde, Berlin
Michael Snow - Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin
Michael Snow - almost Cover to Cover - John Hansard Gallery, Southampton,
UK
Michael Snow: Selections from the Spectrum," Macedonian Museum of Contemporary
Art, Thessaloniki
Sunset & Close-Up, Moore Gallery, Toronto "Instant Snow", exhibition and
film retrospective, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris
"Video Fields", salle d'expositions, Paris Université 1, Paris
*Corpus Callosum, a 2-week run at Film Forum, New York
"Waiting Room," Kunst-Werke, Berlin
"Hearing Aid, Sound Works 1970-2002," Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin
"Bookworks and Catalogues," Barbara Wien Gallery, Berlin
"Video Fields," Canada House, London, England
"Michael Snow almost Cover to Cover," Arnolfini Gallery, Bristo
"Early Snow," Moore Gallery, Toronto
"That/Cela/Dat," White Box, New York N.Y.
"Couple," video installation, SAW Gallery, Ottawa
2001
Michael Snow - White Box, New York, NY
2000
Snow Alert - White Box, New York, NY
Michael Snow - Fragments d'une rétrospective - 1962-1999 - Mamco - musée
d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
Michael Snow - Panoramique - Centre pour l'image contemporaine Saint-Gervais
Genève, Geneva
1999
Panoramique: Oeuvres photographiques & films/Photographic Works & Films
1962-1999, Bruxelles: Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts
1998
Transparenté, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel (France)
Redifice, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris
1997
Stux Gallery, New York
1995
Michael Snow - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
Michael Snow: The Walking Woman Works - Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph,
ON
Michael Snow: Works from the Collection of the National Gallery of Canada,
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal
1994
Light, Surface and Sound - Presentation House Gallery - PHG, North Vancouver,
BC
The Michael Snow Project, four simultaneous exhibitions:
Exploring Plane and Contour, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto --- Around
Wavelength, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto --- Presence and Absence: The
Films of Michael Snow, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto --- Embodied Vision
- The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
1993
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
1992/3
Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris France
1992
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
1988
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
#720 (Thanks to Robert Crumb), Ruine der Künste, Berlin
1986
The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto
1979
Michael Snow / MATRIX 22 - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA
1978
Michael Snow - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
1976
Projects: Michael Snow, Photographs - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, Nueva
York, NY
2011
1+1+1=3, Michael Snow, Hermann Pitz and Bernard Voïta, Culturegest, Portugal
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Canada
Simon Fraser University Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, AB
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
Agnes Etherington Art Center, Kingston, Ontario
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal,
QC
Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
Denmark Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
France
FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
Israel Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
Italy Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea - GAM, Turín
Poland Muzeum Sztuki w Lodz, Lodz
Spain MACBA - Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Switzerland MAMCO - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
SELECTED PUBLIC COMISSIONS
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston ON
Albright-Know Art Gallery, Buffalo N.Y.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Art Gallery of Windsor (Ontario)
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Confederation Art Centre and Museum, Charlottetown P.E.I.
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa
Edmonton Art Gallery (Alberta)
Ludwig Museum, Cologne and Vienna
McMaster University, Hamilton ON
Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina SK
Pearson International Airport, Toronto
Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts
University of Waterloo (Ontario)
University of Western Ontario, London ON
Vancouver Art Gallery (British Columbia)
Winnipeg Art Gallery (Manitoba)
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2006 The window suite, Pantages hotel/condominium complex in Toronto.
2003 Exposures, Pantages Hotel/Condominium complex, Toronto (installation
2004)
1992 Red, Orange and Green, Confederation Life, Toronto
1989 Reflections, Photo Mural, Canadian Embassy, Washington USA Via Rail,
Train Installation
1988/9 The Audience, SkyDome, Toronto
1986 The Spectral Image, Expo '86, Vancouver
1981 Ducks Drawn Back, Shaw Industries Limited, Toronto
1979 Flightstop, Cadillac Fairview, Eaton's Centre, Toronto
1978
Government of Canada Building, North York ON
Video-Photo Environmental Sculpture, Brock University,St. Catherines ON
1967 Ontario Pavilion, Expo '67, Montreal
1954 Mobile, Victoria College, University of Toronto
PERFORMANCES / SELECTED CONCERTS
Solo Piano:
Montreal, 1977
Amsterdam, 1985
Toronto, 1987, 1994
New York, 1990
Waterloo Ontario, 1994
Bologna Italy, 1995
Rovereto Italy, 1996
Quebec City, 1999
Bard College N.Y. 2001
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol UK, 2001
Centre Pompidou, 2002
Edmonton, 2003
Regina 2004
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2004
Duo piano with Chalemagne Palestine, Paris 2001 / with Eve Egoyan, Toronto
2002
CCMC: 6 tours of Europe and 1 of Japan; hundreds of concerts in Toronto,
Montreal, New York and elsewhere since 1976
Victoriaville Festival de Musique Actuelle, 1997
Du Maurier Jazz Festival, Toronto, 1990, 1993, 1994
"New Music America," Montreal, 1990
Musica Nova Festival, Hamburg Germany, 1980
Olympic Arts Festival, Los Angeles, 1980
International Festival of Experimental Music, Royal Festival Hall, London
England 2002
Freunde der Güter Musik, Berlin 2002
Festival Polyphonix, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2002
Festival of New Cinema and New Media, Montreal, 2002
Other Performances:
Aki Onda, Michael Snow y Alan Licht. Caixaforum, Madrid. ES, 2011
Proyección y diálogo con Michael Snow. Caixaforum Barcelona. ES, 2011
Aki Onda, Michael Snow y Alan Licht, Caixaforum Barcelona. ES, 2011
"Pfeifen im Wald," Luzern Switzerland, 1997
Choreography/music with dancer Jo Leslie, Pavlychenko Studio,Toronto 1986
Collective for Living Cinema, New York, 1978
The Kitchen, New York, 1977 (Artists' Jazz Band)
Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, 1968
Filmmakers Cinematheque, New York, 1968
Expo '67 Youth Pavilion, Montreal, 1967
Mixed Media Concert Series, Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, 1965
RECORDINGS
2005
CCMC + Christian Marclay, a 2-CD set, Art Metropole (Toronto) with No Music
Festival, Inc. Recordings of 2 concerts at The Rivoli, Toronto and Tonic,
New York City.
Hearing Aid, CD published by Supposé and Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin
1999
Snow solo piano solo Snow: 3 Phases, boxed set of 3 CDs, Ohm éditions (Quebec)
CCMC: Accomplices, CD Victo
1994
CCMC: Decisive Moments, CD
Jack and Mike, CD
1990
CCMC 90, 2 cassette set
Sinoms, CD, Art Metropole (Toronto) with permission of Musée du Québec
1989 Sinoms, cassette, edition of 50; CD published by Musée du Québec
1987 The Last LP, Art Metropole, Toronto (re-issued in 1994 as The Last
LP CD, CD)
1976/7 CCMC Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, Music Gallery Editions, Toronto
1978 Larry Dubin and CCMC, Music Gallery Editions, Toronto
1975
The Artists' Jazz Band Live at the Edge, Music Gallery Editions
Michael Snow: Musics for Whistling, Piano, Microphone and Tape
Recorder, Chatham Square Records, New York
The Artists' Jazz Band,Gallery Editions, Toronto
1966 New York Eye and Ear Control, ESP-Disk, New York
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Reviews and Periodicals
Bullot, Erik. "De Buster Keaton à Michael Snow," Art Press spécial numéro
24 ,2003
"Le burlesque, Une aventure moderne", pp. 88-94. 2003
Knowles, Max. "Michael Snow: une filmographie," 1999
Païni, Dominique, "Dix jours de neige en été," in Trafic 39 (winter) 1999
de Duve, Thierry. "Michael Snow - The Deictics of Experience, and Beyond,"
Parachute 78 (April/May/June) 1995
de Duve, Thierry. "Michael Snow. Les déictiques de l'expérience, et au-
delà." In Cahiers du Musée, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges
Pompidou (Paris) 1995
Feinstein, Roni. "Report from Toronto: Opening Doors," Art in America,(November)1994
Morris, David. "The Idea of Snow," The Literary Review of Canada, (November)
1994
Johnson, Ken. "Being and Seeing," Art in America, (July) 1994
Freedman, Adele. "Michael Snow: Forty Years of Achievement," Canadian Art,
(Spring) 1994
Hoberman, J. "Once More With Feeling," (film review), Village Voice, (June
18) 1991
Danson, Andrew. "Self-Portrait with an Assist," Canadian Art (Winter) 1989
Benetti, David. "Visionary Apparatus: Michael Snow and Juan Geuer," Canadian
Art (Summer) 1987
Gee, Bryan. "Locating the Public in Art," Vanguard (October/November) 1986
Blouin, René. "Ghost Lustres: Michael Snow's Holographic Visions at Expo
'86," Canadian Art (Summer) 1986
Dault, Gary Michael. "Snow's Angel: The Bachelor Stripped Bare by His Brides,"
Vanguard (April) 1985
Dault, Gary Michael. "Michael Snow at the Isaacs Gallery" Vanguard (May)
1984
Dewdney, Christopher. "Michael Snow at the Isaacs Gallery" Vanguard (February)
1983
Christ, Ronald. "Michael Snow at 49th Parallel," Artscanada (March/April)
1981
Cornwell, Regina. "Michael Snow: The Decisive Moment Revised," Artscanada,
(April/May) 1980
Books and Catalogues
Heartney, Eleanor, Art in America, June/ July, 2004 pg 175
Kelsey, John, Art Forum, Summer 2004, pge 247
Pollack, Barbara, Art News, May, 2004 pg.150
Ribettes, Jean-Michel. Le Diaphane et l'Obscur, une histoire de la diapositive
dans l'art contemporain, Paris: Audiovisuel/Maison Européenne de la Photographie.
2002
Gattinoni, Christian et Yannick Vigouroux, La photographie contemporaine,Paris:
Editions Scala
Michael Snow almost Cover to Cover. London: Black Dog Press. 2001
de Duve, Thierry. Look, 100 years of contemporary art. Brussels 2001
les, Chrissie. Înto the Light, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
de Duve, Thierry. Voici, 100 ans d'art contemporain, Bruxelles: Société
des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts/Brussels 2000 Ghent: Ludion/Flammarion.(catalogues
published for "Le temps, vite!" Rome/Barcelona) 2000
Movimento Aparente, Castellò: Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana,
(Introduction by José Miguel G. Cortes, Essays by Eugeni Bonet, Jorge Luis
Marzo, Raymond Bellour et al)
Garrett-Petts, W. F. and Donald Lawrence, eds. Photographic Encounters.
The Edges and Edginess of Reading Prose Pictures and Visual Fictions. Edmonton:
University of Alberta Press.
Panoramique: Oeuvres photographiques & films/Photographic Works & Films
1962-1999 Bruxelles: Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts. Essays
by Hubert Damisch, Alain Fleischer, Walter Klepac, Michael Snow. 1999
Moeglin-Delcroix, Anne. Esthétique du livre d'artiste 1960/1980 Paris: Jean
Michel Place / Bibliothèque nationale de France1997
Hoolboom, Mike. Inside the Pleasure Dome: Fringe Film in Canada. Foreword
by Atom Egoyan. Toronto: Gutter Press
Timeframes, Reading PA: Freedman Gallery. Ottinger, Didier ed. Magritte.
Montreal: Musée des Beaux-Arts.
Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary
Art. 1996
Goldstein, Ann and Anne Rorimer. Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-
1975 Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art. 1996
Bisaccia, Antonio. Effetto Snow: Teoria e prassi della comunicazione artistica
di Michael Snow. Genova: Costa & Nolan 1995
Mudie, Peter. Michael Snow: Filmworks 1966-1991. Perth (Australia): Bernt
Porridge Group Publications. Texts by David Bromfield, Albie Thoms, Stan
Brakhage 1995
The Films of Michael Snow 1956-1991. Presence and Absence / The Michael
Snow Project. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario/A.A. Knopf. Includes texts
by Jonas Mekas, Bruce Elder, Steve Reich et al. 1996
Visual Art 1951-1993/ The Michael Snow Project. Toronto: Art Gallery of
Ontario/The Power Plant/A.A. Knopf. Essays by Dennis Reid,Philip Monk, Louise
Dompierre. 1994
The Collected Writings of Michael Snow / The Michael Snow Project. Foreword
by Louise Dompierre. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press 1994
Music/Sound 1948-1993 / The Michael Snow Project. Toronto: Art Gallery of
Ontario/The Power Plant/A.A. Knopf. Includes texts by David Lancashire,
Paul Dutton, Raymond Gervais, Bruce Elder, John Kamevaar et al 1994
Vanishing Presence. Foreword by Martin Friedman. Minneapolis: Walker Art
Center/New York: Rizzoli 1989
Michael Snow. Tokyo: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art. Essay by Pierre Théberge
1988
Visionary Apparatus: Michael Snow and Juan Geuer. Cambridge: List Visual
Arts Center, M.I.T. 1986
Barbera, Alberto and Stefano Della Casa, eds. Michael Snow. Torino: Festival
Internazionale Cinema Giovani. Texts by Annette Michelson, P. Adams Sitney,
Dominique Noguez et al. 1986
Dompierre, Louise. Walking Woman Works. Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art
Gallery, Queens University,1983
Michael Snow: Selected Photographic Works. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wright
Art Gallery, University of California. Essays by Christopher Dewdney and
Pierre Théberge 1983
Cornwell, Regina. Snow Seen: The Films and Photographs of Michael Snow.
Toronto: Peter Martin Associates 1980
Michael Snow. Lucerne: Kunstmuseum Luzern 1979
Michael Snow. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen 1979
Michael Snow Retrospective. Montreal: La Cinémathèque Québecoise 1975
About 30 Works by Michael Snow. New York: Center for Inter-American Relations.
1972
Publications by the Artist
Anarchive 2: Digital Snow, an interactive DVD-ROM co-published by Anarchive
(Paris) and Fondation Daniel Langlois (Montreal) 2003
Michael Snow. Des écrits, 1958 - 2002, Editions de l'Ensba/Centre Pompidou,
Paris. 2002
Rameau's Nephew…, VHS videotape with booklet, Re-Voir, Paris, 2002
Presents, VHS videotape with booklet, Re-Voir Editions, Paris,2001
56 Tree Poems, Ghent: Imschoot uitgevers,1999
"Modes of Metamorphosis: Notes for a future screenplay/Modes de métamorphoses.
Notes pour un film à venir." (facsimile) 1993
In Poliphile No. 2 (Spring 1993): 134-65
"Passage in C." In C magazine, (fall 1993)
"Repeat Offender." In Photo-Communiqué (fall 1986)
Diacritics: a review of contemporary criticism.(special issue on the work
of Jean-François Lyotard), front and back cover, and illustrated throughout
by Michael Snow, 1984
High School, Impulse Editions/The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, 1979
Cover to Cover, Nova Scotia Series, The Press of the Nova Scotia College
of Art and Design, Halifax and New York,University Press, New York, 1975
Michael Snow / A Survey, Art Gallery of Ontario/The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto,
1970