Michael Flomen

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Biography

2005
  • Born in Montréal, Canada

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008
  • Fragile, Galerie Pangée, Montréal, Canada
2007
  • Interpreting Nature Part II, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont,
  • United States
  • Higher Ground, Machine Age, Boston, United States
2006
  • Teeming, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, United States
2005
  • Teeming, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, United States
  • Higher Ground, Therese Dion Arts Contemporain, Montréal, Canada
2003
  • Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  • Trout Will Rise for Some Hats, Brown Library, Sterling College, Craftsbury, United States
2002
  • Higher Ground, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, United States
  • World, Artcore/Fabrice, Toronto, Canada
2001
  • Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, United States
  • Seven, Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini, Toronto, Canada
2000
  • Rising, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, United States
1999
  • Trout Will Rise for Some Hats, Galerie d’art d’Outremont, Montréal, Canada
1998
  • Fields, Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini, Toronto, Canada
1997
  • Fields, Gallery Han Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada
1995
  • Imminent Ground, Galerie Vox, Montréal, Canada
  • Friend, photographic installation, Motel Fine Arts Exhibitions, New York,
  • United States
  • Imminent Ground, Langage Plus, Alma, Québec, Canada
1994
  • Prier, Pray, Mois de la Photo, Espace 2020, Montréal, Canada
1993
  • Night, photographic installation, Motel Fine Arts Exhibition, New York,
  • United States
1988
  • Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France
  • Shaker Photographs, North Family, 1969-73. Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, New Lebanon, New York, United States (ongoing)
  • Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Kamploops Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1986
  • PPS Galerie F C Gundlach, Hamburg, Germany
  • Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
1985
  • Aus Der Sicht Des Nachbarn, Wissenshaftzentrum, Bonn, Germany
  • Galerie John A. Schweitzer, Montréal, Canada
1984
  • L’Oeil du Voisin, Canadian Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium
  • Galerie Vu, Québec, Canada
  • Het Oog Van de Buur, Cultureel Centrum Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
  • Geemeentekredist, Grote Market, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Steigenberger Hotel, Berlin, Germany
  • Kanada Galerie, Munich, Germany
  • Vortragassal Der Universitats Bibliothek, Oldenburg, Germany
1981
  • Shot in America, The American Gallery, Bern, Germany
  • The Koussivitsky Art Gallery, Pittsfield, MA, United States
1980
  • Paul Waggoner Galleries, Chicago, United States
1975
  • Doubletake, Vehicule Art Gallery, Montréal, Canada
1972
  • Shaker Light, Optica Gallery, Montréal, Canada

Group Exhibitions

2008
  • Sculpture Supernova, Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini, Toronto, Canada
  • Pixels et Papier, CMCP traveling exhibition, National Gallery of Canada,
  • Ottawa, Canada
  • Sculpture Sackville 2008, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
  • Earth Art, Royal Botanical Gardens, Ontario, Canada
  • Shooting Abstraction, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, United States
2007
  • HUGE, Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini, Toronto, Canada
2006
  • Human = Nature, The Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT, United States
  • Die Liege um Licit, Kunstmuseum Celle, Germany
  • Out of Darkness; The Contemporary Revival of Early Photography,
  • University of Central Florida Art Gallery, Orlando, United States
  • 2005 OIL and Water, Mois de la photo, Montréal, Canada
  • What's New, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, United States
  • Sans Regards or No Eyes: Looking at Collection Dancing Bear, Rencontres d’Arles,
  • Arles, France
  • Summer Show, Tamarack Gallery, East Craftsbury, VT, United States
2004
  • Water, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, United States
2003
  • Looking Up: Contemplating the Skies, New York Academy of Sciences,
  • New York, United States
  • Cameraless Image, Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
  • How Human: Life in the Post-Genome Era, International Center of Photography,
  • New York, United States
2002
  • PhotoGENEsis; Opus 2, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, United States
  • New Acquisitions, New Work, New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections,
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, United States
  • Gaggles, Flocks, & Coveys; Further, Murders & Exaltations: A Bird Show,
  • Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, United States
  • Tamarack Gallery, Craftsbury, VT, United States
2001
  • At the Edge: The Horizon Line in Contemporary Art, Dorsky Gallery,
  • New York, United States
2000
  • Particular Vision, Tim Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI, United States
  • Thinner Air, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO, United States
1998
  • Several Pictures XII, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, United States
  • Temps Composés, Musée D’Art de Joliette, Québec, Canada
1997
  • Photographic Views and Vistas, Marcia Raffelman Fine Arts, Toronto, Canada
  • Art à la Carte, Galerie McClure, Montréal, Canada
1994
  • Han Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada
  • Before the Land Behind the Camera, CMCP, Ottawa, Canada
  • Prêt d’Oeuvres d’Art, Musée du Québec, Montréal, Canada
1988
  • Social Life, The Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York, United States
1986
  • Choix D’Artistes, Galerie John A Schweitzer, Montréal, Canada
1985
  • Canadian Contemporary Photography, National Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
1984
  • Fragments, Photographies Actuelle au Québec, Galerie Vu, Québec, Canada
1979
  • Tendances Actuelles au Québec, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada
  • Vécu, I Have Lived, CMCP, Ottawa, Canada
1978
  • Four Photographers, Galerie Optica, Montréal, Canada
  • New Trends in US and Canadian Photography, Galerie Monas Heirgliphica, Milan, Italy
1976
  • Young Canadian Photographers, Yajima Gallery, Montréal, Canada

Projects

1980
  • Flore, Optica Gallery, Montréal, Canada
  • Organize and curate a photographic group exhibition about flowers
1972 - Ongoing
  • Commission to print museum quality black and white photographs for artists,
  • galleries, and museums.

Art Fairs

2000 - Ongoing
  • Art Basel Miami, Art Chicago, Artissima Italy, Art Cologne Germany, AIPAD New York, Art Fiero Bologna Spain, Art Brussels, DIFC gulf art fair

Catalogues and Publications

2008
  • Fragile, catalogue and text with John K. Grande, Montréal, Canada
  • Nature’s Self Portrait, The work of Michael Flomen, DVD, Maison de L’image et
  • de Photographie, Montréal, Canada
2006
  • Human= Nature, The Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT, United States
  • Die Liebe zum Licht, Kunstmuseum Celle, Germany
2005
  • Dormance et Metamorphoses De L'oeil, Denis Samson et Michael Flomen,
  • Editions J'ai Vu

 

2002
  • Higher Ground. Catalogue, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, United States
2000
  • Rising, Portfolio
  • Rising. Catalogue, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, United States
1999
  • Trout Will Rise for Some Hats, story by Stephen Leacock, folio book with nine original silver prints designed by Peter Sibbald Brown
1997
  • A Photograph, 15 photographs, self-published
1984
  • Still-Life Draped Stone, 26 duotone plates, Introduction by Peter Sibbald Brown, Paget Press
1981
  • Details/M. Flomen, 21 duotone plates, Introduction by Louis Patrick,
  • Yajima Gallery, Montréal, Canada

Selected Art Publication and Reviews

2008
  • C Photo International #6
2006
  • CV Ciel Variable, Winter, Materia et Lumen #70
  • El Nuevo Herald, Sunday January 29, 2006, Jose Antonio Evora
  • Miami New Times 2006-02-02
  • Vie des Arts, No. 201 Hiver 2005 2006 2005
  • El Nuevo Herald, Sunday July 17 2005, Jose Antonio Evora
  • Image and Imagination, “Oil and Water” essay, by Martha Langford, p. 239-243 Michael Flomen, Evan Lee, Laura Mallard, illustration page 239, McGill
  • University Press 2005
2004
  • American Photo, May/June, essay, The Future of Nature
2003
  • Art on Paper, review by Elizabeth Finch (April)
  • 2wice (Vol 6: N0 2) GLOW - Bioluminescence
2002
  • The New Yorker, March 11, Goings On About Town, Higher Ground
1995
  • CV Photo, Autumn, p. 61. review, Imminent Ground
  • Black Flash, Vol. 13.3, Fall, p.18-19. review, Imminent Ground
  • Portfolio Photographie 12, Verlag Photographie,
  • 6 plates, Introduction by Michael Koetzle
1989
  • Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Exhibition catalogue p. 162
1985
  • Canadian Art Magazine, Summer, Exhibition review of Still-Life Draped Stone, Shweitzer Gallery, by George Bogardi. p. 18, 19
  • Photo Selection, Exhibition review by Richard Baillargeon. p. 42, 43
  • Aus Der Sicht Des Nachbarn, catalogue of traveling exhibition in Germany, p.16
  • American Photographer, September, book review, Nina Liu
  • Het Oog Van de Buur, catalogue for exhibition at Cultural Center Hasselt, Belgium,
  • Introduction by Johan De Vos. 16 pages. 1984
1984
  • Fragments, Photographie Actuelle Au Québec,Exhibition Catalogue p. 40-41
  • Canadian Contemporary Photography, ONF NFB, collection. Hurtig
1983
  • Latitudes and Parallels, exhibition catalogue, Winnipeg Art Gallery, p. 56-58
  • Quebec Photography Invitational, Saidye Bronfman Center, exhibition catalogue,
  • Interview by Katherine Tweedie, p.18
1982
  • ‘Through the Lens of Michael Flomen’ by George Bogardi, Chimo Magazine
  • Vol. 5, No. 1 Feb./March p. 56-58
1981
  • Chicago Sunday Times, June 15, Exhibition review by David Elliot.
  • Afterimage, March. Book review
1980
  • Printletter No. 28, July. Zurich. Review by Marco Misiani. p. 31
  • Photo Communique, Fall. Review by Gail Fisher-Taylor
1979
  • Vie Des Art, Winter, Exhibition review
  • Tendances Actuelles au Québec, catalogue
  • Musée D’Art Contemporain
  • Vécu, I Have Lived, Folder for the exhibition by Pierre Dessurault, Ottawa, Canada
1975
  • Arts Magazine, 23 October, Exhibition review, Vehicule Art Gallery,
  • Montréal, Canada

Awards

2005
  • Conseil des arts et des letters, Quebec
1993
  • Canada Council Arts Award Grant ‘A’
  • Bourse de ressourcement, Studio de New York, Ministère des Affaires Culturelles du Québec
1972
  • Canada Council Arts Award Grant ‘B’

Academic Appointments

2004
  • Light Conversation: Seminars with Contemporary Photographers,
  • Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
1978-1982/84
  • Photography instructor, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada

Public Collections