David Maisel
Biography
DATE/PLACE OF BIRTH:
April 22 (Earthday!), 1961, New York, NY.
EDUCATION:
Princeton University, 1979–1984: BA, summa cum laude.
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1988–1989.
California College of the Arts; 2004-2006: MFA.
PRESENT LOCATION:
Sausalito, CA (San Francisco area)
FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS
2008:
Headlands Institute for the Arts; Visiting Artist Residency.
2007:
Getty Research Institute; Visiting Scholar Residency.
2004:
"The Lake Project" monograph included in the Top 25 Photography Books of 2004 by Vince Aletti.
1992:
Opsis Foundation Photography Award.
1990:
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts, Individual Visual Artists’ Fellowship.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS:
2008:
Santa Barbara Museum of Art: "Oblivion."
2007:
-Nevada Museum of Art: "Black Maps."
-National Academy Of Sciences (Washington, DC): "Black Maps."
2006:
-Southeast Museum of Photography: "Black Maps."
-Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany: "The Lake Project."
2005:
Pomona College Art Museum: "The Lake Project."
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS:
2007
-Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA): "Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible."
-Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Re-SITE-ing the American West: Contemporary Photography from the Permanent Collection."
-College of Wooster Art Museum: "Global Anxieties: Nine Perspectives on a Changing Planet."
2006:
-International Center of Photography (New York, NY): "Ecotopia; the Photography Triennial."
-Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, CT): "Shifting Terrain: Contemporary Landscape Photography."
- Museum Of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto, Canada): "Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate."
2005:
San Francisco State University Fine Art Gallery: "ECO: Art about the Environment."
-Noorderlicht Photography Festival (Groningen, Netherlands): "Traces and Omens."
-SF Camerawork (San Francisco, CA): "Monument Recall: Public Memory and Public Spaces."
- Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (Charleston, SC): "No Man’s Land: Contemporary
Photographers and Fragile Ecologies: David Maisel, Ed Burtynsky, and Emmet Gowin."
-Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena, CA): "Environmental Art in California."
1991:
International Museum of Photography (Rochester, NY) and Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center (New York, NY): "The New American Pastoral: Landscape Photography in the Age of Questioning."
MONOGRAPH PUBLICATIONS:
"Library of Dust." Chronicle Books, 2008 (pending). Photographs by David Maisel; essays by David Maisel, Geoff Manaugh, Terry Toedtemeier, Michael Roth.
"Cascade Effect." Nazraeli Press, 2008 (pending). Photographs by David Maisel; poem by Susan Stewart.
"Oblivion." Nazraeli Press, 2006. Photographs by David Maisel; essays by William L. Fox and David Maisel; poem by Mark Strand.
"The Lake Project." Nazraeli Press, 2004. Photographs by David Maisel, essays by Robert Sobieszek and David Maisel.
