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MICHAEL FLOMEN

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Tree #1, 2005
Gelatin Silver Tones Print - Ed: 1/4
60 x 48 in. - 152 x 122 cms.

One Man Exhibitions

2010

Inside Out, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL

2009

Contact, Still Revolution, Event in the Landscape, Toronto, Canada

2008

Fragile, Galerie Pangee, Montreal, Canada

2007

Interpreting Nature Part II, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
Higher Ground, Machine Age, Boston, MA

2006

Teeming, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL

2005

Teeming, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY
Higher Ground, Therese Dion Arts Contemporain, Montreal, Canada

2003

Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Trout Will Rise for Some Hats, Brown Library, Sterling College, Craftsbuy, VT

2002

Higher Ground, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY
World, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2001

Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Seven, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2000

Rising, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, NY.

1999

Trout Will Rise for Some Hats, Galerie d’art d’Outremont, Montreal, Canada.

1998

Fields, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada.

1997

Fields, Gallery Han Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada.

1995

Imminent Ground, Galerie Vox, Montreal, Canada
Friend, photographic installation, Motel Fine Arts Exhibitions, NY
Imminent Ground, Langage Plus, Alma, Quebec, Canada

1994

Prier, Pray, Mois de la Photo, Espace 2020, Montreal, Canada.

1993

Night, photographic installation, Motel Fine Arts Exhibition, New York, NY.

1988

Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France
Shaker Photographs, North Family, 1969-73,  Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, New Lebanon, NY
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, Montreal, Canada.

1984

L’Oeil du Voisin, Canadian Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium
Galerie Vu, Quebec, Canada
Het Oog Van de Buur, Cultureel Centrum Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
Geemeentekredist, Grote Market, Antwerp
Steigenberger Hotel, Berlin, Germany.Kanada Galerie, Munich, Germany
Vortragassal Der Universitats Bibliothek, Oldenburg

1981

Shot in America, The American Gallery, Bern.
The Koussivitsky Art Gallery, Pittsfield, MA.

1980

Paul Waggoner Galleries, Chicago, IL

1975

Doubletake, Vehicule Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada.

1972

Shaker Light, Optica Gallery, Montreal, Canada

Group Show Exhibitions

2008

Sculpture Sackville 2008, Sackville, New Brunswick, CanadaEarth Art, Royal Botanical Gardens, Ontario, CanadaShooting Abstraction, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL

2009

First Impressions, The New York Camera Club, New York, NYLes espaces de l’image, Curated by Gaëlle Morel. Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2009, Montreal, CanadaThe Edge of Vision, The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, Aperture Foundation, New York, NYThe Edge of Vision. Curated by Lyle Rexer. Group exhibiton featuring Ellen Carey, Charles Lindsay, Edward Mapplethorpe, Chris McCaw, Michael Flomen, James Welling, and Silvio Wolf.Contradictions in Black and White, Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York.

2010

Edge of Vision, The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZAtmosphère, Curated by Lara Pan. Galerie Pangée, Montreal, CanadaArt contemporain Montréal, Exposition Universelle, Shanghai, China

2011

Eco-Art, Curated by John K. Grande and Peter Selz. Pori Museum of Art, FinlandBleu, Curated by Marie-Eve Beaupré. Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, CanadaMiami/Miami Beach Sculpture Biennale, Curated by Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Miami, FL

2008

Pixels et Papier, CMCP traveling exhibition, National Gallery of Canada,Ottawa.     
Sculpture Sackville 2008, Sackville, New Brunswick.    
Earth Art, Royal Botanical Gardens, Ontario, Canada.
Shooting Abstractly, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, Florida.

2007

Hanmi Museum of Photography, Soeul, Korea
HUGE , ARTCORE gallery , Toronto , Canada

2006

Human = Nature, The Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT
Die Liege um Licit, Kunstmuseum Celle, Germany
Out of Darkness; The Contemporary Revival of Early Photography, University of Central Florida Art Gallery, Orlando, FL

2005

Oil and Water, Mois de la photo, Montreal, Canada
What's New, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL
Sans Regards or No Eyes: Looking at Collection Dancing Bear, RencontresD’Arles, France
Summer Show,Tamarack Gallery, East Craftsbury, VT

2004

Water, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, NY

2003

Looking Up: Contemplating the Skies, New York Academy of Sciences, NY
Cameraless Image, Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
How Human: Life in the Post-Genome Era, International Center of Photography, New York, NY

2002

PhotoGENEsis; Opus 2, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
New  Acquisitions, New Work, New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Gaggles, Flocks, & Coveys; Further, Murders & Exaltations: A Bird Show, RiccoMaresca Gallery, NY
Tamarack Gallery, Craftsbury, VT

2001

At the Edge: The Horizon Line in Contemporary Art, Dorsky Gallery, NY.

2000

Particular Vision, Tim Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Thinner Air, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO

1998

Several Pictures XII, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Temps Composés, Musée D’Art de Joliette, Quebec, Canada

1997

Photographic Views and Vistas, Marcia Raffelman Fine Arts, Toronto, Canada.
Art à la Carte, Galerie McClure, Montreal, Canada.

1994

Han Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Before the Land Behind the Camera, CMCP, Ottawa, Canada
Prêt d’Oeuvres d’Art, Musée du Québec, Quebec, Canada

1988

Social Life, The Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York, NY.

1986

Choix D’Artistes, Galerie John A Schweitzer, Montreal, Canada.

1985

Canadian Contemporary Photography, National Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.

1984

Fragments, Photographies Actuelle au Québec, Galerie Vu, Quebec, Canada.

1979

Tendances Actuelles au Québec, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada.
Vécu, I Have Lived, CMCP, Ottawa, Canada.

1978

Four Photographers, Galerie Optica, Montreal, Canada
New Trends in US and Canadian Photography, Galerie Monas Heirgliphica, Milan, Italy

1972

Young Canadian Photographers, Yajima Gallery, Montreal, Canada.

Art Fairs

2008

Art Chicago, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Chicago, IL

2007

The Gulf Art Fair, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Dubai, U.A.E.

2006

Art Cologne, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Cologne, Germany

2005

Art Basel Miami Beach, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FLArt Cologne, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Cologne, GermanyPalm Beach Contemporary, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Palm Beach, FL

2004

Art Basel Miami Beach, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami Beach, Florida.

Awards & Scholarships

2005

Bourse A, recherche et creation, CALQ

1993

Canada Council Arts Award Grant ‘A’, Bourse de ressourcement, Studio de New York, Ministère des Affaires Culturelles du Québec, Canada

1972

Canada Council Arts Award Grant ‘B’

Collections

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, MO
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CAHanmi Photography Museum, Seoul, Korea
Museum for Canadian Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
Art Bank, Ottawa, Canada
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Ministry of External Affairs, Ottawa, Canada
Musée de L’Architecture, Liège, Belgium
Mt. Lebanon Shaker Village, New Lebanon, NY
Musée du Québec, Quebec, Canada
The Maison de L’Image et la Photographie, Montreal, Canada
Up
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The use of cameraless photogram techniques by Michael Flomen in nature achieve a balance whereby nature is a co-participant in the photo process.  Nature is no longer objectified, with each biological element segregated and categorized. Instead the various elements interact with each other and a holistic integrity of interlinked events, a dynamics that is nature becomes the common thread through all these photograms.  Human, plant and animal worlds come together in the visual flux of each photogram.  Flomen continues to evolve the language of his photography.  His recent photograms combine the phenomena that are constantly occurring in nature, whether the actions of water, light, air or other external physical elements. He does so with an ingenious hands-on approach that contrasts the passive photographic role of simple documentation. His approach is less egoistic in its understanding of the photographer’s role, in that it engages in a visual discourse that questions our place in the universe … As Michael Flomen says, “I make photograms of things we do not see, but know are there.” - from Utopophotography by John K. Grande