ࡱ> RTQ@ 1jbjb p+lnnnnn z4n\^^^^^^,? _ p\TT\\\/wnntZ\\\  \MICHAEL P. BERMAN 2008 Guggenheim Fellow Photographer Michael Berman has spent almost thirty years photographing the arid border regions of the American Southwest. A resident of New Mexico, he is fascinated by the land and how people use and value it, an interest that grew out of his studies in biology at Colorado College (B.A., 1979), his work there with James Enderson on peregrine falcons, and his initial forays into landscape photography. During a subsequent year taking art courses at the University of Colorado, he realized that photography merged his ecological interests and his need for creativity, and he moved on to Arizona State University, where he earned an M.F.A. in photography in 1985. At that time he was creating paintings and installations using his cut-up photographs and negatives. After an intitial installation at the University of Colorado in 1985, he went on the road across America. The resulting portfolio was acquired by the Harry Ransom Research Center; subsequently his works were acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art andthe Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, among several other institutions. A review inArt in America, a Visual Artist Fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts for painting, and a Wurlitzer Foundation Fellowship quickly followed. But believing he was losing his focus, he and his wife moved to the virtual wilderness around the Gila River, near the New Mexico-Mexico border. He took part in the New Mexico BLM Wilderness Photography Survey in 1996 and became a founding board member of the Gila Resource Information Project in 1997. His treks in the desert regions, with and without his camera, eventually led to a three-year Fellowship from the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona to photograph the Gran Desierto, on the southwestern border of Arizona and Sonora, an area he had been visiting since 1978. That project led to his first publications:Sunshot (Univ. of Arizona Press, 2006), with text by Bill Broyles, andInferno, with text by Charles Bowden (Univ. of Texas Press, 2006). Both books were honored asamong theSouthwest Books of the Year by the Pima County Public Library and Arizona Historical Society, andeach wasgiven a Southwest Book Award by the Border Regional Library Association of El Paso.Inferno is the first inthe projected trilogyThe History of the Future to be published by the University of Texas, with text by Mr. Bowden;Exodus (2008), with Juarez photographer Julian Cardona, is the second.His Guggenheim Fellowship will help support his work on the third installmentphotographs of the Chihuahuan DeserttitledTrinity, which Mr. Berman expects will take seven years to complete BRIEF HISTORY 1956 Born New York City 1975 -79 Attends Colorado College, Majors in Biology 1978 -82Wildlife Technician for Colorado Division of Wildlife 1982 -85Attends Arizona State University, M.F.A. Photography 1989 Receives Visual Artist Fellowship from Arizona Commission on the Arts for painting 1991 Receives Fellowship from the Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, New Mexico 1994 -95Instructs Photography at Western New Mexico University, Silver City New Mexico 2008 Receives Fellowship from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation GALLERY REPRESENTATION Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe, New Mexico Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Arizona Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, California Galleri Urbane, Marfa/Dallas, Texas SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth Capital Art Collection State of New Mexico, Santa Fe The University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin Smith College Museum, Northhampton Hallmark, Kansas City The El Paso Museum of ART, El Paso NMSU Art Gallery, Las Cruces Denver Art Museum, Denver Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Lannan Foundation, Marfa EXHIBITIONS 2008 solo 480 Plates Lannan Foundation Gallery, Santa fe, NM Highland City Gallery, Boulder, CO Blue Dome Gallery, Silver City, NM 2007 solo Installation 480 Plates Galleri Urbane, Marfa, TX Under a Dry Moon, Western New Mexico Museum, Silver City, NM 2006 solo North/South Galleri Urbane, Marfa, TX Under a Dry Moon El Paso Museum of Art Shadows Between Thin Lines Performance/Installation Frostburg State University, Maryland Under a Dry Moon Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA 2005 solo Southwest Center Fort Lewis College Installation, Durango CO 2008 group The History of the Future Berman/Cardona, The Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM Ouch Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe, NM Fall Exhibition Galleri Urbane, Marfa, TX First Look: Masterworks of American Photography, Amon Carter Museum, Ft Worth, TX 2007 groupAn Eclectic Eye Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ 2006 group Passing Through, Settling in: contemporary photographs of the desert Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for the Arts, The University of Texas El Paso. 100 Great American Photographs Amon Carter MuseumMasterworks of American Photography Amon Carter Museum Stephen L. Clark Gallery Inferno Austin Harwood , Albuquerque New Mexico Pics: The State of Photography Drawn, Exposed, & Impressed: Recent Works on Paper from the Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Rio Bravo Fine Arts Silver City Artists Truth or Consequences, NM 2005 group The Terrain of Seeing - Sommer, Berman, & Klett The Etherton Gallery,Tucson Paint on Metal, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson Looking at the World Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale GRIP Exhibition and Benefit Silver City Converge 6 Photographers Point of View Galleri Urbane, Marfa Fantasy Landscapes: Ground Management Santa fe Art Institute, Santa Fe SELECT EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS 1985 2004 Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe 1992, 89 87 Etherton Gallery, Tucson 1998,94,91,88 Stark Gallery, New York 1988, 1990 Martin Gallery, Washington DC 1995 galleri Urbane, Silver City, NM 2000, 01, 03 University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson 1990 Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale AZ 1987 Houston Center for Photography, Houston 1986 Blue Sky, Portland 1989 UMC Fine Arts Center, CU, Boulder 1985 Light Factory, Charlotte 2003 OSullivan Arts Center, Regis University 1997 The Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque NM 1998 Kiote Landscape Project Site Installation, Arizona 1985 Southern Light Gallery at Amarillo College, Amarillo Texas 1987 Sangre De Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo Colorado 1989 Francis McCray Galleries, WNMU, Silver City New Mexico 1995 The Photographers Gallery, Palo Alto California 1995 Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada Co 2002 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1985 2004 After Modernism Berman, Hooks & Plossu Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe 1997 Framing the Border Photographs from the el Paso Museum of Art 2001 Outside Joseph Bellows Gallery La Jolla CA 2003 Idea Photographic Museum of Fine Arts, Santa fe 2002 The Altered Photograph Northlight Gallery 1988 Arizona Photographers Center for Creative Photography, Tucson 1991 The Poetics of Space, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1986 Use Only as Directed, Nexus, Atlanta, Georgia 1988 Real Vision Colorado Gallery of the Arts Littleton, CO 1994 Creative Collecting Smith College Museum of Art 1995 Phoenix Art Museum Triennial Exhibition, Phoenix, Arizona 1990 Tradition and the Unpredictable The Museum of Fine Arts Houston 1994 History as Influence: Photographic Pluralism, Soros Center, Kyiv, Ukraine1 995 The Cutting Edge, The Photography Show, AIPAD, New York, 1998 Shack Obscura Van De Griff / Marr, Santa Fe, NM 2001 Point of DepartureMagnifico Albuquerque, NM 2003 SELECT PUBLICATIONS The History of the Future / La historia del futuro Lannan Foundation, 2008 Inferno, Bowden/Berman, The University of Texas Press, Austin, 2006 Sunshot, Broyles/Bowden, the University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2006. Under a Dry Moon, 100 Views of the Gran Desierto Portfolio of Seven Folios, one hundred images. Infinite Editions, Golden Colorado 2007. Under a Dry Moon High Desert Journal, Bend OR, Spring 2007 Passing Through Settling In: contemporary photographs of the desert Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, UT El Paso, TX 2006 Paint on Metal Tucson Museum of Art, AZ 2005 Sunstruck Journal of the Southwest, UofA Tucson, AZ Vol 47.#4.2005 SoQ Contemporary Art in Southern New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, 2004. Idea Photographic After Modernism Museum of Fine Art Santa fe, NM 2003 Love Orion Magazine, Great Barrington, MA Spring 2002. Hocks, Plossu, Berman After Modernism n PhotographyThe Magazine, Sanat Fe 11/1997 Arizona Photographers Center for Creative Photography, Tucson AZ 1990 Memoirs from an Exhibition, Ken Bloom, Earthly Bounds, The Light Factory 1988. Kiote Landscape project Kiote Press Arizona, 1984 [Michael P.Berman has also published many photographs in environmentally oriented publications. He makes his images available to any and all who ask and does not archive this work. Publications include: High Country News, Audubon, New Mexico Wild, Nature Conservancy.] SELECT AWARDS Residency, Appalachian Environmental Arts Center, North Carolina 1988 Visual Artist Award Painting, The Arizona Commission on the Arts,1989. Fellowship Painting, The Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, New Mexico, 1991. New Mexico BLM Wilderness Photographic Survey, NM Wilderness Alliance, 1996. Fellowship, Gran Desierto Project. Southwest Center, U of A, Tucson, AZ 2000, 01, & 02. Inferno Southwest Book Awards 2006, Border Regional Library Association, El Paso. Sunshot Southwest Book Awards 2006 Border Regional Library Association, El Paso. Inferno, SW Books of the Year 2006, Pima County Public Library/AZ Historical Society, Sunshot, SW Books of the Year 2006, Pima County Public Library/AZ Historical Society, Sunshot, Embodying Arizona Book 2007 Arizona Book Award, Sunshot Environment Book 2007 Arizona Book Award, Inferno - The 2007 Orion Book Award, Finalist. Guggenheim Fellowship, 2008. SELECT REVIEWS Michael Berman at Scheinbaum & Russek Kathleen Shields, Art in America. 1/1990 Redeemable Photographs of the Landscape, Nancy Spector, SPOT, HCP. spg/1987 The Hot Contemporary Photographers, Logan Ward, American Photo 4/1997. Under a Big Sky Margaret Regan, Tucson Weekly 9/15/2005 Inferno/Sunshot Mary Anne Redding, Photo-eye Booklist Fall 2006 Then Look At The Art Suzanne Carmichael, The New York Times12/15/1991 No Boundaries Jon Shumaker, Tucson Weekly 8/17/2006 Inferno Ken Wright, Orion Magazine 2006 Photos of the Deepest Deserts M. John Fayhee Silver City Sun News, 9/09/2007 Everything Old is New Again Robert L. 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