Michael Ashkin
Michael Ashkin is an American artist who makes sculptures, videos, photographs and installations depicting marginalized, desolate landscapes. He is a professor at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. Ashkin was a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow.
Michael Ashkin
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- 1955 · Morristown.
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- United States
- Occupation
- photographer
- Education
- Columbia University
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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Michael Ashkin is an American artist who makes sculptures, videos, photographs and installations depicting marginalized, desolate landscapes. He is a professor at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. Ashkin was a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow.
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Ashkin is best known for his use of miniature scale and modest materials. He had his first solo show in 1996, and his floor sculpture called No. 49, was included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial. His work has been featured at the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, the Renaissance Society in Chicago, Vienna Secession, and in Documenta11 in Germany. Ashkin authored Garden State, a book which compares the New Jersey Meadowlands to a formal garden. In 2014, A-Jump Books published Ashkin's Long Branch a book of photographs and text documenting the destruction of a New Jersey neighborhood and in 2018 TIS Books published a book of photographs from Berlin entitled Horizont. Ashkin's were it not for was published in 2019 with FW:Books, and combines photographs of the Mojave desert with sentences that begin with the book's title. There will be two of you was published in 2024 by FW:Books Ashkin was born in Morristown, New Jersey, the son of Arthur Ashkin, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, and the nephew of the physicist Julius Ashkin. Before returning to art school, Ashkin taught Arabic and received an M.A. in Middle East Languages from Columbia University, and supported himself as a computer programmer.
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Michael Ashkin born at Morristown.
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- 1.Gabriel, Trip. Trafficking in Toxic Waste and Human Loneliness. The New York Times. April 6, 1997.
- 2.Michael Ashkin. Cornell AAP.
- 3.Michael Ashkin. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2009.
- 4.Cotter, Holland. Art in Review; Andrea Zittel -- Michael Ashkin. The New York Times. June 10, 2005.
- 5.Cotter, Holland. ART IN REVIEW; Michael Ashkin. The New York Times. February 25, 2000.
- 6.The Renaissance Society. Watery, Domestic. November 17, 2002.
- 7.Michael Ashkin « secession. www.secession.at.
- 8.Shinkle, Eugenie. Capitalism as a Bearer of the Uncanny: An Interview with Michael Ashkin. American Suburb X. April 28, 2016.
- 9.https://collectordaily.com/michael-ashkin-there-will-be-two-of-you/
- 10.Fleischman, Tom. Arthur Ashkin, Ph.D. '52, shares Nobel Prize in physics. Cornell Chronicle. October 2, 2018.
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