Michael Ashkin
Michael Ashkin (* 1955 in Morristown ) is an American photographer and installation artist .
life and work
Ashkin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Oriental Studies in 1977 . In 1980 the master's degree followed at Columbia University and, in 1993, the Master of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago . In 2009 he received a Guggenheim scholarship . He is a professor at Cornell University .
Michael Ashkin's media are sculpture, installation, photography, video, poetry, and text.
"Ashkin's photographs of industrial America are filled with the inaccessibility and strange attraction of banal everyday situations beyond meaning and event."
Ashkin has participated in numerous international exhibitions. Including the Whitney Biennial (1997), Documenta11 (2002) and the Vienna Secession (2009).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Ashkin , accessed January 23, 2019.
- ↑ Cornell Michael Ashkin accessed on January 23, 2019
- ↑ Documenta11_Plattform5: Exhibition / Exhibition. Short guide; Page 20, Ostfildern-Ruit 2002 ISBN 3-7757-9087-X
- ↑ Secession Michael Ashkin accessed on January 23, 2019 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ashkin, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer and installation artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Morristown |