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Michael Snow

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Michael Snow with Seated Sculpture (1982, Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario)    
Photo: Craig Boyko

​Michael Snow (b. Toronto, 1928) lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Michael Snow’s internationally active practice includes work in sculpture, painting, photography, holography, installation, bookworks, video, film, music, sound and several public art commissions.

In 2020, Snow presented an exhibition of sound related works at the Art Museum of the University of Toronto and a major retrospective of his early work at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, entitled Early Snow: Michael Snow 1947-1962. Some recent solo exhibitions, screenings and music performances include: Waivelength at Tate Modern (2019), The Cinema of Michael Snow at Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon (2019), Musique pour aujourd'hui at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019), Rencontres Internationales at The Louvre, Paris (2019), O Som da Neve at Culturgest in Lisbon (2018), Closed Circuit at Guggenheim Bilbao (2018), Sequences at La Virreina, Barcelona (2015), Michael Snow Photo-Centric at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2014), The Legacy of Wavelength at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013), Solo Snow at Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal (2013), In The Way at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (2012), Recent Works at Secession, Vienna (2012), and Objects of Vision at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2012). 

Snow’s work is in many collections including Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Musée des Beaux-Arts (Montréal), National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Vancouver Art Gallery, Museum of Modern Art (New York), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo), Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris), Ludwig Museum (Cologne & Vienna), Tate (London), Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. 

Snow has received numerous honours and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1972) the Order of Canada (Officer, 1982; Companion, 2007), and the first Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2000) for cinema. In 2011, he was awarded the Gershon Iskowitz Prize. Snow was made a Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres, France (1995); in 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has held numerous academic appointments as a visiting artist/professor including at Sierre, Switzerland; Bourges, France; École Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-arts Paris, France; Yale University; Princeton University. 
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Conception of Light, 1992
2 round colour photographs, mounted on plastic    
189.2 x 182.9 cm (each photograph)    
72.0 x 72.0 inches (each photograph)    
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
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Egg, 1985
hologram with metal frame, cast-iron skillet on base, black-painted wall
270 X 165 X 195.5 cm Total installation measurement including hologram lighting fixture.
Musée National d’Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou
Photo: Carlo Catenazzi
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Midnight Blue, 1973-74
colour photograph, wood, acrylic paint, wax
73.0 x 66.0 x 12.5 cm
28.75 x 26.0 x 4.9 inches          
Centre Pompidou, Paris. Musée National d'Art Moderne / Centre de Création Industrielle
Photo: Mani Mazinani
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Wavelength [Film Still], 1967
16mm film
45 minutes, colour, sound
Courtesy of Michael Snow
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Expo Walking Woman (Corner Figure), 1967    
brushed stainless steel
231.0 x 120.0 x 244.0 cm
90.9 x 47.2 x 96.0 inches       
Art Gallery of Ontario, gift of the Government of the Province of Ontario, 1968
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Expo Walking Woman (Stretched Figure), 1967    
brushed stainless steel
231.0 x 120.0 x 244.0 cm
90.9 x 47.2 x 96.0 inches       
Art Gallery of Ontario, gift of the Government of the Province of Ontario, 1968
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Beach-Hcaeb, 1963 
Oil on canvas 
155.9 x 105.4 cm 
McIntosh Gallery


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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

The Embassy Cultural House gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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The Embassy Cultural House is thankful for the mentorship program established by Western University's Visual Arts department and the continued support of the students and Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Chonnonton peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum and other treaties, colonized as London, Ontario. The ECH strives to create meaningful relationships between the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and our contributors. The ECH honours the stewardship of the many Indigenous peoples who have resided on these lands since time immemorial.

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