Born 1961 in Los Angeles, USA
Lives in San Francisco and New York City, USA
education
1990 Yale University, Sculpture, MFA
1987 University of California and Davis, MFA Program
1984 University of California and Berkeley, Genetics, BS
University of California and Berkeley, Practice of Art, BA
exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2011 Botticelli | Grey, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, G
2010 Horizon Over Time, Galerie Sherin Najjar, Berlin, G
2009 Michael Joaquin Grey, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, MoMA
/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
2007 Sediment, Sentiment, Sentient, Fringe Exhibitions, Los
Angeles, USA
2006 Reentry: From Primordial to Precocial, Bitforms Gallery,
New York, USA
2005 Please Follow the Yellow Line, Bitforms Gallery, Seoul,
Korea
2003 Bitforms Gallery, New York, USA
1995 Kunsthalle Loppem, Belgium
1993 Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, USA
1992 Lisson Gallery, London, GB
Barbara Gladstone, New York, USA
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1990 Petersburg Gallery, New York, USA
GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION)
2011 Fundamentally Human: Visual Art and Neuroscience,
curated by Suzanne Anker, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Midnight Party, curated by Joan Ruthfuss, Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, USA
The Digital Any-Space-Whatever, curated by Claudia Hart,
99th Annual Conference, New York, USA
Painting and Sculpture, Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Benefit Exhibition, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA
2010 Greater New York. Rotating Gallery Series, curated by
Clarissa Dalrymple, MoMA/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center New
York, USA
Plus One, curated by Dan Cameron, Perry Rubinstein Gallery
New York, USA
Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah. New Frontier on
Main, Utah, USA
Remote Viewing: Best of LOOP, curated by Paul Young,
Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, USA
A Man is not a Tree, Galerie Sherin Najjar, Berlin, Germany
2009 Spazialismo, Bitforms Gallery, New York, USA
Art and Electronic Media, curated by Edward A. Shanken,
Bitforms Gallery, New York, USA
Illiterature, Arena 1 Art Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Loop Festival, nominated for the Premier Selection,
Barcelona, Spain
2008 NASA 50th Anniversary, Yuri's Night: 2008, NASA Ames
Research Center, Moffet Field, USA
Illiterature, LIMN Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2007 RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film
Archive, Berkeley, USA
Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
2006 CUT/FILM: Film as found object in Contemporary Video,
curated by Stefano Basilico, other stations: MOCA, North
Miami, Milwaukee ArtMuseum, Philbrook Museum of Art, USA
Hedonistic Imperative, curated by Graham Guerra, Deborah
Coulton Gallery, Houston, USA
2005 Art of Listening, 34th International Rotterdam Film
Festival, curated by Kathleen Forde, The Netherlands
2004 Time and Temperature, curated by Michael Rees, Bitforms
Gallery, New York, USA
2002 Genart, NewFangle, San Francisco, USA
2001 Public Offerings, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art,
curated by Paul Schimmel, Los Angeles, USA
2000 Circus, Circus, Norrtalje Konsthall, curated by Fredrik
Harleman, Sweden
1999 TT, (Think Tank), Hirsh Foundation, Marocco
1998 [re] Mediation: The Digital in Contemporary American
Printmaking, Santa Monica Museum of Art, other stations:
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, USA
Plastic Times, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
1997 The Overintelligent Film in collaboration with Paulina
Wallenberg-Olsson, Museum of Modern Art New York, USA
Mute, Michael Joaquin Grey, Thomas Demand and Patricia
Piccinini, Linda Dement (CD-publication), London, GB
Art and the Brain, Deutsches Museum Bonn, curated by
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Germany
1996 Echoes, The New York Kunsthalle, curated by Francesco
Bonami, New York, USA
1994 Notational Photographs, Metro Pictures, New York, USA
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Beyond Belief, Lisson Gallery, London, GB
Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, curated by Damien Hirst,
Serpentine Gallery, London, GB (travelled to: Nordic
Art Centre, Helsinki, FI; Kunstverein Hannover,
Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA)
1993 The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
The Final Frontier, The New Museum of Contemporary Art,
New York, USA
1992 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Ho Gallery World Art, Hong Kong
Through the Looking Glass, in collaboration with Randolph
Huff, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1991 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1990 Petersburg Gallery, New York, USA
AWARDS
2009 Premier Selection Award, Loop Festival, Spain
2001 Adobe Public Competition Finalist, USA
1994 Golden Nica Award, Ars Electronica, Austria
1990 Yale University: Rebecca Taylor Porter Award, USA