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