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1928 Toronto, Ontario - 2023 Toronto, Ontario. Known for: Minimal abstract painting, photo montage, video.
"Renowned artist Michael Snow mixed conceptualist coups with witty populism in his long career by James Adams and Kate Taylor," Obiturary, The Toronto Globe and Mail, by James Adams and Kate Adams,... Read full biography
"Renowned artist Michael Snow mixed conceptualist coups with witty populism in his long career by James Adams and Kate Taylor," Obiturary, The Toronto Globe and Mail, by James Adams and Kate Adams, January 6, 2023. Millions of Canadians know the art of Michael Snow. His work is familiar to anyone... Read full biography
"Renowned artist Michael Snow mixed conceptualist coups with witty populism in his long career by James Adams and Kate Taylor," Obiturary, The Toronto Globe and Mail, by James Adams and Kate Adams, January 6, 2023. Millions of Canadians know the art of Michael Snow. His work is familiar to anyone who has walked under the glass arcade of the Eaton Centre in Toronto and admired the flock of Canada geese overhead or anyone who has laughed at the figures of gesticulating fans on the facade of the... Read full biography
"Renowned artist Michael Snow mixed conceptualist coups with witty populism in his long career by James Adams and Kate Taylor," Obiturary, The Toronto Globe and Mail, by James Adams and Kate Adams, January 6, 2023. Millions of Canadians know the art of Michael Snow. His work is familiar to anyone who has walked under the glass arcade of the Eaton Centre in Toronto and admired the flock of Canada geese overhead or anyone who has laughed at the figures of gesticulating fans on the facade of the Rogers Centre. And yet, if Snow is a figure of renown in the international art world, it is not for these accessible sculptures but for Wavelength, an experimental film of 1966 that featured a single 45-minute zoom shot. Snow, the Canadian painter,... Read full biography
"Renowned artist Michael Snow mixed conceptualist coups with witty populism in his long career by James Adams and Kate Taylor," Obiturary, The Toronto Globe and Mail, by James Adams and Kate Adams, January 6, 2023. Millions of Canadians know the art of Michael Snow. His work is familiar to anyone who has walked under the glass arcade of the Eaton Centre in Toronto and admired the flock of Canada geese overhead or anyone who has laughed at the figures of gesticulating fans on the facade of the Rogers Centre. And yet, if Snow is a figure of renown in the international art world, it is not for these accessible sculptures but for Wavelength, an experimental film of 1966 that featured a single 45-minute zoom shot. Snow, the Canadian painter, sculptor, filmmaker and jazz musician, was an ever-inventive artist with a long, eclectic career that repeatedly mixed concep... Read full biography
Michael James Aleck Snow - Artist Info
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Keywords (17)
Art Method
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Bronze
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Video Art, Documentary Photo, Cinema, Filmmaking
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
Awards/Recognition
- •Governor General's Award for Arts, Canada
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art, National Gallery
Exhibition of Museum
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art