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Michael Snow
Biography
Michael Snow (1928-2023) was one of the world’s leading experimental filmmakers, having inspired the Structural Film movement with his groundbreaking film Wavelength (1967). Snow’s extensive and multidisciplinary oeuvre includes painting, sculpture, video, film, sound, photography, holography, drawing, writing, and music. His work explores the nature of perception, consciousness, language, and temporality.
Snow was born in 1928 in Toronto, where he lived and worked until his death in 2023. He received honorary degrees from the University of Toronto (1999), the University of Victoria (1997), the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1990), and Brock University (1975).
Snow received several prestigious awards including the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (2011), the Guggenheim Fellowship (1972), the Order of Canada (1982), and the Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres, France (1995, 2011). There has been a great deal of scholarship focusing on Snow, including the multi-volume Michael Snow Project published in 1994 by the Power Plant and the Art Gallery
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Michael Snow
Canadian artist (1928–2023)
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| Born | Michael James Aleck Snow (1928-12-10)December 10, 1928 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | January 5, 2023(2023-01-05) (aged 94) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Education | Ontario College of Art |
| Known for | Installation artist, filmmaker, painter |
| Notable work | Wavelength (1967) <----> (1969) La Région Centrale (1971) Flight Stop (1979) *Corpus Callosum (2002) |
| Movement | Structural film |
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| Children | 1 |
| Awards | Officer, Order of Canada 1981 Companion, Order of Canada 1997 Chevalier d'ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France 1995 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts 2000 Honorary Doctorate, Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne 2004 Honorary Doctorate, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi 2016 |
Michael James Aleck SnowCC RCA (December 10, 1928 – Janua
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Michael Snow
Biography
Michael Snow is considered one of Canada's most important artists, and one of the world's leading experimental filmmakers. His wide-ranging and multidisciplinary oeuvre explores the possibilities inherent in different mediums and genres, and encompasses film and video, painting, sculpture, photography, writing, and music. Snow's practice comprises a thorough investigation into the nature of perception.
While Snow early established himself as a successful painter and musician in his native Toronto, it was his 1962 move to New York City that marked the beginning of his rise to international prominence. He entered into a long-lasting and fruitful dialogue with downtown Manhattan's artistic avant garde, exchanging ideas with figures such as Yvonne Rainer, Philip Glass, Sol LeWitt, and Richard Foreman, and developing of some of his most ambitious and influential works to date. His 1964 film New York Eye and Ear Control documents his growing involvement with the burgeoning free jazz movement, and the soundtrack boasts a lineup that includes Albert Ayler, Don
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