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Michael Ashkin

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Academic Research Areas

  • Installation art
  • Interdisciplinary art
  • Landscape architecture
  • Painting
  • Photography
  • Sculpture
  • Visual representation

Michael Ashkin is an artist working in photography and sculpture. His work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial, Greater New York, Documenta 11, Vienna Secession, MUDAM in Luxembourg, Artsonje Center in Seoul, and Kolumba in Köln. Ashkin has published five photobooks: There will be two of you (Fw:Books, 2023), were it not for (Fw:Books, 2019), Horizont (TIS Books, 2018), Long Branch (A-Jump Books, 2014), and Garden State (Workroom G, 2000). He has been awarded two Pollock–Krasner Fellowships, an NYFA Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

headshot of bald man with glasses standing in front of a white brick wall

Academic Research Areas

  • Installation art
  • Interdisciplinary art
  • Landscape architecture
  • Painting
  • Photography
  • Sculpture
  • Visual representation
  • A miniature car parked in the middle of a to-scale empty parking lot, with a train track running across the middle.
  • Dark brown book cover with a row of black text spaced evenly across the cover.
  • A long wooden table with eight black and white photographs on the wall surrounding it.

Architecture and Utopia (2023), detail, Bibliowicz Family Gallery, Ithaca, NY.

were it not for (2019), book cover, Amsterdam: Fw:Books.

Foyer-LA (2024), Los Angeles, CA.

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  • Photography: Special Topics

    ART 3699

  • Thesis I

    ART 4003

  • Thesis II

    ART 4004

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • MacDowell Colony Residency Fellowship

    2011, 2012, 2014, 2016

  • Yaddo Residency Fellowship

    2013, 2015

  • Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

    1997, 2012

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • Foyer-LA

    Los Angeles, CA, 2024.

  • Katkos Project

    Athens, Greece, 2020.

  • Session

    Vienna, Austria, 2009.

  • Documenta II

    Kassel, Germany, 2002.

  • Andrea Rosen Gallery

    New York City, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005.

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