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Faculty Profile

Michael Ashkin

title

Assistant Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

department

Art

address

101 Foundry

phone

(607) 255-5234

fax

(607) 255-3462

email

ma352@cornell.edu

website

Personal Website

I approach sculpture as an expanded field of pursuit that derives meaning and possibility from the constant questioning of its own borders.

education

  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Oriental Studies
  • M.A., Columbia University, Mid-East Languages and Cultures
  • M.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Painting/Drawing

work

Solo Exhibitions

  • Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2010
  • Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC, 2010
  • Secession, Vienna, Austria 2009
  • Sculpture Center, LIC, NY, 2009
  • Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, 2005, 2002, 2000, 1997
  • Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, 1998, 2002
  • Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris, 1999, 1997
  • Galerie Otto Schweins, Cologne, 2002
  • Feigen Inc., Chicago, 1996

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • "Malas Calles," Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain, 2010
  • "We Could Have Invited Everyone," Palais de Tokyo, 2007
  • "Dark Places," Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2006
  • "Documenta 11," Kassel, 2002
  • "Watery Domestic," Renaissance Society, Chicago, 2002
  • "Viewfinder," Arnolfini, Bristol, 2002
  • "From a Distance," ICA, Boston, 2000
  • "Desert and Transport," Kunsthalle zu Kiel, 2000
  • "Modes of Art," Dusseldorf Kunstverein, 1999
  • "1997 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum, 1997
  • "Elsewhere," Carnegie Museum of Art, 1997

 

Awards

  • 2009: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
  • 2008: Eastern State Penitentiary Proposal Development Grant, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2007: Watts Prize for Teaching Excellence, Cornell University, AAP
  • 2000: Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship, Marfa, TX
  • 1999: New York Foundation for the Arts, Lily Auchincloss Foundation Fellow, sculpture
  • 1997: The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.

courses

Undergraduate and graduate sculpture

research

My work spans various media (sculpture, photography, video) and addresses issues of landscape, specifically the intersection of subjectivity with the social, economic, and political production of space.