NEWS
CURRENT AND RECENT
NEW INSTITUTIONAL ACQUISITION:
2020 Denver Art Museum, 59”x 74” image from Lake Bonneville, edition 2
NEW BOOK:
2019 Lake Lahontan/Lake Bonneville; Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM
SOLO SHOWS:
2019 “Michael Light: Gardiner’s Island and Amagansett,” The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
2019 “Michael Light: FULL MOON,” Danziger Gallery, New York
2019 “GLOW: Michael Light’s Views of L.A.,” Los Angeles Public Library
2019 “Great Basin Autoglyphs and Pleistoseas,” Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 “Michael Light: Sidereal Rift,” San Francisco Airport Terminal Three, San Francisco
GROUP SHOWS:
2020 “Abstraction: New Acquisitions,” Denver Art Museum, CO
2020 “Fotobokfestival Oslo 2020,” Oslo, Norway
2020 “Civilization, Photography, Now,” Auckland Art Gallery/Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand
2019 The Observable Universe: Visualizing the Cosmos In Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
2019 “The Stories They Tell: 100 Years of Photography,” Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2019 “The Moon,” Geelong Gallery, Geelong/Melbourne, Australia
2019 “Moon,” FOMU Foto Museum, Antwerp, Holland
2019 “Moonlight,” Hasselblad Foundation, Sweden
2019 “The Final Frontier,” Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, CA
2019 “Dear Leader,” Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
2019 “Vantage Points: Bartos, Diergarten, Light,” The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
2019 “Civilization: The Way We Live Now,” Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2018 “MONUMENTality,” Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
2018 “Survols: Aerial Photography of Cities,” CAUE 92 Gallery, Nanterre, France
2018 “Civilization: The Way We Live Now,” National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Seoul Korea
PRESS:
2019 Feuerheim, Brad, “2019: A Short Guide to White People & Their Photography Books, American Suburb X, December
2019 Reed, Rixon, “2019 Favorite Photobooks,” Photo-Eye, December, Santa Fe
2019 Mallonee, Laura, “The Traces of Human Activity in the Burning Man Void,” Wired.com, September, New York
2017 Porges, Maria, “Michael Light at Palo Alto Art Center,” Square Cylinder, August, San Francisco
2016 Kroeber, Gavin, “Suburban Futurism,” Art In America, December
2016 Muller-Bohle, Andreas, “Urbanics: The Contemporary City,” European Photography 98, Berlin
2016 Loftus-Farren, Zoe, “Remnants of the American Dream,” Earth Island Journal, Winter
2015 Baker, Kenneth, “Night Begins The Day” at Jewish Museum, San Francisco Chronicle, July 10
INTERVIEWS:
2019 Jo, Alexandra, “Lake Lahontan/Lake Bonneville: An Interview with Michael Light, Photo Eye, December
2015 Green, Tyler, “Podcast #214: Curator Ann Wolf with Artists Mike Light and Mark Klett,” Modern Art Notes