BORN, 1961, New York, NY
EDUCATION
2006 MFA, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1988-89 Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
1984 BA, Princeton University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
“Library of Dust,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Library of Dust,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
"Oblivion," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
“Library of Dust,” Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR (Upcoming – October 2008)
2007
“Oblivion,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“David Maisel: Black Maps,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
“David Maisel: Black Maps,” National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
“Oblivion,” EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2006
“Oblivion,” Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Oblivion,” Von Lintel Gallery, New York
“Black Maps,” Southeast Museum of Photography, Dayton, FL
“The Lake Project,” Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany
2005
“David Maisel: The Lake Project,” Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
“Terminal Mirage,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Terminal Mirage,” Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
“Terminal Mirage,” Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Terminal Mirage,” Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
2004
“The Lake Project,” James Nicholson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“The Lake Project,” Fotofest International, Houston, TX
“The Lake Project,” Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
“The Lake Project,” Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
2003
“The Lake Project,” Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
“The Lake Project,” Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“The Lake Project,” Bolinas Art Museum, Bolinas, CA
“Dangerous Beauty,” Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
“The Lake Project,” Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
"Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate, National Gallery of Canada, Canada
“Prix Pictet”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (Upcoming – October 2008)
“We remember the Sun,” San Francisco Art Institute, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco, CA
“Grounded: Photography and our Contemporary Environment,” Ellen Curley Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“New on the Wall: Recent Photography Acquisitions,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
“Its Not Easy Being Green,” Tampa Art Museum, Tampa, FL
“Shifting Landscapes,” PowerHouse Arena Gallery, New York, NY
2007
"Green Horizons," Bates College Museum of Art, Lewsiston, ME
"Strange Weather," David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, CA
"Contemporary Aerial Photography," Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY. C International Photo Magazine
“Apocalypse,” Candace Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
"Dark Matters: Artists See The Impossible," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Global Anxieties: 9 Perspectives on a Changing Planet,” The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
“Re-SITE-ing the West: Contemporary Photography from the Permanent Collection,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Comfort Zone,” Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
“Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate,” Dalhousie Art Gallery, New York, NY
“The City Through the Lens,” Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
“To Fly,” Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2006
“Whose Nature? What’s Nature?” Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
“Shifting Terrain: Contemporary Landscape Photography,” Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
“Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video,” International Center of Photography,
New York, NY
“Unless,” Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
“Topographies,” EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
“Art About Place,” DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, MI
“Whose Nature? What’s Nature?,” Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
“Water Matters,” Yager Museum, Oneonta, NY
“Intrinsic Artifice,” Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
2005
“Convergence at E116/N140,” Beijing, China Off-Biennial.
“Epilogue,” Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
“ECO: Art about the Environment,” San Francisco State University Fine Art Gallery.
“Frontiers,” Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
“Traces and Omens,” Noorderlicht Photography Festival, The Netherlands.
“Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental
Debate,” Meadow Brook Art Gallery at Oakland University in Rochester, MI, and Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada.
“Critical Mass,” Traveling group exhibit organized by Blue Sky Gallery; 10 venues for exhibition throughout the United States.
“New Turf,” Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont.
“Paradise Paved Recollection,” Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA.
2005
“Monument Recall: Public Memory and Public Spaces,” Maisel contributed three public works as billboards situated around the Portland area. Marylhurst College, Portland, OR.
“Contemporary Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
“Water Views: On, Over, and Below,” Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM.
2004
“No Man’s Land: Contemporary Photographers and Fragile Ecologies: David Maisel, Ed
Burtynsky, and Emmet Gowin,” Halsey Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, SC.
“Monument Recall: Public Memory and Public Spaces;” Maisel contributed twelve public works as billboards situated around the Bay Area. SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA.
“reGenerations: Environmental Art in California,” Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA.
“Diversions & Dislocations: California’s Owens Valley,” Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, CA.
“Managing Eden,” University of North Texas Art Gallery, TX
“Frames of Reference,” Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA.
“Edges,” Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA.
2003
“Treading Water,” Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO.
“Abstraction and Photography,” Von Lintel Gallery, NY, NY.
“Managing Eden,” Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY.
“H2O,” Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM.
“Inaugural Exhibition,” James Nicholson Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
“Center Awards Juried Exhibition,” Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA.
2002
“Picturing Wilderness: Photographs by David Maisel, Macduff Everton, & Josef
Muench,” Wildling Museum of Art, Los Olivos, CA.
“New Acquisitions / New Work / New Directions,” Los Angeles County Museum, CA.
“Summer Group Show,” Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. The Blue Earth, Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA.
“The Pete C. Bunnell Collection,” Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ.
1995
“Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection,” Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY.
1991
“Landscapes of Consequence,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT.
1990
“The New American Pastoral: Landscape Photography in the Age of Questioning,” International
Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY, and Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center,
New York, NY.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008
Lang, Karen. “David Maisel’s Library of Dust,” X-TRA, Volume 11 Number, September 2008
“Library of Dust – David Maisel”, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 2008.
“Return to the source”, FT Weekend Magazine, July 2008.
Beil, Kim. " 'Oblivion', at Santa Barbara Museum of Art", art ltd., May 2008.
Glück, Robert. "Dark Matters," Aperture, Spring 2008 / Issue no. 190.
Gambino, Megan. "Danger Zones," Smithsonian Magazine, January 2008.
2007
Baker, Kenneth. "Galleries; Dark Matters," San Francisco Chronicle, August 4, 2007.
Baker, Kenneth. “Maisel’s ‘Oblivion’ at Haines,” San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook, Saturday April 14, 2007.
“From On High,” 7x7 Magazine, May, 2007.
Landi, Ann, “David Maisel,” ARTnews, March, 2007.
Jacobs, Karrie. “Searching for the Future,” Metropolis Magazine, January 2007.
“Readings,” Reproduction of Terminal Mirage 261-12, Harper’s Magazine, February 2007
2006
Gelber, Eric. “The Roads Ahead, Scary and Serene,” The New York Sun, December 2006.
Aletti, Vince. “David Maisel,” The New Yorker, December 2006.
Hanus, Julie. “Library of Dust,” Utne, November-December 2006.
Manaugh, Geoff, “Human Ash Reactions,” Contemporary Magazine, Issue 86. October 2007.
Smith, Roberta. “The Natural World, in Peril in Its Full Glory,” The New York Times, September 13, 2006 [Ecotopia Exhibition review]
Wallis, Brian, Edward Earle, Christopher Phillips, Carol Squiers, and Joanna Lehan. “Ecotopia" The Second ICP Triennial Exhibition of Photography and Video,” Aperture, Fall 2006, Issue 184.
Gluek, Grace. “Glory of Landscapes, Then and Now,” The New York Times, July 2006.
Roalf, Peggy. “Ecotopia at ICP,” DART Design Arts Daily, September 19, 2006.
Rexer, Lyle. “The New Global Topographers: A Generation of Photographers Documents a Changing Planet,” Art on Paper, March-April 2006.
2005
Cunningham, Caroline. “Eye Witness; David Maisel’s Black Maps,” House and Garden, October 2005.
McQuaid, Cate. “Images from above encourage viewers to look within,” Boston Globe, October 2005.
“Terminal Mirage,” Issues in Science and Technology, Volume XXII, Fall 2005.
Arieff, Allison. “Living in Oblivion,” Dwell Magazine, September 2005.
Where Magazine’s Concierge Newsletter, July 2005.
Rexer, Lyle. “About the Cover; David Maisel’s Terminal Mirage,” Photography magazine, May/June 2005.
Heuer, Megan. “David Maisel; Von Lintel,” ARTnews, June 2005.
Oliman, Leah. “Different views of Great Salt Lake,” Los Angeles Times, May 27, 2005.
Grande, John. “Review of solo exhibit ‘Terminal Mirage’ at the Von Lintel Gallery,” Art on Paper,
March/April 2005.
Aletti, Vince. “Maisel at Von Lintel Gallery,” The Village Voice, January 2005.
Aletti, Vince. “The Top 25 Photo Books of 2004,” The Village Voice, January 2005.
2004
American Photography, volume 19.
Bing, Allison. “Maisel at James Nicholson Gallery,” Sfgate.com, May 2004.
Crump, James. “To the Ends of the Earth,” Art Review, October, 2004.
European Photography, Volume 25, Summer 2004; cover and six-page feature on “Terminal Mirage”.
McQuaid, Cate. “Salvaging Beauty from a Valley’s Destruction,” The Boston Globe, January 2.
“Oblivion,” essay by David Maisel with 8 pages of his aerial images, Daylight Magazine, Fall 2004.
Rosner, Hillary. “Ghost Lake,” Audubon Magazine, May, 2004.
“Terminal Mirage,” Prefix Photo Magazine, volume 10; Fall 2004.
Wallach, Amei. “Hell from the Air: Turning the Owens Valley into Environmental Art,” The New York Times, May 9, 2004.
Shanberg, Ariel. “Review of ‘The Lake Project’,” monography, Photography Quarterly, PQ#91
American Photography, volume 19.
2003
Aletti, Vince. “Maisel at Von Lintel Gallery,” The Village Voice, July 19, 2003.
Artner, Alan. “Maisel at Schneider Gallery,” Chicago Tribune, June 13, 2003.
Camper, Fred. “Off the Face of the Earth,” Chicago Reader, June 27, 2003.
Gaston, Diana. “Immaculate Destruction: David Maisel’s Lake Project,” Apeture Magazine, Fall 2003.
Glueck, Grace. “Abstraction in Photography,” The New York Times, March 7 2003.
Glueck, Grace. “Maisel at the Von Lintel Gallery,” The New York Times, June 27, 2003.
Harper’s Magazine; four images reproduced in the Readings section, July 2003.
Keats, Jonathon. “David Maisel at the Bolinas Museum,” ARTnews, April 2003.
Olson, Marisa. “The Abstract Aerial Landscape Photography of David Maisel,” Camera Arts Magazine, April/May 2003.
Van Proyen, Mark. “David Maisel at the Bolinas Museum,” ArtWeek, April 2003.
1995
Ryan, Kathy. “Burying Our Nation’s Radioactive Waste,” New York Times Magazine.
1992
Ryan, Kathy. “Power Struggle: Flooding Quebec to Light New York,” New York Times Magazine.
PUBLICATIONS
Library of Dust. San Francisco, CA; Chronicle Books, 2008. Monograph; essays by Manaugh, Geoff, Toedtemeier, Terry and Roth, Michael S.
Oblivion. Portland, OR; Nazraeli Press, 2006. Monograph; photographs by David Maisel, essays by Fox, William L., and Maisel, David; Poem by Strand, Mark.
Ecotopia. New York and Gottingen, International Center of Photography, NY, and Steidl Publishers, 2006. Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by ICP.
Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl. Chicago, IL; University of Chicago Press; 2006. San Jose Museum of Art and Center for American Places, co-publishers. Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA. Wolfe, Ann.
Terminal Mirage. Catalogue for gallery exhibitions, 2005. Tucker, Anne.
Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA; University of California Press, 2005. Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA. Selz, Peter.
Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate. Co- published by Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, and Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2005. Published in conjunction with exhibition organized by the Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI. Baillargeon, Claude; Kennedy, Robert F. Jr., and Sutnik, Maia-Mari.
New Turf. Catalogue to exhibition at the Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, July-October 2005. Hankins, Evelyn.
Nieman Reports. “Water: A Life Force Harnessed as News.” Cover image. Spring 2005.
Blue Sky 04/05. Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, catalogue of 2004 exhibitions.
Paradise Paved. Catalogue to exhibition at the Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA. April-May 2005.
Traces and Omens. Stichting Aurora Borealis, Groningen, Netherlands, in association with Noorderlicht Festival, 2005. Published in conjunction with exhibition organized by the Noorderlicht Festival, Groningen, Netherlands. Mellis, Wim.
Zyzzyva. San Francisco, Volume XXI, Number 2, Fall 2005.
The Lake Project. Tucson, AZ; Nazraeli Press, 2004.Monograph; photographs by David Maisel, essays by Sobieszek, Robert and Maisel, David.
No Man’s Land: Contemporary Photographers and Fragile Ecologies. Published in conjunction with exhibition organized by the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC, 2004. Sloan, Mark.
Robert Smithson. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA; University of California Press, 2004. Contributed several images of Smithson’s Spiral Jetty. Published in conjunction with exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Tsai, Cornelia and Butler, Connie.
Celebrating Water, Fotofest H2004. Fotofest catalogue for exhibition of “The Lake Project” and works by other artists, 2004.
Dirt Press, a journal of cotemporary arts and literature. New York and San Francisco, Dirt Press. Issue 1.4, June 2004.
The New American Pastoral: Landscape Photography in the Age of Questioning. Catalogue accompanying exhibition; published by International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY. Sobieszek, Robert
SELECTED TEACHING AND LECTURING
2008
Featured Lecturer, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2007
Roundtable speaker, Nevada Art Museum, Reno, NV
Featured Lecturer, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
Featured Lecturer, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
Workshop, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2006
Featured Lecturer, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Featured Lecturer, South Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
Featured Lecturer, Fotographie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany
Featured Lecturer, Stanford University, Daytona, FL
2005
Featured Lecturer, New Mexico Council on Photography
2004
Keynote Speaker, Society for Photographic Education, Southwest Conference, Pasadena, CA.
Keynote Lecturer, Photo San Francisco 2004, “The Post-Natural World,”
Featured Lecturer, The Great Salt Lake Symposium. “The Post-Natural World.”
Gallery Talk, Halsey Gallery, Institute for Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, SC.
Gallery Talk, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR.
2003
“The View From Here,” Landscape Symposium Panelist, Photo San Francisco 2003.”
Lecturer, Photo Alliance, ‘Bay Area Photography Now.’
Guest speaker, Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Photography Collectors Group.
Guest artist, Foto-graphix Books, San Francisco, CA
Gallery Talk, Bolinas Art Museum, Bolinas, CA
AWARDS AND HONORS
2008 Headlands Center For The Arts, Artist in Residence
Alpert Award in the Visual Arts (nomination; decision pending).
Prix Pictet Award in Photography (shortlisted; decision pending).
2007 Visiting Scholar Residency Program, Getty Research Institute
2005 “The Lake Project,” monograph selected as one of the Top 25 Photography Books of 2004 by
Vince Aletti of the Village Voice.
2003 Nominated for the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship, a fund of the San Francisco Foundation
2002-04 Vice President, Board of Directors, for Photo Alliance, a Bay Area non-profit institution devoted to the support and creation of contemporary photography.
2001 SF Camerawork; participating artist in their Fine Print program.
1992 Opsis Foundation Photography Award
1990 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts, Individual Visual Artists’ Fellowship.
1990 Nominated finalist for Infinity Award, International Center of Photography.
1984 Princeton University, Francis LeMoyne Page Award in the Visual Arts.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
Bank of America
Bowdoin College Art Museum
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Fidelity Investments
George Eastman House
General Mills
Houston Museum of Fine Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Microsoft Corporation
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Portland Museum of Art
Princeton University Museum of Art
Rose Art Museum
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
USB Paine Weber Collection
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
West Collection
Worcester Museum of Art
