Michael Genovese
Ford by the Cliff, 2011
Nickel-plated, mirror polished steel
99 x .25 inches
251.5 x .7 cm
BIOGRAPHY
b. 1976, Chicago, IL
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Lines and Cracks and Zebras and Horses, OHWOW, Los Angeles, CA
2012
P.S./P.P.S., The Patricia and Philip Frost Museum, Miami, FL
2009
It's not the heat, it's the humility, OHWOW, Miami, FL
2008
Institutionalized, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Contemplation Station, Pedway Project, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
Sign Language, Curated by Kimberly Aubochon, University of Texas at San Antonio Downtown Gallery, and Unit B, San Antonio, TX
We all we got, Packer Schopf, Chicago, IL
Just cause it's legal doesn't make it right, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
It Ain’t Fair 2012, OHWOW, Miami Beach, FL
2011
It Ain’t Fair: Materialism, OHWOW, Miami, FL
Those who do, Faculty Exhibition, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
Between Here and There: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL Write Now, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
The South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship Exhibition, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum, Miami, FL
2010
The Island, Flagler Memorial Island, OHWOW/LAND, Miami, FL
It Ain’t Fair 2010, OHWOW, Miami, FL
Provisions, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
Writ Deep, curated by Shannon Stratton, Jack Olson Gallery, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
New Work Miami 2010, curated by Peter Boswell and René Morales, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Alphabet, GSB, Stockholm, Sweden
2009
It Ain't Fair 2009, OHWOW, Miami, FL
Dark Matter, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
The Paper Chase, Plaything Gallery in collaboration w/OHWOW, Auckland, New Zealand
Set to Manual, Francie Bishop Good Collection, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Time+Temp, Arts and Cultural Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
All-Media Biennial, Arts and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
SELECTED PROJECTS
PS/PPS, American Zeitgeist Field Study and Archive Project, 2008-12
Student Service, FIU/Frost Art Museum for Occupy Miami, Miami, FL, 2012
Cotton, Metal, Grafted Apples, Miami Art Museum, Bal Harbor, FL, 2011
Escape the Room, Mosquera Collection at Farside, Miami, FL, 2011
Grafted Apples and Sentences, Miami Art Museum, Wynwood Art Fair, Miami, FL, 2011
Sleepless Nights, FIU, College of Architecture and the Arts, Miami Beach, FL, 2011
Speak Easy, with Juan Angel Chavez, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2010
Thursday’s Notice (Green), Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL, 2008
Lo Que Puedes Pagar, Chicago, IL; Brooklyn, NY; Monterrey, MX, Miami, FL, 2006-08
Dziekuje, Black Swan, Chicago, IL, 2008
Sugar and Molasses, Goldman Properties, Boston Wharf, Boston, MA, 2007
Plaff!, Co-Habitat, Monterrey, MX, 2007
Through 30 years and back, IN:SITE, Milwaukee, WI, 2007
Radiophobia: A Chernobyl poem by Lyubov Sirota, Ukrainian Village, Public Work, Window fresco, Chicago, IL, 2006
The Writing on the Wall, with Chris Silva, IN:SITE, Milwaukee, WI, 2006
Select Media 4: The New Chicagoans, Iron Studios, Chicago, IL], 2005
It’s a long walk home, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA, 2006
Somewhere over the rainbow, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, 2006
Cabeza de Gato, Norse, Copenhagen, DK, 2005
The Road, GAM3, Copenhagen, DK, 2005
HSS, Transcultural collaboration project, Danish Arts Council, Copenhagen, DK, 2005
Tragic Beauty, with Juan Angel Chavez, Cody Hudson, and Chris Silva, Open End, Chicago, IL, 2005
Amor y Esperanza, Department of Cultural Affairs of Chicago, Page Bros. Bldg., Chicago, IL, 2003
La Postra Nostra, Brown Sheep Project: Guillermo Gomez Peña, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, 2002
RESIDENCIES
New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL (visiting artist), 2011-2012
Visiting Artist Program, The Patricia and Philip Frost Museum/Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2011-2012
Artlab, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL, 2010
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL, 2008
Co-Habitat, Monterrey, MX, 2007
Danish Arts Council, Copenhagen, DK, 2005
HONORS AND AWARDS
South Florida Cultural Consortium, 2010
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Patricia and Philip Frost Museum, Miami, FL
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Goldman Properties, Boston, MA
SELECTED WORKS
