Born: New York, NY, 1961
Education
Princeton University, Bachelor of Arts, 1984, summa cum laude
(Major areas: Photography, Visual Arts, Art History of the 19th and 20th centuries, Architecture, Landscape Architecture)
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 1988-89
(Major areas: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Earth Art)
Selected Exhibitions
2007
Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY. C
International Photo Magazine; September 7- 26,
2007. HERE
Boston University Art Gallery Boston, MA. To
Fly: Contemporary Aerial Photography; September 7- October
28, 2007; catalogue available, with cover image by Maisel. HERE
David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, CA. Strange
Weather; September 1- September 29, 2007 HERE
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Dark
Matters: Artists See the Impossible; July 28- November
11, 2007 HERE
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewsiston, ME. Green
Horizons; June 9- December 9, 2007 HERE
2003
The Lake Project; solo exhibition, Bolinas Art Museum, Bolinas, CA. Curated by Rick Chapman.
The Lake Project; solo exhibition, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Dangerous Beauty; solo exhibition, Schneider gallery, Chicago, IL.
Black Maps; solo exhibition, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO. Curated by Kathy Aron.
Abstraction and Photography; Von Lintel Gallery, NY, NY; featuring
William Eggleston, Adam Fuss, David Maisel, Vik Muniz, Jack Pierson,
Andres Serrano, and others.
2002
Picturing the Wilderness: Photographs by David Maisel, Macduff
Everton, & Josef Muench; Wildling Museum of Art, Los
Olivos, CA.
Curated by Karen Sinsheimer, curator of photography, Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions; Los Angeles County Museum of
Art. Curated by Robert Sobieszek and Tim Wride, curators of
photography.
Summer Group Show; Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
The Blue Earth; Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Peter C. Bunnell Collection; Princeton University Art Museum,
Princeton, NJ. Curated by Toby Jurovics, associate curator of
photography.
2001
Captured Landscapes: Seven Views; Gallery @ 49, New York, NY. Curated by Mark Haven.
1995
Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection; Brooklyn Museum of
Art, Brooklyn, NY.Curated by Barbara Millstein, curator of photography.
1992
Black Maps; Opsis Foundation, New York, NY. Curated by Allan Albert.
1991
Landscapes of Consequence; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art;
Ridgefield, CT. Curated by Robert Mann, guest curator and gallerist.
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.
Curated by Robert Sobieszek/ brochure by Robert Sobieszek.
Selected
Teaching & Lecturing
guest speaker, Photo Alliance, ‘Bay Area Photography Now.’
guest speaker, Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Photography Collectors Group.
guest artist, Foto-graphix Books, San Francisco, CA.
guest speaker, Bolinas Art Museum, CA.
instructor, International Center of Photography, NY, NY.
instructor, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.
guest lecturer, public lecture sponsored by Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.
faculty, Cambridge School, MA.
Selected Awards and Honors, etc.
2002-2003
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.
Finalist for Infinity Award, International Center of Photography.
1984
Princeton University, B.A., summa cum laude, department of
Art & Archaeology.
Princeton University, Francis LeMoyne Page Award in the Visual Arts.
Residency
Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Fall,
2007.
