Education

Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, M.F.A.; 1978 (Painting/Multi-Media)
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, M.A.; 1976 (Art History)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, B.F.A. Honors; 1971 (Painting)

Selected Distinctions:
• Board of Directors, International Sculpture Center, 2010-2013
• Accomplished Alumni Award, University of Tennessee; 2010    • Embassy of the United States of America, Reykjavík, Iceland exhibition grant; 2008
• Golden Foundation for the Arts Award; 2000 (painting)
• MidAtlantic Arts Foundation Finalist; 1998 (painting)
• Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Nominee; 1988 (sculpture)
• New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, (sculpture); 1987
• Pollock- Krasner Foundation Grant; 1985
• Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship; 1985
www.creightonmichael.com

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• Pattern Play: exploring process and collaboration through drawing, Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York; October 25, 2013- January 29,2014
• TAPESTRY Suite: Seven Digital Drawings by Creighton Michael, Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; July 9-October6, 2013

• TAPESTRY, Gallery 817, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA; 2011
• MOTIF: Recent Paintings, G Gallery, Houston, TX; 2011
• Tangible Marking: The Dimensional Drawings of Creighton Michael, Esther Massry Gallery, The College of Saint Rose,     Albany, NY: 2010-11 (includes collaboration with composer, Bruce Roter)
• VIVID: New Paintings, Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2009
• CURSIVE: Creighton Michael, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO; 2008  (brochure)
• Creighton Michael, Lesley Heller Gallery, NYC; 2008
• Creighton Michael: PLANE DRAWING, The Baker Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA; 2008
(catalogue essay by Lilly Wei)
• SQUIGGLElinear, Center for the Arts, Towson University, Baltimore, MD; 2007 travels to the Delaware Center for the     Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE; 2008
• Wavelengths: The Drawings of Creighton Michael, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður; Start Art, Reykjavík, Iceland; 2008
• CIPHER, NCC Art Gallery, Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT; 2008
• Graphite: Drawings and Installation Works, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO; 2006 additional exhibitions 2003, 1999, 1997,     1994, 1992, 1990
• Paintings: Creighton Michael, Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2006
• Intersection: Works by Creighton Michael, The Arts Center, St.Petersburg, FL; 2006 (catalogue)
• VantagePoint IV Creighton Michael: Patterns of Perception, Mint Museums, Charlotte, NC; 2005  (catalogue)
• Articulated Spaces: Paintings by Creighton Michael, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA; 2003
• Creighton Michael: Dialects of Line selected works 1985-2003, Collaborative Concepts,
Beacon, NY: 2003 (includes a collaborative installation with composer, John Morton)
• Mark To Multiple, The von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL: 2003
• Haiku/Innuendo: Paintings by Creighton Michael, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; 2001 (brochure)
• Stitch: Works by Creighton Michael (1976-1999), Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA; 2001 (catalogue)
• Visual Matrix: Paintings/Drawings (1997-1999), Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; 2001
(exhibition essay by John Brunetti)
• Intuitive Drawing: Sculpture/Drawings (1985-1999), Kim Foster Gallery, NYC; 1999 (exhibition essay by Ann Landi)     additional exhibitions 1997, 1996, 1995
• Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA; 1999
• Galerie Trois Points, Montreal Canada; 1999
• Creighton Michael: Painting (1995-1998), The Queens Museum of Art at Bulova Corporate Center, Queens, NY; 1998
• Markings: Works by Creighton Michael (1985-1997), Birke Art Gallery, Marshall University, Huntington, WV; 1998
• Line Play: Sculpture/Drawing (1991-1996), Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA; 1997
• Creighton Michael: Marks and Metaphor/Drawings (1990-1995), Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; 1996 (catalogue)
• Creighton Michael: Landscape, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; 1994 (catalogue essay by Cynthia Nadelman)
• New Sculpture and Drawings, Littlejohn Contemporary, NYC; 1992 (exhibition essay Eleanor Heartney)
• Drawing Sculpture, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX; 1992
• Creighton Michael: Constructions 1990, Ruth Siegel Gallery, NYC; 1991 (catalogue essay by Nancy Princenthal)
• Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; 1990, 1988
• Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1990
• LedisFlam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; 1989
• Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY; 1988
• David Beitzel Gallery, NYC; 1988
• Art At The Edge: Creighton Michael, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; 1987
traveled to St. Louis Gallery of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO; 1988; (catalogue essay by Susan Krane)
• Craig Cornelius Gallery, NYC; 1987, 1985
• Wall Structures, Just Above Midtown, Inc., New York City; 1982

Two Person and Collaborations

• FILAMENT: The work of Bill FitzGibbons and Creighton Michael, Ewing Gallery, UTK, Knoxville, TN; 2010 (catalogue)
• EELight, a collaboration with Bill FitzGibbons, the LAB, New York City; 2006
• Dimensional Line: Recent Work by Sharon Lounden and Creighton Michael, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute     Museum of Art, Utica, NY; 2004 (brochure)
• Cynthia Hawkins/ Creighton Michael, Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY; 1995
• Primitive Elegance: David Hall/Creighton Michael, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN; 1987 (brochure)
• Two Sculptors: Creighton Michael, Ed Rothfarb, East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art,
East Hampton, NY; 1986
• Steel and Nylon: June Lathrop and Creighton Michael, Small Walls, NYC; 1983
• From The Caves, dance collaboration with Judy Trupin premiered at Katherine Cornell Theatre,
SUNY Buffalo, NY; July1983
• Alternate Take: Mic-Nic, Art Across the Park, Central Park, NYC. Collaborative
Installation with Jim Nickel; 1983

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Piet and Ida Sanders: A Life with Art, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, The Netherlands: 2012
• Close Relations and a Few Black Sheep, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; 2012
• Dimensions Variable, Waterhouse and Dodd Contemporary, NYC; 2012 (Max Weintraub, curator)
• LEAP YEAR, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas; 2012
• ABSTRACTION∞, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 2011
• American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary, OK Harris Works of Art, NYC; 2011
• American Abstract Artists International 75th Anniversary, The Aragonese Castle of Otranto, Otranto, Italy; 2010; Galerie oqbo     and the Deutsche Künstlerbund, Berlin, Germany; 2011; parisConcert, Paris, France; 2012
• Splendor of Dynamic Structure: Celebrating 75 Years of the American Abstract Artists, Herbert F. Johnson Museum,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; 2011
• EXPANSION, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO; 2010
• abstrACTION, The Arts     Exchange, White Plains, N.Y.; 2010 (Dara Meyers-Kingsley, curator)
• Constructed Visions, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 2010
• Six Centuries of Drawing: A Selection from the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery’s Collection, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN; 2010
• Beneath The Surface: Excavating the Belger Collection, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO; 2010
• Surface Tension: Pattern, Texture, and Rhythm in Art from the Collection, University of Richmond Museums, VA; 2010
• Scavengers, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; 2009
• American Abstract Artists: Tribute to Esphyr Slobodkina, The Painting Center, New York, NY; 2008
• Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA; 2007     travels through 2009
• Material Matter, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; 2007
• Cursive, Artist Commune, Hong Kong, China; 2007
• Monumental Drawings, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX; 2007 (Barbara MacAdam, curator)
• Continuum, celebrating the Seventieth Anniversary of the American Abstract Artists, St. Peter’s     College Art Gallery,     Jersey City, NJ; 2007
• Current, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO; 2007
• GRID: Structure and Process, Kreft Gallery, Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI; 2006 travels to Wooster Arts Space,     NYC; 2007
• SENSi/aBLE SPACES: Space, Art and the Environment, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland; 2006
• GROUP 1, Lesley Heller Gallery, NYC; 2006
• PAGES, I Space, University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Chicago, IL; 2005 (organized by Buzz Spector)
• Optical Simulations, Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, NY; 2005
• IDEAL: Selections from the American Abstract Artists, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY; 2005
• In Line, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY; 2005 (brochure)
• Cursive, Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, NYC; 2005 (brochure)
• Synthesis: Experiments in Collaboration Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA; 2003; Axel Raben Gallery,
NYC; 2004
• Art in Embassies Exhibition, Zagreb, Croatia; 2003-2006
• Art in Embassies Exhibition, Nicosia, Cyprus; 1999-2002
• Outside In, Arvada Center for the Art and Humanities, Arvada, CO; 2002
• End Papers: 1890-1900 and 1990-2000. Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; 2000 (catalogue)

Curatorial, Film and Video Projects

• PENCIL PUSHED : Exploring Process and Boundaries in Drawing, The Ewing and Downtown galleries, University of     Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2012
• INTERSECTION, an installation by Pat Badt and Scott Sherk, The LAB Gallery, New York, New York; 2012 (video)
• BREATH OF WATER, an installation by Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse, The LAB Gallery, New York, New York;
2012 (video)
• SPLIT INFINITIVE: The work of Joel Carreiro and Brian Wood, Hudson Opera House, Hudson, New York, 2012
• Ö N D V E G I S S Ú L U R – POEM OF LIGHT, Bill FitzGibbons, LED Light installation of City Hall, Reykjavík, Iceland      Frank Cantor, filmmaker; 2011
• WHITE TAPESTRY: a film drawing, in collaboration with Paninat Roper; 2011 (video)
• BLACK TAPESTRY: a film drawing, in collaboration with Paninat Roper; 2011 (video)
• TAPESTRY, a film with Paninat Roper, 2010 (video)
• Without a Name, a performance by Veronica Peña, The LAB Gallery, New York, New     York; December; 2010 (video)
• FILAMENT: The work of Bill FitzGibbons and Creighton Michael, Paninat Roper editor; 2010 (video)
• BUILT: Sculptural Trends in Clay, work by Nikolai Grinchenko, Marc Leuthold, Ian Meares and Jeffrey Mongrain,
OSilas Gallery at Concordia College, Bronxville, New York; October-December, 2008 (brochure)
• HORIZONS: The Art of Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir, Frank Cantor, filmmaker; 2007
• HORIZONS: Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir, Katonah museum of Art, Katonah, New York; 2007 travels to Dixon Gallery and     Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, 2008; San     Antonio Botanical Gardens in collaboration with Blue Star Contemporary     Art Center, San Antonio, Texas, 2008-2009; Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park,     Governor’s State University, University     Park, Illinois, 2009-2010; Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 2010; Georgia Museum of     Art, Athens, Georgia 2010-11; Knoxville Museum of Art in partnership with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,     Tennessee, 2012; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama; 2013 (brochures and film)
• TransHudson Project: The Cultural Landscape, Pelham Art Center, Rockland Center for the Arts, and Rye Arts Center, New     York; September –November, 2006 (catalogue)
• Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir, The LAB Gallery, New York, New York; 2005 (video)

Selected Collections

• Akron Art Museum
• Edward Albee
• American Express
• AT&T
• The John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri
• David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University
• The Brooklyn Museum
• Denver Art Museum
• Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
• High Museum of Art
• Werner H. Kramarsky
• Markel Service, Inc., Richmond, Virginia
• Meeschaert USA, New York and Paris
• The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
• Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
• Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
• New York University
• Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Pfizer, Inc
• Progressive Corporation
• Prudential
• R.I.S.D. Museum of Art
• Prof. Pieter Sanders, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, Virginia.
• Vanderbilt University
• Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana

Selected Teaching

• Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Hunter College, New York, NY, 2005-2013
• Visiting Artist, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA; 2012
• Visiting Artist, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA; 2011
• Visiting Artist, The College of Saint Rose,     Albany, NY: 2010-11
• Visiting Artist, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; 2010
• Visiting Artist, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia; 2010 (lecture)
• Visiting Artist, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.; 2009 (lecture)
• Visiting Artist, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey; 2009 (lecture)
• Visiting Artist, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA; 2008, 1999, 1991, 1986 (critic/lecture)
• Visiting Artist, Towson University, Baltimore, Maryland; 2007 (lecture)
• The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL, 2005 (dimensional drawing workshops)
• Visiting Artist, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; 2003 (critic) 1999 (workshop), 1991 (lecture)
• Adjunct Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; 1986-1997, 2004 (drawing, 2-D / 3-D design)
• Visiting Lecturer, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; 2003 (adv. sculpture), 2001, 2000, 1998 (drawing)
• Visiting Artist, University of Richmond, VA; 2003 (lecture),
• Visiting Artist, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Aspen, CO; 2003 (painting workshop)
• Visiting Artist, Albright College, Reading, PA; 2002, 2001 (lecture / critic)
• Visiting Artist, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY; 2001 (drawing) 1988 (sculpture)
• Visiting Artist, Marshall University, Huntington, WV; 1998 (lecture)
• Visiting Artist, Haverford College, Haverford, PA; 1997, 1993 (lecture)
• Critic, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; 1995-1996
• Guest Artist, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; 1995 (sculpture)
• Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; 1991, 1986 (lecture)
• Visiting Artist, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, Tennessee; 1994 (lecture)
• Visiting Artist, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee; 1994 (lecture)
• Visiting Artist, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee; 1992 (lecture)
• Visiting Artist, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado; 1992 (lecture)
• Visiting Artist, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas; 1992 (workshop)
• Visiting Artist, Hope College, Holland, Michigan; 1988 (lecture)
• Visiting Artist, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; 1988 (lecture)
• Visiting Artist, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; 1987 (lecture)
• Visiting Artist, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska; 1986 (workshop)
• Visiting Artist, Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska; 1986 (workshop)
• Visiting Professor of Painting, SUNY, Buffalo, NY; 1985 (painting)
• Visiting Artist, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; 1984 (lecture)

Selected Bibliography

• Anon. “Itinerary,” SCULPTURE, Volume 24, Number 3, Washington, D.C., April 2005; page15 (Squiggle, 2005)
• Bass, Ruth.“ Up Now, New York Reviews”; Creighton Michael: Kim Foster, ARTnews, Volume 98, Number 8,
New York City, September 1999; page 145 (PM 793, 1993)
• Brenson, Michael. “ Forces of Nature,” The New York Times, New York City, 27 July 1990; Section C, p. 22
• Brunetti, John. “ The Transcendentalism of Creighton Michael”, exhibition essay, Visual Matrix; Paintings/Drawings     1997-1999, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; 2000
• Castle, Ted. “ Review of Exhibitions: Creighton Michael at David Beitzel and Pence”, Art in America, New York City,
May 1989; page 204, (Widsith 2, 1988)
• Cameron, Dan. “ Ten To Watch,” Arts Magazine, Volume 61, No.1, New York City, September 1986; pages 40-42
( Luftschiff Richter, 1986 )
• Dickenson, Carol V. “ Denver: Creighton Michael: Robischon,” ARTnews, Volume 94, Number 4, New York City,
April 1995; page 154 (Interval 194, 1994)
• Donohoe, Victoria. “ Entwining Drawing and Sculpture,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, 21 September,
1997; p 11 (Narrative 196, 1996)
• Dreishpoon, Douglas. An introductory essay for the exhibition catalogue, The Sculptural Membrane, Sculpture Center
New York City; (Blind Horn, 1985)
• Frank, Peter. “ Constructed Image/Constructed Object”, for the exhibition catalogue Constructed Image/Constructed
Object, Alternative Museum, New York City; 1984; page 16-17 (Bishop-Widow, 1982), (Cloakwing, 1982)
• French, Christopher. “Reviews: New York/Dimensions Variable”, ARTnews, New York City, June 2012; page 93
• Genocchio, Benjamin. “Some Rich Pickings For the Art Lover”, The New York Times, New York City, October 2, 2005;
WE, page 6
• Goodman, Jonathan. Review of Exhibitions: “Creighton Michael at Kim Foster”, Art in America, New York City,
July 1998; page 98 (Dust 897, 1997)
• Hanzal, Carla. Creighton Michael: Patterns of Perception, catalogue essay, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North     Carolina,     2005
• Harper, Glen. “ Reviews”, Art Papers, Vol. III, No. 6, November-December 1987; pages 50 and 51 (Bishop-Widow, 1982)
• Iwasaki, Hitomi. Creighton Michael: Paintings 1995-1998, exhibition essay, Queens Museum of Art
at Bulova Corporate Center, Queens, New York; 1998 (Notation 598, 1998)
• Johnson, Ken. “ Art Guide,” The New York Times, New York City, 7 November 1997; Ep38
• Lombardi, D. Dominick. “Beacon, New York: Creighton Michael,” SCULPTURE, Volume 23, No.7,
September, 2004; pages 68-69 (Luftschiff 4, 1986)
• MacAdam, Barbara A. Monumental Drawings, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas; 1987 non-    paginated; (SCRIBBLE 307, 2007)
• Melrod, George. “ Reviews/Creighton Michael,” ARTnews, New York City, October 1992; page 136
(Conifer 1292, 1992)
• Melrod, George. “ Reviews/Creighton Michael”, ARTnews, New York City, March 1991; page 136; (Navigator4, 1990)
• Morgan, Robert C., “Creighton Michael and the Origins of Marking”, SCULPTURE, Volume 28, No.3, April 2009; pages 42-    45 (RHAPSODYwallHorizontal 108, HAIKU 1300, GRID 3706, VECTOR 694, SQUIGGLERoCA 2005,     SQUIGGLE     Tenri 2005 and RHAPSODYfloorstack 208)
• Nadelman, Cynthia. “ Recent Drawings by Sculptors: A Common Language,” Drawing, New York City, July-August
1994; page 25-28 (Aquifer, 1993)
• Nadelman, Cynthia. “ Gabo’s Progeny”, ARTnews, New York City, December 1987; pages 123-127, (Spiderwing, 1987),
(Auk, 1987) and a portrait of the artist
• Naves, Mario, “ Currently Hanging; Creighton Michael; Strength in Sculpture,” The New York Observer, New York City,
11 October 1999; page 17
• Princenthal, Nancy, Creighton Michael: Constructions 1990, essay, Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York City;
1991; non-paginated
• Schwendenwein, Jude. “ Creighton Michael: Review,” Artforum, New York City, January 1989;
page 117 (Dunadd, 1986)
• Tanguy, Sarah. “Creighton Michael: Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University,” SCULPTURE, Volume 26, No.7,     September 2007; pages 73-74 (SQUIGGLElinearB206)
• Vicker, Marcia. “ Bullish in Bankruptcy”, Business Week, New York City, 1 April 2002; page 71, (Dow Cow, 2000)
• Wei, Lilly. “ Creighton Michael and Bill FitzGibbons: EELight”, ARTLIES, Houston, Texas, Spring 2007; page 121
• Westfall, Stephen. “ Review of Exhibitions: Creighton Michael at Craig Cornelius,” Art in America, New York City,
page 158 (Kyoto, 1986)
• Wilkin, Karen. “ At the Galleries,” Partisan Review, Boston, MA, Vol. LXVI, No. 4; 1999; page 647
• Zimmer. William “Shadows and Clarity, in Quietly Elegant Lines”, The New York Times, New York, New York,
26 October, 2003; WE, page10 (63001, 2001)