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Bio

Micah Ganske was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1980. In 2002 he received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Post-Baccalaureate certificate from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2003. In 2005 he received his MFA in painting from the Yale School of Art. In 2005 he was the recipient of the Adobe Design Achiement Award in Digital Photography at a reception held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York where his work was also displayed. In October 2007 Deitch Projects exhibited Ganske's first solo exhibition. His work has been featured in other exhibitions at Deitch Projects, Art Basel Miami, the Alona Kagan Gallery in New York, NY, the John Fonda Gallery in Baltimore, MD, the Zola/Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, IL, and ArtSpot in Atlanta, GA.

Education

2003—2005  Master of Fine Art  Yale University School of Art New Haven, CT

2002—2003 Post-Baccalaureate Certificate  Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, MD

1999—2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts  School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL

 

One-Person Exhibitions

2007	Pictures Last Longer, Deitch Projects, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibition

2010	(Upcoming) Escape From New York, Curated by Olympia Lambert, Patterson, NJ (Upcoming) Survey Select, Curated by Mark Murphy, San Diego, CA Two's Company, Curated by Leslie Rosa and Ciara Gilmartin, Parlour, New York, NY
2009	Art Basel, Deitch Projects, Miami, FL The Inferno, Yautepec Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico The Armory Show, Deitch Pojects, New York, NY
2008	Conceptual Figures, Deitch Projects, New York, NY Art Basel, Deitch Projects, Miami, FL The Armory Show, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2007	Art Basel, Deitch Projects, Miami, FL The Armory Show, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2006	The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2005	Adobe Design Achievement Awards, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY The Root to the Fruit, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, NY Yale MFA Thesis Exhibition, Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2003	Brilliant, Zola/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 23 Point Perspective, Fox Gallery, Baltimore, MD Painting in a Digital Age, John Fonda Gallery, Baltimore, MD Imagine Nation, Art Spot, Atlanta, GA

Bibliography

Paul Cohen, Micah Ganske, Draft Magazine, Winter 2007/2008, p.56-63
Julia Morton, Pictures Last Longer, New York Press, October 18 2007
Ariella Budick, Garden Party Review, Newsday, April 7 2006, p. B-21
Andrew Adam Newman, Look Ma, Two Hands (but No Camera), the New York Times, August 7 2005, p. AR-2
Full Page Display, Direct Art, Volume 10, p.28
Richard Gess, Review for ‘Recollection’ group show, Art Papers, Jan/Feb, 2003, p.34.


Awards and Honors

2005 Adobe Design Winner for Digital Imaging