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. In 2011 he launched his second solo exhibition with RH Gallery in Tribeca, where he is now represented.
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
| 2011 | Tomorrow Land, RH Gallery, New York, NY |
2007 |
Pictures Last Longer, Deitch Projects, New York, NY |
Selected Group Exhibition
| 2010 | The Third Meaning, RH Gallery, New York, NY |
2009 |
Art Basel, Deitch Projects, Miami, FL |
| 2008 | Conceptual Figures, Deitch Projects, New York, NY |
| 2007 | Art Basel, Deitch Projects, Miami, FL |
| 2006 | The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York, NY |
| 2005 | Adobe Design Achievement Awards, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY |
| 2003 | Brilliant, Zola/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
Curatorial Projects
| 2011 | Collapse, RH Gallery, New York, NY |
Bibliography
James Chad Hanna. "3-D Oddities: Micah Ganske sculpts doomed landscapes." Modern Painters, November, 2011 Amir Fallah, "Micah Ganske: Canson Wet Paint Grant Recipient", Huffington Post, and Beautiful Decay, September 20, 2011 Pia Catton. "Culture City Online: MakerBot hits the art fair." The Wall Street Journal: Metropolis, September 23, 2011
Nicholas, Thomas and Ben. "Micah Ganske: Industrial Evolution." The New Heroes, Issue 2, September 27, 2011
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
2011 Canson Wet Paint Grant 2010 Cill Rialaig Residency, SW Kerry, Ireland 2005 Adobe Design Winner for Digital Imaging