Michael Ross (artist)

Michael Ross (artist)
Michael Ross (born 1954 in Buffalo, New York) is an American contemporary artist, known for his small-scale sculptures.
Although Michael Ross has exhibited conceptually based works including performance, mail art, video, and audience participation projects, the last twenty years have seen the artist direct his focus toward small, precise wall mounted sculptures created from scraps, unidentifiable hardware and miscellaneous things. Michael Ross's earliest small-scale sculpture consisted of a single upright thimble containing the dust from several rooms of his home. A small work created by the artist in 1994 made a wry salute to large-scale minimal metal sculptures like those of Donald Judd. Over the years, Ross has also created numerous unique tiny sculptures inspired by the Japanese fairy tales of the writer Lafcadio Hearn. His focus on the minuscule has justly identified the artist as, "a true scholar of the tiny kingdom" and “a pioneer of the subversive small gesture”.
Michael Ross received his BFA at The State University of New York, Buffalo and his MFA at Columbia University in New York, NY.
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
2019 Michael Ross, Galeria Mascota, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 Michael Ross, En Passant, Ledge Gallery, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, MSU, East Lansing, Michigan
2016 Michael Ross, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium
2016 Michael Ross, Selected Works 1991 – 2015, Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland
2006 Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York
2002 Lobby project, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
2001 FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
1999 Scott Thatcher Gallery, Long Island City, New York
1998 Drie Boeken, Boekhandel Metro, Ghent, Belgium
1998 Goldororo, In Vitro, Geneva, Switzerland
1994 Kunstverein Schwabisch Gmund, Germany
1994 Micromacroscopics, vor ort, Langenhagen, Germany
Selected group exhibitions
2020 Silent Water, Galeria Mascota, Mexico City, Mexico
2020 100 Sculptures, No Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 The OsloBIENNALEN First Edition 2019-2024, Oslo, Norway
2019 100 Sculptures (Paris!), Anonymous Gallery pop-up, Paris, France
2019 Gallery Galerie Galería, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, NY
2018 10 Years:100 Sculptures, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2018 From the Collection/Against the Wall, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium
2017 Summer Hang, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium
2017 MIDTOWN, organized by Maccarone, Salon 94 and Salon 94 Design, Lever House, New York
2017 The City, My Studio / The City, My Life, Kathmandu Triennial, Kathmandu, Nepal
2017 GAGARIN the Artists in their Own Words. 2000-2016 | The String Traveller, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst
2016 Skins, Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland
2015 Possible Collection, Honolulu, Zurich, Switzerland
2011 Fait Main, collection of FRAC Bourgogne, Lycee des matiers de la ceramique Henry Mosiand, Longchamp, France
2010 The Open Mind of Lafcadio Hearn, Donjon, Matsue Castle, Matsue, Japan
2009 Bribes d'Un Monde Ephemere, Musee d'Art et d'Histoire Romain Rolland, Clamecy, France
2009 Ename Actueel, Hoofdstuk VI, Oudenaarde-Ename, Belgium
2009 Un Lieu Oublie, collection of FRAC Bourgogne, C.A.U.E. de Cote-d-Or, Dijon, France
2006 Sogneurs de Gravite Marcel at the Bit! (The Imitation of Marcel Duchamp), FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, France
2005 Monuments For The U.S.A., White Columns, New York, NY
2005 Monuments For The U.S.A., CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2003 Dust Memories, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
2002 Autour du monde, Communaute de Communes du Canton de Chauffailles, Chauffailles, France
2001 Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2001 Present, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2000 Over The Edges, City of Ghent, Belgium
2000 Dust & Dirt, Witte Zaal, Ghent, Belgium
2000 Bricolage?, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, Dijon, France
1999 Inaugural exhibition, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent Belgium
1999 Risiko Curating Kunstverein Neuhausen, Germany
1998 Poussiere (Dust Memories), FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
1997 Enough, The Tannery, London, England
1997 Bring Your Own Walkman, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997 At the Threshold of the Visible: Minuscule and Small-Scale Art 1964-1996, Herbert F. Johnson Museum Of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (traveling)
1997 Show Up, de Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1996 de Rode Poort, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent, Ghent, Belgium
1995 Ripple Across The Water, Watari-um Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1993 Free Lunch, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Martigny, Switzerland 1993 Under Thirty, Galerie Metropole, Vienna, Austria
1993 In Their Own Image, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, New York 1993 FluxAttitudes, The New Museum, New York, NY
1991 Home For June, Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, New York 1990 Summer Group, American Fine Arts Company, New York
1987 Infotainment De Selby Gallery, Amsterdam; Gallerie Marie Bonk, Cologne
1987 David Carrino, Anne Doran, Cady Noland, Michael Ross, Nature Morte Gallery, New York
1982 Real Life Magazine Presents, White Columns, New York
References
American artists
Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
University at Buffalo alumni
Living people
1954 births
Artists from Buffalo, New York