Born in San Francisco, CA, 1967
EDUCATION
B.A University of California, Los Angeles, 1990
New York University Film School, Sight and Sound Program, 1998
TEACHING
Yale University – Lecturer in religion and the visual arts, 2006 – Present
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
David Michalek was born and raised in California. He lives and works in New York City. Michalek's body of work ranges from photography, drawing, video/sound installations and live performance to site-specific works of public art. His focus over the past ten years has been closely tied to his interest in the contemporary person, which he explores through the use of performance techniques, storytelling, movement and gesture. His work in video has been focused on capturing marginal moments —carefully staged — that with minimal action develop density through the interplay of image, sound and most especially time. Exploring notions of durational and rhythmic time (as opposed to the referential time used in cinema) in both form and content, his works engage in intimate yet open narratives. His recent work considers the potentiality of various forms of slowness alongside an examination of contemporary modes of public attention.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Yale University, Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven, CT
University of California, San Deigo, San Diego, CA
WOMADelaide, Adelaide, Australia
2013 Gallery Ostrava, Czech Republic
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Yale University, New Haven, CT Cleveland Museum, Ohio Tanz im August, Berlin Pomona College Museum of Art 2012 Le Laboratoire, Paris, France Edinburgh Festival, Scotland Harvard University (façade of Widener Library), Cambridge, MA 2011 Holland Festival (public art), Den Haag, The Netherlands Lincoln Center Festival (public art, façade of Koch Theater), New York 2010 Sadler’s Wells (public art, Trafalgar Square), London Village Underground, London 2009 Yale University, New Haven, CT Taipei Festival (public art) Taiwan Paris Opera (façade of Opera Bastille), France The Dock Center for Contemporary Art, Dublin, Ireland Monaco Festival, Monaco 2008 Luminato Festival (public art) University of Toronto Campus Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Jacob’s Pillow, Becket, MA Dartmouth College (façade of Hopkins Art Center) Hanover, NH Orange County Performing Arts Center (public art), CA Walton Arts Center (public art) Fayetteville, AR 2007 Lincoln Center (public art, façade of State Theater), New York Los Angeles Music Center (public art in the Plaza), CA 2006 Yale University, New Haven, CT 2004 Brooklyn Museum, New York 2002 The Kitchen, New York GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 “Deficit”, Galleria Poggiali e Forconi, Florence, Italy 2012 “Theater of Life”, Center of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland “Poetics of Anxiety and Speech”, Serpentine Gallery, London 2011 Edinburgh Festival (Summerhall Venue), Scotland LIVE ARTS 2015 Bach Six Solos – Gil Shaham, National Tour (visual art component)
2013 Density – Claire Chase solo flute, The Kitchen (staging, lighting design)
Restless Creature, Wendy Whelan 4 duets (artistic direction)
New Composers Evening, Carnegie Hall (music/film collaboration with composer, Du Yun. 2008 Artful Time: Dancing Tableaux Vivants, Metropolitan Museum, lecture demonstration with Bill T. Jones and Arden Reed (film) 2005 Kafka Fragments, Gyorgy Kurtag (film for Peter Sellar’s production) 2004 Music Off The Walls – collaboration with the Brooklyn Philharmonic 1998 Los Angeles Poverty Department, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 1992 Spem in Alium/Cast Concrete/Blue Light -- live performance installation with The Tallis Scholars (concept, staging and lighting
design) Messian’s, St. François d'Assise, Olivier Messian -- (visual art component for Peter Sellar’s production) AWARDS, GRANTS AND COMMISSIONS 2012 Le Laboratoire – Arts/Science Support Award 2011 Trade Residency Award (Selected mentor for 2011-12), Ireland 2008 Bessie Award – Installation and New Media Award 2012 Pomona College – New Project Commission 2012 Richard DeMarco Foundation – Project Support Grant 2010 Lincoln Center – New Project Commission 2010 Rockefeller Brothers Foundation – Project Support Grant 2010 Jerome Robbins Foundation – Project Support Grant 2010 Asian Cultural Council – Project Support Grant 2007 Karan-Weiss Foundation – Project Support Grant 2007 Luminato Festival, Toronto – New Project Commission 2007 Asian Cultural Council – Project Support Grant 2006 Lincoln Center Festival – New Project Commission 2006 Jerome Robbins Foundation – New Project Support Grant 2006 Los Angeles Music Center – New Project Commission 2006 Sadler’s Wells, London – New Project Commission 2002 Franklin Furnace– New Project Support Grant