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MICHAEL BÜHLER-ROSE

 

Born New Brunswick, New Jersey
Lives and works in New York and Vrindavan, India


EDUCATION 
                                          

2008     M.F.A., School of Art and Art History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

2005     B.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA / Tufts University, Medford MA

    
                           

SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

 

2014    
Spirit & Matter, Scaramouche, New York
Volta, Scaramouche booth, New York

Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA

New Geographics, Lightwork, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 

I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me, Urban Video Project, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY 

 

2013    
AA Bronson and Michael Bühler-Rose, Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany 

 

2012    
Interrogating Conventions (with Olivia Fraser), Nature Morte, New Delhi, India 

         

2010    
I’ll Worship You and You’ll Worship Me, Carroll & Sons, Boston, MA

Little Indian Still-Lifes, Carroll & Sons, Boston, MA

 

2009    
Constructing the Exotic, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL

 

2008    
Constructing the Exotic, MFA Thesis, University Gallery, Gainesville, FL

 

2007    
Constructing the Exotic, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2014
Person, Place or Things, 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany
Botanica (co-curator with AA Bronson), Invisible Exports, New York

2013    
Evil Eye Removal Kits, ViennaFair, Vienna, Austria
The Temptation of AA Bronson, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Still Life Lives!, FitchburgArt Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Poses and Views, Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany

 

2012    
Iconographic Investigations, Nature Morte, Gurgaon, India

Recent Acquisitions Part I, Contemporary Photography, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Capturing Identity, selections from the Light Work Collection, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

5, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India

Michael Bühler-Rose & Nikhil Chopra, Chatterjee & Lal, Indian Art Summit, New Delhi, India

           

2011    
The End, co-curated with John Connelly, Vogt Gallery, New York, NY

Ritual Aesthetics, curated by Progress Report, Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY

Exchanging Glances, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India

Of Blind Men and Elephants, The Empty Quarter, Dubai, U.A.E.

 

2010    
Traveling Scholars, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Structures With An Intervention, curated by Meenakshi Thirukode, The Guild, New York, NY

Trying Them On, curated by Jon Feinstein, Hendershot Gallery, New York, NY

After Color, curated by Amani Olu, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah & Atlanta campuses, GA (traveling exhibition)

 

2009    
Compassion, curated by AA Bronson, Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY

Boston Drawing Project 10th Anniversary, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA

Still life, curated by Jon Feinstein, Camera Club of New York, New York, NY

NOW: Art of the 21st Century, Phillips de Pury & Company, London, UK

After Color, curated by Amani Olu, Bose Pacia, New York, NY (traveling exhibition)
The Armory, Bose Pacia, New York, NY
Pulse, Artlog/The Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY
Trends in Contemporary Photography, Flandlers Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC

 

2008    
Things Are Strange, New Century Artists, New York, NY

Neti, Neti (not this, not this), curated by Peter Nagy, Bose Pacia, New York, NY

           

2007    
Paris Photo, Brancolini Grimaldi, Paris, France
Art Verona, Brancolini Grimaldi, Verona, Italy

Act of Faith, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Der Aa-kerk, Groningen, The Netherlands

The Contemporary Portrait, SK Stiftung Kultur/Die Photographische Sammlung, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany

 

2006    
The Indian Enigma, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India

Figure 9b, Warphaus Gallery, Gainesville, FL

 

2005         
Suburban Archeology, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

 

ACADEMIC POSTS

 

2013                            
Adjunct Faculty, The Cooper Union, New York, NY

 

2008- Present              
Critic, Department of Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

 

2012                            
Adjunct Faculty, Parsons, The New School for Design, New York, New York

 

2011 - 2012                  
Part-time Faculty, Fine Arts Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA

 

2009 – 2011                 
Assistant Professor, Department of Photography, Rhode  Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

 

2005-2008                    
Graduate Alumni Fellow, School of Art + Art History, College of Fine Arts, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

 

 

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2011
The End, co-curated with John Connelly, Vogt Gallery, New York, NY

2008         
The Form Itself, Priska C. Juschka Fine Arts, NY, NY

Opposing Photographers as part of Young Curators: New Ideas, Bond Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

 

2005    
Suburban Archeology, (co-curator), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 

 


GRANTS and AWARDS

 

2012    
Light Work Artist-In-Residency

 

2010    
NADA/Grolsch Swing Art Award

 

2008    
Grant for Emerging Photographers, The Humble Arts Foundation

Alumni Traveling Scholars, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

2006    
Fulbright Fellowship
Graduate Travel Grant, University of Florida

 

2005 – 2008     
Graduate Alumni Fellowship, University of Florida

 

2004    
Medici Family Scholarship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

2003    
N.R.I. Semester Study, Vrndavana, India, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

                       

LECTURES and PANEL DISCUSSIONS

2011    
Artists on Art, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY


2009    
TC Colley Lecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
After Color, panel discussion moderated by Amani Olu, Bose Pacia, New York, NY


2007    
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL

Visiting Artist Lecture, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA


2006    
Visiting Artist Lecture, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA

Visiting Artist Lecture,University of Northern Florida, Jacksonville, FL

U.S. Fulbright/USEFI conference, Conference Speaker, Jaganatha or Juggernaut: When Traditionalism Meets Modernity, Visakhapatnam, India
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Panelist, The Indian Enigma, New Delhi, India


2004    
Visiting Artist Lecture, School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 

 

 

COLLECTIONS

Light Work, Syracuse, NY

Harvard Fogg Museum, Boston, MA

Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany

SK Stiftung Kultur/ Die Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, Germany

 

 

REVIEWS and PUBLICATIONS

2014
Vice Magazine, Annual Photo Issue, cover and feature, July
     
Contact Sheet 176, Light Work, Syracuse, NY. (Catalogue for New Geographics)

2013     

Michael Bühler-Rose, Matte Magazine, Issue 17

Lauwaert, Maaike, AA Bronson, Artforum.com, 11.13

Vikram, Anuradha, The Real Reason(s) Indians Are Obsessed with Switzerland, Hyperallergic.com, 9.20.13

Sheerin, Mark. The Consolation of Temptation, Hyperallergic.com, 9.18.13

Sheerin, Mark. AA Bronson’s Garden of Queer Delights, Hyperallergic.com, 9.9.13
Burley, Isabella, AA Bronson & Michael Bühler-Rose, AnOther Magazine (online) 5.9.13

Hubbs, Sara, Michael Bühler-Rose: Post-Modern Artist/Hindu Priest Somewhere Between Aura and Prana, Yoga City News
Citron, Beth. Light Work Annual, Light Work, Syracuse, NY.

 

2012    
Bhagat, Himanshu, The Eye of the Beholder, The Caravan, 6.12

D’Mello, Roselyn, East is East, Blouin Artinfo.com, 3.19.12

Madhu, Manjusha. Art Explorations of Traditional Idioms, Sunday Guardian, 3.18.12

New Media Portfolio, Platform Magazine, 1.12

 

2011    
Nagy, Peter, Personal Gnosis for Public Consumption: The Practice of Michael Bühler-Rose, Fantom Magazine 11. 11.11

 

2010 
McQuaid, Cate. Travelers’ Smorgasbord, The Boston Globe, 5.4.2010

Gamber, Matthew. A Conversation with Michael Bühler-Rose, Big Red & Shiny, 5.4.2010

E.E.B., Trying Them On, New York Photo Review (online), 2.24.2010

co-edited with Lavalette, Shane, Layflat 02: Meta, Layflat, Cambridge

Cotter, Holland. Downtime at New Year? It’s Filled, New York Times, 1.1.2010

 

2009    
Flash Forward:
Emerging Photographers 2009, 5th anniversary, Magenta Foundation

Thirukode, Meenakshi, Construction of the Exotic, White Wall Magazine, (online article), 9.2.09

Bühler-Rose, Michael and Gamber, Matthew, After Color: A New Look for Black and White? Bomb Magazine online, 8.12.09

Cappetta, Andrew, Amani Olu Has New Ideas, Art In America (online article), 08.06.09

Huffman, Jibade-Khalil (ed.), After Stanley Donen, Eighth Veil, LA

Olu, Amani (ed.) After Color, BP Contemporary Art of India Series, Volume 35

The Collectors Guide to Emerging Art Photograph, The Humble Arts Foundation

Ross, Asher, SCOPE New York, Dossier Journal, 3.12.09

           

2008    
Pearse, Emma, Artist Michael Buhler-Rose Visits Bollywood, Florida, New York Magazine, Culture Vulture Blog, 11.6.08

Editors Pick: New York Gallery Shows in November, Artinfo.com, 11.08

Coburn, Tyler, A Question of Form, Rhizome.org, 9.17.08

Guha, Rohin, Curators on Display @ Bond Street, BlackBook, 8.21.08

Hulme, Emily, Bond Brings ‘New Ideas’, AM New York, August 15-17, Issue 158, Vol. 6.

Shefchik, Claire, Young Curators, New Ideas, Beyond Race, Augut, 21.

Smith, Roberta, Art in Review, Neti Neti (not this, not this), New York Times, 8.8.08,
Pollack, Barbara, Neti Neti, Time Out New York, Issue 670
Dhingrha, Juhi Jhunjhunwala, Its Neither East Nor West at Bose Pacia, The South Asian Times

Camera Austria, Issue 101
Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers 2008, Magenta Foundation

 

2007    
Melis, Wim, Act of Faith (catalogue), Aurora Borealis

Johnson, Miki. Student Portfolio. American Photo on Campus, April

Schweig, Graham M.  Bhagavad-gita, The Beloved Lord’s Secret Love Song, New York and San Francisco: Harper San Francisco / Harper-Collins, (Cover)

 

2006    
PDN, May, “Photo Annual”
Times of India, February 15, "American youth now catching up with Qawalis