Michael Mercil 1382 South 4Th Street Columbus Ohio 43207 (614) 445-1082 [email protected]
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michael mercil 1382 south 4th street columbus ohio 43207 (614) 445-1082 [email protected] 1954 Born, Crookston, Minnesota. EDUCATION 1988 The University of Chicago, MFA, Studio Arts. 1978 Minneapolis College of Art & Design, BFA, Fine Arts. 1972-74 Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2019 Ingrained: Large Scale Woodcut Prints, Columbus Main Library Carnegie Gallery, Columbus, Ohio. Songs the Plants Taught Us, Anytime Dept., Cincinnati, Ohio. 2018 Counter Current Festival (solo performance of “Reading the Daily News”), Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, University of Houston, Houston, Texas. Group Exhibition for New Collectors, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio. Summer Studio Tour, Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, Ohio. 20th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, Phoenix Rising Print Cooperative, Columbus, Ohio. 2017 Covenant (invitational screening), College of Saint Benedict, Saint Joseph, Minnesota. TIGUE: In Concert (self-organized event), featuring “Thoreau’s Desk,” with additional music by David Lang and Jason Treuting, HamMer Studios, Columbus, Ohio 2016 Every Sound (solo), Center for Ongoing Research & Projects (COR&P) Columbus, Ohio. 2015 Brooklyn Bound: Concerts at the So Studio (“Thoreau’s Desk,” performed by TIGUE Percussion Trio), New York, New York. Columbus Documentary Week (featured screening: “Covenant”), Gateway Film Center, Columbus, Ohio. IFPDA Fair (featured artist with Ann Hamilton), Carl Solway Gallery, New York, New York. 2014 Columbus Arts Festival (invitational screenings: “Fair & Square University: Presentation 1” (short), “County Fair” (short) and “Covenant” (excerpts)), Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio. Columbus Independents Festival (invitational screening: “Covenant” (excerpts)), Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio. Deem 20: Twenty Years of the Deem Distinguished Artist Lecture, Paul Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University, Morgantown. Rural Route Film Festival (juried screening and international touring program: “County Fair”), New York, New York. Walden, Revisited, deCordova Sculpture Garden and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts. 2013 American Documentary Film Festival (juried screening: “Covenant”), Palm Springs, California. Athens International Film Festival (juried screening: “Covenant”), Athens, Ohio. Colorado Environmental Film Festival (juried screening: “Covenant”), Boulder, Colorado. Covenant (invitational screening) Ebert Art Center, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. Fargo Film Festival (juried screening: “Covenant”), Fargo, North Dakota. Field & Screen Film Series (premiere screening: “Covenant”), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. Food Situations, Banvard Gallery, Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University, Columbus. Green Unplugged Film Festival (juried online screening: “Covenant”). International Film Festival for Environment, Health and Culture (featured screening: “Covenant”), Jakarta, Indonesia Julien Dubuque International Film Festival (juried screening: “Covenant”), Dubuque, Iowa. Of Land & Local, Burlington City Arts Center and Shelburne Farms, Burlington, Vermont. 2012 Art for the Environment (benefit auction featured artist), Ohio Environmental Council, Columbus. Binary Inventions: Arts and Culture in the Digital Age, University of North Dakota. College of Arts and Sciences with Third Street Gallery, Grand Forks. Ohio Shorts (juried screening: “County Fair”), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition (juried screening: “County Fair”), Ohio Expo Center and State Fairgrounds, Columbus, Ohio. 2011 Farmed: The New Agronomists, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio. The New Administration of a Fine Arts Education, Bureau for Open Culture at Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio. Ohio Shorts (juried screening: “Presentation 1”), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. 2009 Paradigm Shift: MCAD Alumni & Friends Honor Kinji Akagawa, Minneapolis College of Art & Design. 1 Selected exhibitions continued 2009 Reading Kinji’s Bookshelf: Evening Tribute to Kinji Akagawa (performance with Ann Hamilton), Minneapolis College of Art & Design. (S)edition: Prints as Activism (Juried International Exhibition), Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 2007 Community-based Art, Allegheny College Art Galleries, Meadville, Pennsylvania. Shadows from the 20th Century, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, New York. 2006 From the 20th Century (solo), Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio. 2005 for love or money (solo), Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio. 2004 It’s for the Birds (traveling exhibition), Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida. 2003 Hindsight/Fore-site Revisited, Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia. increase: Ann Hamilton/Michael Mercil, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks. On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Personal Visions, Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. Roots of Renewal, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. 2002 Update (screening: “World’s Greatest Sports Video Ever), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. 2001 promise (solo), College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio. 2000 Hindsight/Foresite: Art for the New Millennium, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville. 1998 Material World, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio. Rifle Sport Show, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1997 Real Estate (solo), Isis Gallery, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. 1996 Visiting Artists Exhibition, Hopkins Hall Gallery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 1995 Clearings (solo), Olin Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. Michael Mercil/Sydney Licht, Hopkins Hall Gallery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 1993 Solo, College of Architecture & Landscape Architecture Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. 1992 Home Economies (solo), Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1991 Bird Homes, Catherine G. Murphy Galleries, College of Saint Catherine, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Eight McKnight Artists (traveling exhibition), Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Minnesota Metaphors, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota. Open Studio Day, tour curated by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1990 Flashbacks, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art & Design. For the Birds, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin. New Accommodations (solo), Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1989 buildingdialogue (with Kinji Akagawa, Sixto Beltrandi, Cliff Garten and Steven Woodward), Minneapolis Institute of Arts. 1988 Drawingroom (solo), Riflesport Alternative Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Five Jerome Artists, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Public Art Possibilities (traveling exhibition), Minneapolis Arts Commission. Small Sculpture, The Saint Paul Companies, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Yardwork, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota. 1984 M.F.A. Exhibition, David and Alfred Smart Museum, The University of Chicago. 1983 New Talent, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. 1982 The Hausman Years: 1975-82, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art & Design. COMMISSIONS, PUBLIC PROJECTS 2017-ongoing Site set-aside, a project with the Wexner Center for the Arts and The Living Culture Initiative in the OSU Department of Art, Columbus, Ohio. 2008-continuing Reading the Daily News, for The Living Culture Initiative in the OSU Department of Art, Columbus, Ohio. 2009-2011 The Virtual Pasture, a project with the Wexner Center for the Arts and the OSU College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Columbus, Ohio. 2009 Murmuration (with Ann Hamilton, Ben Rubin and Ned Rosenberg), for Teardrop Park, The Battery Park City Authority, New York, New York. Halos for New York, for The Battery Park City Authority, New York, New York (commissioned 2006). 2008 Forest and Book (with Ann Hamilton), for Des Moines Central Public Library, Des Moines, Iowa (not built). 2006-08 The Beanfield, a project with the Wexner Center for the Arts and the OSU College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Columbus, Ohio. 2006 Dream of the 20th Century, for Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, New York (commissioned 2003). 2 Commissions, public projects continued 2004 Teardrop Park (with Ann Hamilton, lead artist; and Michael Van Valkenburgh, lead designer), for Battery Park City Authority, New York, New York (commissioned 1999). 2002 Acadia Duplex, for The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Endurance: the Shackelton Adventure (set design), Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse, Yellow Springs, Ohio. 2001 Allegheny Riverfront Park (with Ann Hamilton, lead artist; and Michael Van Valkenburgh, lead designer), for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (commissioned 1994). Field of Play and Ballgame, for The Ohio State University. Department of Athletics, Football Stadium Renovation, Columbus (commissioned 2000). 2000 Corvus americanus, for The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1993 Selby Avenue Bridge, with the City of Saint Paul, Department of Public Works (commissioned 1992). 1988 Lake Harriet Boatpark (proposal), for Minneapolis Public Arts Commission Design Bank. Minneapolis, Minnesota. AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES 2017 Johnstone Fund for New Music Award for TIGUE: Live at HamMer Studio (concert presentation including, “Thoreau’s Desk (requires some assembly), Columbus, Ohio. 2016 Battelle