Alan Michelson

Alan Michelson grew up in western Massachusetts, and now lives in New York City. He studied art at Columbia College in New York and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and earned his BFA from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1981. A Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, Michelson plays with North American geography, history, and identity in his multi-layered, multi-media installations. Exhibitions of his work include New Tribe: New York – Alan Michelson (2005–06) at the National Museum of the American Indian’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York; and NATIvity (2004) at the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ontario. Michelson’s work has been included in many group exhibitions, including The American West (2005) at Compton Verney in Warwickshire, England; Living-places/Art-spaces (2003) at the Museum of World Cultures in Frankfurt, Germany; Keeping Track of the Joneses (1998) at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; and SITEseeing: Travel and Tourism in Contemporary Art (1991) at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Michelson’s public artworks include projects with the Public Art Fund, Creative Time, and REPOhistory.