Working across photography and sculpture, Michael Queenland examines the relationships between images, objects, and language. Often utilising found objects that he has accumulated, altered, or translated into another material, the artist blurs the boundaries between artefacts and art.
Michael Queenland (b. 1970, Pasadena, California) currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
In 2016, Queenland received the Rome Prize and was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome from 2016–2017.Solo exhibitions include Rudy’s Ramp of Remainders 2012/2022, Visual Arts Center, Austin, Texas, USA, 2022;Rudy’s Ramp of Remainders, The Santa Monica Museum of Art (now ICA-LA), 2012; The M.O.R.L., LA><ART, Los Angeles, 2007; Michael Queenland: Photographs, Sculptures and Shaker Classics, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art and The Massachusetts College of Art, 2005.
Selected group exhibitions include Foundations of the Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2019; Searching the Sky for Rain, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, USA, 2019,Made In LA, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2018; Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2017; The Whitney Biennial, New York, 2008; Frequency, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2005.
Michael Queenland was Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the Yale School of Art from 2010–2016.
Courtesy Maureen Paley

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