David Maisel
b. New York, NY, 1961

Education
Princeton University, 1979-1984, Bachelor of Arts, 1984, summa cum laude
(Major areas: Photography, Visual Arts, Art History of the 19th and 20th centuries)
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 1988-89
(Major areas: Architecture, Landscape Architecture)
California College of the Arts, 2006, Master of Fine Arts

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 Oblivion, EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Black Maps, National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC
Black Maps, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2006 Oblivion, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Oblivion, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Lake Project, Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany
Black Maps, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL
2005 Terminal Mirage, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, CA
Terminal Mirage, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Terminal Mirage, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Terminal Mirage, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
2004 The Lake Project, James Nicholson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Lake Project, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
The Lake Project, Fotofest, Houston, TX
2003 The Lake Project, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Dangerous Beauty, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Lake Project, Bolinas Art Museum, Bolinas, CA
The Lake Project, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Lake Project, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 Comfort Zone, Santa Fe Art Institute, NM
The City Through the Lens, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Global Anxieties: Seven Perspectives on a Changing Planet, College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
Imagining a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Nova Scotia, Canada
2006 Ecotopia, the Photography Triennial, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Shifting Terrain: Contemporary Landscape Photography, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Topographies: Edward Burtynsky, Vicky Colombet, & David Maisel, EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Imagining a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art,
Toronto, Canada
Intrinsic Artifice: Stan Brakhage, Susan Brenner, Carl Chiarenza, David Maisel, Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
Art About Place, DEVOs Art Museum, Marquette, MI
2005 Critical Mass, traveling group exhibit organized by Blue Sky Gallery, 10 venues for exhibition throughout the United States.
New Turf, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont
Paradise Paved Recollection, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
Monument Recall: Public Memory and Public Spaces, San Francisco, CA
2004 No Man’s Land: Contemporary Photographers and Fragile Ecologies: David Maisel, Ed Burtynsky, and Emmet Gowin. Halsey Gallery,
Institute for Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, SC
Monument Recall - a thematic exhibition that explores concepts of the monument and memory. Maisel contributes six public works on fullsize
billboards situated around the Bay Area, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
reGenerations: Environmental Art in California, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Diversions & Dislocations, California’s Owens Valley, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, CA
Managing Eden, University of North Texas Art Gallery
Frames of Reference, show of board members of Photo Alliance, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Edges, Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
2003 Treading Water, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
Abstraction and Photography, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Managing Eden, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
H20, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
Inaugural Exhibition, James Nicholson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Center Awards Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2002 Picturing the Wilderness: Photographs by David Maisel, Macduff
Everton, & Josef Muench, Wildling Museum of Art, Los Olivos, CA
New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Blue Earth, Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA.
The Peter C. Bunnell Collection, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
1995 Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY.
1991 Landscapes of Consequence, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT. Curated by Robert Mann, guest curator.
1990 The New American Pastoral: Landscape Photography in the Age of Questioning, International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY
and Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, NY.

Bibliography
2005 Terminal Mirage, 20 page catalogue with 14 color reproductions, essay by Anne Tucker: “When the Whole is Indecipherable.”
2004 The Lake Project, monograph publication by Nazraeli Press, introductory essay by Robert Sobieszek: “Archaeopsychic Vistas: The Lake Project of David Maisel.”
The New York Times, Sunday Arts and Leisure section, “Hell from the Air: Turning the Owens Valley into Environmental Art”, biographical essay by Amei Wallach, May 9, 2004.
European Photography, volume 25, summer 2004, cover and sixpage feature on Terminal Mirage.
Audubon Magazine, “Ghost Lake,” six page essay with excerpts from The Lake Project, additional text by Hillary Rosner, May, 2004.
American Photography, volume 19.
The Boston Globe, “Salvaging Beauty from a Valley’s Destruction,”review of solo exhibit at the Miller Block Gallery, by Cate McQuaid, January 2, 2004.
“SFGate” (on-line version of the San Francisco Chronicle): review of The Lake Project solo exhibit at James Nicholson Gallery, by Alison Bing.
2003 Aperture magazine, Fall 2003, “Immaculate Destruction: David Maisel’s Lake Project,” feature article with essay by Diana Gaston.
Camera Arts magazine, April/May, 2003, “The Abstract Aerial Landscape Photography of David Maisel,” feature article with essay by Marisa Olson.
Harper’s Magazine, four images reproduced in the Readings section, July, 2003.
The New York Times, “David Maisel at the Von Lintel Gallery,” review by Grace Glueck, June 27, 2003.
The New York Times, “Abstraction in Photography,” review by Grace Glueck, March 7, 2003.
“The Village Voice,” review of solo exhibit at the Von Lintel Gallery, by Vince Aletti, July 19, 2003.
Art News, “David Maisel at the Bolinas Museum,” review by Jonathon Keats, April, 2003.
Art Week, “David Maisel at the Bolinas Museum,” review by Mark Van Proyen, April 2003.
Chicago Tribune, review of solo exhibit at the Schneider Gallery, by Alan Artner, June 13, 2003.
Chicago Reader, “Off the Face of the Earth,” review of solo exhibit at the Schneider Gallery, by Fred Camper, June 27, 2003.
1995 New York Times Magazine commission, “Burying Our Nation’s Radioactive Waste,” Kathy Ryan, photography editor.
1992 New York Times Magazine cover story, “Power Struggle: Flooding Quebec to Light NewYork,” Kathy Ryan, photography editor.
1990 The New American Pastoral: Landscape Photography in the Age of Questioning, catalogue accompanying exhibition, published by International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY. Text by Robert Sobieszek, curator of photography.

Selected Collections
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
Bowdoin College Art Museum
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Fidelity Investments
George Eastman House
General Mills
Houston Museum of Fine Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Portland Museum of Art
Princeton University Museum of Art
Rose Art Museum
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
UBS Paine Weber Collection
Selected Teaching and Lecturing
2004 Featured Lecturer, Photo San Francisco 2004, “The Post-Natural World.”
Featured Lecturer, The Great Salt Lake Symposium, “The Post- Natural World.”
Gallery Talk, Halsey Gallery, Institute for Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, SC
Gallery Talk, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2003 Landscape Symposium Panelist, Photo San Francisco 2003, “The View From Here.”
Lecturer, Photo Alliance, “Bay Area Photography Now.”
Guest speaker, Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Photography Collectors Group.
Guest artist, Foto-graphix Books, San Francisco, CA.
Gallery Talk, Bolinas Art Museum, CA
And... Class Instructor, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Workshop Leader, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.
Featured Lecturer, public lecture sponsored by Santa Fe
Photographic Workshops
Full-time Faculty, Cambridge School, MA

Selected Awards and Honors
2003 Nominated for the John Guttman Photography Fellowship, a fund of the San Francisco Foundation.
2002-2004 Vice President, Board of Directors, for Photo Alliance, a Bay Area non-profit institution dEVOted to the support and creation of contemporary photography.
2001 SF Camerawork, participating artist in their Fine Print program.
1992 Opsis Foundation Photography Award.
1990 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts, Individual Visual Artists’ Fellowship.
1990 Nominated finalist for Infinity Award, International Center of Photography.
1984 Princeton University, B.A., summa cum laude, department of Art & Archaeology.
Princeton University, Francis LeMoyne Page Award in the Visual Arts.