Michael Snow (b.1928, Canada)

 

Select Solo Exhibitions
2017 Powers of Two, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2004 Michael Snow: Powers of Two, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, US
2002 Michael Snow: Selections from the Spectrum, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, GR
2002 Sunset & Close-Up, Moore Gallery, Toronto, CA
2002 Instant Snow, exhibition and film retrospective, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, FR
2002 Video Fields, salle d’expositions, Paris Université 1, Paris, FR
2002 *Corpus Callosum, a 2-week run at Film Forum, New York, US
2002 Waiting Room, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, DE
2002 Hearing Aid, Sound Works 1970-2002, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, DE
2002 Bookworks and Catalogues, Barbara Wien Gallery, Berlin, DE
2002 Video Fields, Canada House, London, UK
2002 Michael Snow almost Cover to Cover, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
2002 Early Snow, Moore Gallery, Toronto, CA
2002 That/Cela/Dat, White Box, New York, US
2002 Couple, video installation, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, CA
2000 Snow Alert, White Box, New York, US
1999 Panoramique: Oeuvres photographiques & films/Photographic Works & Films 1962-1999, Bruxelles: Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts, BE
1998 Transparenté, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, FR
1998 Redifice, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, FR
1997 Stux Gallery, New York, US
1995 Michael Snow: Works from the Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, CA
1994 Light, Surface and Sound, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, CA
1994 The Michael Snow Project, four simultaneous exhibitions: Exploring Plane and Contour, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA; Around Wavelength, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA; Presence and Absence: The Films of Michael Snow, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON; Embodied Vision, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
1993 S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, CA
1993-1992 Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris, FR
1992 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, US
1991 The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, CA
1989 The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, CA
1988 The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, CA
1988 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JP
1988 #720 (Thanks to Robert Crumb), Ruine der Künste, Berlin, DE
1987 The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, CA
1986 The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, CA
1986 The Spectral Image, Expo ’86, Vancouver, CA
1986 Visionary Apparatus (with Juan Geuer), List Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, US
1984-1983 Walking Woman Works: Michael Snow 1961-67, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston CA; Cornell University, Ithaca US; Halifax, CA; London, UK; Victoria, CA; Toronto, CA
1984 The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, CA
1983 Michael Snow, Frederick S. Wright Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, US
1983 Snow in England, Canada House, London, UK
1982 The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, CA
1979-1978 Michael Snow, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR; Kunstmuseum, Luzern
CH; Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, NL; Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, DE; Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal, CA; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
1976 Michael Snow – Ten Photographic Works, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
1972 Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, US
1972 Bykert Gallery, New York, US
1970 XXV Venice Biennale, Venice IT
1970 Bykert Gallery, New York, US
1970 Michael Snow: A Survey, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
1969 The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, CA
1968 Poindexter Gallery, New York, US
1967 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
1965 Poindexter Gallery, New York, US
1964 Poindexter Gallery, New York, US
1964 The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, CA
1962 The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, CA
1960 The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, CA
1958 The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, CA
1957 The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, CA

 

Select Group Exhibitions
2023 Director’s Choice, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2005 Imposition, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, US
2005 Powers of Two, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2004 A Charge to Keep, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, US
2003 X-Screen. Filmische Installationen und Aktionen der 60er und 70er Jahre, MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien), Vienna, AT
2003 Future Cinema, mounted by ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, DE
2002 Les enfants du Paradis, video installations, Galérie Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR
2002 Le Diaphane et l’Obscure, A History of Slides in Contemporary Art, Maison Européen de la Photographie, Paris, FR
2002 Panorama 3, Le Fresnoy, Studio nation al des arts contemporains, FR
2002 Sans commune mesure, image et texte dans l’art actuel, FR
2002 Le Fresnoy, Studio nation al des arts contemporains, FR
2001 Into the Light, the projected image in American art 1964-1977, Whitney Museum, New York, US
2001 Festival en Lumière, Montréal, CA
2001 Flashing into the Shadows: The Artist’s Film after Pop and Minimalism, 1976-1966, Whitney Museum, New York, US
2000 Tout le temps/Every Time, La Biennale de Montréal 2000, Montréal, CA
2000 Movimento Aparente, Castellò, ES
2000 Voici, 100 ans d’art contemporain, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, BE
2000 Paris en 3D, Musée Carnavalet, Paris, FR
2000 Le temps, vite, Musée National des Beaux-Arts, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
1999 Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York, US
1999 Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
1999 Making It New! the big sixties show, Art Gallery of Windsor, CA
1999 Musiques en scène, Musée art contemporain Lyon, FR
1999 Helio Oiticica e a Cena Americana, Rio de Janeiro, BR
1998 Projections, Studio national d’art contemporain, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, FR
1998 Layers, Wynick-Tuck Gallery, Toronto, CA
1997 Les Pêches Capitaux: La Gourmandise,Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
1997 Timeframes, Freedman Gallery, Reading, US
1996 Emotion, McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg, CA
1996 Walking and Thinking and Walking, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, DK
1996 Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US; traveling to Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, US; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, IT; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
1996 Magritte, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, CA
1996-1995 Biennale de Lyon, Musée Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyons, FR
1995 How Red Works, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, CA
1995 Reconsidering the Object of Art 1965-1975, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
1995 Notion on Light, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
1995 Sculpture Montréal 95, Le vieux-Port de Montréal, Montreal, CA
1995 Eadweard Muybridge, Michael Snow, Haim Steinbach, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, US
1992/1990 Passages de l’Image, Centre Georges Pompidou, FR; travelling to Barcelona, ES; Columbus, US; San Francisco, US
1990/1988 Vanishing Presence, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, US; travelling to Detroit, US; Winnipeg, CA; Atlanta, US; Ithaca, US; Richmond, US
1988 Images du Futur 88, Art et Nouvelles Technologies, Montreal, CA
1988 Festival des Arts Electroniques de Rennes, Rennes, FR; Centre Georges Pompidou, FR;
Galerie Vu, Quebec City, CA
1988/1987 Snow/Weiner/Nannucci, circulated nationally by Art Metropole, Toronto, CA
1987 International Holography Exhibition and Conference, Copenhagen, DK
1987 Photography and Art, 1984-86, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
1987 Photographers Who Make Films, New York University Photo Center Gallery, New York, US
1987 Holography: Light in the Third Dimension, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, CA
1987 Toronto: A Play of History (Jeu d’Histoire), The Power Plant, Toronto, CA
1985 Aurora Borealis, Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, CA
1984 Seeing People – Seeing Space, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
1983 Toronto Painting of the 1960’s, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
1982 Photoalchemy, The Robert Friedus Gallery, New York, US
1979 Re-Visions: Projects and Proposals in Film and Video, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
1978/1977 Another Dimension, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
1977 Documenta 6, Kassel, West Germany, DE
1975 A Response to the Environment, Rutgers University, New Jersey Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, US
1969 Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
1969 Anti-Illusion: Procedures and Materials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
1968 Art d’Aujourd’hui, France, Italy, Netherlands
1968 Canada 101, Edinburgh Festival, Scotland, GB
1965 Biennale of Canadian Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
1965 Outdoor Exhibition, Sculpture Society of Canada, Stratford, CA
1965 Polychrome Construction, The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, CA
1964 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, US
1964 Contemporary American Figure Painters, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, US
1963 Detroit Cultural Center, Detroit, US
1959 Biennale of Canadian Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
1959 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, US
1958 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
1957 Biennale of Canadian Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
1956 Hart House (with Graham Coughtry), University of Toronto, Toronto, CA

Art Fairs
2017 Papier Montreal, Montreal, CA
2017 Art Miami, Miami, US
2016 Art Toronto, Toronto, CA
2005 TIAF, Toronto, CA
1986 Fokus: Contemporary Canadian Art 1960-85, Department of External Affairs, Cologne Art Fair, DE

Awards & Grants
2003 Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Douglas Edwards Independent Experimental Film/Video Award (for *Corpus Callosum)
1983 L.A. Film Critics Award (for So Is This), Best Independent Experimental Film
1972 Guggenheim Fellowship
1967 Knokke-le-Zoute Film Festival, First Prize (for Wavelength)

Commissions
2003 Exposures, Pantages Hotel/Condominium complex, Toronto, CA
1992 Red, Orange and Green, Confederation Life, Toronto, CA
1989 Reflections, Photo Mural, Canadian Embassy, Washington, US
1989 Via Rail, Train Installation
1989/1988 The Audience, SkyDome, Toronto, CA
1986 The Spectral Image, Expo ’86, Vancouver, CA
1981 Ducks Drawn Back, Shaw Industries Limited, Toronto, CA
1979 Flightstop, Cadillac Fairview, Eaton’s Centre, Toronto, CA

1978 Government of Canada Building, North York, CA

1978 Video-Photo Environmental Sculpture, Brock University, St. Catharines, CA

1967 Ontario Pavilion, Expo ’67, Montreal, CA

1954 Mobile, Victoria College, University of Toronto, CA

 

Writings 

2015 Michael Snow — Sequences — A History of His Art. With texts by Bruce Jenkins. Gloria Moure, ed. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrava
2007 Scraps for the Soldiers. With Dimple F. Snow. Florence: Zona Archives

2004 Biographie of the Walking Woman / de la femme qui marche, 1961–1967. Brussels: La lettre volée

2002 Michael Snow: Des écrits, 1958–2002. Edited by Jean-Michel Bouhours and Jacinto Lageira, translated by Jean-François Cornu. Paris: Éditions de l’École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts / Centre Georges Pompidou

1999 56 Tree Poems. Ghent, Belgium: Imschoot, uitgevers

1999 “Notes sur le ‘pourquoi’ et le ‘comment’ de mes oeuvres photographiques / Notes on the Whys and Hows of My Photographic Works.” In Michael Snow: Panoramique; Oeuvres photographiques & films / Photographic Works and Films, 1962–1999, 112–23. Brussels: Societé des expositions du Palais des beaux-arts

1994 The Michael Snow Project: The Collected Writings of Michael Snow. Foreword by Louise Dompierre. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

1993 “Passage in C.” C Magazine, Fall 1993, 29–40.

1986 “Repeat Offender.” Photo-Communiqué, Fall 1986, 22–29.

1979 High School. Toronto: Impulse Editions / Isaacs Gallery

1975 Cover to Cover. Nova Scotia Series. Halifax: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design; New York: New York University Press
1970 Michael Snow / A Survey. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario / Isaacs Gallery

 

Film, DVD, Video Sources

2007 Gardner, Robert. Screening Room. Cambridge, MA: Studio 7 Arts. DVD, 74 min. Originally broadcast on the television program Screening Room, on WCVB, ABC’s Channel 5, Boston, April 1977.

2002 Rameau’s Nephew by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen. Paris: Re-Voir Editions, 2002. VHS videotape, with book edited by Pip Chodorov.

2001 Wehn-Damisch, Teri, and Michael Snow. On Snow’s Wavelength: Zoom Out. Brooklyn: First Run / Icarus Films. DVD, 56 min.

1994 Brown, Carl. Brownsnow. 16mm film, 134 min.

1964 Owen, Don, dir. Toronto Jazz. National Film Board of Canada. 16mm film, 27 min.

Snow, Michael. Presents. Paris: Re-Voir Editions, 2001. VHS videotape, with booklet edited by Pip Chodorov.

 

Critical Interpretations

2015 “Light Erasures and Shifting Temporalities in Some ‘Later’ Works by Michael Snow” in Erasure: The Spectre of Cultural Memory, edited by Brad Buckley and John Comonos, 179—98. Faringdon, Oxfordshire: Libri Publishing, 2015.

2012 “Translation, Migration, Fascination: Motion Pictures by Michael Snow.” In Michael Snow: Recent Works, 29–43. Vienna: Secession, 2012.

2011 Baird, Daniel. “Riffing: Jazz Inspired Michael Snow, the Most Influential Canadian Artist of All Time, to Explore the Unexplored.” The Walrus, March 2011.

2011 Déry, Louise, Michael Snow, Erik Bullot, Jacinto Lageira, and Stéfani de Loppinot. Solo Snow: Oeuvres de / Works of Michael Snow. Montreal: Galerie de l’UQAM; Tourcoing, France: Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, 2011.

2010 “Michael Snow.” In 100 Video Artists, edited by Rosa Olivares, 370. Madrid: EXIT Publicaciones, 2010.

2010 “Michael Snow’s Films, 1966–1971.” Switch 3, Spring 2010, 6–7.

2010 “Michael Snow: Screen Writing.” Switch 3, Spring 2010, 8–15.

2009 “The Child in Me: A Figure of Photographic Creation.” In Depicting Canada’s Children, edited by Loren Lerner, 387–413. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009.

2009 Michael Snow: Wavelength. One Work Series. London: Afterall Books, 2009.

2008 “Strange Bedfellows: Appropriations of the Vernacular by Photographic Artists.” Photography & Culture 1, no. 1 (July 2008): 73–94.

2007 Sloan, Johanne. “Conceptual Landscape Art: Joyce Wieland and Michael Snow.” In Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art, edited by John O’Brian and Peter White, 73–84. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007.

2007 “Michael Snow: Reflections at the Speed of Light.” In Michael Snow @ MOCCA 2007. Toronto: Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 2007.

2007 “Object-Image-Memory.” In Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art, 125–42. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007.

2007 “Prezensa continua: le projezioni di Michael Snow” [Continuous Presence: Michael Snow’s Projections]. In Michael Snow: Cinema, Installazioni, Video e Arti Visuali, translated by Giulia Bancheri, 23–29. Lucca: Fondazione Ragghianti and Lucca Film Festival, 2007.

2007 “Ventanas en la fotografía / Picture Windows.” Exit: Imagen y Cultura / Image & Culture 26 (2007): 24–45.

2006 Bellour, Raymond. “Couches d’images.” Cinéma 011, Spring 2006, 101–17.

2005 Arnaud, Jean. “Touching to See.” October 114 (Fall 2005): 5–16.

2005 Bédard, Catherine. “Seeing between the Lines: Imagination, Nothing but ‘This,’ in Max Dean and Michael Snow.” In Image & Imagination, edited by Martha Langford, 201–10. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005.

2005 Bullot, Erik. “Keaton and Snow.” October 114 (Fall 2005): 17–28.

2005 Judd, Donald. “In the Galleries.” Arts Magazine, March 1964. Reprinted in Donald Judd: Complete Writings, 1959–1975, 120–23. Halifax: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, 2005.

2002 Kellman, Tila L. Figuring Redemption: Resighting Myself in the Art of Michael Snow. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002.

2002 Rist, Peter, ed. “The Michael Snow Dossier.” Off-Screen 30 (November 2002).

2001 “Two Sides to Every Story.” In Michael Snow: Almost Cover to Cover, edited by Catsou Roberts and Lucy Steeds, 120–27. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2001. Originally printed in the catalogue for Projected Images (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1974).

2001 Iles, Chrissie. Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art, 1964–1977. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2001.

2001 “Repetition / La répétition: Michael Snow and the Act of Memory.” In Michael Snow: Almost Cover to Cover, edited by Catsou Roberts and Lucy Steeds, 34–75. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2001.

2000 Voici, 100 ans d’art contemporain. Brussels: Société des expositions du Palais des beaux-arts; Ghent: Ludion/Flammarion, 2000.

2000 Langford, Martha. “Snow by Degrees: Michael Snow’s Photographic Work.” Border Crossings 19, no. 3 (August 2000): 58–63.

2000 Gale, Peggy. “Place des peaux.” In Tout le temps / Every Time, 126–27. Montreal: Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal / La Biennale de Montréal, 2000.

1999 Damisch, Hubert. “Concert (Portrait de l’artiste en Michael Snow) / Concert (Portrait of an Artist as Michael Snow).” In Michael Snow: Panoramique; Oeuvres photographiques & films / Photographic Works and Films, 1962–1999, 83–97. Brussels: Societé des expositions du Palais des beaux-arts, 1999.

1999 Fleischer, Alain. “La cinémachine de Michael Snow / Michael Snow’s Cinemachine.” In Michael Snow: Panoramique; Oeuvres photographiques & films / Photographic Works and Films, 1962–1999, 83–97. Brussels: Societé des expositions du Palais des beaux-arts, 1999.

1999 Klepac, Walter. “Photo-Philosophical Investigations: Photographic Works of Michael Snow, 1962–1999.” In Michael Snow: Panoramique; Oeuvres photographiques & films / Photographic Works and Films, 1962–1999, 83–97. Brussels: Societé des expositions du Palais des beaux-arts, 1999.

1997 Legge, Elizabeth. “Taking It as Red: Michael Snow and Wittgenstein.” Journal of Canadian Art History 18, no. 2 (1997): 68–88.

1995 Elder, R. Bruce. “Michael Snow’s Presence.” In The Michael Snow Project: Presence and Absence; The Films of Michael Snow, 1956–1991, edited by Jim Shedden, 94–139. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, and Knopf Canada, 1995.

1995 “Sounding Snow: On Text and Sound in Michael Snow’s Rameau’s Nephew by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen.” In The Michael Snow Project: Presence and Absence; The Films of Michael Snow, 1956–1991, edited by Jim Shedden, 140–95. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, and Knopf Canada, 1995.

1995 Testa, Bart. “An Axiomatic Cinema: Michael Snow’s Films.” In The Michael Snow Project: Presence and Absence; The Films of Michael Snow, 1956–1991, edited by Jim Shedden, 26–83. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, and Knopf Canada, 1995.

1994 “Embodied Vision: The Painting, Sculpture, Photo-Work, Sound Installation, Music, Holographic Work, Films and Books of Michael Snow from 1970 to 1973.” In Dennis Reid, Philip Monk, Louise Dompierre, Richard Rhodes, and Derrick de Kerckhove, The Michael Snow Project: Visual Art, 1951–1993, 388–477, 509–22. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, and Knopf Canada, 1994.

1994 Kubota, Nobuo, Alan Mattes, and Michael Snow. “History of the CCMC and of Improvised Music.” In The Michael Snow Project: Music/Sound, 1948–1993, edited by Michael Snow, 78–129. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, and Knopf Canada, 1994.

1994 Gervais, Raymond. “Les disques de Michael Snow / The Recorded Music of Michael Snow.” In 1994 The Michael Snow Project: Music / Sound, 1948–1993, edited by Michael Snow, 148–215, 257–301. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, and Knopf Canada, 1994.

1994 Duve, Thierry de. “Michael Snow: The Deictics of Experience, and Beyond.” Parachute 78 (April/May/June 1995): 29–41. Originally written as a lecture for presentation at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. (See also in the same issue Michael Snow, “A Letter to Thierry de Duve,” 63–65.) Also published as “Michael Snow: Les déictiques de l’expérience, et au-delà,” Les cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne 50, Centre Georges Pompidou, Winter 1994, 31–55.

1994 Kerckhove, Derrick de. “Holography, ‘mode d’emploi’: On Michael Snow’s Approach to Holography.” In Dennis Reid, Philip Monk, Louise Dompierre, Richard Rhodes, and Derrick de Kerckhove, The Michael Snow Project: Visual Art, 1951–1993, 498–507. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, and Knopf Canada, 1994.

1994 Reid, Dennis. “Exploring Plane and Contour: The Drawing, Painting, Collage, Foldage, Photo-Work, Sculpture and Film of Michael Snow from 1951 to 1967.” In Dennis Reid, Philip Monk, Louise Dompierre, Richard Rhodes, and Derrick de Kerckhove, The Michael Snow Project: Visual Art, 1951–1993, 16–289. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, and Knopf Canada, 1994.

1994 Monk, Philip. “Around Wavelength: The Sculpture, Film and Photo-Work of Michael Snow from 1967 to 1969.” In Dennis Reid, Philip Monk, Louise Dompierre, Richard Rhodes, and Derrick de Kerckhove, The Michael Snow Project: Visual Art, 1951–1993, 292–385. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, and Knopf Canada, 1994.

1994 Lancashire, David. “Blues in the Clock Tower.” In The Michael Snow Project: Music/Sound, 1948–1993, edited by Michael Snow, 32–77. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, and Knopf Canada, 1994.

1994 Rhodes, Richard. “Michael Snow: The Public Commissions.” In Dennis Reid, Philip Monk, Louise Dompierre, Richard Rhodes, and Derrick de Kerckhove, The Michael Snow Project: Visual Art, 1951–1993, 478–97. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, and Knopf Canada, 1994.

1986 Rioux, Gilles. “Michael Snow: Holographe / Michael Snow: Holographer.” Vie des arts 31, no. 123 (1986): 26–29.

1983 Dompierre, Louise. Walking Woman Works: Michael Snow, 1961–67; New Representational Art and Its Uses. Kingston, ON: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1983.

1981 Wees, William C. “Prophecy, Memory and the Zoom: Michael Snow’s Wavelength Reviewed.” Ciné-Tracts 14/15 (Summer/Fall 1981): 78–83.

1980 Cornwell, Regina. Snow Seen: The Films and Photographs of Michael Snow. Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, 1980.

1979 “About Snow.” October 8 (Spring 1979): 111–24.

1979 Pontbriand, Chantal. “Plus tard, plus tard … Michael Snow.” Parachute 17 (Winter 1979): 49–55.

1977 Taubin, Amy. “Doubled Visions.” October 4 (Fall 1977): 33–42.

1976 Perrin, Peter. “Cover to Cover: A Book by Michael Snow.” artscanada, October–November 1976, 43–47.

1973 Locke, John W. “Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale: How You Should Watch the Best Ever Film I Ever Saw.” Artforum 12, no. 3 (November 1973): 66–71.

1971 Michelson, Annette. “Toward Snow, Part 1.” Artforum 9, no. 10 (June 1971): 30–37.

1970 “Apropos Michael Snow.” In Michael Snow, Michael Snow / A Survey, 11–13. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario / Isaacs Gallery, 1970.

1970 “Michael Snow’s Cinema.” In Michael Snow, Michael Snow / A Survey, 79–84. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario / Isaacs Gallery, 1970.

1970 Young, Dennis. “Origins and Recent Work.” In Michael Snow, Michael Snow / A Survey, 1970 15–16. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario / Isaacs Gallery, 1970. 

1970 Youngblood, Gene. “Icon and Idea in the World of Michael Snow.” artscanada 27 (1970): 2–14.

1969 Sitney, P. Adams. “Structural Film.” Film Culture 47 (Summer 1969): 1–10.

1963 Rockman, Arnold. “Michael Snow and His ‘Walking Woman.’” Canadian Art 20, no. 6 (November/December 1963): 345–47.

1961 Fulford, Robert. “Michael Snow.” Canadian Art 18, no.1 (January–February 1961): 46–47.

  

Overview

2013 CCCA Canadian Art Database. “Michael Snow.” Bill Kirby, founder and editor. Accessed March 21, 2013.

2002 Gagnon, Jean, and Michael Snow. Anarchive 2: Digital Snow. Montreal: Fondation Daniel Langlois; Paris: Époxy Communications, 2002. Interactive DVD-ROM.

1995 Elder, Kathryn, Susan Oxtoby, and Gayathry Sethumadhavan. “Michael Snow: A Selective Guide to the Film Literature.” In The Michael Snow Project: Presence and Absence; The Films of Michael Snow, 1956–1991, edited by Jim Shedden, 208–49. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, and Knopf Canada, 1995. 

  

Interviews and Conversations

2007 Enright, Robert. “The Lord of Missed Rules: An Interview with Michael Snow.” Border Crossings 26, no. 2 (May 2007): 22–40.

2005 Michelson, Annette. “The Sound of Music: A Conversation with Michael Snow.” October 114 (Fall 2005): 43–60.

1998 Gingras, Nicole, and Michael Snow. “Michael Snow: La permanence de la lumière / Transparency and Light.” Art Press 234 (April 1998): 20–26.

1994 Elder, Bruce, and Michael Snow. “On Sound, Sound Recording, Making Music of Recorded Sound, the Duality of Consciousness and Its Alienation from Language, Paradoxes Arising from These and Related Matters.” In The Michael Snow Project: Music/Sound, 1948–1993, edited by Michael Snow, 216–55. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, and Knopf Canada, 1994. 

1992 MacDonald, Scott. “Michael Snow.” In A Critical Cinema 2: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers, 51–76. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

1982 Elder, Bruce. “Michael Snow and Bruce Elder in Conversation.” Ciné-Tracts 17 (Summer/Fall 1982): 13–23. 

1970 Snow, Michael. “Hollis Frampton Interviewed by Michael Snow.” Film Culture, Spring 1970, 6–12.