Land Art
US-American, 20th century
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XXXV Exposizione Internazionale d'arte di Venezia, Venice
| Michael Heizer | |
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Born 1944 in Berkeley, California Land Art US-American, 20th century |
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| Curriculum Vitae | |
| 1963 – 1964 | Attends the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco |
| 1966 | Moves to New York |
| 1967 | Heizer creates a new genre of land art or earth art. With his work Double Negative, he removes a displacement of earth to make two vast incisions opposite one another on the edge of Virgin River mesa, Silver Springs, Nevada. |
| since 1968 | Heizer begins creating large Earth works, primarily in California and Nevada |
| 1968 | Nine Nevada Depressions, Sierra Nevada |
| 1969 | For his first solo show at the Heiner Friedrich Gallery, Munich, he removes 1,000 tons of earth in a conical shape to create: Munich Depression, Munich-Neuperlach |
| 1970 |
Virginia Dwan Gallery: Michael Heizer: New York; XXXV Exposizione Internazionale d'arte di Venezia, Venice |
| 1971 | Detroit Institute of Arts: Michael Heizer: Photographic and Actual Work, Detroit |
| 1972 | Heizer begins construction on a massive installation known as City in the rural desert of Lincoln County, Nevada |
| 1974 | Ace Gallery: Michael Heizer Windows, Los Angeles |
| 1976 | Xavier Fourcade Gallery: Michael Heizer: New Works: Painting and Sculpture, New York |
| 1977 | documenta 6, Kassel |
| 1979 | Museum Folkwang: Michael Heizer, Essen |
| 1980 | Xavier Fourcade Gallery: Negative Sculpture |
| 1984 | Museum of Contemporary Art: Geometric Extraction, Los Angeles |
| 1985 | Libbie Rice Farish Gallery of the School of Architecture, Rice University: 45°, 90°, 180°: A Sculpture for Rice University, Houston |
| 1988 | Akira Ikeda Gallery: Michael Heizer: New Sculpture, Tokyo |
| 1990 | Waddington Galleries: Michael Heizer, London |
| 1994 | Ace Gallery: Art Before Life: Michael Heizer, New York |
| 1995 | Heizer is diagnosed with "polyneuropathy", a neurological disorder which reduces his ability to use his hands |
| 1995 | Galerie Frank + Schulte: Michael Heizer: Works 1972-1976, Berlin |
| 1996 | Fondazione Prada: Michael Heizer: Negative - Positive +, Milan |
| 1999 | Museum of Modern Art: PRIMARILY STRUCTURAL, Long Island |
| 2004 | Fundació Joan Miró: Behind the Facts, Barcelona |
| 2006 | Jablonka Galerie: Michael Heizer, Cologne |
| Heizer currently resides near the "City" site and continues his work on the project. | |