Michael O'Brien

Michael O'Brien

Chair, Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design
Biography

Education M.F.A., photography, Yale University B.F.A., photography, Yale University B.A., English, Kenyon College Credentials Associate chair, photography, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta Associate professor, photography, 1973-1975, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH Contributing editor, 2006-2017, Departures Magazine Awards, recognitions, and honors Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2016 Matthew Barney: All still photography for Drawing Restraint 7, Cremaster 1, 2, 4, 5, 1993–2003. This work has been shown at the Musee Moderne, Paris, 2002; Guggenheim, New York, 2003; and throughout the world. Organizations Society for Photographic Education London Photographic Association Yale Club USA Publications and presentations Solo exhibitions We Have Translated Each Other Into Light, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, Ga., April–July 2018 His Tender Heir Look/17, The Gallery Liverpool, April 2017 Diptychs, Eyeloco, Antwerp, February-March 2015 Liverpool International Photography Festival, May 2015 Municipality of Istanbul, August 2014 Regeneration, Municipality of Istanbul, June 2013 Joyce Gallery, Hong Kong, September-November 2013 Joyce Gallery, Beijing 2012 Hermes, Portraits and Still-life Photographs, New York, 2007 Galerie 213, Paris 2004 and 2005 Assembling Gender, Exit Art, New York, 1994 Group exhibitions Creative Rage, Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, April–September 2018 Breaking Myth, Museo d’Aumale, Palermo, Italy, June–September 2018 Figure/Ground, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2018 Open Studio, SCAD Atlanta, 2017 Open Studio, SCAD Atlanta, November 2016 Open Studio, SCAD Atlanta, November 2015 Fashion Underground, F.I.T. NYC, 2015 Galerie Emilie Dujat, Brussels, 2012, 2013 Indian Caps, Antwerp, 2010 Noovo, Santiago de Compostello, 2007 Artphotoexpo, Art Miami/Basel curated by Marion de Beaupre, 2007 Presentations Presenter, Transformations in Photography and Fashion, Conference Palermo, June 2018 Now You See Me: Self-Portraiture in the Digital Age, John's Creek Art Gallery, Atlanta, October 2017 ACP Spotlight Lecture, SCAD Show, Atlanta, October 2017 Artspeak, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, 2017 Artist talk, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, 2016 Publications Co-editor, Designers Against Aids, The First Decade, published by Ludion Press, Brussels, 2010 Girlfriend: Men, Women & Drag, photographs with text by Holly Brubach, Random House, 2000 Permanent collections National Portrait Gallery, London Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio Joyce Holdings, Beijing Savannah College of Art and Design