MICHAEL BÜHLER-ROSE

Born New Brunswick, New Jersey
Lives and works in New York and Vrindavan, India

EDUCATION

2008 M.F.A., School of Art and Art History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

2005 B.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA / Tufts University, Medford MA

SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2014
Spirit & Matter, Scaramouche, New York
Volta, Scaramouche booth, New York

Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA

New Geographics, Lightwork, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me, Urban Video Project, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

2013
AA Bronson and Michael Bühler-Rose, Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany

2012
Interrogating Conventions (with Olivia Fraser), Nature Morte, New Delhi, India

2010
I’ll Worship You and You’ll Worship Me, Carroll & Sons, Boston, MA

Little Indian Still-Lifes, Carroll & Sons, Boston, MA

2009
Constructing the Exotic, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL

2008
Constructing the Exotic, MFA Thesis, University Gallery, Gainesville, FL

2007
Constructing the Exotic, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014
Person, Place or Things, 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany
Botanica (co-curator with AA Bronson), Invisible Exports, New York

2013
Evil Eye Removal Kits, ViennaFair, Vienna, Austria
The Temptation of AA Bronson, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Still Life Lives!, FitchburgArt Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Poses and Views, Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany

2012
Iconographic Investigations, Nature Morte, Gurgaon, India

Recent Acquisitions Part I, Contemporary Photography, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Capturing Identity, selections from the Light Work Collection, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

5, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India

Michael Bühler-Rose & Nikhil Chopra, Chatterjee & Lal, Indian Art Summit, New Delhi, India

2011
The End, co-curated with John Connelly, Vogt Gallery, New York, NY

Ritual Aesthetics, curated by Progress Report, Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY

Exchanging Glances, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India

Of Blind Men and Elephants, The Empty Quarter, Dubai, U.A.E.

2010
Traveling Scholars, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Structures With An Intervention, curated by Meenakshi Thirukode, The Guild, New York, NY

Trying Them On, curated by Jon Feinstein, Hendershot Gallery, New York, NY

After Color, curated by Amani Olu, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah & Atlanta campuses, GA (traveling exhibition)

2009
Compassion, curated by AA Bronson, Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY

Boston Drawing Project 10^th Anniversary, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA

Still life, curated by Jon Feinstein, Camera Club of New York, New York, NY

NOW: Art of the 21^st Century, Phillips de Pury & Company, London, UK

After Color, curated by Amani Olu, Bose Pacia, New York, NY (traveling exhibition)
The Armory, Bose Pacia, New York, NY
Pulse, Artlog/The Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY
Trends in Contemporary Photography, Flandlers Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC

2008
Things Are Strange, New Century Artists, New York, NY

Neti, Neti (not this, not this), curated by Peter Nagy, Bose Pacia, New York, NY

2007
Paris Photo, Brancolini Grimaldi, Paris, France
Art Verona, Brancolini Grimaldi, Verona, Italy

Act of Faith, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Der Aa-kerk, Groningen, The Netherlands

The Contemporary Portrait, SK Stiftung Kultur/Die Photographische Sammlung, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany

2006
The Indian Enigma, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India

Figure 9b, Warphaus Gallery, Gainesville, FL

2005
Suburban Archeology, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

ACADEMIC POSTS

2013
Adjunct Faculty, The Cooper Union, New York, NY

2008- Present
Critic, Department of Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

2012
Adjunct Faculty, Parsons, The New School for Design, New York, New York

2011 - 2012
Part-time Faculty, Fine Arts Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA

2009 – 2011
Assistant Professor, Department of Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

2005-2008
Graduate Alumni Fellow, School of Art + Art History, College of Fine Arts, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2011
The End, co-curated with John Connelly, Vogt Gallery, New York, NY

2008
The Form Itself, Priska C. Juschka Fine Arts, NY, NY

Opposing Photographers as part of Young Curators: New Ideas, Bond Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2005
Suburban Archeology, (co-curator), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

GRANTS and AWARDS

2012
Light Work Artist-In-Residency

2010
NADA/Grolsch Swing Art Award

2008
Grant for Emerging Photographers, The Humble Arts Foundation

Alumni Traveling Scholars, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2006
Fulbright Fellowship
Graduate Travel Grant, University of Florida

2005 – 2008
Graduate Alumni Fellowship, University of Florida

2004
Medici Family Scholarship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2003
N.R.I. Semester Study, Vrndavana, India, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

LECTURES and PANEL DISCUSSIONS

2011
Artists on Art, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY

2009
TC Colley Lecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
After Color, panel discussion moderated by Amani Olu, Bose Pacia, New York, NY

2007
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL

Visiting Artist Lecture, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2006
Visiting Artist Lecture, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA

Visiting Artist Lecture,University of Northern Florida, Jacksonville, FL

U.S. Fulbright/USEFI conference, Conference Speaker, Jaganatha or Juggernaut: When Traditionalism Meets Modernity, Visakhapatnam, India
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Panelist, The Indian Enigma, New Delhi, India

2004
Visiting Artist Lecture, School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

COLLECTIONS

Light Work, Syracuse, NY

Harvard Fogg Museum, Boston, MA

Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany

SK Stiftung Kultur/ Die Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, Germany

REVIEWS and PUBLICATIONS

2014
Vice Magazine, Annual Photo Issue, cover and feature, July

Contact Sheet 176, Light Work, Syracuse, NY. (Catalogue for New Geographics)

2013

Michael Bühler-Rose, Matte Magazine, Issue 17

Lauwaert, Maaike, AA Bronson, Artforum.com, 11.13

Vikram, Anuradha, The Real Reason(s) Indians Are Obsessed with Switzerland, Hyperallergic.com, 9.20.13

Sheerin, Mark. The Consolation of Temptation, Hyperallergic.com, 9.18.13

Sheerin, Mark. AA Bronson’s Garden of Queer Delights, Hyperallergic.com, 9.9.13
Burley, Isabella, AA Bronson & Michael Bühler-Rose, AnOther Magazine (online) 5.9.13

Hubbs, Sara, Michael Bühler-Rose: Post-Modern Artist/Hindu Priest Somewhere Between Aura and Prana, Yoga City News
Citron, Beth. Light Work Annual, Light Work, Syracuse, NY.

2012
Bhagat, Himanshu, The Eye of the Beholder, The Caravan, 6.12

D’Mello, Roselyn, East is East, Blouin Artinfo.com, 3.19.12

Madhu, Manjusha. Art Explorations of Traditional Idioms, Sunday Guardian, 3.18.12

New Media Portfolio, Platform Magazine, 1.12

2011
Nagy, Peter, Personal Gnosis for Public Consumption: The Practice of Michael Bühler-Rose, Fantom Magazine 11. 11.11

2010
McQuaid, Cate. Travelers’ Smorgasbord, The Boston Globe, 5.4.2010

Gamber, Matthew. A Conversation with Michael Bühler-Rose, Big Red & Shiny, 5.4.2010

E.E.B., Trying Them On, New York Photo Review (online), 2.24.2010

co-edited with Lavalette, Shane, Layflat 02: Meta, Layflat, Cambridge

Cotter, Holland. Downtime at New Year? It’s Filled, New York Times, 1.1.2010

2009
Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers 2009, 5^th anniversary, Magenta Foundation

Thirukode, Meenakshi, Construction of the Exotic, White Wall Magazine, (online article), 9.2.09

Bühler-Rose, Michael and Gamber, Matthew, After Color: A New Look for Black and White? Bomb Magazine online, 8.12.09

Cappetta, Andrew, Amani Olu Has New Ideas, Art In America (online article), 08.06.09

Huffman, Jibade-Khalil (ed.), After Stanley Donen, Eighth Veil, LA

Olu, Amani (ed.) After Color, BP Contemporary Art of India Series, Volume 35

The Collectors Guide to Emerging Art Photograph, The Humble Arts Foundation

Ross, Asher, SCOPE New York, Dossier Journal, 3.12.09

2008
Pearse, Emma, Artist Michael Buhler-Rose Visits Bollywood, Florida, New York Magazine, Culture Vulture Blog, 11.6.08

Editors Pick: New York Gallery Shows in November, Artinfo.com, 11.08

Coburn, Tyler, A Question of Form, Rhizome.org, 9.17.08

Guha, Rohin, Curators on Display @ Bond Street, BlackBook, 8.21.08

Hulme, Emily, Bond Brings ‘New Ideas’, AM New York, August 15-17, Issue 158, Vol. 6.

Shefchik, Claire, Young Curators, New Ideas, Beyond Race, Augut, 21.

Smith, Roberta, Art in Review, Neti Neti (not this, not this), New York Times, 8.8.08,
Pollack, Barbara, Neti Neti, Time Out New York, Issue 670
Dhingrha, Juhi Jhunjhunwala, Its Neither East Nor West at Bose Pacia, The South Asian Times

Camera Austria, Issue 101
Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers 2008, Magenta Foundation

2007
Melis, Wim, Act of Faith (catalogue), Aurora Borealis

Johnson, Miki. Student Portfolio. American Photo on Campus, April

Schweig, Graham M. Bhagavad-gita, The Beloved Lord’s Secret Love Song, New York and San Francisco: Harper San Francisco / Harper-Collins, (Cover)

2006
PDN, May, “Photo Annual”
Times of India, February 15, "American youth now catching up with Qawalis