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Michael Ashkin, American artist. Recipient award, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., 1997; fellow Honorary President fellow, Columbia University, 1978; scholar Full Merit scholar, School Art Institute Chicago, 1991-1993.

Background

Ashkin, Michael was born in 1955 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States.

Education

Bachelor, University Pennsylvania, 1977. Master of Arts in Middle East Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, 1980. Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing, School Art Institute Chicago, 1993.

Career

He is best known for his use of miniature scale and modest materials. Ashkin also authored Garden State, a book which compares the New Jersey Meadowlands to a formal garden. He is a contributing author to (Untitled) Experience of Place.

In 2014, A-Jump Books published Ashkin"s Long Branch a book of photographs and text documenting the destruction of a New Jersey neighborhood.

Ashkin was born in Morristown, New Jersey, and received an Master of Arts in Middle East Languages and Cultures from Columbia University. Before becoming an artist, he taught Arabic and worked as a computer programmer for investment banks.

Ashkin"s work was included in Documenta 11 in 2002, and in the 1997 Whitney Biennial. He is a professor at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning as well as a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow.

-Watery, Domestic at The Renaissance Society.

Achievements

  • Michael Ashkin has been listed as a notable artist by Marquis Who's Who.