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FOAM MAGAZINE #20 / TALENT / MICHAEL LUNDGRENMichael Lundgren Michael Lundgren was born in Denver in 1974. He received his BFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1997 and his MFA from Arizona State University in 2003. He has been a faculty member at ASU since 2004. Transfigurations, Lundgren’s first monograph was published in 2008 by Radius Books. He is co-author of After the Ruins: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake with the artist Mark Klett. Lundgren’s w ork is currently on view in the exhibition Photography is Dead at the Three White Walls Gallery in Birmingham, UK, selected by Martin Barnes, curator, Victoria & Albert Museum, London. In 2007 Lundgren was nominated by Britt Salvesen, curator, Center for Creative Photography for the Silverstein Photography Annual, New York. He is a recipient of the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward 2009 award, a nominee for the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship, the Santa Fe Prize and a 2007 finalist for the Aperture West Book Prize. Lundgren’s work is included in the fine art collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Museet for Fotokunst, Odense; the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego as well as numerous private collections. He is represented by ClampArt, New York. Two distinct series, Transfigurations and Matter, are presented here in the same portfolio. In both bodies of work Lundgren engages the language of landscape, not to record the specifics of place, but to allude to an atavistic experience of the desert. |
