Michael Kolster

Associate Professor of Art

Phone (207) 725-3185
Title Associate Professor
Department Art
Work Location 310 Visual Arts Center
E-Mail mkolster@bowdoin.edu

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On leave for the 2011-12 academic year.


Education

1992     Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MFA photography
1989     International Center of Photography, NYC, Documentary Certificate
1985     Williams College, Williamstown, Mass, BA, American Studies

Links

Michael Kolster's work in the Faculty Gallery »
Personal projects site: bowdoin.edu/~mkolster/indexweb/ »
Visit THE DAILY POST at: dailypost.bowdoin.edu »

Exhibitions

Solo

2009    New Orleans, Muskie School for Public Service University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
2008    Dwell, n., Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
2007     "Flux" Area Gallery, USM, Portland, Me
2006     "comeandsee" The Map Room, Portland, Me
2005     "Daily Post Grids" Space Gallery, Portland, Me
2005     "Multiples" Icon Gallery, Brunswick, Me
2003     "Mojave" Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
1999     "Selections" FVA, San Francisco

Two-Person

2003     "Botanica" Round Room Gallery, Danforth Museum
2003     "Coastal" Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport
2002     "Maine Coast: Photos and Paintings" Saco Museum
2002     "Botanica" Landau Gallery, Belmont, MA

Selected Group

2010     Vital Signs, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film Rochester, NY 
2009     New England Photography Biennial, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
2009     National Photography '09, The Main Street Gallery, Groton, NY
2009     American Visions Photography – Going Green, Museum of Anthropology at CSU, Chico, CA
2009     Ordinary Life, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2003     "Taking Pictures" Icon Gallery, Brunswick, Me
2002     "Biennial" Maine Center for Contemporary Art
2002     "Art Faculty, Bowdoin College" Icon Gallery
2002     "Plugged In" Maine Center for Contemporary Art
1995     "Trois Amercianes" Z Space, Paris, France
1994     "Juried National" Magic Silver, Kentucky
1994     "Photo 94" Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco

Publications

2009    The Daily Post - http://dailypost.bowdoin.edu (ongoing) an online publication to which a photograph is added every day; initiated in March, 2002 and ongoing with over 2700 photographs as of Sept 2009; over 200 national and international subscribers receive a link to each day’s photograph; subscriber list includes or has included photographers, curators, and gallery owners across the country; used in college and university photography classes nationwide, including those taught by photographer Mark Klett at Arizona State University, Holly Haywood at the University of New England, and Nigel Poor at the University of California at Sacramento; 7,000 page views recorded in December 2008

2009    Consilience – The Journal of Sustainable Development (forthcoming Nov 09) Columbia University, New York photographic essay from the Changing Places project accepted for publication

2009    Last Days of the Coliseum, Connecticut Public Television (forthcoming Dec 09) Richard Hanley, producer and Graduate Director of Journalism & Interactive Communications, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT minimum of eight photographs and taped interview accepted for publication

2007     New Orleans Photographs
1997     Photo Review, Philadelphia, PA
1992     From Here to Now

Reviews

2008    “Dwell, n. at Icon” David Raymond, Art New England, June/July
            “He Points, Shoots, Makes a Point” Philip Isaacson, Maine Sunday Telegram, April
2006     "comeandsee" Philip Isaacson, Maine Sunday Telegram, August 6
            "Eye Cartography" Ian Paige, Portland Phoenix, July
2004     "Multiples at Icon" Chris Thompson, Art New England, June/July
            "Kolster’s Decisiveness" Philip Isaacson,
            Maine Sunday Telegram, 20 Feb

Teaching

2000-pres     Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
1994-2000     Academy of Art College, San Francisco, California
1995-1998     City College of San Francisco
1995             University of California at Berkeley Extension

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