Michael Harwood
A native New Yorker and self-taught artist, I’ve been exhibiting
my work since the mid-1970’s. At that time, I was producing
collages which exploited the homo-erotic undertone in mass market
magazine ads. These were included in the seminal “It’s
a Gender Show” at Group Material, (NYC, 1981).
In 1980 I took
up 35mm photography as a means of recording the visual delights
and peculiarities of the city and of my daily life, including the
friends who became my first models. Everything presented
here has grown from that, and quite beyond the borders of Manhattan.
My
artistic parents came from the theater - Charles Ludlam and Jerzy
Grotowski (strange bedfellows, to be sure). I found my mentor
in the artist Tommy Lanigan Schmidt, and there have been several
essential muses, some of whom are depicted on this website.
My photography
has been shown in such venues as the National Arts Club (NYC),
the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, the Menschel Photography
Gallery ay Syracuse University, the Leslie/Lohman Gallery (NYC),
ClampArt (NYC), and Art Resources Transfer (NYC). It has
been published in several catalogs, the Tom of Finland Foundation’s Erotic
Art Gallery, The James White Review, and Self
Exposure, the Male Nude Self Portrait.
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Exhibits
Solo
Along for the Ride, Barber Bart, New York, NY,
2006
Impulse, Tom of Finland Clothing, New York, NY, 2000
Diptychs, Emulsion Gallery, New York, NY, 1998
Collages, The Glines, New York, NY, 1977, l976
Collages, TOSOS, New York, NY, 1976 |
Group
Dark Ride, Leslie/Lohman Gallery, New
York, 2007
Self Exposure, ClampArt, New York, NY, 2005
Visual
AIDS Web Gallery, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002, 1999
Neo
Erotique, Art@Large,
New York, NY, 2004
The Boys of Summer, ClampArt, New York, NY,
2004
The Muses, Leslie/Lohman Gallery, New York, NY, 2001
Sight
of Construction, LGBT Community Center, New York, NY, 2001
Benefit
Show, Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY, 2001, 2000, 1999
A
Space for this Passion, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY,
2000
Desire, Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse University,
NY, 1999 Group Show, Barbara Ann Levy Gallery, Cherry Grove, NY,
1999
Photoflexion II: The Masters, Milwaukee Institute of Art and
Design,
Milwaukee, WI, 1999
Desire, National Arts Club, New York,
NY, 1999
Plus or Minus Thirty, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center,
New York, NY, 1999
The Gay Landscape, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural
Center, New York, NY, 1999
Color, Scott Pfaffman Gallery, New York,
NY, 1999
Home is Where the Art Is, National Arts Club, New York,
NY, 1996
Gay Photo Annual, Leslie/Lohman Gallery, New York, NY,
1993
Group Show, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, 1990
AIDS Projection Project, Electric Blanket, New York, NY, 1990
Ushers’ Show, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, 1989,
1988
It’s a Gender Show, Group Material, New York, NY, 1981
Publications
Treasures of
Gay Art from the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, All Saints Press, 2006
Art from the HIV Community,
2006 Calendar, GlaxoSmithKline Corporation
Self Exposure: the Male
Nude Self-Portrait, Universe/Rizzoli, 2005
Elle Décor, “Christopher Tanner”,
October, 2002
The James White Review, Winter 2002, Fall 1999
Contact
Sheet, no. 103, catalog, 1999
Tom of Finland Foundation Erotic
Art Gallery, no. 18, 2001, no. 12, 1999
Home is Where the Art Is,
catalog, 1996
Thomas Lanigan Schmidt, catalog, Holly Solomon Gallery,
1987
Cover Magazine, 1987 New York Native, 1985
The Advocate, 1977
Mach Magazine, 1977
Grants
Visual AIDS Artists’ Materials Grant, 2006, 2003, 1999, 1998
Art Matters, Photographers’ Emergency Fund, 1995
Private
donors
Other Activities
International
Center for Photography, Assistant Teacher, 1993
Collaborations:
Thomas Lanigan Schmidt, Agosto Machado
Art documentation: Christopher
Tanner, Thomas Lanigan Schmidt, Timmy Bellavia, Sandra Korsak,
Hoge/Santiago, Owen Morell, Judy Pfaff
Education
Columbia College, B.A., 1968
Reviews
from The New York Times June 18, 1999
Holland Cotter on “Desire”, at the National Arts Club:
“The male body is central…in Michael Harwood’s picture of
a bodybuilder tiptoeing over a kitchen stove…And [the show] concludes
on a witty high note with Mr. Harwood’s “Huck, Lollipops and Pollock
Book” in which eye candy of various kinds (including images of sculpture
by the artist Thomas Lanigan Schmidt) come together."
from The New York Times August 2, 1996
Holland Cotter on “Home Is Where the Art Is”,
at the National Arts Club:
“…and Michael
Harwood offers a striking photograph of a nude man stretched out on a kitchen
table.”
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