About the artist:
A leading member of the Bennington school, abstract artists associated with Bennington College, Michael Steiner creates sophisticated abstract sculpture, often with repetitive, geometric patterns. 1945 - Born: New York City SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1998 - Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ 1997 - Salander-O'Reillly Gallleries, New York 1995 - Salander-O'Reillly Gallleries, New York 1993 - Galerie Gerald Piltzer, Paris Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York 1992 - Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL (Drawings, Bronzes and “Monumental Sculpture") Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York 1990 - Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL 1987 - Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York 1985 - Galerie Elca London, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, KS Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX 1983 - Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York Martha White Gallery, Louisville, KY 1982 - Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York The Hett Gallery Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Galerie Wentzel, Cologne, West Germany Barbara Balkin Gallery, Chicago Harcus-Krakow Gallery, Boston 1981 - Galerie Wentzel, Hamburg, Germany Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX Gallery One, Toronto, Canada 1980 - Galerie Ninety-Nine, Bay Harbor Islands, FL Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York Meredith Long & Co., New York 1979 - Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York Galerie Wentzel, Hamburg, Germany Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany Galerie Tiergarten, Hannover, Germany Harcus-Krakow Gallery, Boston 1978 - Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Galerie Gerald Piltzer, Paris, France Kunst-und-Museumsverein, Wuppertal, Germany 1977 - Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany Watson/de Nagy & Co., Houston, TX Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland Harcus-Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA 1976 - Galerie Wentzel, Hamburg, Germany David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York 1975 - Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York 1974 - Marlborough Gallery, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1971 - Hart House, University of Toronto, Canada 1970 - Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Regina, Canada Marlborough Gallery, New York Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1968 - Dwan Gallery, New York 1966 - Dwan Gallery, New York 1963 - Fischbach Gallery, New York SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Algoma Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Bank America, San Francisco, CA Center Georges Pompidou, Beauborg, Paris Continental Insurance Company, New York Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Hack Museum, Luduigshafen, Germany Hamilton Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Huntington Galleries, Huntington, WV Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany J. Patrick Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, FL Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum, Cambridge, MA Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Museum of Modern Art, New York Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY Museum Sprengee, Hanover, Germany Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, Canada Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertge, Germany Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Weathersoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Whitney Museum of American Art, NY AWARDS 1971 - Guggenheim Fellowship