Faculty
| Michael Peter Cain | |
|---|---|
| Artist-in-Residence | |
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| Work Phone: | (641) 472-7000 ext. 2132 or 2214 |
| Home Phone: | (641) 472-6494 |
Personal Data
Born: July 3, 1941
Married: Charlotte Modliszewski
Education
Yale School of Art, B.F.A., M.F.A., Painting.
Art Students’ League.
Harvard College, A.B., English, Cum Laude.
Choate School, Wallingford, Connecticut, Cum Laude.
Grants and Awards
2001 Exalting Matter, Embodying Consciousness, Enlivening Sculpture, Artist’s Project Grant, Iowa Arts Council
2000 Artist’s Mini Grant, Iowa Arts Council
1999 Making Sculpture in India, Artist’s Mini Grant, Iowa Arts Council.
1996-97 Living Taditions of Indian Sculpture, Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to India
1995-96 Exalted Matter: Evoking Sacred Cultural Tradition through Multimedia Installation Sculpture, Artist’s Project, Iowa Arts Council
1994 NATURE (as mother, as earth) CONTAINS NATURE, Artist’s Mini Grant for Video Installation Project, Iowa Arts Council
1993 Artist’s Project Grant, Iowa Arts Council.
1991 Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award.
1990 Nominee, National Artists Fellowship, Awards in the Visual Arts (AVA).
1989–90 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)—Arts Midwest, Fellowship in Sculpture
1988-89 University of Minnesota Artists' Fellowship in Sculpture, Studio Arts Foundry.
1988-89 Anonymous gift for time and materials, $12,500.
1968-73 Graham Foundation of Chicago, $50,000 grant to Pulsa. Additional sponsors for Pulsa’s research and exhibitions included Yale University, Boston Urban Redevelopment, Museum of Modern Art, California Institute of the Arts, Automation House, and more than 30 corporations.
Selected Solo Exhibitions (Sculpture)
2001 Unity Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa
2000 Project Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City
1997 Lord Touch, Certain Senses and Other Small Images of the Self, India International Center, New Delhi
1995 Sculpture, Joyce Zylberberg Gallery at Union League Club, New York
1995 Lyman Art Advisory, Chicago
1994 Body of Images, Armstrong Gallery, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa
1993 In the Space between the Adorer and the Adored, Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska
1993 Shining Back, Reflections of Name in Form, Leedy Voulkos, Kansas City
1993 As is Nature, So are the Features of Images, M-13 Gallery, New York
1991 Center for Contemporary Art (CCA)
1990 Seed Images from which Consciousness Might Construct a World, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
1990 Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Chicago
1987 Institute for Creative Arts, Fairfield, Iowa
Major Commissions
1997 Cedar Rapids Airport
1994 Peer Pederson, Chicago
1993 New Otani, Los Angeles
1991 Des Moines Art Center
1987 Poly-America, Inc.,Grand Prairie, Texas
1987 Nikko Hotel, Chicago
1985 Ames Residence, Rancho Mirage,California
1984 Hyatt Regency Corporate Headquarters, Chicago
1983 Bullock’s, Corporate Headquarters, Los Angeles
1970 Museum of Modern Art, Industrial Sponsors, with Pulsa
1968 Boston Urban Redevelopment, Industrial sponsors, with Pulsa
Selected Group Exhibitions (Sculpture)
2000 Iowa Artists, Des Moines Art Center
2000 Sherry Leedy, Kansas City
1998-2000 Vail Geisler, Des Moines
1997-2000 Kapil Jariwalla Gallery, Londo
1999 Iowa Artists, Des Mones Art Center
1996 & 1997 Feigen Gallery, Chicago
1997 In the Spirit, CSPS, Cedar Rapids
1994-1997 Leedy Voulkos, Kansas City
1993 Community, Heartland Gallery, Des Moines (Also co-curator)
1993 Bi-State Regional Showcase, Davenport Museum of Art
1992 Effigiem Coeli, 51st Annual Exhibition, Sioux City Art Center
1992 Field Effects: 10 Artists, Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa
1992 Iowa Artists, Des Moines Art Center
1992 Dreams & Demons: Modern Mythic Visions, Evanston Art Center
1992 Godhead, Feature Gallery, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions of Environmental Art (Pulsa)
1972 Yale University Campus
1972 California Institute of the Arts
1971 Automation House, New York
1971 Walker Art Center
1971 Stanford University Campus
1971 California Institute of the Arts
1971 Nova Scotia College of Art
1971 Philadelphia Museum of Art
1970 University of Kentucky
1970 Museum of Modern Art, New York
1970 & 1971 University of Rhode Island
1969 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
1969 Wesleyan University, Connecticut
1969 Electric Ear, New York
1969 Yale Golf Course
1968 Boston Public Garden
1968 & 1970 Yale School of Art Gallery
1967 New Haven Loft
Other Shows
Painted Reliefs and Sculptures have been shown in over 40 group exhibitions in museums and galleries across the USA, 1962-2001.
Selected Private Collections
Artwork is represented in over 40 private collections across the United States, in Europe and in India.
Ms. Melva and Mr. Martin Bucksbaum, N.Y.C.
Ms. Julia Brown, N.Y.C.
Mr. Dan Dietrich, Philadelphia
Mr. Patrick Clancy, Kansas City
Mr. Peter Frank, Los Angeles
Mr. Sam Green, New York
Mr. Monty Guild, Malibu, California
Mr. Horst Klose, Odenburg, Germany
Mr. and Mrs. Lalit Nirula, New Delhi
Mr. Sheldon Nodelman, San Diego, California
Mr. Peer Pederson, Chicago
Mr. David Rumsey, San Francisco
Ms. Wendy Stedman Sheard, Stony Creek, Ct.
Mr. John Stenersen, Oslo, Norway
Ms. Melinda Wortz, Pasadena, California
Public Collections
American Telephone and Telegraph (ATT), N.Y.C.
Arts Magazine, N.Y.C.
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Los Angeles
CRST Truck Lines, Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
Gould Corporation, Rolling Meadows, Illinois
Guild Investment Corporation, Malibu, California
Leydig, Voit and Meyer, Ltd., Chicago
McDonald’s Corporation, Chicago and Indianapolis
International Business Machines (IBM), Atlanta
Prudential Insurance Corporation, Washington, D.C.
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Sear’s Merchants, Inc., Chicago
Solar Sources, Inc., Greenwood, Indiana
Reviews and Articles About Cain’s Artwork
Cain’s artwork has been reviewed or described in over forty articles and books, including:
Charles Green. The Third Hand: Collaboration in Art from Conceptualism to Modernism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. 2001.
Perret, Marguerite. "Brave New World: Artist Michael Peter Cain seeks ways to transform and build on the exisiting world." Icon, May 25, 2000.
Reiss, Julie. From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art. Cambridge, MIT Press. 1999.
Editors. “1997 in Review: Public Art,, Michael Peter Cain.” Art in America, Annual, 1998-9.
Rowe, Jessica , An Uncommon Vision, Des Moines Art Center, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1998
Petrick, Mark Paul. “Michael Peter Cain.” Sculpture, November-December 1993.
Fergusson, Anna and Lee. “Seed Images from which Consciousness Might Construct a World.” New Art Examiner, Jan. 1991.
Brown, Betty Ann. “Michael Peter Cain at Stella Polaris.” Arts, Sept. 1983.
Wortz, Melinda. “Living the Simple Life.” Art News, Feb. 1982.
Sandler, Irving. American Art of the 1960’s. New York, Braziller. 1988.
Burnham, Jack. The Great Western Saltworks. New York: Braziller. 1974
Lippard Lucy. Six Years. New York. Praeger, 1973.
Elsen, Albert E.. Purposes of Art. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1972.
Ashton, Dore. “New York Commentary.” Studio International, March, 1970.
Burnham, Jack. “The Aesthetics of Intelligent Systems.” On the Future of Art. New York: Viking. 1970.
Shirey, David. “Art in Space.” Newsweek, Jan. 12, 1970.
Shirey, David. “Pulsa, Light, Sound.” New York Times, Dec. 24, 1970.
Battock, Gregory. “The Politics of Space.” Arts, Feb. 1970.
Ashton, Dore. “New York Commentary.” Studio International, March, 1970.
Lippard, Lucy . “Pulsa.” Arts Canada, Dec. 1968.
Tworkov, Jack and Pulsa. “The Yale Art School Light Show.” Eye #2, 1968.
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