Michael James O'Brien
Chair, photography
Education
- M.F.A., photography, Yale University
- B.F.A., photography, Yale University
- B.A., English, Kenyon College
Credentials
- Associate chair, photography, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta
- Associate professor, photography, 1973-1975, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
- Contributing editor, 2006-2017, Departures Magazine
Awards, recognitions, and honors
- Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2016
- Matthew Barney: All still photography for Drawing Restraint 7, Cremaster 1, 2, 4, 5, 1993–2003. This work has been shown at the Musee Moderne, Paris, 2002; Guggenheim, New York, 2003; and throughout the world.
Organizations
- Society for Photographic Education
- London Photographic Association
- Yale Club USA
Publications and presentations
Solo exhibitions
- We Have Translated Each Other Into Light, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, Ga., April–July 2018
- His Tender Heir Look/17, The Gallery Liverpool, April 2017
- Diptychs, Eyeloco, Antwerp, February-March 2015
- Liverpool International Photography Festival, May 2015
- Municipality of Istanbul, August 2014
- Regeneration, Municipality of Istanbul, June 2013
- Joyce Gallery, Hong Kong, September-November 2013
- Joyce Gallery, Beijing 2012
- Hermes, Portraits and Still-life Photographs, New York, 2007
- Galerie 213, Paris 2004 and 2005
- Assembling Gender, Exit Art, New York, 1994
Group exhibitions
- Creative Rage, Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, April–September 2018
- Breaking Myth, Museo d’Aumale, Palermo, Italy, June–September 2018
- Figure/Ground, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, Ga., 2018
- Open Studio, SCAD Atlanta, 2017
- Open Studio, SCAD Atlanta, November 2016
- Open Studio, SCAD Atlanta, November 2015
- Fashion Underground, F.I.T. NYC, 2015
- Galerie Emilie Dujat, Brussels, 2012, 2013
- Indian Caps, Antwerp, 2010
- Noovo, Santiago de Compostello, 2007
- Artphotoexpo, Art Miami/Basel curated by Marion de Beaupre, 2007
Presentations
- Presenter, "Transformations in Photography and Fashion," Conference Palermo, June 2018
- "Now You See Me: Self-Portraiture in the Digital Age," John's Creek Art Gallery, Atlanta, October 2017
- ACP Spotlight Lecture, SCAD Show, Atlanta, October 2017
- Artspeak, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, 2017
- Artist talk, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, 2016
Publications
- Co-editor, Designers Against Aids, The First Decade, published by Ludion Press, Brussels, 2010
- Girlfriend: Men, Women & Drag, photographs with text by Holly Brubach, Random House, 2000
Permanent collections
- National Portrait Gallery, London
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
- Joyce Holdings, Beijing
- Savannah College of Art and Design