Current exhibitions:
PhantasieMechanik:Story Telling Machines,Phaeno, Wolfsburg, Germany (until June 2008)Machines Contemplating Time, Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art, Portland, ME (Jan 29 - March 16)
Gestural Engineering, MIT Museum, Building N52, 265 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA (ongoing)
Solo Exhibitions:
2007- Dreaming the Machine, Carl Drerup Art Gallery, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, 2007- A Few Machines , Tower Hill School, Wilmington, DE 2006- Ambiguous Machines: The Kinetic Sculpture of Arthur Ganson, Groton School, Groton, MA 2006- Maskin- Trondheim Matchmaking 2006,Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art, Trondheim, Norway 2006- Machines and Mechanism: Kinetic Sculpture by Arthur Ganson, McColl Center for the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina 2002- Artful Mechanisms: The Kinetic Sculpture of Arthur Ganson, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA 2001- Engineered Empathy, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI 2001- Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama 2001- The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA 2001- Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 2000- Thoughtful Mechanisms: The Lyrical Engineering of Arthur Ganson, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 2000- Scudder Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 1998- Machines, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York (May 1998) 1994- Mechanical e.motions @ mit.edu, Compton Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1994- Bridge III, The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA 1993- Diverse Machinery, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA 1993- Machines, Buckingham Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge, MA
Group Exhibitions:
2007- Humana ex Machina, Main Art Gallery, Cal State University, Fullerton, CA 2006- Great Buys: Museum Purchases, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA 2003- The Ballad of Wires and Hands, New Art Center, Newtonville, MA 2002- Handmade Machines (and past lives too), Holderness School, Plymouth, NH 2002- Sitelines: Art on Main, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover,MA 2001- Kites, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA 2001- Electroland, Oni Gallery, Boston, MA 1999- ex machina, Connecticut College, New London, CT 1999- Popular Science, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston 1999- Kabinett der Mechanik, Technorama, Winterthur, Switzerland 1999- Innovations in Motion, The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT 1998- Spinning Wheels and Whirling Wheels, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT 1996- On the Move, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA 1995- Strokes of Genius, Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA 1994- A Diversity of Motion, Milton Academy, Milton, MA 1994- Fused: Art, Science and Industry, Cape Cod Community College, W. Barnstable, MA
Related Activities:
Osher Fellowship at The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA Inventor of the toy Toobers and Zots and co-founder of HandsOnToys Artist-in-Residence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Second Wednesdays Performance Series, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA-Feb 9, 2000 Pong 96- A Festival of Art and Technology, Brown University Lemelson-Mit Program Invention Dimension Mindfest-MIT Media Laboratory Electronic Arts Performance Series, RPI, Troy NY "The Playful Mind" symposium, The Lemelson Center at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Awards:
Risorgimento Award. 2000 from Destination Imagination
1955: Born in Hartford, CT 1978: BFA Sculpture - University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH