Arthur Ganson

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Exhibitions and Biography

 

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


Biographical

1955: Born in Hartford, CT
1978: BFA Sculpture - University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH