Michael Seif - Photography
112 Robbins Road
Watertown, MA 02472
617/926-8673
Gallery Representation
New Era Gallery, Vinalhaven, Maine http://neweragallery.com/photo.html
Rocky Neck Gallery, Gloucester, Massachusetts http://www.rockyneckartcolony.org/bryan.html
13Forest Gallery, Arlington, Massachusetts http://13forest.com/
Solo and Featured Artist Exhibits
“Embodiments” - Two-person Show
Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA - 2008
Juried by Michael Dowling, Artistic Director, Medicine Wheel
Productions, Inc
“Water, Granite, Sunlight: Photographs of the Figure in Nature” -
Solo Exhibit Flash’s, Boston, Massachusetts - 2006
“The Nude in Nature” - Featured Artist
New Era Gallery - Vinalhaven, Maine - 2005
“Four Places” - Solo Exhibit
Sasaki Associates - Watertown, Massachusetts - 2005
“1960s New York City” - Featured Artist
New Era Gallery - Vinalhaven, Maine - 2003
“1960s New York City” - Solo Exhibits - 2003-2004
Waltham Public Library, Waltham, Massachusetts
Starbucks - Massachusetts
“A Michael Seif Retrospective” - Solo Exhibit
Watertown Arts on the Charles, sponsored by and held at the
Watertown Savings Bank, Watertown, Massachusetts – 2002
Group Shows
“Human Canvas” - The Center for Fine Art Photography – Fort
Collins, CO - 2009
“Naturally Nude” - CIAO Gallery – Wilson, WY – 2009
“UNCLAD 2009!” - Gallery by the Bay – Stanwood, WA - 2009
“The Nude in Contemporary Art” - A.D. Gallery, University of North
Carolina at Pembroke - 2009
Juried by Jodi Hollnagel-Jubran – teacher and sculptor
“Nude 2009” - Lexington Art League - Lexington, KY - 2009
Juried by Ruth Adams (U of Kentucky), Robert Morgan (artist),
Mike Deetsch (Lexington Art League)
“Water/Light Interface” - Shaw Gallery - Northeast Harbor, ME – 2008
“Shapes of Emotion” - Rocky Neck Art Colony - Gloucester, MA - 2008
Juried by Brian Allen, Dir. of the Addison Gallery of American Art
“2007 National Photography Competition” - The Camera Club ofNY - 2008
Juried by Larry Fink, Photographer, Professor of Photography -
Bard College
“Bare” - Washington Gallery of Photography - Bethesda, MD - 2007
“Weather” - Rocky Neck Art Colony - Gloucester, Massachusetts - 2007
Juried by Karen Quinn, Assistant Curator of Paintings, Art of the
Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Winter Juried Show” - Duxbury Art Association - Duxbury, MA - 2007
Juried by Jim Fitts, Executive Director of the Photographic Resource
Center at Boston University
“Crossing Boundaries” - Pigmentia Studio and Gallery - Medford, MA - 2006
“Impermanence” - elise mankes studio - Marblehead, Massachusetts - 2006
“Places and Spaces” - Arsenal Center for the Arts – Watertown,
Massachusetts - 2006
“The Green Show” - Pigmentia Studio & Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts -
2006
“Grand Opening” - Pigmentia Studio & Gallery, Medford, MA - 2005
“The Photographic Eye” - Group Show artsBELMONT
Demios Gallery, Belmont, Massachusetts - 2004
Awards
“Naturally Nude” - CIAO Gallery – 1st Place in Show - Wilson, WY 2009
Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3), 2nd place Nudes – 2008
Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3), Public Choice Awards,
3rd place Nudes - 2008
“Weather” - Rocky Neck Art Colony – Gloucester, Massachusetts
Honorable Mention - 2007
Winter Juried Show - Duxbury Art Association - Duxbury, MA
3rd Place, Black and White Photography - 2007
“Black and White Magazine” Two-page spread, Merit Award - 2006
Education
Issues in Contemporary Photography Class - Sandra Stark, School of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Workshop, The Human Landscape - Karin Rosenthal, Cape Cod Photo
Workshops, N. Eastham, Massachusetts
Photography class - Lisette Model, New School for Social Research,
New York, NY
Noted photographers lecture series - Diane Arbus, Ernst Haas, and
others, NYC
Photography workshop - Henry Street Settlement House, New York, NY
Advanced Science Writing Fellow, Columbia University School
of Journalism, NYC
Vertebrate Zoology, BS, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY