Michael Stevenson

Michael Stevenson was born in 1964 in New Zealand, and has been living and working in Berlin since 2000. Since 2011 he has held a Professorship at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg, from 2017 to 2019 he was a visiting artist in the Masters programme at HEAD, Haute Ecole d’art et de design, Genève. Stevenson was awarded the New Zealand residency programme in 2002 at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin and in 2006 was the Capp St. resident artist at the Wattis Institute CCA in San Francisco. In 2003 he was selected as New Zealand’s representative at the fiftieth Venice Biennale. Recent exhibitions include Monash University Museum of Art (2019), Biennale of Sydney, Carriageworks (2018), Auckland Art Gallery (2017), Michael Lett, Auckland (2017), Regen Projects, Los Angeles (2017), Carl Freedman Gallery, London (2016), Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2016).