1977
Born in Davenport, Iowa, Lives in New York


EDUCATION

2003
MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2000
BFA, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007
Michael Vahrenwald, the mythic has no medium Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Michael Vahrenwald, the distance between any two points is infinite…, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago IL

2006
Michael Vahrenwald, Universal Default, Galerie Alain LeGaillard, Paris France, March 2006


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Field Trip, HDLU, Zagreb Croatia

2007
Landscapes, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Outpost, Tim Davis, John Lehr and Michael Vahrenwald, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI

2006
Paris Photo, Alain Le Gaillard Gallery, November 15th-19th 2006
Upstate, Curated by Amy Smith Steuart, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY. October 5, 2006
Fountains, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY. July 2006
Remake/Remodel, online group exhibition, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY.
Sean Bluchel, Brian Bellot and Michael Vahrenwald, Sunday Salon, curated by Peter Coffin, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY.

2005
The New City: Sub/Urbia in Recent Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. September 2005
Frisbee Art Show, Part of the Miami Basel Art Fair, Miami, FL. December 2006
Talk to the Land: Organized my Matthew Keegan, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY. October 2005
Into the Woods: contemporary artists on nature, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL. October 2005
There's a City in My Mind, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Greater Brooklyn, CRG Gallery, New York, NY.

2003
Yale MFA Thesis Show, New Haven, CT.
Photography in New York, curated by Emily Wei and Hahn Chau, Hudson Clearing, New York, NY.

2001
Free Biennial, Gift Economy, performance and group show, Wall Street, New York, NY.

2000
Stop in, Drop by, Hang Out, Arthur Haughton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2008
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, published by the Walker Art Center

2007
Tysh, George. Three Degrees of Saturation, Metro Times Detroit, April 4th, 2007

2006
Smith, Roberta. Chelsea is a Battlefield, New York Times, July 28, 2006
Etc., by Matt Keegan, designed by Susan Barber
Glueck, Grace. The New City: Sub/Urbia in recent Photography, The New York Times, January 6, 2006

2005
Smith, Roberta. Talk to The Land, The New York Times, November 11, 2005
Skolnik, Lisa. Five Things You Need to Know About Collecting Photography, Chicago Tribune, November 13, 2005
Klara, Robert. Domestic Anxiety, Architecture, November 2005
Universal Default, Blindspot, issue #31
NEO CON, curated by Matthew Cerletty and David Scanavino, Promotional material and imagery, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passerby
Dwell, March 2005
Architectural Record, March 2005

2004
Vice Magazine, The Nature Issue, January 2004
The New York Times, Home Section, November 4, 2004

2003
Graduate Photography at Yale, Catalogue with essay by John Pilson, Herlin Press
Harry N. Abrams. Publishing Co: a photographic survey of New York landmark architecture. Yale Art Gallery Bulletin Photographers dictionary, Flash Art, December 2003

2002
Rice, Andrew. Devils Bargin, Architecture Magazine, July 2002


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Whitney Museum of American Art