Michael Berman

Michael P. Berman (b. 1956, NYC) wanders the terrain of the American West and Mexico Norteño, and more recently, the extensive grasslands of Mongolia. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008 to photograph the remnant grasslands of the Chihuahuan Desert. His photographs are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum and the Museum of New Mexico. In 2013, he received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in New Mexico and has also been a recipient of Painting Fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Wurlitzer Foundation. His installations, photographs, and paintings have been reviewed in Art in America, and exhibited throughout the country. He has received grant support for his photographic and environmental work from the McCune and Lannan Foundation. Berman’s work has been published in several books including Gila: Radical Visions; The Enduring Silence and the fi rst and third books of a border trilogy with writer Charles Bowden, Inferno and Trinity; and Perdido: Sierra San Luis.

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