Publications
2021
Bourland, Ian. “Countering the Fetishization of Indigenous Art”, Frieze, March 15, 2021
Burke, Harry. “Speculations on the Infrared“, Art-Agenda, March 18, 2021
2020
Iles, Chrissie and Michelson, Alan. "History Is Present." Aperture Magazine, Fall 2020
Froyd, Susan. “MCA Denver’s Citizenship: A Practice of Society Encourages Public Activism”, Westworld, September 29, 2020
Read, Richard, and Haltman, Kenneth. “Colonization, Wilderness, and Spaces Between: Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting in Australia and the United States”, Terra Foundation for American Art and the School of Design, University of Western Australia, 2020
Mithlo, Nancy Marie. “Knowing Native Arts”, University of Nebraska Press, 2020
Morris, Kate. "Shifting Grounds: Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art", University of Washington Press
Tyquiengco, Marina. “Alan Michelson: Wolf Nation”, First Nation Art, Winter 2020
Moonan, Wendy. "The Other Side of History", The Magazine Antiques, January/February 2020
Lanay, Jessica. “Mapping a Disappearance (or We Are the Goddamn Choir, and We’re Singing): Alan Michelson Interviewed by Jessica Lanay”, BOMB, January 6, 2020
2019
Solomon, Tessa. “The Year in Technology: Augmented Reality works, New Digital Art Platforms, and Much More from 2019”, ARTnews, December 27, 2019
Rina, Amelia. “Highlighting the Resilience of Indigenous People Through Augmented Reality”, Hyperallergic, December 23, 2019
Michelson, Alan. “The Artists’ Artists: 34 Artists Reflect on 2019”, Artforum International, December 2019
Loos, Ted. “A Walk on the Frontier of Art, Where the Sky Is the Limit”, New York Times, November 27, 2019
Pratt, Stephanie. "Volume 0", First American Art, No. 24, Fall 2019
Angeleti, Gabriela. “Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend", The Art Newspaper, November 7, 2019
Holmes, Helen. "The 12 Unmissable Art Exhibitions of Fall 2019", Observer, September 3, 2019
Sharrock, Lee. “FAD Magazine Venice Biennale Top 10”, FAD Magazine, May 17, 2019
Sandals, Leah. “Nadia Myre and Alan Michelson Recraft Venice’s Link to Indigenous Peoples”, Canadian Art, May 9, 2019
Thompson, Claire Elise. “How America got into this climate predicament, through the lens of art history”, Grist, April 2, 2019
Wright, Amy Beth. “Land Studies: Ecocriticism at the Princeton University Art Museum”, Art in America, January 9, 2019
2018
Heuer, Chirstopher P. and Zorach, Rebecca. “Ecologies, Agents, Terrains", Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2018
Horton. Jessica L. "'All Our Relations' as an Eco-Art Historical Challenge: Lessons from Standing Bear's Muslin," Ecologies, Agents, Terrains (Clark Art Institute and Yale University Press)
Green, Christopher. “In the Studio: Alan Michelson,” Art in America, November 21, 2018
Bradford, John. “A Dark Chapter of Our History Through the eye of visual artist Alan Michelson”, 4BRANT, September 23, 2018
Ethical Encounter in Alan Michelson’s TwoRow II,” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, and Society, Volume 7, Issue 1, 2018
Jaojoco, Patrick. “Indicators: Artists on Climate Change,” The Brooklyn Rail, July 11, 2018
Bury, Louis. “The Ghosts of Our Future Climate at Storm King”, Hyperallergic, July 29, 2018
Baldwin, Brent. “The Artist Behind the New Virginia Indian Monument Talks About Its Symbolism”, Style Weekly, April 24, 2018
Carrington, Ronald E. “New Capitol Square Monument honors Virginia’s native tribes”, Richmond Free Press, April 19, 2018
Martz, Michael. “‘Mantle,' a monument to Virginia's Indian tribes, dedicated at state Capitol”, Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 17, 2018
Gilbert, Alan. “Unholding and other exhibitions of Native American art”, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2018
Scott, Andrea K. “Unholding, an Art Show about America,” The New Yorker, January 22, 2018
Smith, Roberta and Schwendener, Martha. “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week”, The New York Times, January 10, 2018
Stevenson, Shaun A. “Decolonizing Hydrosocial Relations: The River as a Site of Ethical Encounter in Alan Michelson's TwoRow II,” Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, Vol 7 No 1 (2018), Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Cheetham, Mark A. ”Landscapes into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the 60’s,” Pennsylvania State University Press
2017
Schilling, Vincent. “Olympian Billy Mills Announces Historic Monument: the Virginia Indian Mantle”, Indian Country Today, June 29, 2017
2015
Green, Christopher. “Weaving Past into Present: Experiments in Contemporary Native American Printmaking,” The Brooklyn Rail, November 5, 2015
Watson, Mark. “Unsettled borders and memories: a “local” indigenous perspective on contemporary globalization”, Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, Vol. 7
2014
Horton, Jessica L. and Smith, Cherise. "The Particulars of Post-Identity", American Art, Vol. 28, No. 1, University of Chicago Press
2013
Tabobondung, Rebeka, "Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art.", Muskrat Magazine, October 29, 2013
Johnston, Alex. "Aboriginal Activist Art", Prezi, October 23, 2013
Whyte, Murray. "Ghost Dance at Ryerson Image Centre: outrage for the past; hope for the future", Toronto Star, October 12, 2013
Nahwegahbow, Barb. "Ghost Dance explores the artist as activist", Windspeaker, Volume 31, Issue 7, 2013
Sopova, Alexandra. "Moscow Art Biennale offers a model for the world", Russia Beyond the Headlines, September 20, 2013
Golubock, D. Garrison. "5th Biennale Opens Main Exhibit ‘More Light’", The Moscow Times, September 20, 2013
Interview:
Indigenous. Global, Now. The Sakahan Symposium, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, May 17, 2013
2012
Horton, Jessica. "Eighteenth Biennale of Sydney", Artvoices Magazine, October 2012
Green, Kristen. "Tribute to Va. Indians narrowed to 2 designs", Richmond Times Dispatch, September 23, 2012
Sullivan, Eve. "Biennale of Sydney: a pleasure bender for art hooligans", ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Blog, August 14, 2012
Rosenbaum, Lee. "Native, North American, New", Wall Street Journal (Arts and Leisure), August 7, 2012
Radok, Stephanie. "All our relations", The Adelaide Review, August 2012
Vitlin, Alex. "The 18th Biennale of Sydney: Contemporary art takes over the Harbor City", Cool Hunting, July 11, 2012
Miller, Alan. "Altogether Now: the 18th Biennale of Sydney", The Berkshire Review: an international journal for the arts, July 8, 2012
Daly-Peoples, John. "More from the Biennale of Sydney", The National Business Review: Weekend Review (NZ)
Dixon, Guy. "Toronto festival spotlights an indigenous new wave that's 'starting to crest'", Toronto Globe and Mail, June 24, 2012
Roth, Moira. "Gleanings 18: Alan Michelson", Moira Roth's Gleanings on Tumblr (18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations), May 23, 2012
Keating, Neal B. Iroquois Art, Power, and History, University of Oklahoma Press
Pohl, Frances K. Framing America: A Social History of American Art (Third Edition), Thames & Hudson
2011
Morris, Kate. "Running the Medicine Line: Images of the Border in Contemporary Native American Art", American Indian Quarterly, volume 35, number 4, Fall 2011
Rickard, Jolene. “Visualizing Sovereignty in the Time of Biometric Sensors”, South Atlantic Journal, Spring 2011
Redwood, Tom. “Indigenous media art: complex visions,” RealTime Arts Magazine, issue #102, RealTime Arts Magazine, April 19, 2011
Denis, Marie-Alice. “GSA Honors 11 Winners With Design Awards”, General Services Administration
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Interviews
University of Southern Australia, Stop(the)gap: International Indigenous Art in Motion
"Awaye!" Program, ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio National, March 19, 2011
"Indigenous art with Alan Michelson", US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, March 3, 2011
2010
“Public Art Network Highlights 2 GSA Art in Architecture Projects”, General Services Administration
2009
Morris, Kate. “Art on the River: Alan Michelson Highlights Border-Crossing Issues”, Smithsonian Institution American Indian Magazine, Winter 2009
Duane Blue Spruce & Tanya Thrasher, editors. The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC
Interviews
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Avis Berman interviewer
Tang Museum, Lives of the Hudson, Director John Weber interviewer
2008
Heartney, Eleanor. GSA Art in Architecture Selected Artworks 1997-2008, U.S. General Services, Washington, DC
Deborah Everett and Elayne Zorn. Encyclopedia of Native American Artists, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT
Doan, Abigail. “Omi International Art Center Grows Greener”, Inhabit.com, November 22, 2008
Interview
Jim Metzner’s “Sound and Story Project”, Storyscape radio program
2007
Everett, Deborah. “Light on Shadowed Ground: Alan Michelson”, Sculpture Magazine, May 2007
Chamberlain, Colby. “‘Thoreau Revisited’ and ‘Three for Society’”, Artforum.com
Milroy, Sarah. “A new look at our entangled worlds”, Toronto Globe and Mail, October 6, 2007
2005
Ash-Milby, Kathleen E. “Contemporary Native American Art in the Twenty-First Century: Overcoming the Legacy”, European Review of Native American Studies, 19:1, 2005
Interview
Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics featured interview, Raquel Chapa interviewer
2004
McLellan, Marian. “The Birds”, New Orleans Art Review, March/April 2004
Interview
“Six O’Clock News”, CKCO, Kitchener, Ontario
2003
Zimmer, William. “Out of the Water, Inspiration”, New York Times, December 28, 2003
Schutte, Christoph. “Geschichte ist oft sehr schmerhaft”, Frankfurter Allegemeine, June 7, 2003
Fisher, Jean. Vampires in the Text: Narratives of Contemporary Art, Institute of International Visual Arts, London
Interview
“Hauptsache Kultur”, Hessicher Rundfunk, German TV
2002
Kymberly N. Pinder, editor. Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History, Routledge, New York
2001
Interview
“Art Zone”, BBC Radio
1999
Brian Wallis, editor. Art Matters: how the culture wars changed America, NYU Press, New York
1998
Lustig, Jessica, ed. “Takeout: Art”, TimeOut New York, March 19-26, 1998
Gould, Claudia; Smith, Valerie. 5000 Artists Return to Artists Space: 25 Years, Artists Space, New York
1997
Interview
“City Arts”, Thirteen WNET
1996
Camhi, Leslie. “Accounts Paid”, Village Voice, December 17, 1996
Cotter, Holland. “Red River Crossings”, New York Times, November 29, 1996
Interview
“Sunday Morning”, CBC Radio
1994
Harrison, Helen. “Messages Communicated by the Detritus”, New York Times, October 30, 1994
1993
Canning, S. “Trade Routes”, New Art Examiner, December 1993
Interview
“L’Atelier”, FR3, French
1992
Fisher, Jean. “In Search of the ‘Inauthentic’”, Art Journal, Fall 1992
Tarkington, Melissa, “Art Signs Challenge ‘History’”, New York Newsday, June 26, 1992
Interview
“Seventh Generation: What Columbus Learned”, WSKG Public Television
“Kultur Revecz”, Hungarian National TV
“Edge 92”, ITV, London
1990
Zimmer, William. “Everyday Expectations With a Twist”, New York Times, December 23, 1990
Kahn, Eve. “Strata”, The New Yorker, October 22, 1990
1988 Morgan, Marie. “Re-Visions”, Vanguard, April/May 1988
1987
Lippard, Lucy R. “Holding a mirror up to America”, The Guardian, December 16, 1987
Bauld, Harold. “Painters and Patrons”, Boston Magazine, September 1987
1986
Narrett, Eugene. “Three Young Artists”, New Art Examiner, November 1986
Temin, Christine. “‘Three Young Artists’ truly a stellar show”, Boston Globe, September 13, 1986