Michael Brown | Onsights

Born: 1961 - Riverside, CA

 

2009

“Bluerain”

Commission, Public Art - London School of Economics, London UK

“Periscope”

Commission – Private residence - San Francisco, CA

2008

“Dust City Diner”

Burningman project - Black Rock City, NV

2007

“Cloud Burst”

Commission – Private residence - San Francisco, CA

2006

Playaflies

Collaborative Burningman Project - Black Rock City, NV

Identity Project

Exhibition Design - Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PN

2004

“Birds of Prey”

Commission - Public Art Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito, CA

Unsupported Transit

Sculpture series - San Francisco, CA

2003

Question

Exhibition Design - Cantor Center for Art, Stanford University, CA

2002

“Spore”

Commission, Private office - Berkeley, CA

2001

“Home Sweet Home”

Performance/Installation/Video Parking Lot, Brady Street, San Francisco, CA

2001

“Family Portraits”

Projection/Installation - Headlands Center For The Arts, Marin, CA

“Blue Martini”

Temporary Installation - San Francisco, CA

“What The Body Knows” – The Joe Goode Performance Group

Scenic Design - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2000

“Undertaking Harry” – The Joe Goode Performance Group

Scenic Design - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Revealing Bodies

Interactive Exhibit Designer/Builder - The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA

1999

“Tzedakah Box” - Making Change

Sculpture - Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

“Gender Heroes Part 1” - The Joe Goode Performance Group

Scenic Design - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

“Visual/Audio” - Play it by Ear

Sound sculpture/Interactive Exhibit - Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito, CA

1998

“Covered Bridge”

Frog Exhibition - The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA

Deeply There - The Joe Goode Performance Group

Scenic Design

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Danspace Project, New York, NY
Arden Theatre, Philadelphia, PA

Urban Renewal Laboratory

Co-Curator - Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Do It Yourself Plumbing

Interactive water-play exhibit - Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

1997

Electricity Is Your Friend

Curator - Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997

Art and Science - Sensitive Chaos

Interactive sculpture - Intercommunications Center, Tokyo, Japan

Tricks of Nature

Interactive sculpture - Technorama, Winterttur, Switzerland

“What Once Was”

Public Art Commission for the Montclair Village - City of Oakland, Oakland, CA

1996

Swatch Christmas Special

Design for SWATCH watch Company

“A Single Drop”

Water installation for Turbulent Landscapes - The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA

“Sunflowers”, “Sun/Moon”, “Bell Tower”

Three Freestanding Sculptural Clocks - Public Commissions for a light rail system Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Dallas, Texas

1995

“Go Girl! The Pinball Machine”

Interactive multimedia game shown at: Obsession at Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA Wild Side at LACE, Los Angeles, CA

Heading South by Brian Thorenson

Set Design - Studio Theater, San Francisco, CA

1994

“13,468”

Installation, Rooms for the Dead - Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA

“Full Automatic Bong”

Sculpture, The Bong Show - KIKI Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1993

“Steam Locomotive”

Interactive Exhibit - Long Island Children's Museum, Northport, NY

“Einstein’s Theory of Relativity”

Installation, Science Fair - Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Meanderings”

Interactive sculptural exhibit, Environmental Art at The Exploratorium - The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA

1992

“Copper Aqueduct”

Collaboration with Landscape designer Chris Jacobson

Life Center Garden, San Francisco, CA

“Anguish Our Losses”

Installation, Inductive Strategies - New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

1992

“Interactive Kinetic Sculpture”

A month long collaboration with museum visitors - Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito, CA

1991

“Fountain #23”

Commissioned sculpture - Private Residence, Mill Valley, CA

“Discovery”

Interactive Sign - Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito, CA

1990

“Cascading Steps”

Installation - Secession Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1990

“Group Show”

Installation - FOURFIVEFIVETENTH, San Francisco, CA

1989

“Walt?”

Installation - New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

“Plumbers Nightmare”

Sculpture - A Different Light, San Francisco, CA

Education B.A., Humboldt State University 1985