michael snow (1929 - ) visual artist, film maker and musician born december 10, 1929, in toronto,...

Michael Snow (1929 - )visual artist, film maker and musician

born December 10, 1929, in Toronto, Ontario.

He works in many media, including drawing, painting, sculpture and photography.

He won the Art Prize upon graduation from Upper Canada College and in 1948 entered the Ontario College of Art and specialized in design.

Blind 1968

Snow married artist Joyce Wieland.

From 1962 to1972 he lived in a loft in the Soho neighborhood of New York City. There he created a series of paintings called "Walking Women"and made his underground art film “Wavelength" which became widely recognized.

Clothed Woman (In Memory of my Father) 1963

Wavelength Revisited

by Donato Totaro

Thirty-five years after its inception, Wavelength (Ontario, 1967, 45 min.) remains one of the most vital and (still) groundbreaking films in the history of experimental cinema. It is, quite simply, the “Citizen Kane” of experimental cinema. Screenings of Wavelength in and out of academic situations have probably generated more mixed emotions-frustration, boredom, exhilaration and

awe (sometimes in the same spectator)- than any other film.

Public works of art include

"Flight Stop", fiberglass flying geese in Toronto's Eaton's Center

"The Audience" -14 large figures of sports fans, located at the northeast and northwest corners of Toronto's SkyDome