MICHAEL CARDINALI
Bio
Michael Cardinali creates photographs stemming from an intimate sense of place and relationships. Born in New York and raised in New Jersey, he lives in Massachusetts and teaches photography at the University of New Hampshire, where he is Senior Lecturer in Art and Art History. He earned an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and a BFA from SUNY Purchase.
Cardinali’s work has been exhibited across the U.S. and internationally, including New York, Philadelphia, Boston, London, Edinburgh, Budapest and the United Arab Emirates. His first monograph, LOST Boston, was published in 2018 by +Kris Graves Projects. This publication is held in the library collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Duke University. His work has been supported by a Clowes Fund Fellowship to attend a Vermont Studio residency.
He has held workshops and presented lectures in New York, New England and beyond as well as serving as an exhibition jury member. His consulting work photographing museum collections has appeared in books, publications and ad campaigns, and he holds the position of Senior Object Photographer at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
News and Press
Scenes from a Floating World, on view at Portsmouth Music and Arts Center (PMAC), September 6, 2022 – January 20, 2023
Reception September 9, 5:30-7:00 pm
Artist talk September 18, 3:00 pm
Fraction Magazine, Issue 117, December 2018
Boston Voyager Magazine, Meet Michael Cardinali, interview, June 18, 2018
Treat Gallery NYC, @treatamericaproject, Instagram takeover representing Massachusetts, May 27 – June 2, 2018
Photo of the Day, Don’t Take Pictures Magazine, online column, December 3, 2016
2016 Dotphotozine Award for Excellence in Photography, finalist
Emily McInnes, Eye Buy Art from The Garden of Gardens, Eye Buy Art, June 12, 2012
Phillip Jung, Michael Cardinali, The Exposure Project online, November 19, 2010
The New York Optimist, Kris Graves Projects Presents Michael Cardinali, The New York Optimist blog, November 4 – 11, 2010
The Flat File, Michael Cardinali, Wall Space Gallery, October 15, 2010
Christine Finn, London Photo Show Features Striking Tech Mix, Wired.com: Underwire, February 2008
Artist Feature Section, Guide Magazine, Grand Prize Winner of Juried Competition, six-page feature, July 2007
Publications
Ten Years of Photographs, exhibition catalog of featured photographers spanning a decade of exhibitions, Midwest Center for Photography, 2019
International Photography Annual 5, Manifest Press, 2018
Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas, contributing photographer of artifacts, Getty Publications, 2017
The Polaroid Project, contributing photographer of artifacts to book on Polaroid photographs, Thames and Hudson, 2017
F-Stop Magazine, Issue #85, Home, October/November 2017
International Photography Annual 5, Manifest Press, 2017
F-Stop Magazine, Issue #75, Wonder-Full, February/March 2016
City Streets | Country Roads, Exhibition catalog, PhotoPlace Gallery, 2013
Countless Connecting Threads: MIT’s History Revealed Through its Most Evocative Objects, Deborah G. Douglas and Ariel Weinberg, MIT Press, 2013
Photographers on Photographers: The Mark-Making of Robert Kozma, Fototazo, July 2011
MIT 150 Exhibition, The Boston Globe, January 2, 2011
Polaroid Archives Provide Snapshot of History, Wired.com: Gadget Lab, May 15, 2010
Greetings from New York, Astoria Postcard, Buzzer Thirty Arts Organization, 2008
Gallery Guide Europe, Cover Photograph, February 2008
Watercolours and Drawings: Modern Works on Paper (catalogue) Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 2008