Michael Bartalos

Michael Bartalos, born in Heidelberg, Germany, attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received his BFA from Pratt Institute.

He produces limited print editions, artist’s books, sculptural assemblages, and works extensively in the graphic arts in the U.S., Europe and Japan.

Bartalos characteristically draws on science, geography, history and language in merging bold graphic elements with letterforms, digital media with traditional printmaking methods, and sculpture with book form. His projects utilize laser cutting technologies, perforated metals, neoprene, wire, fastening hardware and handmade papers, often creating narratives supplemented by his own text.

He has created limited book editions with Dolphin Press & Print at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, New York’s Purgatory Pie Press, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, and the San Francisco Center for the Book. His works have been exhibited internationally and are included in numerous numerous artists’ books collections including those of the Getty Research Institute, MoMA, the Walker Art Center and Yale and Stanford University.

His 42-cent Latin Jazz stamp design was issued by the U.S. Postal Service in September 2008, and he was awarded a 2009 National Science Foundation grant to create an Antarctic-based artist’s book project now in progress.

Bartalos lives and works in San Francisco where he serves as board member of the San Francisco Center for the Book and first Affiliate Artist of the California Academy of Sciences.

Education

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Pratt Institute

Lectures, Presentations, Teaching and Workshops

American University, Washington DC
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco CA
California College of the Arts, San Francisco CA
California State University, Hayward CA
Camberwell School of Art, London, England
Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco CA
Facultad del Hábitat, San Luis Potosí, México
Lacandón Art Workshops, Chiapas, México
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Parsons School of Design, New York NY
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
School of Visual Arts, New York NY
University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA

Selected Exhibitions

2010 “Unbound: A National Exhibition of Book Art,” Bedford Gallery,
Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek CA
2010 “Prints Byte : The Cutting Edge of Printmaking,” SOMArts, San Francisco CA
2010 “Super Short Video,” Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn NY
2010 “Reframe : Making Sense of Waste” ARC Gallery, San Francisco CA
2010 “Move,” Space 1026, Philadelphia PA
2010 “The Seduction of Duchamp” ArtZone 461, San Francisco CA
2009 “Cutters : An Exhibition of International Collage,” Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2009 “Alphabetilately,” Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Washington DC
2009 “Dime Bag 3,” Giant Robot, New York NY
2008 “Banned and Recovered : Artists Respond to Censorship,” African-American Museum
and Library, Oakland CA
2008 “New West Coast Design,” San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco CA
2008 “Blab,” Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, KS
2008 “Bookworks,” Skylight Gallery, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco CA
2007 “Michael Bartalos: Assemblages and Editions,” Rosenberg Gallery, Baltimore MD
2007 “Action / Interaction : Book / Art,” Columbia College Book and Paper Center, Chicago IL
2006 “Picture Mechanics,” Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville TN
2006 “Ex Libris,” San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco CA
2006 “The Art of Book Art,” 1212 Gallery, Burlingame CA
2005 “30 Years of Innovation : A Survey of Exhibition History at The Center for Book Arts,”
The Center for Book Arts, New York NY
2004 “Paper, Ink Fresh Perspectives,” San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco
2003 “The Ganzfeld (Unbound),” Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York NY
2003 “Assembly,” The Front Room Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY
2002 “The Panorama Project,” The Front Room Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY
2002 “HighTech / Low Tech Hybrids: Art in a Digital Age,” Bedford Gallery,
Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek CA
2002 “Picture Mechanics,” 69a Gallery, San Francisco
2002 “The Panorama Project,” The Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2002 “The Panorama Project,” 69A Gallery, San Francisco CA
2001 “XFB / Experiments in the Future of the Book,” San Francisco Center for the Book,
San Francisco CA
2000 “New Thoughts on Bookmaking: Digital Interpretations,” Cary Graphic Arts Collection,
Wallace Library, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY
1999 “Amore & Michael Together,” CWC Gallery, Tokyo Japan
1999 “American Pop,” IMS Gallery, Fukuoka Japan
1999 “Artists in Purgatory,” Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn NY
1996 “New Pop,” Palazzo delle Esposizione, Rome Italy
1996 “Mail Art,” Itoya Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo Japan
1996 “Purgatory Pie Press : Collaborative Letterpress, Coasters, Posters, Postcards & Books,” Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
1995 “New Pop,” Palazzo Fortuny, Venice; Triennale, Milan Italy
1995 “Angels,” Centre des Arts Français, Tokyo Japan

Selected Residencies and Awards

2009 National Science Foundation : Antarctic Artists and Writers Program grant, McMurdo Station, Antarctica
2008 Alastair Johnston Fine Arts Book Award : The San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco CA
2007 Visiting Faculty Residency : Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD
2005 Artist in Residence : San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco CA
2001 Artist in Residence : Xerox PARC, Palo Alto CA

Selected Collections

Brown University Rare Books Collection, Providence RI
Carnegie Mellon University Special Collections, Pittsburgh PA
Getty Research Institute Special Collections, Los Angeles CA
Maryland Institute College of Art, Decker Book Arts Collection, Baltimore MD
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Watson Artists’ Books Collection, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, Book Arts Collection, New York, NY
New York Public Library, Rare Books Collection, New York NY
Otis College of Art and Design, Artists’ Books Collection, Los Angeles CA
Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry, Miami FL
San Francisco Public Library Artists’ Books Collection, San Francisco CA
Stanford University Special Collections and University Archives, Palo Alto CA
The Tate Artists’ Books Collection, London UK
University of Delaware Special Collections, Newark DE
University of California, San Diego Special Collections
University of California, Santa Barbara Special Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum Artists’ Books Collection, London UK
Walker Art Center Artists’ Books Collection, Minneapolis MN
Yale University Arts of the Book Collection, New Haven CT

Michael Bartalos
mb@bartalos.com

30 Ramona Avenue
No. 2
San Francisco
California 94103

P/ 415 863 4569