5/21/2023 0 Comments Michael dooble singerIn Stuttgart, Germany he completed a one acre sculptural Memorial Garden that cleanses storm water through a series of sculpted planes containing plants and water. Many of the gardens have intricate layers of materials and can be understood as a gradual evolution from Singer’s early in-situ outdoor installations and sculptures. Michael Singer’s sculptural gardens in the public realm have been noted for their unique regenerative qualities with each project shaped to restore environmental function through the creation of the built work. In 2019 the American Academy of Arts and Letters named Singer a recipient of their Arts and Letters Award in Art. He has had several one-person shows, most notably at the Guggenheim Museum, New York City and most recently at the Utzon Center in Aalborg and the Danish Architectural Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. His works are part of public collections in the United States and abroad, including the Australian National Gallery, Canberra Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark the Guggenheim Museum, New York The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Michael Singer has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Singer has also been engaged in the rethinking of infrastructure facilities and systems in the United States and Europe and co-authored Infrastructure and Community published by Environmental Defense Fund. From the 1990’s to the present his work has been instrumental in transforming public art, architecture, landscape, and planning projects into successful models for urban and ecological regeneration. Throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s Michael Singer’s work opened new possibilities for outdoor and indoor sculpture and contributed to the definition of site specific art and the reimagining of public places. Artist and Principal Designer, Michael Singer Studio
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