Michael Bühler-Rose

Michael Bühler-Rose (American, b. 1980) lives and works in between

New York, NY and Mysore, IN.

Michael Bühler-Rose explores how collections can reveal one’s inner life or biography. His approach is informed by the Gubbio Studiolo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance wood intarsia. The studiolo, a room for study or contemplation, contains physical and representational symbols of knowledge. Bühler-

Rose reinterprets this tradition, combining objects both obtained and aspirational to expose the proto-Photoshop fiction inherent in Renaissance illusionism. His works collapse the boundaries between personal and cultural history, merging his upbringing within the Hare Krishna movement and the punk/hardcore music scenes with the devotional practices of orthodox Hindu/Vaishnava ritualism.

He received his BFA from School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston at Tufts University, a Fulbright, India and his MFA from University of Florida, Gainesville. Solo exhibitions include Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK; Stems Gallery, Brussels ; New Discretions, New York ; Andrew Rafacz, Chicago ; Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA ; Scaramouche, New York, NY ; Light Work, Syracuse, NY ; and the Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY. He was part of a twoperson exhibition with A.A. Bronson at Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany in 2013. Recently he has exhibited with Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York ; 601Artspace New York ; Wasserman Projects, Detroit ; Sean Horton,

New York ; Jimei x Arles, Jimei, China ; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, NL ; amongst others. His work is included in public and private collections such as the Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore, India ; Ford Foundation, New York, NY ; Fidelity Investment, Chennai, India ; Light Work Syracuse, NY ; Harvard Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA ; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany ; SK Stiftung Kultu, Die Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, Germany.

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