Education
2008 M.F.A., School of Art and Art History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2005 B.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA/ Tufts University, Medford MA
Academic Experience
2008- 2016 Critic, Department of Photography, Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, Rhode Island
2013 Adjunct Faculty, The Cooper Union, NY, NY
2012 Adjunct Faculty, Parsons, The New School for Design, New York, New York
2011 - 2012 Part-time Faculty, Fine Arts Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
2009 – 2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Photography,
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
2005-2008 Graduate Alumni Fellow, School of Art + Art History; College of Fine Arts,
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Solo and Two person Exhibitions
2023 Cuts You Up, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL
2014 Sanctum Sanctorum, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA
Spirit & Matter, Scaramouche, NY, NY
New Geographics, Light Work, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
I’ll Worship You, You’ll Worship Me, Urban Video Project, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
2013 The Botanica: AA Bronson and Michael Bühler-Rose, Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany
2012 Interrogating Conventions (with Olivia Fraser), Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
2010 I’ll Worship You and You’ll Worship Me, Carroll & Sons, Boston, MA
Little Indian Still-Lifes, Carroll & Sons, Boston, MA
2009 Constructing the Exotic, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL
2008 Constructing the Exotic, MFA Thesis, University Gallery, Gainesville, FL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 NADA New Discretions, Miami, FL
Place-World Sean Horton, NY, NY
ART EXPO Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL
2022 NADA New Discretions, Miami, FL
Future Fair New Discretions, NY, NY
2021 Visions of India: from the colonial to the contemporary. Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill Victoria, Australia
2020 Love 2020, curated by Rachel Stern Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NY, NY
2019 Greetings From India, Jimei x Arles, Jimei, China
2018 Love: Purple Hearts, curated by Rachel Stern Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NY, NY
2017 The Middle, co-curated with John Connelly, Johannes Vogt Gallery, NY, NY
2016 Love 2016 curated by Rachel Stern, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NY, NY
2015 Seeing the Elephant, Bakalar & Paine Galleries, MassArt, Boston, MA
Forms of Devotion, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, India
2014 Person, Place or Thing, 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany
The Botanica, co-curated with AA Bronson, Invisible-Exports, NY, NY and Carroll & Sons, Boston, MA
Vice Photo Show, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Evil Eye Removal Kits, special project for the ViennaFair, Vienna, Austria
The Temptation of AA Bronson, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Still Life Lives!, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Poses and Views, Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany
2012 Iconographic Investigations, Nature Morte, Gurgaon, India
Recent Acquisitions Part I, Contemporary Photography, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Capturing Identity, selections from the Light Work Collection, Syracuse University
5, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India
Michael Bühler-Rose & Nikhil Chopra, Chatterjee & Lal, Indian Art Summit, New Delhi, India
2011 The End, co-curated with John Connelly, Vogt Gallery, NY, NY
Ritual Aesthetics, curated by Progress Report, Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Exchanging Glances, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India
Of Blind Men and Elephants, The Empty Quarter, Dubai, U.A.E.
2010 Traveling Scholars, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Structures With An Intervention, curated by Meenakshi Thirukode, The Guild, NY, NY
Trying Them On, curated by Jon Feinstein, Hendershot Gallery, NY, NY
After Color, curated by Amani Olu, Savannah College of Art and Design,
Savannah & Atlanta campuses, GA(traveling exhibition)
2009 Compassion, curated by AA Bronson, Union Theological Seminary, NY, NY
Still life, curated by Jon Feinstein, Camera Club of New York, NY, NY
NOW: Art of the 21st Century, Phillips de Pury & Company, London, UK
After Color, curated by Amani Olu, Bose Pacia, New York, NY (traveling exhibition)
The Armory, Bose Pacia, New York, NY
Trends in Contemporary Photography, Flandlers Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2008 Things Are Strange, New Century Artists, New York, NY
Neti, Neti (not this, not this), curated by Peter Nagy, Bose Pacia, New York, NY
2007 Paris Photo, Brancolini Grimaldi, Paris, France
Act of Faith, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Der Aa-kerk, Groningen, The Netherlands
The Contemporary Portrait, SK Stiftung Kultur/Die Photographische Sammlung,
Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2006 The Indian Enigma, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India
Figure 9b, Warphaus Gallery, Gainesville, FL
2005 Suburban Archeology, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Curatorial Experience
2017 The Middle, co-curated with John Connelly, Johannes Vogt Gallery, NY, NY
2014 The Botanica, co-presented with AA Bronson, Invisible Exports, NY, NY
The Botanica, co-presented with AA Bronson, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA
2011 The End, co-curated with John Connelly, Vogt Gallery, NY, NY
2008 The Form Itself, Priska C. Juschka Fine Arts, NY, NY
Opposing Photographers as part of Young Curators: New Ideas, Bond Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Suburban Archeology, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA [co-curator]
Grants + Awards
2017 LMCC Process Space Residency, Governor's Island
2012 Light Work Artist-In-Residency
Shandaken Project Resident
2010 NADA/Grolsch Swing Art Award
2008 Grant for Emerging Photographers, The Humble Arts Foundation
Alumni Traveling Scholars, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2006 Fulbright Fellowship (India)
Graduate Travel Grant (India), University of Florida
2005 – 2008 Graduate Alumni Fellowship, University of Florida
2004 Medici Family Scholarship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
2003 N.R.I. Semester Study, Vrndavana, India, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Collections
Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore, India
Ford Foundation, NY, NY
Fidelity Investment, Chennai, India
Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Harvard Fogg Museum, Boston, MA
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
SK Stiftung Kultur/ Die Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, Germany
Lectures + Panel Discussions
2015 MFA Artist Talk, Columbia University, NY, NY
Artist Talk, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2014 Artist Talk, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
2011 Artists on Art, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
2010 Gallery Talk, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2009 TC Colley Lecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
After Color, panel discussion moderated by Amani Olu, Bose Pacia, NY, NY
2007 Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL
Visiting Artist Lecture, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2006 Visiting Artist Lecture, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Northern Florida, Jacksonville, FL
U.S. Fulbright/USEFI conference, Conference Speaker, Jaganatha or Juggernaut:
When Traditionalism Meets Modernity, Visakhapatnam, India
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Panelist, The Indian Enigma, New Delhi, India
2004 Visiting Artist Lecture, School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Reviews + Publications
2021 Zoldan, Sharon, Sharón Zoldan Shares Her Miami 2022 Highlights., Whitewall Magazine Online, 12.7.22
2021 Images of India: from courtesans and colonial rule to a child’s-eye view in pictures, The Guardian (online) 12.17.21
2019 Cerbarano, Dirica, Jimei x Arles focus on India, Returning the Gaze: from the colonial to the contemporary, Vogue Italia, November 2019
Gaskell, Nathaniel, Photography in India: A Visual History from the 1850s to the Present, Prestel Publishing.
2015 Jones, Noa, God Wallah, Portfolio, Vice, January 2015
2014 Contact Sheet 176, Light Work, Syracuse, NY. (Catalogue for New Geographics)
McQuaid, Cate. Religious Experience, Boston Globe, 12.10.14
Colluci, Emily, The Spirituality of Art: Michael Bühler-Rose on “Spirit & Matter”, Mdaily.co, 4.19.14
Posari, Cedar, Emerging Artists From VOLTA 2014 You Should Know, Complex.com, 4.8.2014
2013 Michael Bühler-Rose, Matte Magazine, Issue 17
Lauwaert, Maaike, AA Bronson, Artforum.com, 11.13
Vikram, Anuradha, The Real Reason(s) Indians Are Obsessed with Switzerland, Hyperallergic.com, 09.20.13
Sheerin, Mark. The Consolation of Temptation, Hyperallergic.com, 09.18.13
Sheerin, Mark. AA Bronson’s Garden of Queer Delights, Hyperallergic.com, 09.09.13
Burley, Isabella, AA Bronson & Michael Bühler-Rose, AnOther Magazine (online) 5.9.13
Hubbs, Sara, Michael Bühler-Rose: Post-Modern Artist/Hindu Priest Somewhere Between Aura and Prana, Yoga City News (online)
Citron, Beth. Light Work Annual, Light Work, Syracuse, NY.
2012 Bhagat, Himanshu, The Eye of the Beholder, The Caravan, 6.12
D’Mello, Roselyn, East is East, Blouin Artinfo.com, 19.03.12
Madhu, Manjusha. Art Explorations of Traditional Idioms, Sunday Guardian, 18.03.12
New Media Portfolio, Platform Magazine, 01.12
2011 Nagy, Peter, Personal Gnosis for Public Consumption: The Practice of Michael Bühler-Rose, Fantom Magazine 011. 11.11
2010 McQuaid, Cate. A world projected through ritual, The Boston Globe, 11.24.2010
McQuaid, Cate. Travelers’ Smorgasbord, The Boston Globe, 5.4.2010
Gamber, Matthew. A Conversation with Michael Bühler-Rose, Big Red & Shiny, 5.4.2010
E.E.B., Trying Them On, New York Photo Review (online), 2.24.2010
co-edited with Lavalette, Shane, Layflat 02: Meta, Layflat, Cambridge
Cotter, Holland. Downtime at New Year? It’s Filled, New York Times, 1.1.2010
2009 Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers 2009, 5th anniversary, Magenta Foundation
Thirukode, Meenakshi, Construction of the Exotic, White Wall Magazine, (online article), 09.02.09
Bühler-Rose, Michael and Gamber, Matthew, After Color: A New Look for Black and White?
Bomb Magazine (online article), 08.12.09
Cappetta, Andrew, Amani Olu Has New Ideas, Art In America (online article), 08.06.09
Huffman, Jibade-Khalil (ed.), After Stanley Donen, Eighth Veil, LA
Olu, Amani (ed.) After Color, BP Contemporary Art of India Series, Volume 35
The Collectors Guide to Emerging Art Photograph, The Humble Arts Foundation
Conversation, Mossless Magazine, (online)
Ross, Asher, SCOPE New York, Dossier Journal, 3.12.09
2008 Pearse, Emma, Artist Michael Buhler-Rose Visits Bollywood, Florida, New York Magazine, Culture Vulture Blog, 11.6.08
Editors Pick: New York Gallery Shows in November, Artinfo.com, 11.08
Coburn, Tyler, A Question of Form, Rhizome.org, 9.17.08
Guha, Rohin, Curators on Display @ Bond Street, BlackBook, 8.21.08
Hulme, Emily, Bond Brings ‘New Ideas’, AM New York, August 15-17, Issue 158, Vol. 6.
Shefchik, Claire, Young Curators, New Ideas, Beyond Race, Augut, 21.
Smith, Roberta, Art in Review, Neti Neti (not this, not this), New York Times, 8.8.08,
Pollack, Barbara, Neti Neti, Time Out New York, Issue 670
Dhingrha, Juhi Jhunjhunwala, Its Neither East Nor West at Bose Pacia, The South Asian Times
Camera Austria, Issue 101
Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers 2008, Magenta Foundation
2007 Melis, Wim, Act of Faith (catalogue), Aurora Borealis
Johnson, Miki. Student Portfolio. American Photo on Campus, April
Schweig, Graham M. Bhagavad-gita, The Beloved Lord’s Secret Love Song, New York and San Francisco:
Harper San Francisco / Harper-Collins, (Cover)
2006 PDN, May, Photo Annual
Times of India, February 15, American youth now catching up with Qawalis