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# MICHAEL SNOW (1920-2023)
### **Versatile legendary Canadian artist**
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Michael Snow was a legendary Canadian artist whose highly acclaimed and influential practice spanned all media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, films, books, holograms, projections, installations, musical recordings, performances and essays. His best-known films are [*Wavelength*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength_(1967_film) "Wavelength (1967 film)") (1967) and [*La Région Centrale*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_R%C3%A9gion_Centrale "La Région Centrale") (1971), with the former regarded as a milestone in avant-garde cinema.
He studied design at the Ontario College of Art (OCA, now OCAD University), and his training as a painter can be credited to the Bauhaus model of interdisciplinary foundations, a curriculum supplemented by the advice and mentorship of John Martin, a design teacher and recognized watercolourist.1
Michael Snow, photo by Craig Boyko
In her book, [*Michael Snow: Life & Work*](https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/michael-snow/), author Martha Langford writes that, “in concert with the development of a unique culture and a national identity, Snow enables the creative impetus among Canadians to rethink art in relations to process, technology and everyday experience.”
Among his most famous works is the *Walking Woman*, a silhouette of a modern woman, first introduced in 1962. Over the course of five years, he would re-imagine her in paintings, drawings and flattened sculptures. In 1967, he produced an 11-part sculpture based on the *Walking Woman* for the Ontario Pavilion at Expo 67.2
Michael Snow, *Flight Stop*, 197960 suspended fibreglass Canada goose forms surfaced with tinted black and white photographs, 32 x 20 x 16 mToronto Eaton Centre
Other recognizable works include [*Flight Stop*](https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/michael-snow/key-works/flight-stop/), a permanent installation at the Toronto Cadillac Fairview Eaton Centre, and *The Audience*, an iconic public sculpture of gold-painted figures installed on the northeast and northwest sides of the Rogers Centre.
**Learn more about** [**Michael Snow**](https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/michael-snow/biography/)
[**Michael Snow**](https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/michael-snow)**, National Gallery of Canada**
[**Remembering artist Michael Show**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_oRat8K9c)**, OCAD University, 2019**
1 [Michael Snow, Biography, Life & Work by Martha Langford](https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/michael-snow/biography/), Art Canada Institute
[2My Canada, 46/150: The everywhere art of Michael Snow, posted by Kelley Teahen, March 18, 2017.](https://kelleyteahen.ca/2017/03/18/canada150-everywhere-art-of-michael-snow/)
**Image credit:** The Audience by Michael Snow.
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