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Artists›Michael Spano

Michael Spano

American, 1949

WA-00029541

New York, USA

Photography

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

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Publications Referenced

60%

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Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ55219805 ULAN500342949

MoMA

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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No image

Contemporary Photography Reinstallation

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1986

No image

New Photography: Zeke Berman, Antonio Mendoza, Judith Joy Ross, and Michael Spano

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985

No image

Big Pictures by Contemporary Photographers

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1983

Field Verification (4 fields)

3 cross-verified · 1 single-source

Birth yearMoMA + Duplicate Merge· 93%✓
NationalityMoMA + Duplicate Merge· 93%✓
LocationMoMA· 93%✓
BiographyMoMA· 93%

Source Registry (1)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/5555
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Michael Spano yet.

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Movement

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Medium

Photography

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago

Canonical record

Artworks (23)

New York Sights

2005 · Gelatin silver print

27 3/4 × 34 7/8" (70.5 × 88.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Lexington and 59th

2005 · Gelatin silver print

27 3/4 × 34 13/16" (70.5 × 88.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Apple and Teacup

2003 · Gelatin silver print

26 7/8 × 20 7/16" (68.3 × 51.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

57th Street and Poster

1999 · Gelatin silver print

35 3/16 × 27 13/16" (89.4 × 70.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Tree Trunk, 9-17-95, Prospect Park, Brooklyn

1995 · Gelatin silver print

27 1/16 × 26 13/16" (68.7 × 68.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Fruit Cup

1989 · gelatin silver print

Image: 114.7 x 89 cm (45 3/16 x 35 1/16 in.); Paper: 121.7 x 96.2 cm (47 15/16 x 37 7/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Construction #13

1989 · Gelatin silver print

34 5/16 × 27 3/16" (87.2 × 69.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Sad Man

1986 · Solarized gelatin silver print

Image: 88 × 69.3 cm (34 11/16 × 27 5/16 in.); Paper: 95.1 × 71.3 cm (37 1/2 × 28 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1986 · Gelatin silver print

34 1/2 × 27 5/8" (87.8 × 70.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print

35 3/4 × 27 3/4" (91 × 70.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1985 · Gelatin silver print

27 3/8 × 36 5/8" (69.5 × 93.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1984 · Gelatin silver print

35 3/4 × 27 1/2" (90.8 × 69.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Photogram-Michael Spano

1983 · Gelatin silver print

57 7/8 × 23 15/16" (145.2 × 60.8 cm) (irregular)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Gabriela Humpke and Michael Spano)

1983 · Gelatin silver print

9 3/4 × 7 11/16" (24.7 × 19.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

81st Street and Broadway, New York

1983 · Gelatin silver print

34 × 27 1/8" (86.7 × 66.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1983 · Gelatin silver print

27 1/4 × 34 7/8" (69.6 × 89.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Broad Channel

1982 · Gelatin silver print

26 3/4 × 35 3/8" (68 × 89.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Hubert

1982 · Gelatin silver print

27 3/16 × 35 3/16" (69.1 × 89.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Tribeca

1982 · Gelatin silver print

12 1/2 × 9 3/4" (31.5 × 24.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Rivington Street, New York

1981 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1982

10 5/16 × 13 3/8" (26.2 × 34 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn

1981 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1992

17 11/16 × 44 1/16" (45 × 112 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Mask Man, New York

1980 · Gelatin silver print

7 3/16 × 17 5/16" (18.3 × 44 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

New Haven, Connecticut

1977 · Gelatin silver print

7 1/16 × 16 7/8" (18 × 42.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (3)

23 published of 44 catalogued · 37 with image

MoMA
21 publishedof 42 catalogued36 img
Art Institute Chicago
1 published1 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources

Fruit Cup
1989 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

Artsy

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

Collections4

Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago Artsy

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Auction house

Artsy

1 lot · 2026

Market

Auction History

Work	Auction House	Date	Estimate	Hammer Price
Untitled	Artsy	Mar 2026	$500 – $700	Unsold

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Contemporary Photography Reinstallation

New York · 1986

Group Exhibition New Photography: Zeke Berman, Antonio Mendoza, Judith Joy Ross, and Michael Spano

New York · 1985

Group Exhibition Big Pictures by Contemporary Photographers

New York · 1983