Michael Heizer

Michael Heizer is an American land artist specializing in large-scale and site-specific sculptures. Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces of galleries and museums, Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, gesture, and process. A pioneer of 20th-century land art or Earthworks movement, he is widely recognized for sculptures and environmental structures made with earth-moving equipment, which he began creating in the American West in 1967. He currently lives and works in Hiko, Nevada, and New York City.

Works in Collection

18 works

45°, 90°, 180°

Michael Heizer

c. 1982

Field Painting No. 2

Michael Heizer

1968

Human Fault, Earth Rift

Michael Heizer

1968

Negative Sculpture - Quebec

Michael Heizer

1980

Preparatory material for Levitated Mass (1982)

Michael Heizer

c. 1982

Preparatory material for Levitated Mass (1982)

Michael Heizer

c. 1982

Preparatory material for Levitated Mass (1982)

Michael Heizer

c. 1982

Preparatory material for Levitated Mass (1982)

Michael Heizer

c. 1982

Preparatory material for Levitated Mass (1982)

Michael Heizer

c. 1982

Preparatory material for Levitated Mass (1982)

Michael Heizer

c. 1982

Preparatory material for Levitated Mass (1982)

Michael Heizer

c. 1982

Preparatory material for Levitated Mass (1982)

Michael Heizer

c. 1982

Preparatory material for Levitated Mass (1982)

Michael Heizer

c. 1982

Preparatory material for Levitated Mass (1982)

Michael Heizer

c. 1982

Preparatory material for Levitated Mass (1982)

Michael Heizer

c. 1982

Preparatory material for Levitated Mass (1982)

Michael Heizer

c. 1982

Scrap Metal Drypoint #2

Michael Heizer

1978

Study for Double Negative

Michael Heizer

1970

Exhibitions

8 exhibitions

Jul 02, 1970 – Sep 20, 1970

Information

75 artists · 1 curator

Feb 25, 1974 – May 24, 1974

Works on Paper

15 artists · 1 curator

Jan 23, 1976 – Mar 09, 1976

Drawing Now: 1955–1975

45 artists · 1 curator

Jul 10, 1978 – Sep 05, 1978

Selections from the Art Lending Service

26 artists

Feb 13, 1980 – Apr 01, 1980

Printed Art: A View of Two Decades

82 artists · 1 curator

Oct 15, 1981 – Jan 03, 1982

Prints: Acquisitions 1977–1981

74 artists · 1 curator

Dec 18, 1985 – May 20, 1986

American Prints: 1900–1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books

98 artists · 1 curator

Feb 07, 1986 – Jul 08, 1986

Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Prints

42 artists · 1 curator