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Michael Light (b. 1963) is a Bay Area photographer, bookmaker, and pilot. He has exhibited globally including solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, the Chrysler Museum, VA, the Knoxville Museum of Art, TN, and the Hayward Gallery, London. His work is in numerous museum collections including SFMOMA, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Research Institute, the Nevada Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Brooklyn Art Museum, the Hasselblad Center, Sweden and the Victoria & Albert, London. Over the course of his career the artist has published 23 editions of 7 monographs. His awards include: The John Simon Memorial Foundation Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography the Artadia Award. Light’s work has been written about and published in such publications as Art in America, Artforum, Time, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, British Journal of Photography, San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Wired. His series FULL MOON is permanently displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.