Michael James Aleck Snow CC RCA, a Canadian artist who worked in a range of media including film, installation, sculpture, photography, and music has died. Snow was born on December 10, 1928 and died on January 5, 2023. He was 94 years.
Snow’s best-known films are Wavelength (1967) and La Région Centrale (1971), with the former regarded as a milestone in avant-garde cinema.
In music and as a pianist, Snow performed solo and with other musicians in North America, Europe and Japan.
He also performed regularly in Canada and internationally, often with the improvisational music ensemble CCMC and released more than a half dozen albums since the mid-1970s.
Together with Richard Serra, James Tenney and Bruce Nauman, Snow performed Steve Reich’s Pendulum Music on May 27, 1969 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
In 1993, a multivenue retrospective of Snow’s works known as the The Michael Snow Project, which lasted several months was exhibited in Toronto at several public venues and at the Art Gallery of Ontario and The Power Plant.
Details of his funeral will be made public by his family in due time.