Exhibitions, Performances, Screenings, Publication
2026 01 Seance for Four Lumia Sculpture at LIC Artists Queens NY
2025 03 - 11 Lumia Discs “Seasons” at St. Johns Church Greenwich Village
04 - 16 music videos for Hatters’ Performance at Brooklyn Bowl
05 - Record release video “Off Season” for the band, Freezing Cold
06 - 7 music videos for original music compositions by Ryan Bland
06 to 11 NBoss, Bennington Museum “ Spirits’ Tree House” Homage to Fred Sandback
09 - Framing the Village exhibit “Shpol” spirit portrait
09 - Framing The Village Opening “Lumia Mysterium Installation” collaboration with J.White
10-05 “Untitled” Natural Light Lumia Construct at Holo. NYC Gallery
11-18 Publication - Mobile Color 1910-1970 Pierre. J . Pernuit
2024 06 -11 N Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show - Natural Light Lumia Composition “Seasons” Bennington Museum
Installation Spirit Portrait Selfie Station Spirit Selfie Station event at CultureLab fundraiser, Long Island City, NYC
2023 School of Visual Arts - Lumia Composition Workshop
Three Spirit Portraits for Haunted Vermont at the Bennington Museum Vermont
Arts Exchange - Multi media event - Dream Garden Framing the Village - Closing event - Live Lumia Performance Hampshire College - Lumia Composition Workshop Corrugat. Loft - online 1:12 scale exhibit - Lumia Compositions
2022 “Dance” installation at Solstice exhibit, Governors Island, New York Harbor Dialogue Nordique outdoor Lumia and Projections, Bennington Museum, Bennington VT
2021 Light Windows Ghost Light Lumia installation at Cell Theatre, New York City
2020 Ghost Light Lumia installation at the Bennington Performing Arts Center, Bennington VT
Soulton Lumia installation in the Soulton Long Barrow, Wem, Wales.
2019 Space Light - group exhibition Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2018 Publication - TMK Teatre Muusika. Kino .SOUND ART JA MUUSIKA XX MUUSIKA — QUO VADIS? XII Elektroakustilisest visuals uses By Ines Reingold-Tali Screening - Light Year 34 LIGHT + TIME + EXPERIMENTATION Manhattan Bridge Projection co-presented with the DUMBO Improvement District. 2017 Performance - Joshua Light Show 50th Anniversary Skirball Center for the Performing ArtsPerformance - OptoSonic Tea: 10th Anniversary Pioneer Works.Screening - Yale Art Gallery After Wilfred: The Contemporary Lumia Experience
2015 Publication - Abstract Video The Moving Image in Contemporary Art Edited by Gabrielle Jennings Published by the University of California Press
2011 Recorded Live Performance - Excerpt from Time Paintings Collaboration with James Ross https://vimeo.com/1112835272010Performance - Recorded Live Performance - Flock + Flame at Pianos NYC James Ross (guitar and electronics) and George Stadnik (digital lumia light projections).
2008 Screening - International House, Philadelphia “Primordial Soup”
Digital Lumia Video –"Elegy for Iraq Music" Franklin Morris. A collaboration with a pioneer in electronic music.
Digital Lumia Video – "Lumia :The story of Thomas Wilfred and the birth of light art".
2007 Screening - Visual Music Marathon –Northeastern University, Boston
2005 Screening - New York Digital Salon Abstract Visual Music.
2004 Screening - “Synaesthesiologists: Global Audiovisuals Now”.
Chronology of Studio Practice
2014 - Present Creating Natural Light Lumia Stabiles and Mobiles using optically reactive materials.
1996 -2014 Experimented with 3D software to build virtual Lumia machines and record Digital Visual Music. In parallel, continued working with shadow, light, color and motion to create physical compositions, portraits, landscapes and sculptures. 1984 -1995 Experimented with the early commercial applications for digital image creation and production.
1980 - 1984 Produced and performed live Lumia performances at festivals, galleries and planetariums.
1979 Invented and patented the Photon Guitar, an analog live performance visual music instrument.
1978 - 1984 Operated a Lumiagraph studio in Worcester MA. It was a 10’x 12’ x 8’ light tight camera obscura. Compositions using physical optics with various light sources were created and recorded directly onto Cibachrome film. The one off prints were exhibited in the US and UK. They were also sold as commissioned artwork for covers on optical industry publications.
1975 Awarded grant to create a video with WGBH Paik Abe Synthesizer, titled "Primordial Soup".
1973 - 1978 Created Lumia for performances at Avant Garde Festivals staged around New York City.
1972 Earned a BFA in Experimental Studios from Syracuse University.
Collections
Stanford University, University Southern California LA, USC San Diego, USC Riverside, USC Irvine, University of Texas at San Antonio, Ringling College of Art and Design Sarasota, University of Illinois Urbana, Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, UMBC, Columbia University NYC, Duke University, Duke University, Savannah College of Art and Design, Museum of Modern Art Archive, Iota Center, Queens University Documents Library Kingston Ontario, Center for Visual Music, Optical Publishing Company, Ealing Corporation, Leff family, Epstein family, Larry Holsborg, American Optical, Norton Company, Mutual of NY. Savannah College of Art and Design, Museum of Modern Art Archive, Iota Center, Queens University Documents Library Kingston Ontario, Center for Visual Music, Optical Publishing Company, Ealing Corporation, Leff family, Eugene Epstein family, Larry Holsborg, American Optical, Norton Company, Mutual of NY.
Internet Content Links
Vimeo: 5"Opus 3 Reliquary of Time": Silent: https://vimeo.com/104363270
" Opus 3" Close up: https://vimeo.com/1043632762014
" Lumia Nocturna": Silent: https://vimeo.com/750844342013
"Illusions of Time" original composition William Kersten: https://vimeo.com/649460992012"
Spin": Silent: https://vimeo.com/1093142432011
" Time painting Excerpt Waves": music James Ross 2011: https://vimeo.com/1112835272010
"Trip Light": music James Ross: https://vimeo.com/60333384
"Elegy for Iraq": music Franklin Morris: https://vimeo.com/60373363
YouTube: 2017"Optosonic Tea 10th anniversary Pioneer Works": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chZ7oNogALk
"The Shape of Escape music video Freezing Cold": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmFx2wUt6pw
"LUMIA -After Thomas Wilfred": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hvIHWA7brE&t=12s2011
"Flock + Flame at Pianos NYC": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dSOUO1aH-4&t=11s "Time Painting Part 1": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4PTJYxlk-s
"Time Painting Part 2": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq9ol7LzgIA2009
"Flame music by Mark Rushton and Jon Hamish": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgx95CuMEvU2008"
Dream Silent": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0tdwZTZjp0