Michael Day is a contemporary artist based in Sheffield, UK.

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Curriculum Vitae
Born Reading, Berkshire, UK. Lives and works in Sheffield, UK.

Education
Sheffield Hallam University, MA in Fine Art (with Distinction) (part time)
Newport School of Art and Design, UWCN, BA (Hons) Interactive Arts

Selected Exhibitions

2013
Possession, BACC, Bangkok.

2012
The Everyday, Bloc Projects, Sheffield.
Outcasting: 4th Wall, Unit 17, Queen's Arcade, Cardiff.
Manchester Contemporary, Spinningfields, Manchester.
The View From Here, Cooke's Studios, Barrow-in-Furness.
Nothing Ever Happens, OSR Projects, Yeovil.
Bloc Assembly 12: North, Bloc Projects, Sheffield.
Overworlds and Underworlds, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds.
Loopholes, South Square Gallery, Bradford. (Solo show)
Lightworks Festival, Grimsby Minster, Grimsby.
Sequences, Bloc Projects, Sheffield. (Solo show)
LabCulture Archive, Kingcombe, Dorset.

2011
Michael Day & Nikola Uzunovski, Babel Art Space, Trondheim.
Bloc Assembly 11: Last Requests, Bloc Projects, Sheffield.
Morph Plinth, The Royal Inn on the Park, and Hackney Wicked, London. (Solo show)
Ever Remote, Crescent Arts, Scarborough.
Ever Remote, Site Gallery, Sheffield.
Off Duty, The Burlington Fine Arts Club, Manchester.
We Are All In This Together, Bureau, Manchester.
Owd Towser, Holmfirth Arts Festival, Holmfirth.
Ever Remote, South Square Gallery, Bradford.
Prism 8, Orchard Centre, Sheffield.
Audiograft Jukebox, Oxford.

2010
Digital Media Labs Exhibition, 11 Humber St, Hull.
Assembly 10: Correspondence, Bloc Projects, Sheffield.
Light Night Leeds, Millennium Square Big Screen, Leeds.
Örebro International Video Art Festival, Örebro, Sweden.
Film & Food, HAL25, Alkmaar, Netherlands.
Sonic Art Juke Box, Sound Fjord gallery and website, London.
Still Moving, Stuffinablank, online project, Barcelona.
Cu, FutureEverything, Manchester.
Host 9.5, Bloc Projects, Sheffield.

2009
Art In Unusual Spaces, 42 New Briggate Gallery, Leeds.
Piksel 09, Galleri 3,14, Bergen, Norway.
Reading Experimental Film Festival, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading.
Soup & Cinema, Project Space Leeds, Leeds.
A24D, Bloc Projects, Sheffield.
Host 9: Otherliness, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne.
17 Days, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, USA.
Filter, Add-Art, Online project based at Eyebeam, New York, USA. (Solo show)

2008
Intermittent, offsite location in Durham city centre.
The Day Before You Came, curated selection on Axis Website.
Sound:Space 2008, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell.
17 Days, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, USA.
If You Build It, They Will Come, g39, Cardiff.
World One Minutes, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China.
You’ve Got Some Explaining To Do, Common Room and BBC Big Screen, Millennium Square, Leeds.
Host 07: Home Disco, Nouvelles Images – 25ème Festival International du 1er Film, Annonay, France.
Yes / No / Other Options*, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield (Host Artists Group).

2007
Host 07: Home Disco, Colarte Gallery, Santander, Spain.
Host 07: Home Disco, DI@metro, Mexico City, Mexico.
A Little Bit Goes A Long Way, Consortium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Host 07: Home Disco, Consortium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Powerpointism, Bloc Projects, Sheffield.
Improvisation Continuums Conference, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff.
Cof Y Corff / Muscle Memory, Royal Opera House 2, London. Collaboration with Eddie Ladd.

2006
World One Minutes, Het Ketelhuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
World One Minutes, Biz-Art Gallery, Shanghai, China, as part of the Shanghai Fringe Festival.
Objects in Waiting, End Gallery, Sheffield.
Better Than Life, Bloc Assembly, Sheffield.
Wild Dog 4, The Space, London.
Jeez, Consortium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
StafellC, with Eddie Ladd, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Good Point Well Made, End Gallery, Sheffield. (MA Graduation Show)
37 Seconds, BBC Big Screen Liverpool, Clayton Square, Liverpool.
Le Festival: Nouvelle Images, Le Festival International du Premier Film, Annonay, France.
Interim, End Gallery, Sheffield.

2005
SightSonic International Digital Arts Festival, St John’s College, York.
Short Circuits:Interrupted, The Forum, Sheffield.
Transit, Timebase Gallery, Hull Time Based Arts, Hull. (Solo show)
Host 4: Cinema, Side Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne.
OutVideo Festival, Ekaterinburg, Russia.

2004
Scramble, End Gallery, Sheffield. Collaboration with sound artist Neil Webb.
Host 4: Cinema, Falmouth Arts Centre, as part of the Cornwall Film Festival.
Host 4: Cinema, Showroom Cinema, Sheffield.
Host 5: Incidentals, Bloc Space, Sheffield.
Ignition 2004, Acorn Theatre, Penzance.
StafellB, with Eddie Ladd, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Commissions and Awards
Lightworks Animation Commission, Lightworks Festival, Grimsby, 2012.
Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Award, 2011.
Staffordshire University I-ACT Research Award, 2011.
British Council Grant, 2007.
Staffordshire University Research Award, 2007.
University of Glamorgan Research Award, 2006.
Emerging Artists’ Residency and Commission, Hull Time Based Arts, Hull, 2005.

Residencies
Digital Cumbria Residency, Signal Films, Barrow-in-Furness, July–September 2012.
Guest Artist Residency, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, November–December 2011.
Digital Media Lab Residency, Hull, October 2010.
PVA LabCulture Residency, Burton Bradstock, Dorset, October 2009.
Emerging Artists’ Residency and Commission, Hull Time Based Arts, Hull, February 2005.

Publications
CNCPTN (Journal, ISSN 2047-8739, 2011)
Host 9: Otherliness (CD, 2009)
Transmission: Host, Artwords Press. (Book, ISBN 9781906441241, 2008)
Host 7: Home Disco (DVD, 2007)
The Sheffield Pavilion 2007, Cornerhouse Pubs. (Book & DVD, ISBN 9781899926862, 2007)