Tintype, Polaroid, and Plastic Camera. Three artist exhibition. Photobooth, San Francisco CA. 2012
Day of the Dead. Solo exhibition. CordenPotts, San Francisco CA. 2011
Where Nepenthe Flows and All Hallows Eve. Solo exhibition. CordenPotts, San Francisco CA. 2010
Where Nepenthe Flows by Michael Starkman and Panopticon by Jessica M. Kaufman. Two artist exhibition. Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco CA. 2008
Heartwood: Pilgrim. Solo exhibition. UC Berkeley Extension Gallery,
San Francisco CA. 2007
16th Street, between Guerrero and Mission Streets, 8:30 am.
Solo exhibition. Foto & Photo Festival, Cesano Maderno, Milano, Italy. 2006
Heartwood: Pilgrim. Solo exhibition. San Francisco Zen Center.
San Francisco CA. 2006
Distant Geographies. Three artist exhibition. Plattsburgh State Art Museum, Plattsburgh NY. 2001
Unexpected Grace. Three artist exhibition. 848 Gallery, San Francisco CA. 2000
Crimes Against Nature. Solo photographic installation. New Conservatory Theater, San Francisco CA. 1997
5th Annual International Plastic Camera Show. Rayko Photo Center,
San Francisco CA. 2012
4th Annual International Plastic Camera Show. Rayko Photo Center,
San Francisco CA. 2011
3rd Annual International Plastic Camera Show. Rayko Photo Center,
San Francisco CA. 2010
Small. CordenPotts, San Francisco CA. 2010
Home for the Holidays. CordenPotts, San Francisco CA. 2009
It’s Still Life. Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco CA. 2009
2nd Annual International Plastic Camera Show. Rayko Photo Center,
San Francisco CA. 2009
1st Annual International Plastic Camera Show. Rayko Photo Center,
San Francisco CA. 2008
Rayko Inaugural exhibition. Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco CA. 2005
Intuition and the Photographer’s Landscape. Fusion ArtSpace, San Francisco CA. 2004
National Krappy Kamera Competition V. Soho Photo Gallery, New York NY. 2003
Pure Plastic. San Francisco Photo Center, San Francisco CA. 2003
Houston Center For Photography Juried Membership Exhibition. Houston Center for Photography, Houston TX. 2001
Lo-Tech High-Art. MacDonald Art Gallery, College Misericordia, Dallas PA. 2000
Beyond Beauty. Leslie-Lohman Gallery, New York NY. 1999
Ripe. Hollis Street Project, Emeryville CA. 1999
The Plastic Camera Show. UC Berkeley Extension Galleria, San Francisco CA. 1999
Exchange. Exhibition of prints by artists from the United States and the Czech Republic. Southern Graphics Council Conference, Ohio University, Athens OH. 1998
Troubling Customs. The Gallery, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario; and The Katherine Lane Weems Center, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA. 1998
Point of Departure II. Traveling exhibition of prints by University of Wisconsin printmaking alumni and faculty. Seven university and college galleries across the United States. 1997–1999
Photo Metro. Photo Metro Gallery, San Francisco CA. 1997
Six Photographers. MTC Gallery, Oakland CA. 1997
Americas 2000 Works on Paper. Northwest Art Center, Minot State University, Minot ND. 1996
Harper National Print and Drawing Exhibition. Harper College, Palatine IL. 1996
Art and Healing. Milton Museum of Art, Milton MA. 1996
Queer Utopias. Eighth Floor Gallery, New York NY. 1996
The Halpert Biennial. Catherine Smith Gallery, Appalachian State University, Boone NC. 1995
Great Plains National. Moss-Thorns Gallery, Fort Hays State University,
Hays KS. 1995
McNeese State Print Invitational. Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles LA. 1995
The Human Figure. Saint Tammany Museum of Art, Covington LA. 1995
Naked/Nude. Clark Gallery, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond LA. 1995
Lagrange National Biennial. Lagrange College, Lagrange GA. 1994
Parkside National Small Print Exhibition. University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha WI. 1994
Art Against AIDS. Still-Zinsel Gallery, New Orleans LA. 1994
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas
at Austin
Hollar Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, Ohio
Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, Pennsylvania
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
High Quality, Lo-Fi Photography, p 129. Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco CA. 2009.
Reclaiming Quarterly, pp 17, 19, 20, 28, mid 2008. San Francisco CA
PhotoNews, “Michael Starkman: Portfolio,” text by Denis Brudna, pp 14–15, March 2007. Hamburg, Germany
Reclaiming Quarterly, “Laytonville, California: Trees,” cover photograph, Summer, 2005. San Francisco CA
Performers’/Artists’ voice #2, “Location, Location, Location: Intuition and the Photographer’s Landscape,” by John Baumann, pp 12–15, September 2004. San Francisco CA
Foto Mundo, “Las Fotos Checas de Michael Starkman,” pp 16–20, July 2001.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Press-Republican, “Distant Geographies: Art as a Travelogue” and “Artist Starkman Revives Grandparents’ Distant Memories,” both by Robin Caudell, pp C1–C4, February 22, 2001. Plattsburgh NY
San Francisco Chronicle, “Bay Area Collectors Scoop Up Photos,” “Hints for Buying,” and “You’ve Been Framed,” Home Section, pp 4–5, August 30, 2000. San Francisco CA
San Francisco Photo Center. Instructor. 2009-2011
UC Berkeley Extension Photography Program. Instructor. San Francisco CA. 2003–2007
Southeastern Louisiana University. Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts. Hammond LA. 1991–1995
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Assistant Professor, Department of Art.
Edinboro PA. 1989–1991
Amherst College. (Fine Arts: printmaking and drawing). Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude. Amherst, Massachusetts. Degree: May 1974