Born in Denver, Michael Lundgren spent his formative years in the hills of upstate New York, roaming the fields and woods behind his home. Lundgren received his BFA in photography from RIT in 1997 and his MFA in photography from ASU in 2003, and has taught photography since 2004. His monograph, Transfigurations, was published by Radius Books. He is coauthor of After the Ruins: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake with the photographer Mark Klett. Lundgren was nominated for the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship, the Silverstein Photography Annual and the Santa Fe Prize, and he was a finalist in the Aperture West Book Prize. His work is included in the fine art collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Museet for Fotokunst in Denmark; the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; and numerous private collections.
