Scott MacLeay

Quick Facts

Full Name	Scott MacLeay
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Mar 25, 1950(1950-03-25)
Age	74
Country	Canada
Birth City	Thunder Bay
Horoscope	Pisces

Scott MacLeay Biography

Scott MacLeay is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on March 25, 1950 in Thunder Bay, Canada. Scott MacLeay (born March 25 1950) is an Canadian musician, photographer and New Media artist. His photographs, as well as his music, frequently feature juxtapositions of fragmented elements within multilayered environments. The artist began his career at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in the late 1970s before moving towards Paris after 1979. In 2010, he relocated in Florianopolis, Brazil.

In 1982, he started composing new music for contemporary dance with American as well as French choreographers, including Robert Kovich, Ruth Barnes, Marc Vincent and Jean-Marc Matos, in collaboration together with French choreographer Francois Raffinot. Music composition became his main work towards the end of the decade as well. In the year 1988, he established Private Circus, an informally established musical research group which recorded two CDs for Sordide Sentimental. French Independent label Sordide Sentimental The first was the contemporary cabaret production Les Petites Foules (SSCD004 1990) as well as a compilation of music composed for the contemporary dancing La Moitie de L’Histoire (SSFP99 1994).).

Since 2017, Macleay’s work has been increasingly dedicated to exploring interactive, non-linear storytelling, employing photography, video and audio. The first phase of his transmedia project Encounters in the Right and Left Hemispheres was completed in December 2019: an interactive book of the same named published in February 2020.

In 2018, his cultural action company CREATIVE PROCESS, founded in 2011 , began publishing books in the field of new media. To date, five books have been published including two devoted to MacLeay’s work: Quadrichromie 1978–1988 (2018) and Encounters in the Right and Left Hemispheres (2020).

The artist gained notoriety in early 1980s with his color series called Attitudes that featured graphics that are free of detail in flat, two- dimensional fields. The series was first shown in the year 1981 at the Space Gallery of Pete Turner, Ernst Haas, Jay Maisel in New York. In 1981, he began working on a project with the Fresson family to print the images of the work. The brightness of the pigment-based Fresson charcoal printing process for the non-textured color palette that he was exploring. In 1982, his work was published within the Life Library of Photography in the book dedicated to Art of Photography.

Scott MacLeay Net Worth

Scott MacLeay is one of the richest Photographer from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Scott MacLeay 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Scott MacLeay earned an Honours B.A. degree, with a concentration in economics at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario in 1972. He then earned the master of Science degree in economic theory with a focus on development economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1974. He resigned from his doctoral studies in the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1975, to pursue the profession of photography.

The year was 1980 when he created in 1980 the Photography Department at the American Center for Artists in Paris as Director of the Center for Media Art and Photography in 1985, following the footsteps of its founders Don Foresta and Anne-Marie Stein.

In 2010 he settled in Florianópolis, Brazil where in addition to returning to photography and new media work, he also curates exhibitions of young Brazilian new media artists and writes on conceptual approaches to photography. He has directed workshops / portfolio critiques at various events such as Floripa na Foto (2011 and 2013) and the Festival de Fotografia de Tiradentes (2013/2015/2018/2019/2020) as well as at institutions such as the SESC Santana and SESC 24 de Maio, São Paulo (2014/2017/2018). His book of essays on photography Pensar, Sentir, Ver: Percepção e Processo em Fotografia (Thinking, Feeling, Seeing: Perception and process in Photography) was published in 2015.

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Scott Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Scott MacLeay celebrates birthday on March 25 of every year.