Michael Naify

Tel: 415-577-4500
Email: michael.naify@gmail.com
Address: 378 Brookside Rd – Darien, CT 06820

Experience:

REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER, FLORENCE, ITALY. 1998-PRESENT

Has purchased and restored several Historically significant properties in and around Florence, Italy. These properties are listed by the Belles Artes as properties of historical/artistic significance. The properties total more than 140,000 square feet of rest ored properties in and around the city of Florence, Tuscany.

OWNER/FOUNDER OF COASAC NAIFY EDITIONS: SÃO PAOLO, BRAZIL 1996-2016

Was the main publisher of art books in Brazil. The company publish over 1,200 titles in its 20-year history.

MEMBER BOARD OF TRUSTEES UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, BERKELEY UNIVERSITY — 19921994
BOARD MEMBER TODD AO CORP. — 1991-1999

Michael was an active board member during those years and was vice president of new product development from 1991 – 1995.

Education:

University of San Fransico – BA, History, 1990

University of San Francisco – MBA – Finance, 1992

San Francisco Art Institute – MFA, 2017

Shows & Publications:

2022

MINE: What Is Ours in the Wake of Extraction, Midway Gallery

Dallas Center for Photography, Landscapes Exhibition.

Featured Burn Magazine April, 2022

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2021

Venice International Art Fair – ItsLiquid

Fetured in Burn Magazine (https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2021/06/room-32-michael-naify-and-simone-cosac-naify/)

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2020

Southeast Center for Photography – Foresaken

Loosen Art, Isolation. Living Apart exhibition, Millepiani Gallery. Rome, Italy

PH21 Gallery, Photographic Visions, International Exhibit, Juror Zsolt Bátori, Budapest, Hungary, February 2020

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2016

Open Studio, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, Ca

En Regla, group exhibition, Havana, Cuba