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{{Short description|American artist associated with Land Art movement}} {{for|the biblical scholar|Michael S. Heiser}} {{use mdy dates|date=September 2022}} {{Infobox artist | name = Michael Heizer | image = Double Negative north trench.jpg | imagesize = 275px | caption = ''Double Negative'', 1969, Nevada | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|11|4}} | birth_place = [[Berkeley, California]], US | death_date = | death_place = | field = [[Land art]], [[sculpture]] | training = [[San Francisco Art Institute]] | movement = | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = }} '''Michael Heizer''' (born 1944) is an American [[land art|land artist]] specializing in large-scale and site-specific sculptures.<ref name="NYT-20220819" /> Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces of galleries and museums, Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, gesture, and process. A pioneer of 20th-century [[land art]] or Earthworks movement, he is widely recognized for sculptures and environmental structures made with earth-moving equipment, which he began creating in the American West in 1967. He currently lives and works in [[Hiko, Nevada]],<ref name="NGA">[http://nga.gov.au/internationalprints/Tyler/DEFAULT.cfm?MnuID=2&ArtistIRN=20765&List=True Michael Heizer] [[National Gallery of Art]], Washington, D.C.</ref> and [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/michael-heizers-city |title = Michael Heizer's Monumental "City" {{!}} The New Yorker| magazine=[[The New Yorker]] | date=August 22, 2016 }}</ref>
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