Mike is recovering from a long walk, a short day, a mysterious illness, a bee sting, and too much education. He hates the heat, but loves the desert. He lives and works in Washington DC, and hopes someday to have senators to represent him.

Mike is recovering from a long walk, a short day, a mysterious illness, a bee sting, and too much education. He hates the heat, but loves the desert.

He lives and works in Washington DC, and hopes someday to have senators to represent him.




Education:

MFA in Studio Art from Maryland Institute College of Art(MICA)

MFA in Photography from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)

Contemporary Art History at Middlesex University, London, England

Bachelors of Science in Art Education, State University of New York, New Paltz NY  

Residencies, Grants, Fellowships:

2023 Artist Fellowship Grant from the Washington DC Arts Commission

2022 Artist Fellowship Grant from the Washington DC Arts Commission

2020 Montello Foundation Residency, Montello NV

2019 Fund For Teachers Travel Grant, Chernobyl Ukraine

2016 Maker in Residence at the MLK Library Maker Space

2014 Artist Residency in the Arctic Circle

2013 Artist Fellowship Grant from DC Arts Commission

2013 Cultural Exchange Residency in Nagaland, India

2012 Fund For Teachers Travel Grant, Easter Island, Chile

2012 Artist Residency in Budapest by the Hungarian Cultural Institute

2010 Artist Fellowship, Washington DC Arts Commission

2008 Artist Fellowship, Hamiltonian Artists Foundation, Washington DC

2006, 07, 08, Awarded Small Projects Grants Washington DC Arts Commission

2003 Artist Residency at University of West Virginia Mid Atlantic Arts Council

Exhibition:

2023 Modern Desert Markings, University of Las Vegas, Las Vegas NV

2023 This World, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord MS

2022  Perplexity, The Kreeger Museum of Art, Washington DC

2022 New Photography III, Academy Art Museum, Easton MD

2021 On Solid Ground, Gallery Neptune and Brown, Washington DC

2020 Salt Drawings, US Consulate, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

2020 Applied Forces, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington VA

2018  Constitution Project at Creative Time Summit, Stroboskop Art Space, Warsaw Poland

2016 City of Ghosts  at Flashpoint Gallery, Washington DC

2013 The Points That Bring Us From Here to There at Honfleur Gallery, Washington DC

2012 Dividing Budapest at The Hungarian Cultural Institute, Budapest Hungary

2012 Traversing Suburban Video Exhibit at the Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando FL

2011 Free Space: 360 Video Installation

2011 Conflict Maps at Duplex Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

2011 Cartographic, Gainesville State College, Oakwood GA

2010 Map/Art­Art/Map The Katonah Museum, New York

2010 Free Space: A Photographic Survey at Flashpoint Gallery, and the MLK Library, Washington DC

2010 Public Space Confined at Charlama Depot, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

2009 Space and Repeat at Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington DC

2009 Thesis Exhibition at Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD

2009 New Works, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington DC

2008 Formulas, Maps and Photos a tHamiltonian Gallery, Washington DC

2007 The Numbers Behind at Flashpoint Gallery, Washington DC

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2022 Fragile Beauty, DC Arts Commission, Washington DC

2021 In Dialogue With Nature, Southern Utah Museum of Art

2021 Earth at Modern West, Salt Lake City, UT

2016 Degrees of Separation at Space, Pittsburgh PA

2016 Polar Portraits  at Boz'Art an Baz'Art, Paris France

2016 Polar Portraits at University College, London England

2015 Instigate/Activate at Arlington Arts Center, Arlington VA

2014 (Re)Activate,  Washington DC

2013 Artist/Citizen at  Hemphill Gallery, Washington DC

2013 Street View at Heurich Gallery, Washington DC

2013 Art NOW DC  at Washington College, Chestertown MD

2012 Zeitgeist III, Too Much Information at DCAC Gallery, Washington DC

2012 In Our Hood at Pleasant Plains Workshop, Washington DC

2011 Passing Through: New Video Works at (e)merge Art Fair, Washington, DC

2011 Art Obsessional at University of Maryland, College Park MD

2011 Synergy, at The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

2010 Confluence, at George Mason University, Fairfax VA

2010 Meditation Maze, Collaborative Video Installation with Billy Friebele at Chestnut Art Space, Baltimore MD

2010 Crème: WPA Best of DC Artists at Katzen Center Gallery, American University, Washington DC

2009 Construct: Spaces Transformed, Storefront Public Installation Collaborative Video Installation with Billy Friebele

2009 Almost surely, almost everywhere, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington DC

2009 Convergence 09: Recent MFA Graduates Maryland Art Place, Baltimore MD

2008 Windows into DC, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington DC

2008 Art of the Brooklyn Bridge City Hall Brooklyn, NY

2007 Topos Brooklyn, Nelson Hancock Gallery, Brooklyn NY

2007 The Wilson Building Collection, City Hall Permanent Collection Washington DC