MIchael's website can be found here.
He is also currently teaching at VCFA.
Solo Exhibitions
2009 I KNOW WHERE YOU L, WPA, Los Angeles, CA
2007 not by everybody, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
2004 cannibals & christians, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Reckless Melancholy, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Only Now, Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel
2009 An Exhibition of Selected Skills of the Unemployed, WPA, Los Angeles
2009 Art Basel/Miami Beach, Galerie Bob Van Orsow, Zurich
2008 Beyond Drawing: Constructed Realities, Ohio University, Athens OH
2006 Shiny, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
2004 The Raw and the Cooked, curated by David Pagel, Claremont University Claremont, CA
2003 FIAC 2002, Paris, France
2001 Platypus, Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY
2001 Amused, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Structures of Knowledge, Raid Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 The Dreams Stuff is Made of, curated by David Pagel, The Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
2001 Inaugural Exhibition: New Work by Gallery Artists, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000-01 Never Never Land, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2000 Sculpture By Four, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Ply, Art Center Graduate Galleries, Pasadena, CA
1999 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
1997 To Be Real, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SanFrancisco, CA
1997 Inside Out Art Fair, curated by Kenny Schacter, New York, NY
1996 Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, Galerie Philippe Rizzo, NY
1996 Mobius Strip, Basilico Fine Arts, NY
1996 Open Studios, Whitney Independent Studio Program, NY, NY
1992 Josh Baer Gallery, NY
1992 Miauhaus,(Movimento Internazional Artisti Unlimited), Thread Waxing Space, NY
1992 The Neurotic Art Show II: The Return of the Repressed, curated by Four Walls, Artists’ Space, NY
1992 Spring Benefit Drawing Show, Artists’ Space, NY
1991 Video Library, (Rehab Video), Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY
1991 Extra Texture, Video Series, ABC NO RIO, NY
1990 The Knitting Factory, NY
1990 Pleasure Engineering, Althea Viafora Gallery, NY
1989 Ruine, curated by Martina Karbe, Koln, Germany
1989 Outside the Clock: Beyond Good and Elvis,” curated by Robert Longo, Scott Hansen Gallery, NY
Bibliography
2006 sleek magazine, comic/tragic, vol. 10, Spring 2006
2004 Bruce Hainley, Reviews( Los Angeles), Artforum, September 2004
2004 David Pagel, Visages in clay let the viewers mold perceptions,The Los AngelesTimes, June 28
2001 Malik Gaines, Reviews, artext, Spring 2002
2001 David Pagel, Art Reviews, The Los Angeles Times, October 26
2001 Ingrid Calame, (unpublished) Art Issues #71, Dec. 2001
2001 Platypus, The New Yorker, July 2001
1998 Reena Jana, To Be Real, Flash Art, April 1998
1998 Benoit Denizet-Lewis, Reality Bites, The San Francisco Times, January 8
1998 Frazer Ward, Private Parts, Open Secrets: Christopher Whittey and Michael Minelli, Documents #11, Winter 1998
1998 Roberta Smith, Despite Changes, a Gallery Scene That’s Resilient and Vital,The New York Times, May 9
1998 Kim Levin, Voice Choices, The Village Voice, May 27
1995 Kim Levin, Voice Choices: Mobius Strip, The Village Voice, January 24
1994 David Rimanelli, School’s Out, The New Yorker, June 20
1992 Kim Levin, Voice Choices, The Village Voice, August 4
1992 Holland Cotter, The New York Times, July 31
1992 Kim Levin, Voice Choices, The Village Voice, July 8
1990 Culture in the City, From Blankets to Bronze, The New York Times, April 20, p. C28
1990 Terry R. Meyers, Arts Magazine, February
1990 Pia Phora, Contemporanea International, February, p. 92
1989 Hilton Kramer, New York Observer, July 31
1989 Roberta Smith, Outside the Clock: Beyond Good and Elvis, The New York Times, July 21
1989 Amei Wallach, The Young Turk’s Old Master, New York Newsday, July 16
1989 Critical Art Ensemble, Arts Papers, September
Published Material
2007 The want of a nail…, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Vol.9 #4, Summer
2007 Rural: Commentary on Jacob Galle, Aspect Chronicle of New Media Art, Vol.10
2001 Gillian Wearing at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Documents #20, Spring 2001
2000 Showtime’s Release of Dirty Pictures, Documents #18, Summer/Fall 2000
2000 Paul McCarthy at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, Documents #17, Winter/Spring 2000
Education
1999 UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, M.F.A. Sculpture
1994 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, NY, NY
1984 Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ, B.A.