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Born: Houston TX, 1976

Lives and works in Brooklyn NY and Boulder CO


CONTACT

Mike: womagong@yahoo.com

ZieherSmith Gallery: info@ziehersmith.com


EDUCATION

MFA            2005                 Painting                 Pratt Institute

BFA            1999                 Painting                 University of Georgia


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011    Spectres, Phantoms, and Poltergeists, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY

2009    High Grade Empty, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY

2006    Warbling, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY

             Heat is Not Made of Tiny Hot Things, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010    5 From Brooklyn, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR

2009    In/Visible Spaces, 395 Flatbush, New York, NY

             Grand Reopening, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY

             Never Late Than Better, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts,
                           New York, NY, curated by Trong Nguyen

2008    Hasta La Basura Se Separa, Antigua Aduana Cultural Centro,
                           Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, curated by Jaime Salvador Castillo

             Tension Release, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY

             Sculpture at Evergreen, Johns Hopkins University Evergreen Museum,
                           Baltimore, MD, curated by Andrea Pollan

2007    Emerge 8, Aljira, Newark, NJ, curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado

2006    New American Talent: 21st Exhibition, Arthouse at the Jones Center,
                           Austin, TX, curated by Aimee Chang (traveling through 2008)

2005    Sturdy Axis, HPGRP Gallery, New York, NY

             Brooklyn Artists, Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY

             Foundation, Gallery Boreas, Brooklyn, NY


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Brooklyn Rail, McAdams, october, 2011

DailyServing.com, September 19, 2011

Denver Post, Arts New View, May 13, 2011

So Guide Magazine # 62, China, December 2010

Willamette Weekly, September 8, 2010

The Highlights, May 10, 2010

New York One, Khan, January 7, 2010

Fox 5, Good Day New York, October 22, 2009

ARD German TV, Broeker, October 20, 2009

Sculpture Magazine, Goodman, October, 2009

Art In America, Moyer, June/July 2009

Brooklyn Rail, McAdams, March, 2009

El Manana, Desechan sus Creaciones, November 17, 2008

New York Times, From Young Story Tellers, A Playful Tone, Genocchio, August 26, 2007

The New Jersey Star Ledger, July 29, 2007

The New Yorker, Jan 15, 2007

Art Papers, McAdams, Jan/Feb, 2007

Village Voice, Best in Show, R. C. Baker, Dec, 2006

Brooklyn Rail, Interview with Ben La Rocca, Dec, 2006

Sculpture Magazine, Goodman, November 2006

Heat is Not Made of Tiny Hot Things, Michael Brennan, 2006

Austin Chronicle, From Stuff, Art, Douberley, July 14, 2006

Hartford Courant, Low-Tech Art In High-Tech Era, Ackerman, May 22, 2006

Art World Digest, Spring 2006

NY Arts Magazine, Foundation at Gallery Boreas, McAdams, Nov/Dec 2005

Artnet.com Magazine, Front cover: Picture Postcard, May 10th, 2005


AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

2011 Fellow in Sculpture from The New York Foundation for the Arts

2010 Bauernmarkt Residency, Lenikus Collection, Vienna, Austria

Emerge 2006, Aljira, Newark, NJ