EDUCATION
1996 MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
1992 BA, Chapman University, Orange, California
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2022 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, New York
2022 Miles McEnery Gallery, Paintings, New York, New York (catalog)
Weber Fine Art, Paintings, Greenwich, CT
2020 Miles McEnery Gallery, Paintings, New York, New York (catalog)
2017 Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe, Paintings, New York, New York (catalog)
2016 RB Stevenson Gallery, In Bloom, La Jolla, California
2015 Ameringer/ McEnery/ Yohe, Paintings, New York, New York (catalog)
2014 Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Sunday Best, Culver City, California
2013 Ameringer/ McEnery/ Yohe, We Ate the House, New York, New York
2012 RB Stevenson Gallery, Gleam, La Jolla, California
2011 Ameringer/ McEnery/ Yohe, Feast, New York, New York
Marty Walker Gallery, Delight, Dallas, Texas
2010 Western Project, Put it There, Culver City, California
Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Sweetness, Columbus, Ohio (catalog)
2009 RB Stevenson Gallery, Undone, La Jolla, California
2007 W.C.C.A., Fresh, Singapore
Western Project, Aqua La La, Culver City, California (catalog)
RB Stevenson Gallery, Whirl, La Jolla, California
2005 Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada. More: Paintings and Sculpture from 2002-2005
2004 Uplands Gallery, Yum-Yum, Melbourne, Australia
2003 Mark Moore Gallery, Paintings, Santa Monica, California
2002 Galeria Marta Cervera, Paintings, Madrid, Spain
Finesilver, Paintings, San Antonio, Texas
2001 Mark Moore Gallery, Paintings, Santa Monica, California
Artissima, Present/ Future, Turin, Italy
1999 Mark Moore Gallery, Paintings, Santa Monica, California
1997 Blum and Poe, Paintings, Santa Monica, California
1996 Art Center College of Design, Paintings, Pasadena, California
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 Contemporary Art Matters, Two of Us, Columbus, Ohio
2018 Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, New York (catalog)
2007 Harris Art Gallery, Combo Platter: Collaborative Works by Michael Reafsnyder and
David Kiddie. University of La Verne,CA (catalog)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Miles McEnery Gallery, Summer Drift, New York, New York
2021 Contemporary Art Matters, Flying Colors, Columbus, Ohio
Blossom Market, Return of the Dragons, Los Angeles, California
Bentley Gallery, Chromatic, Phoenix, Arizona
North Dakota Museum of Art, From the Collection, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Weber Fine Art, Group Exhibition, Greenwich, Connecticut
2020 Miles McEnery Gallery, Do You Think It Needs A Cloud? New York, New York
Telluride Fine Art, Little Gems, Telluride, California
2018 RB Stevenson Gallery, Abstract Thinking, La Jolla, California
2017 Telluride Fine Art, Non-Objective Painting, Telluride, Colorado
(Curated by James Hayward)
RB Stevenson Gallery, Painters Room, La Jolla, California
2015 Acme, Works in Paper II, Los Angeles, California
Barrick Museum, Recent Acquisitions, Las Vegas, Nevada
Guggenheim Gallery, Paths and Edges, Chapman University, Orange, California
2014 Peggy Phelps Gallery, Floor Flowers, Claremont Graduate University,
Claremont, California
2012 Barrick Museum, Into the Light, Las Vegas, Nevada
2011 Acme, Los Angeles Ceramic Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe, Summer Selections, New York, New York
2010 Peggy Phelps Gallery, Forever Now, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
Pacific Design Center, Keramik, Los Angeles, California
Ameringer/ McEnery/ Yohe, Summer Selections, New York, New York
RB Stevenson Gallery, Just Enough, La Jolla, California
2009 Blaffer Gallery, Electric Mud, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Morgan Lehman, Selected Works from Pilliod Records, New York, New York
Donna Beam Art Gallery, Way Out West, Las Vegas, Nevada
CTRL, Good Ship Lollipop, Houston, Texas
RB Stevenson Gallery, Well-Tempered, La Jolla, California
Western Project, Sculpture Two, Culver City, California
Laguna Art Museum, Collecting California: Selections from Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
2008 Sweeney Art Gallery, Like Lifelike, curated by Brad Spence, University of California, Riverside, California
Cypress College Art Gallery, iCandy: Current Abstraction in Southern California, Cypress, California
Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Splash, Columbus, Ohio
Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Luscious Abstraction, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California
Black Dragon Society, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, California
2007 Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Summer Selections, Columbus, Ohio
RB Stevenson Gallery, Abstract, La Jolla, California
2006 David Reed Studio, Too Many Tear Drops, New York, New York
Mandarin, A Little So Cal Abstraction, Los Angeles, California
West Coast Contemporary Art, Discovery, Singapore
2005 Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis Art Institute, Step into Liquid, curated by Dave Hickey, Los Angeles, California
Mark Moore Gallery, In Bloom, Santa Monica, California
Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, California
2004 Gallery Eugene Lendl, Fresh Paint, Graz, Austria
Mark Moore Gallery, Painting and Sculpture, Santa Monica, California
Laguna Art Museum, Funny Business: Humor in Art from the Permanent Collection, Laguna Beach, California
Laguna Art Museum, The O Scene, Laguna Beach, California
Claremont Graduate School, Now and Then Some, Claremont, California
2003 Uplands Gallery, LA TAP, Melbourne, Australia
Manny Silverman Gallery, Not the Usual Suspects, curated by James Hayward, Los Angeles, California
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Pfat and Sassy, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Peter Blake Gallery, Extreme Paint, Laguna Beach, California
2002 Modernism, Five Times Four, San Francisco, California
Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Trade Show, Orange, California
Portland Art Museum, New in Town, curated by Bruce Guenther, Portland, Oregon
2002 Mark Moore Gallery, Western States, Santa Monica, California
2001 University of North Texas, Cal’s Art, Sampling California Painting, Denton, Texas
Laguna Art Museum, One Minute of Your Time: A Brief Survey of Southern California Art from 1835 to 2001
Art Frankfurt, The Stuff Dreams are Made From, Frankfurt, Germany.
2000 Todd Hosfelt Gallery, New Work: Abstract Painting, San Francisco, California
The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, New American Painting 15, curated by David Pagel, Austin, Texas
Mark Moore Gallery, Paint, American Style, Santa Monica, California
Gallery Marabini, Radar Love (with Gajin Fujita, Andrea Bowers and Linda Stark), Bologna, Italy.
1999 Black Dragon Society, Under 500: Intimate Abstract Paintings, Los Angeles, California
Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, LA/ New York Abstract, New York, New York
1996 The Loft, Risk, Laguna Beach, California
1995 Gander Mountain High, Ride ‘Um Hunter, curated by Daniel Mendel- Black, Pasadena, California
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SOLO EXHIBITION PUBLICATIONS
Palermo, Charles. Losing Voice/ Taking Form. Michael Reafsnyder. Miles McEnery Gallery, 2022.
Schreyach, Michael. What Painting Can Do. Michael Reafsnyder New York: Miles McEnery Gallery, 2020.
Grabner, Michelle and David Pagel. Universal Grammars. Michael Reafsnyder. New York: Ameringer/ McEnery/ Yohe, 2017.
Hickey, Dave. Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood. Michael Reafsnyder. New York: Ameringer/ McEnery/ Yohe, 2015.
White, Wayne and Cliff Benjamin. Michael Reafsnyder: Aqua LaLa. Culver City: Western Project, 2007.
GENERAL PUBLICATIONS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS CATALOGS
Dambrot, Shana Nys. A Dialectic of Pleasure. Michael Reafsnyder/ Patrick Wilson. New York: Miles McEnery Gallery, 2018.
Non- Objective. Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Telluride, Colorado, 2017.
Paths and Edges. Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, 2015.
Collecting California: Selections from Laguna Art Museum: Laguna Beach, California, 2010.
Pagel, David, and Sara Cochran. Electric Mud. Houston: Blaffer Gallery, 2009.
Spence, Brad. Like LifeLike. Riverside: University of California, 2008.
Lumpkin, Libby. Las Vegas Collects Contemporary. Las Vegas Art Museum, 2008.
Dambrot, Shana Nys. Combo Platter: Collaborative Works by Michael Reafsnyder and David Kiddie.
University of La Verne: Harris Art Gallery, 2007.
A Little So Cal Abstraction. Los Angeles: Mandarin Gallery, 2006.
Present/Future. Turin: Artissima, 2001.
Art Out of School. Beverly Hills: Creative Artist's Agency, 2000.
New American Talent: 15. Austin: Jones Center for Contemporary Art, 2000.
Facts and Fictions: New International Painting between the Imaginary and Reality. edited by Luca Beatrice. Galleria in Arico, Torino, 1999.
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Creative Artist’s Agency, Beverly Hills, California
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, California
Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, California
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Weisman Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California