MICHAEL HAIGHT
Born 1984 in Fontana, California
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Contact
Education
2010
Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art at Claremont Graduate University
2007
Bachelors of Art in Creative Writing at University of California, Riverside
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Venice Family Clinic Benefit Auction, Venice, CA / May 10 - May 19
At Home — IKEA Residency Group Show, Los Angeles, CA Apr 8 - Apr 29
The Hunger Artist, Good Naked, Los Angeles, CA / Mar 5 - Mar 27
All Killer, No Filler, One Trick Pony, Los Angeles, CA / Jan 21 - Feb 10
2023
A Room with A View, Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA / Nov 30 - Feb 10
Solo Presentation with La Beast Gallery, NADA Miami / Dec 5 - Dec 9
And The Sun Rose Regardless, My Pet Ram, New York, NY / Sept 8 - Oct 8
Daydream Jelly, La Beast Gallery, Los Angeles, CA / June 24 - July 29
Weird Flowers, Curve Line Space, Los Angeles, CA / Apr 22 - Jun 17
2022
Once Upon a Time in Mayfair, Phillips, London, UK / Oct 18 - Oct 24
PATH, The Niche from Dovetail Magazine, Online / Sept 15 - Dec 31
Fluid Suns, G/Art/En Gallery, Como, IT / April 9 - May 14
Karmic Devices, One Trick Pony, Los Angeles, CA / Jan 15 - Feb 12
2021
The Skin I Live In, Lyles and King, New York, NY / July 10 - Aug 14
Paper-Thin Friends, Santa Josefina, East Hollywood, CA / Jan 9 - Feb 28
2020
Every Day is Sunday, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA / Aug 1 - Aug 31
#MassHysteria, Quarantine Gallery, Online / Mar 24 - Mar 31
Into the Light, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA / Feb 1 - Mar 28
2018
Limited Edition Custom Panels, Pretend Gallery, Los Angeles, CA / Feb 3 - Feb 17
2017
Open Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA / Dec 15 - Jan 12
Artist & Residence, Bernardo Hale Gallery, Los Angeles, CA / Aug 4 - Aug 31
Out There, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA / Jun 9 - Jun 16
2016
The Human Condition, LA Metropolitan Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA / Oct 1 - Nov 30
'Group-a-Therapists,' Kippenberger-Beuys Gallery, Glendale, CA / Aug 20
Being Present Mafia, Soze Gallery, West Hollywood, CA / Jan 22 - Jan 28
2015
Rabbit Hole DTLA, Kippenberger-Beuys Gallery, Los Angeles, CA / Sept 7 - Sept 13
2012
Plexus no.7, ChaShaMa, New York, NY / Oct 18
The Visitation, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA / Jan 14 - Mar 5
2011
Debating through the Arts #4, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA / Oct 29
2010
Mirror/Window, Louis V E.S.P., Brooklyn, NY / Jan 28
2009
Ok I Believe You, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA / Nov 10 - Nov 16
I HAIGHT THIS SHOW, 5ifty Bucks Gallery, Pomona, CA / Jul 9 - Aug 31
Residencies
Inaugural Cohort, Ikea Residency, Burbank, Ca July 2023
Selected Press
WhiteWall NADA Miami 2023 Zooms In on the Fun - Whitewall.art / December 7 2023
Stromberg, M. Artists Infiltrate LA IKEA in Guerrilla “Residency” - Artillery Magazine / July 23 2023
Fujimoto, N. Tension:Rupture — Interview with Cutter Streeby and Michael Haight - Rhino Poetry / Sept 5 2022
McMullen, T. Inside a Southampton Home That’s Idyllic Year-Round - Architectural Digest / Sept 2 2022
Cory, C. An Element of Blank: Cynic Cory Reviews TENSION:RUPTURE by Cutter Streeby and Michael Haight - Lit Pub / Mar 24 2022
Troy, T. A Conversation WIth Michael Haight and Cutter Streeby - Tupelo Quarterly / March 13, 2022
Walthausen, A. Cutter Streeby and Michael Haight by Abby Walthausen - Tupelo Quarterly / March 13, 2022
Creahan, D. AO On-Site – Los Angeles: Felix Art Fair At The Hollywood Roosevelt - Art Observed / February 18th, 2022
Freeman, N. Scene Report: Los Angeles, January 2022 - Vanity Fair / January 21, 2022
Staff, W. Michael Haight | Artist Interview Series - Re/Psych/l Magazine / January 4, 2022
Faller, Bryan Artifacts of Memory Recall - Tupelo Quarterly / December 7, 2021
Kleiza, Michael Review of Tension:Rupture - Midwest Book Review / October 2021
Desimone, Arturo “Cloud-bellies Full of Virgin Birds”: Arturo Desimone Reviews TENSION:RUPTURE, poetry by Cutter Streeby, paintings by Michael Haight - Heavy Feather Review / September 14, 2021
Johnson, M. Riverside City College Professor Pens Book on Texas Sniper, Catholic Priest - The Press Enterprise / November 9, 2018
Kachka, B. Natalie Portman is Jackie Kennedy - New York Magazine / November 28, 2016
Sanchez, P. New Art Show Invites Community Interaction - Park Labrea News / Beverly Press / January 20, 2016
Lucas, L. UCR Grad Produces Performance Art Show - The Press-Enterprise / January 20, 2016
Publications
2023 New American Paintings, Boston MA Issue #163 / January
2022 New American Paintings, Boston MA Issue #157 / March 22
2021 Tension:Rupture - Tupelo Press, 62pp / September
2021 Art Maze Magazine, London UK Issue #23 / September
2021 New American Paintings, Boston MA Issue #145 / January
Selected WRiting
2013 EMMEDIA.ca, "Idea of the Future"
2012 Actual Size, "An Essay on Scott Benzel"
2012 Cirrus Publications, “C.L.A. versus NYC” catalog essay for “The Visitation” at Cirrus Gallery
2011 Cirrus Publications, “Livin’ LA” catalog essay for “Livin’ LA” at Cirrus Gallery
2011 Cirrus Publications, "Three Essays on the Art of David Trowbridge" Essay 1, Essay 2, Essay 3
2011 Phantom Limb Press, "The Trade"
2007 Warparade Press, "Peace Thought"