Mike Cloud

Born 1974 Chicago, IL
Lives and works in Chicago, IL

Education

2010 Yale University, MFA
2010 University of Illinois, BFA

Solo Exhibitions

2018 Mike Cloud: The Myth of Education, Logan Center Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 Paper Quilts, Olsen Gallery, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN
2014 Bad Faith and Universal Technique, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Quiltmaking & Overproduction of Opposites, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Special Project: Mike Cloud, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2008 Agreement and Subjectivity, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
2007 A Eating Phylosophy, Center for Visual Communication, Miami, FL
2007 Celebrating Black History Month, The Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
2006 Systems, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NB
2006 Story Structure, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Special Project: Mike Cloud, MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
2004 Mike Cloud, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015 Wind Chimes, Bannerette, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Shanna Waddell
2015 Looking Back/The 9th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, NY, curated by Cleopatra’s
2014 IN ON, Heliopolis/ Sun City Project Space, Brooklyn, New York, NY, curated by Baris Gokturk
2014 Saying Yes To Everything, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Prophetic Diagrams, Cheymore Gallery , Tuxedo Park, NY, curated by Will Corwin
2014 doubleplusgood, Tuck Under Projects, Minneapolis, MN, curated by Caroline Kent
2013 Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Phong Bui
2013 Dyeing Merging Multitasking, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Leeza Meksin
2012 Things: The Still Life in Contemporary Art, Delaware County College, Media, PA, curated by Bertha Gutman
2011 The Death of Affect, Art Blog Art Blog, New York, NY, curated by Fran Holstrom & Jeffrey Scott Mathews
2011 February Show, Ogilvy & Mather, New York, NY, curated by Heather Hart and Jun Lee
2010 Looking Back, White Columns, New York, NY, curated by Bob Nickas
2009 African Americana, Brennan Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, curated by Kenya Robinson
2008 XXL-Recent Large-Scale Paintings, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, curated by Marc Straus
2008 Charismatic Abstraction, Albertine Monroe-Brown Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI, curated by Don Desmett
2007 Unfathom, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Stuart Krimco
2007 Project Space: Jesse Chapman / Mike Cloud, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Amy Greenspon
2006 Frequency, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, curated by Thelma Golden
2003 Toxic, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Josie Browne
2003 Art After the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Apexart, New York, NY, curated by Eugenie Tsai

Awards and Residencies

2014 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Award, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Chiaro Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2014 Artist-in-Residence,Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT
2009 Muelensteen Art Centre, Eindhoven, Holland
2007 Center for Visual Communication, Miami, FL
2003 Barry Schactman Prize in Painting, Yale University, School of Art, New Haven, CT
2001 Grace Holt Memorial Award in African American Issues, Faculty Award in Art Education, U. of IL, School of Art, Chicago, IL