Michael Rey
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
2008 M.F.A. Art Center College of Design
2002 B.F.A. Ringling School of Art and Design
Solo Exhibitions
2024
ANFTT-26, Donck Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2021
ZOLLEDAZI 2021, Philip Martin Galley, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Mtt. Vidrxs, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
2016
PLYDIS KAVE, Zero, Milan, Italy
2015
Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
About a Work, Zero, Milan, Italy
OMES, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Ibject, Room East, New York, NY
2011
Dracula Plus Plus, Young Art, Los Angeles, CA
Two Person Exhibitions
2022
Michael Rey and Ian Trout, Radical Patience, Los Angeles,CA
2018
Dei Inzomniiz, Barry Johnston/Michael Rey, SOUTHFIELD, Southfield,MI
2014
Amy Feldman / Michael Rey, Freddy, Baltimore, MD
Group Exhibitions
2023
Finish Fetish, COLLABORATIONS, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jack Early’s American Lessons (curated by Wladyshaw Barion), Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium
2022
Black and White: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2021
PANDEMIC, Zero, Milan, Italy
of clocks and clouds, PALFREY, London, England
2020
The Essential Goods Show, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (online)
2019
It’s All Black and White: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, USA
2018
Black & White & In Between (curated Billie Milam Weisman) Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
Do Something to it, Do Something else to it. Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Perfectly Concocted Context by Jonathan Monk, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Process and Reality: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
James Fuentes, New York, NY
2016
The Congregation, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
Top Heavy, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Expanded Fields, Nymphius Projekte, Berlin, DE
They Want EFX, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna, AT
2015
Back To Basics, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA
Vom Grossen und Ganzen, Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, DE
Object Painting–Painting Object, Jonathan Viner, London, England
Rio, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium (curated by Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte)
A Peg to Hang It On, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
Crunchy, Marianne Boesky, New York, NY
2014
Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
Where Were You?, Lisson Gallery, London, England
Green Circle, Black Diamond, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
Hephaestus: Catharine Ahearn, Mathis Altmann, John Finneran, Thomas Gilissen, Michael Rey, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
Matt Connors, Bernard Piffartti, Michael Rey, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Alexandre da Cunha, Michael Rey, Michael Williams, B. Wurtz, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium
California Visual Music: Three Generations of Abstraction, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2012
Chasm of The Supernova, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Adam Miller)
2010
Ooga Booga Reading Room, (In collaboration with Lucena Valle-Rey) Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York , (curated by Wendy Yao)
2009
NADA Art Fair, Karyn Lovegrove, Miami, FL
Is What It Is What It Is, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
Sculpture Park, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Cocktail Hour with Skip Arnold and Friends, Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2007
My Buddy, UCLA New Wight Biennial, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
MoMCA Trento and Rovereto, Trento, Italy
Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
ADN Collection, Bolzano, Italy
Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy