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Michael Reafsnyder - Artists - MILES McENERY GALLERY

Michael Reafsnyder in his studio, Los Angeles, CA, 2024.

Michael Reafsnyder (b. 1969 in Orange, CA) received his Master of Fine Arts degree at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA in 1996 where he studied under Mike Kelley and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe.  

Reafsnyder has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA; Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain; Blum and Poe, Santa Monica, CA; Las Vegas Art Museum, NV; Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; W.C.C.A., Singapore, and elsewhere. 

His work has been included in group exhibitions including “Step Into Liquid” (curated by Dave Hickey), Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles; “Los Angeles Ceramic Museum of Art,” ACME, Los Angeles; “Fresh Paint,” Galerie Eugene Lendl, Graz, Austria, “Black Dragon Society,” Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles; and “New Work: Abstract Painting,” Todd Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, among others.

Reafsnyder’s work can be found in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Las Vegas Art Museum, NV; Portland Art Museum, OR; Weisman Museum of Art, Los Angeles; and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN, among others. 

The artist lives and works in Southern California.

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