Michael Demers

"I am interested in how the things we do, the ways in which we occupy our time, affects our place in the world and the ways in which we move through time and space. It is the ephemera that I find fascinating -- the toys and stories, collections, habits, hopes and beliefs, and the vestiges of those experiences that linger in the ether, that define us both personally and culturally..."

Michael Demers has taught college level Digital Art and New Media courses since 2007. His own work incorporates culture and cultural identity in a synthesis of critical investigation and his own adolescent preoccupation with toys and other weird ephemera. He has exhibited internationally, most recently at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Artists Space (New York), and the Arlington Arts Center (Arlington, VA), and is a member of the White Columns Artist Registry (New York), the Rhizome Curated ArtBase (New Museum, New York), BitStream New Media, and is a core commentator for TINT Arts Lab (London, UK). He received his BFA from Florida Atlantic University, an MFA from Ohio University, and a Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Diplom from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany.

2004
Master of Fine Arts Degree
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Concentration: Painting

2001
Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Diplom
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany
Concentration: Painting and Graphics

1998
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
Concentration: Printmaking