Michael Gallagher

Michael Gallagher was born in Los Angeles, California in 1945. He studied at Yale University School of Art & Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut where he received a Master of Fine Arts in 1970. He was awarded Yale University's Eli Harwood Schless Memorial Award for Drawing & Painting. While there he studied with Jack Tworkov, Lester Johnson, Al Held and Josef Albers. He also studied at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, California where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1968. He attended the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) where he studied with David Hockney, Alfred Leslie and Tony Berlant. His undergraduate studies included a fellowship to Yale University's Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, Connecticut. Mr. Gallagher lives and works in Newport Beach, California.

Mr. Gallagher’s work has been exhibited internationally and is in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY), Jewish Museum (New York, NY), Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington DC), The Byer Museum of the Arts (Evanston, IL), The Edwin Ulrich Museum (Wichita, KA), The Frederick Weisman Foundation (Beverly Hills, CA), The Wharton Sch...

1970 Yale University School of Art & Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut, M.F.A.
1968 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, B.F.A.
1967 Yale University, Norfolk, Connecticut, Fellowship

AWARDS AND HONORS:

1970 Eli Harwood Schless Memorial Award for Drawing & Painting, Yale University School of Art & Architecture
1968 Yale University School of Art & Architecture, Scholarship
1967 University of Southern California Scholarship 1967 Yale University School of Art & Architecture, Fellowship

2008-9 “Art & Illusion,”Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA 2008 “Reflections from the Artist's Eye,”Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA

2008 “Inaugural exhibit at Roseville's Blue Line,” Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA

2006 “Art and Illusion: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,” Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA

2005 “Made in California,”Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA

2004 “Sketchbook 88,” Jean-Michel Basquiat, George Braque, Marc Chagall, Dale Chihuly, Richard Diebenkorn, Ronald Davis, Richard Estes, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Michael Gallagher, Keith Haring, Michael Heizer, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Mark Kostabi, Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Mel Ramos, Robert Motherwell, Helmut Newton, Kenneth Noland, Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Susan Rothenberg, Todd Rundgren, Thomas Ruff, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Julian Schnabel, Frank Stella, Donald Sultan, David Salle, Cy Twombly, Rufino Tamayo, William Wegman, Andy Warhol, Tino Zago” Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

1999 Louis K, Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

1995 Louis K, Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

1995 Posner Fine Art, Santa Monic...