Michael Hafftka

Michael Hafftka is an internationally acclaimed visual artist. His art works are represented in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Museum of Art and The National Gallery of Art. He has had one person shows in New York at the Aberbach Fine Art, Mary Ryan, DiLaurentini, H. F. Manes and Rosa Essman galleries as well as in Belgium, Holland, Germany and Japan. Housatonic Museum of Art mounted a major retrospective of his large paintings and in 2009 Yeshiva University Museum presented a comprehensive show of old and new works. Other recent exhibits include the Mizel Center for the Arts in Denver and Chapman University. Hafftka is an accomplished improvisational guitarist who recorded and performed with avant-garde musicians internationally in Feeding Goats. Hafftka lives in Brooklyn, New York. For more information visit .

About Michael Hafftka's painting

Michael Hafftka, has a way with paint, and he can pace his sometimes very large paintings in such a way that we want to see what will happen next.

"”John Russell, The New York Times


Hafftka's explorations are so profound and his presentation of them is so strong that they take on th...

Public Collections
Museum of Modern art, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
New York Public Library Collection, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, TX
Arizona State University Art Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY
Central High School, Philadelphia, PA
Chapman University Permanent Art Collection, Orange, CA
One-Person Exhibitions
2009/10 Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, Denver, CO
2009 Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY
2004/5 Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
2003 Susan Aberbach Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Cobble Hill Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1999 Aberbach Fine Art, New York, NY
1998 Louis Dijkstra Kunsthandel, Antwerp, Belgium
1996 Louis Dijkstra Kunsthandel, Waalwijk, Holland
1996 Louis Dijkstra Kunsthandel, Antwerp, Belgium
1995 Louis Dijkstra Kunsthandel, Waalwijk, Holland
1992 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
1991 Aberbach Fine Art, New York
1991 David Aberbach Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1990 Aberbach Fine Art, Art Cologne, Germany
1988 PS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
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