MIKE CLOUD

Mike Cloud is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He earnedhis M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art and his B.F.A. from theUniversity of Illinois-Chicago. His work has been exhibited nationallyand internationally at P.S.1, NY; the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY;Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Slovak Republic; Honor Fraser Gallery,CA; Thomas Erben Gallery, NY; Good Children Gallery, LA; MarianneBoesky Gallery, NY; White Columns, NY; Max Protetch, NY; Apexart, NYC.Cloud has been reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America, ArtReview and featured in the publication Painting Abstraction by BobNickas, published by Phaidon Press. His awards include the inauguralChiaro Award from the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Barry SchactmanPrize in Painting from the Yale University School of Art as well as theGrace Holt Memorial Award in African American Issues from theUniversity of Illinois, Chicago. His work is held in private and publiccollections including the The Bronx Museum, Lincoln Center and theMetropolitan Museum of Art. Cloud has lectured extensively on his workand contemporary theoretical art issues at the Mason Gross School of theArts at Rutgers University, Yale University, Cooper Union, BardCollege, Kansas City Art Institute and the University of New Orleans. Heis currently an assistant professor at Brooklyn College/ CUNY in NewYork.