Michael Zelehoski is an American artist who lives and works in Newburgh and Brooklyn, New York. He received his Associates of Art degree from Bard College at Simon’s Rock and a BA from the Universidad Finis Terrae, in Santiago, Chile. Michael Zelehoski’s return to the United States after six years in South America. Zelehoski’s work involves the literal collapse of three-dimensional objects, and he re-defines the material character into two-dimensional space.He has exhibited nationally and internationally, with works residing in private and public collections around the world, most notably in the Musée National d’Art - Centre Pompidou in Paris, which acquired his 40 ft. monumental piece Open House in the Spring of 2015. Recent solo exhibitions include: All of This and Nothing - Michael Zelehoski, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China (2020); All of This and Nothing, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2020); Untitled, Miami Beach, Florida, USA (2018); Things Fall Apart, Backslash, Paris, France (2018); Inner Space, Tang Contemporary, Hong Kong (2017) and New Order, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA (2015). In March 2019, he installed a major work “The Rapture” in the center of Times Square in New York city.
He has also received numerous awards, honored by the Staten Island Museum and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, among others.The artist and his work have been written about in The New York Times’ T Magazine, ARTnews, Hyperallergic, Design Milk, and World Sculpture News, among many others.
Courtesy Tang Contemporary Art

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