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RESUME
MICHAEL E. KATZ
July 2021
Michael Katz makes digital pictures that function simultaneously as paintings, photographs, and monoprints.
With incorporated painterly passages and photographic imagery, they operate as both objects and images. Beginning with his photographs of mundane environments, often consisting of construction and demolition sites, he paints the picture.
He has been a figurative painter for almost fifty years and has been painting digitally for over twenty years. He explores the seamless symbiotic relationship between digital photography and digital painting to make visual experiences never possible before. After receiving a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, he moved to New York in 1979 and worked as a graphic designer and illustrator for NBC Television. In 1982, Quantel, a U.K. company, created the Paintbox, a digital graphical workstation designed for artists. Quantel invited David Hockney and Richard Hamilton to experiment with the Paintbox. Unfortunately, it cost $250,000 in 1982, $1,000,000 today, far beyond any artist's budget. However, he had access to the Paintbox at NBC, and Quantel invited him to explore the creative potential of the Paintbox at their U.S.A. office in Connecticut, where he created "Scenic Overlook."
His work has been featured in exhibitions and collections, including the Drawing Center, New York; Touchstone Gallery, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Westwood Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Miami Metropolitan Museum and Art Center Miami, Florida; and Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Showcase, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida
2019 Solo Exhibition, Michael Katz, 21st Century Painting, The Hand Art Center, Stetson University, DeLand, Florida
2016 Group Exhibition: The Contemporary Built Environment, Arts Douglas New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2015 Solo Exhibition, The Raw and The Cooked, alt_space, Atlantic Center for the Arts
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2014 Arts on Douglas Fine Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2013 Arts on Douglas Fine Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2012 Arts on Douglas Fine Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2011 Faculty Exhibition, Valencia College Gallery, Orlando, Florida
2010 Faculty Exhibition, Valencia College Gallery, Orlando, Florida
2009 Griffin Art Space, DeLand, Florida
2009 From Plein Air to Post Modern, Arts on Douglas Fine Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2009 Faculty Exhibition, Valencia College Gallery, Orlando, Florida
2009 Dog Tales, Miami Public Library, Miami, Florida
2008 Arts on Douglas Fine Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2007 Arts on Douglas Fine Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2006 Arts on Douglas Fine Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
1982 The Drawing Center, New York, New York
1980 Touchstone Gallery, New York, New York
1977 Seven Miami Artists on Paper, Miami-Dade Public Library Miami, Florida
1977 Le Tableaux et le Table, Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, Florida
1976 1977 Realist Invitational, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem
North Carolina
1975 Field Project Video, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
1975 Miami-Dade College College, Miami, Florida
1974 Broward College, Pompano Beach, Florida
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
1978, 1977, 1976 National Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana
1978 46th Southeastern Competition, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art,
Winston Salem, North Carolina
1978, 1976, 1975 Hortt Memorial Annual Exhibition, Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts, Fort
Lauderdale, Florida
1977, 1976, 1975 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, The Society of The
Four Arts Palm Beach, Florida
1977, 1974 Membership Exhibition, Miami Metropolitan Museum and Art Center Miami, Florida
1975 Annual Drawing Competition, Valencia College, Orlando, Florida
1973 Creative Arts Festival, Westwood Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
1973 54th Annual May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1973 Ohio Fine Arts Exhibition, Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio
1972 Canton Art Institute Annual All Ohio Show, Canton Art Institute, Canton, Ohio
1971 53rd Annual Toledo Artists Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art Toledo, Ohio
AWARDS
1979 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1978 Honorable Mention, 46th Southeastern Competition, Southeastern Center for
Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1977 Merit Award, Miami Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Miami, Florida
1976 Commission: Art in Public Places Painting, Art Advisory Committee, Office of Housing and
Urban Development, Dade County, Florida
1976 Cash Award, Annual Drawing, and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Ball State University,
Muncie, Indiana
1975 Purchase Award, Valencia College, Orlando, Florida
1973 Purchase Award, Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio