Michael Chandler

Michael Chandler is a New York painter from Denver who began showing his artwork in 1972. A student of film maker Stan Brakhage at the University of Colorado in Boulder during the late 60’s he also attended Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa. Chandler has been a gardener in the Hollywood Hills; done mining assessment for the Anaconda Company; worked on Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Rifle Valley Curtain and Running Fence projects in Colorado and Sanoma County; hand painted animation cels for the Vienna based Lisberger Studios; ran survey lines for Contact Logging in Philipsburg, Montana; was a production assistant on Walter Hill’s movie The Warriors; did installations at the Mudd Club and Club 57 with Mary Ann Monforton in New York City and was an assistant to the artist Dan Flavin through the Dia Art Foundation. In 1985 he began exhibiting his paintings in New York and Milan at the galleries of Salvatore Ala. Among others, Chandler's artwork has been shown in Munich with Galeria Paal; in Bologna at Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna; in Seoul at Gallerie Seomi; in Rio de Janeiro at the Museum of Modern Art; with Sandra Higgins Fine Art in London; with Achille Bonita Oliva's Transavantgardia in ’Nuove Trame dell’Arte’ at Castello Colonna, Genazanno, Italy; at the Rhode Island School of Design’s Museum of Art, and in New York City at P.S.1, the Drawing Center and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  

 

Mike Chandler lives and works in New York City. 

​

Instagram: @michaelchandlerartwork

​

Contact: