MICHAEL REAFSNYDER

MICHAEL REAFSNYDER (b. 1969 in Orange, CA) received his Master of Fine Arts degree at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA in 1996 and his Bachelor of Arts degree at Chapman University in Orange, CA in 1992.

Reafsnyder has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Artissima, Turin, Italy; Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; W.C.C.A., Singapore; Western Project, Culver City, CA, and elsewhere. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX; Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA; The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; and the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.

Reafsnyder’s work may be found in the collections of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA; UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; and the Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and elsewhere.

In 2022, Reafsnyder was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.

The artist lives and works in Orange, CA.