MICHAEL WOLF

Bio:

Michael Wolf is an NYC area artist whose work encompasses sculpture, installation, and drawing. Inspired by architectural forms, he uses them as a metaphor for the human experience. The desire for shelter physically and psychologically permeates his work. Wolf uses wood, stone, metal, and gold leaf to create contemporary art with an ongoing dialogue with history.

Wolf's large installations have been exhibited at the Orlando Museum of Art, the Future of Cities Climate and Innovation Hub, during Miami Art Week, the Center for Contemporary Art, The College of St. Elizabeth, and 1165 6th Avenue, NYC. He worked with the New York City Parks Department to install a public sculpture on the Lower East Side’s Allen St. Mall for the summer of 2022. Wolf presented a solo booth at SPRING/BREAK Art Show in 2023 exhibiting a large sculptural installation and wall hung relief sculptures. 

In 2020 Wolf participated in an artist residency at Mana Contemporary sponsored by the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation. The drawings he completed during the residency led to a series of sculptures and a solo show at the Visual Arts Center of NJ. Wolf received individual fellowship grants from the NJ State Council of the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. He received the Power of Art Award, personally presented by Robert Rauschenberg at the East Wing of the National Gallery. 

Monica King Projects presented his work at Intersect Aspen and online at Intersect Chicago/SOFA. His sculpture Sanctum was highlighted in the penthouse at 100 Franklin in Tribeca. Other exhibitions include a solo show at the Sculptors Guild Gallery in Dumbo, Brooklyn, and I'm Your Venus at Bee in the Lion Gallery in Manhattan. Wolf's first international project was released in the spring of 2022. The organizers of The Bau Container of  Contemporary Culture, based in Viareggio, Italy, invited Wolf to create a series of 120 prints to be included in the 18th edition of BAU Container. The container has been placed in the Palazzo Reale and the Museo del Novecento, both in Milan, Italy.