Michael Rado
b. 1986, Columbus, Ohio
Living in working in Brooklyn, New York
Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA, 2016
The Ohio State University, CED, 2013
University of Michigan, BFA, Cum Laude, 2009
Central Saint Martins, London, 2008
Experience
Artist in Residence, Art Cake, 2020–2022
Studio assistant, Dorothea Rockburne, 2019-2020
Press
Brooklyn Rail, Michael Rado: Show Your Work, by Charles Schultz.
SAIC 2016 MFA Show, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Shows
2022
The Ned Nomad Premiere, Soho House Permanent Collection, New York
Summer Group Show, Art Cake, Brooklyn
Show Your Work, Solo Show, Art Cake, Brooklyn
2021
Art Cake Group Show, Art Cake, Brooklyn
Origin of Geometry, Art Cake, Brooklyn
2017
Semblance of Order, Uri-Eichen Gallery, Chicago
2016
EXPO Chicago, SAIC Booth, Chicago
My Feet Have Lost Memory of Softness, The Franklin, Chicago
More Strange than True by Fieldwork Collaborative, Pulaski Park, Chicago
What is and Never Was, Parentheses Gallery, Chicago
Topographies of Defense, LeRoy Neiman Center, Chicago
And, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, University of Wisconsin, Madison, The Ark Gallery, Iowa City
2015
Transition, Slusser Gallery, Ann Arbor
2013
Works by Members of the Phoenix Rising Printmaking Cooperative, Columbus, Ohio
2011
Peripheral Vision: A View from Ohio Printmaking Cooperatives, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio
Fellowships & Awards
2016–17 Field Trip / Field Notes / Field Guide Fellowship, University of Chicago
2016 Clare Rosen & Samuel Edes Foundation Prize Nominee, Chicago
2015–16 EAGER Grant, Shapiro Center, Chicago