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