Michael Rose

Michael Rose is a painter, musician, and curator who lives and works in New

York City.

Rose holds an MFA in Fine Arts from The New School: Parsons (2020)

and a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (2013). He was

a resident artist in the RISD European Honors Program in Rome (2012). Rose

has exhibited with The Untitled Space (2023), Studio Artego (2023), Bendheim

Gallery (2023), 28 Varick Ave (2023), Field Projects (2022), Kellen Gallery

(2021), 25 East Gallery (2019), Trestle Gallery (2014), New House (2013), and

Circolo degli Artisti (2012). Rose has co-curated group exhibitions at 28 Varick

Ave (2023) and New House (2013). Rose wrote and produced an album for

synthetic piano, which was released by ArpaViva Recordings (2016). Rose is

currently working on a second album under the name Michael the Painter, of

which the first single has been release. He is also composing the music for

a new video art piece by CASE. Selected performances include Purgatory,

Brooklyn (2023), Firehouse, Worcester (2023), Never Ending Books, New Haven

(2023), News Cafe, Providence (2023), Lily Pad, Cambridge (2023), Rubulad,

Brooklyn (2022), and Pete’s Candy Store (2021).

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023	Seer (Solo Show)	The Untitled Space, New York, NY
	Summer Show	Studio Artego, Queens, NY
	Greenwhich Art Society 106th annual Bendheim Exhibit	Greenwhich, CT
	Throwing a dart at the wall and drawing the target around it	28 Varick Ave, Brooklyn, NY
2022	Verso, A Virtual Sehnsucht Exhibition	Field Projects, New York, NY
2021	Logics of Non-Exchange	Kellen Gallery, New York, NY
2019	More Than Landscape	25 East Gallery, New York, NY
2018	These Streets Weren’t Paved for Tenderness	25 East Gallery, New York, NY
2014	Salonuka	Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013	Demolition Show	New House, Somerville, MA
2012	Wi-Fi Art	Circolo Degli Artisti, Rome, Italy
Curatorial Projects
2023	The Egg Song Release Show	Painting Studio, Ridgewood, NY
	Throwing a dart at the wall and drawing the target around it	28 Varick Ave, Brooklyn, NY
2013	Demolition Show	New House, Somerville, MA
Music
2023	The Egg Song, Michael the Painter, Song of the Spider	Brooklyn, NY [Link to music]
2016	2016 Phantasmagoria, Michael ZT Rose, ArpaViva Recordings	Los Angeles, CA [Link to music]
Performance
2023	Purgatory, Brooklyn, NY
	Never Ending Books, New Haven, CT
	The Firehouse, Worcester, MA
	News Cafe, Providence, RI
	The Lily Pad, Cambridge, MA
2022	Pete’s Candy Store, Brooklyn, NY
	Rubulad, Brooklyn, NY
Press
2023	Obscure Sounds, Mike Mineo
	Musicalifeiten, Jan de Kruijff
	Hudební Informační Středisko, Jan Hocek

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS