B. 1988, QUEENS, NY
LIVES AND WORKS IN LOS ANGELES, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & FAIRS
2024 The Persistence of Heaven and Earth, Gattopardo, LOS ANGELES, CA
2023 Tchotchkes For The Apocalypse, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, LOS ANGELES, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & FAIRS
2025 Redacted Lincoln Heights DTLA, The Moxy, LOS ANGELES, CA
2025 Salon Style, PSST Studio, LOS ANGELES, CA
2024 Bedtime Chronicles, SAP Space, BERLIN, DE
2024 Upstairs, Moosey, NORWICH, UK
2024 Venice Family Clinic Art Walk and Auction, LOS ANGELES, CA
2024 Small Scale, Modest Common, LOS ANGELES, CA
2024 NADA NYC, Gattopardo, NEW YORK, NY
2024 Rainbow High, MEPAINTSME, WWW.MEPAINTSME.COM
2024 Spring Break, Steve Turner Gallery, LOS ANGELES, CA
2024 Unavailable Locations, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, LOS ANGELES, CA
2024 Bedtime Chronicles, Gallery Also, LOS ANGELES, CA
2024 The Warmth of the Day Leaves Shadows on the Ground, Gattopardo, LOS ANGELES, CA
2023 Dissolution of Allussion, Modest Common, LOS ANGELES, CA
2023 Nomad 2, Torrance Art Museum Pop Up Show, TORRANCE, CA
2023 For The Love of Dog, Hashimoto Contemporary, LOS ANGELES, CA
2023 Bakers Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, TORRANCE, CA
2023 SPRING/BREAK Secret Show, The Old School at 32 Prince St., NEW YORK, NY
2023 Potluck, Hashimoto Contemporary, LOS ANGELES, CA
2022 Over Time, Curve Line Space, LOS ANGELES, CA
2022 Juntos, Tlaloc Studios, LOS ANGELES, CA
2022 Belly of the Beast, SOIL, SEATTLE, WA
2022 Maximum Overdrive, Adelphi University, GARDEN CITY, NY
2022 Holy Crap, Modest Common, LOS ANGELES, CA
2022 The Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, NEW YORK, NY
2022 Mutations, Permanent Storage Projects, LOS ANGELES, CA
2022 Hot Spring, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, LOS ANGELES, CA
2021 I Am A Painting, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NEW YORK, NY
2021 Nomad, Torrance Art Museum Pop Up Show, TORRANCE, CA
2021 I Like To Look, Curve Line Space, LOS ANGELES, CA
2021 Shitty Heaven, Santa Josefina, LOS ANGELES, CA
2021 Forging Ahead, Brewhouse Association, PITTSBURGH, PA
2020 Flat Files 2020 - 2021, Peep Space, TARRYTOWN, NY
2020 Galaxy Brain, STJLA, LOS ANGELES, CA
2020 Willing The Season, Far x Wide, WWW.FARBYWIDE.COM
2020 Everything But The Kitschen Sink, La Luz De Jesus, LOS ANGELES, CA
2020 Got It For Cheap, The Hole, NEW YORK, NY
2020 Flat Files 2020, Ortega y Gasset Projects, BROOKLYN, NY
2019 Velvet Ropes, 0-0 Gallery, LOS ANGELES, CA
2019 Krampus Show, 63 Bluxome Street Gallery, SAN FRANCISCO, CA
2016 PHX Zine Fest, PHOENIX, AZ
2016 San Diego Zine Fest, SAN DIEGO, CA
2016 From The Ground Up, Surface and Dimension, Morgan Papermaking Conservatory, CLEVELAND, OH
2015 New Works: Mike Chattem and Matt O’Reilly, The Loop, CLEVELAND, OH
2015 Bazzarbeque Vol. 6, Forum Art Space, CLEVELAND, OH
2014 Insider Trading, The Church, CLEVELAND, OH
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2024 Light Daze in the Darkness, Curve Line Space, LOS ANGELES, CA
2023 Dissolution of Allusion, Modest Common, LOS ANGELES, CA
2023 Weird Flowers, Curve Line Space, LOS ANGELES, CA
2022 Hot Spring, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, LOS ANGELES, CA
2020 Galaxy Brain, co-curated with Eric Dwight Hancock, STJLA, LOS ANGELES, CA
RESIDENCIES
2025 Foundation OBRAS Portugal, EVORA, PT (Forthcoming)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Final Diva List - Fall 2024,” Diva Corp USA, December 2024
“The Persistence of Heaven and Earth,” O Fluxo, November 2024
Shields, Nora. “Aster Art Initiative Artist Spotlight,” The Aster, June 30, 2024
Zappas, J. “Solid Artist Spotlight,” Solid Art Services, May 28, 2023
“Probing our nation’s mundane, vibrant and capital fueled psyche,” Interview w/ Torrance Art Museum, June 16, 2023
Gyorody, A. “Material Horror: Art Fair Faves 2023,” Weekly Special, April 18, 2023
Quiñones Wolfson, S. “LA’s Spring Break Art Show Is a Wacky Lucid Dream” Hyperallergic, February 17, 2023
Artsin Square, Issue 3, Summer 2022
Gyorody, A. “The Cream of the Art Fair Crop,” Weekly Special, February 27, 2022
New American Paintings, Pacific Coast #157, January 2022
“Meet Mike Chattem,” ShoutoutLA Magazine, May 24, 2021
Usmani, J. “Michael Chattem and Matt O’Reilly tap into the profound reality of the present in their printmaking,” Scene Magazine, July 8, 2015
EDUCATION
2010 BFA, Printmaking, Cleveland Institute of Art, CLEVELAND, OH
ETC.
2024 - 2025 Flower Petal board member, Flower Residency, LOS ANGELES, CA
12.7.2024 Artist talk with Reuben Merringer, Gattopardo, LOS ANGELES, CA
11.5.2019 Presentation at Los Angeles City College Visual and Media Arts Department, LOS ANGELES, CA
4.9.2016 Performance by Fertile The Drip, Museum of Contemporary Art, CLEVELAND, OH
2015 Guest presenter and teaching associate, fall semester, Sculpture and Expanded Media Department, Cleveland Institute of Art, CLEVELAND, OH