B. 1988, QUEENS, NY

LIVES AND WORKS IN LOS ANGELES, CA


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 TBD, Gattopardo, LOS ANGELES, CA (FORTHCOMING)

2023 Tchotchkes For The Apocalypse, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, LOS ANGELES, CA

2016 Mike Chatem, Canopy Gallery, CLEVELAND, OH

2015 Works at Apt. 18, Apt. 18, CLEVELAND, OH


GROUP EXHIBITIONS & FAIRS

2024 Upstairs, Moosey, NORWICH, UK (FORTHCOMING)

2024 Venice Family Clinic Art Walk and Auction, Venice Art Walk, 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 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 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


SELECT PERFORMANCES

4.9.2016 Fertile The Drip, Museum of Contemporary Art, CLEVELAND, OH


BIBLIOGRAPHY

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.

2019 Presentation at Los Angeles City College Visual and Media Arts Department, LOS ANGELES, CA

2015 Guest presenter and teaching associate, fall semester, Sculpture and Expanded Media Department, Cleveland Institute of Art, CLEVELAND, OH