Michael Jones McKean received his MFA from Alfred University in 2002 and his BFA from Marywood University in 2000. A recipient of numerous awards, Michael has been granted fellowships and residencies at The Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, The Bernis Center for Contemporary Arts, Central Michigan University as the Stephen L. Barstow Fellow and The Archie Bray Foundation. He has recently been awarded the Nancy Graves Foundation Award, an Artadia Award including an Artadia New York City Residency Fellowship, the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts and four State Arts Commission grants including an Emerging Artist Fellowship.
Michael’s work has been shown extensively nationally and internationally including recent solo exhibitions at Grand Arts in Kansas City, DiverseWorks in Houston, Texas, The Bernis Center in Omaha, Nebraska, SUNDAY and Horton & Co. in New York City, Project Gentili in Italy and Germany, as well as Inman Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. McKean is currently an Assistant Professor in the Sculpture and Extended Media Department at Virginia Commonwealth University.