GILLES CLEMENT GALLERY
BIOGRAPHY
MICHAEL GALLAGHER
EDUCATION
1999 - 2001 M.F.A. Program - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1988 Independent Study and Travel in Europe
1982-87 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Four -Year Certificate Program Graduate
1977-80 LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA B. S. Marketing
1975-77 Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
AWARDS
2007/2011/2103/2015 “Excellence in Teaching Award”, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2012 Faculty Achievement Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1998 Artist in Residence, Villa Montalvo, San Jose CA
1992 Purchase Prize, 95th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1987 Scheidt Traveling Scholarship for European Study Cadwalder Landscape Prize
Kleinbard Award
1984 Award for the Olympic Arts Festival, Jewish Historical Society, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019 Innovation and Vitality: 150 Years of Alumni from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, PA March 14, 2019 - April 11, 2019
2018 25th Anniversary Group Exhibition, Schmidt Dean Gallery, Cherry Hill, NJ
2016 Hallucination Engine Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo exhibition – 4/2016)
2016 SOME NEW PEOPLE SOME NEW STUFF, Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015 Gallery Group Exhibition, Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2014 A Fine Arrangement, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Summer Exhibition, Edgewood Orchard
2013 Recent Work, Four Seasons Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Big Fun (recent paintings) Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2012 The Philadelphia Sketch Club (Juried Exhibition) Philadelphia PA
2012 Art in the Environment (Featured Artist) Burlington County Community College,
Mount Holly, NJ
2011 Flirting with Abstraction Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, PA
2009 New Work Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2008 Absolutely Abstract, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA
2008 Group Show Art of the State State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
2008 Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek, WI (Featured Artist)
2008 Metamorphoses Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
2006 New Paintings Schmidt Dean Gallery, Phila. PA
2005 Faculty Works on Paper Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Edgewood Orchard Gallery, Fish Creek Wig (Featured Artist)
2002 Still Life Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 Recent Work Schmidt Dean Gallery Philadelphia, PA
1998 Paintings Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Photo-Synthesis Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
1997 Centennial Exhibition-Fellowship of the Penn Academy of Fine Arts
Museum of American Art, Philadelphia PA
1997 Group Show Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1997 Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek, WI (Featured Artist)
1996 Recent Paintings Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1996 The Delaware Biennial The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington. Delaware
1996 Nature Morte- Contemporary Still-Life “ The Museum Of American
Art, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek, WI (Featured Artist)
1995 Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek, WI, (Group Exhibition)
1993 Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Group Exhibition)
1992 95th Annual Exhibition of the Fellowship of the Penn. Academy of the Fine Arts
1990 Gallery 3601, University of Pennsylvania, PA
1988 91st Annual Exhibition of the Fellowship of the PA Academy of the Fine Arts