Mike Cloud (Works)
Selected Works
Possessions curated by Zoe Whitley), Frieze London, 2020. ">
Untitled (Marriage), 2020. Oil on linen with mixed media, 70 x 70 x 12 in. Reproduced in The Times. ">
Beheading James Slemp, 2020. Oil on linen with mixed media, 68 x 132 x 4 in.">
Shopping List Greener Pastures, 2020. Oil on linen with mixed media, 67 x 116 x 4 in. Reproduced in the New York Times. ">
Khan 2013, 2019. Oil on canvas with mixed media, 42 x 19 in.">
Untitled, 2019. Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 in.">
Modern Untitled Tragic Timeline, 2019, Collage-acrylic paint, cash,
grocery bags on paper, acrylic tubes and twine, 47 x 720 inches/ ~119 x 1829 cm
(image credit: Pierre Le Hors; courtesy of Marlborough Contemporary)">
L of L.">
F of J, 2016. Oil on linen and stretcher bars, 90 x 80 x 4 in.">
Cycle and Stable, 2015
Oil on canvas,
100 × 106 in.">
Bad Faith and Universal Technique, 2014.">
North Star, 2014. Oil on paper, 24 x 18 in.">
Bad Faith and Universal Technique, 2014.">
Quiltmaking and the Overproduction of Opposites, 2010, Meulensteen Gallery, NYC, NY.">
Jamie Foxx Paper Quilt, 2010. ">
EZJ Doritos Plate, 2009. ">
Dorothy Costume Quilt (Front), 2007. ">
Liebovitz Orange #28, 2008. ">
Liebovitz Orange #16, 2008. ">
Chicken on Star of David Maze, 2006, Oil
on linen with toy, 40 x 40 x 40 in.">
Untitled Maze, 2006">
Untitled Caricature (brown), 2005">
Caricature Portrait M.C., 2005. ">
Horizontal Stripe, 2004. ">
Mildly, Moderately Severely Toxic 2, 2002.">
Mike Cloud
Mike Cloud
Mike Cloud is a Chicago-based artist whose work examines the conditions of painting in its contemporary life among countless reproductions, symbols and descriptions. After studying at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Cloud earned his MFA from Yale in 2003. His work has been extensively shown, at venues such as MoMA P.S.1, Marianne Boesky Gallery, White Columns, Max Protetch, Apexart, and has been included in group exhibitions, such as Frequency at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Honor Fraser Gallery. In addition to numerous reviews, his work was part of Painting Abstraction by Bob Nickas, Phaidon Press (2009). He has been awarded the inaugural Chiaro Award from the Headlands Center for the Arts, CA; a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and residencies at the Meulensteen Art Centre in the Netherlands as well as the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in New York. Cloud is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
