Michael Brown

Michael Brown (b. 1982, Poughkeepsie, NY) lives and works in Dutchess County, New York. He began his career as a sculptor, a background that is evident in his work. He is best known for his Gold Leaf oil paintings, in which heavy threads of pigment are woven across gilded surfaces, and his Cracked Mirrors series, wall-mounted stainless steel sculptures that meticulously replicate the spiderweb fractures of shattered plate glass.

At the age of twenty, Brown was included in a seminal museum exhibition of twelve U.S. graduate students at Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY, and quickly moved to the forefront of the contemporary art scene, with exhibitions at David Zwirner and Hauser & Wirth, and representation at Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris and New York. In May 2018, he was included in the inaugural Westchester Art Triennial. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Artforum, and Time Out New York, and is held in prominent collections including the Beth DeWoody Rudin Collection; Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY; the Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada; the Sagamore Hotel Collection, Miami Beach, FL; and the collection of Sherry and Joel Mallin, New York, NY.