Michael Hall Faculty Profile
Michael Hall
Assistant Professor
Department of Art
- E-mail: michael.hall@csueastbay.edu
- Phone: (510) 885-3111
- Office: AE 275
- Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00-11:30 and by appointment
- Home Page: www.michaelhallstudio.net
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Michael Hall is an educator and artist whose work is concerned with finding empathy and complexity in situations that are often polarized and oversimplified. As an artist whose perspective was strongly shaped by his family’s military heritage, he looks to add a more nuanced approach to necessarily critical but discordant conversations. Through painting and participatory works he addresses these dynamics within a larger, multifaceted cultural context: one of complicated family webs and communities, structural pedagogy, systematized aesthetics and the tenuous space between control and protection.
Hall is a recipient of both a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant and a MFA Fellowship at the Headlands Center for the Arts. In 2014 he was awarded an Alameda County Arts Leadership Award. His recent Bay Area exhibitions include Catharine Clark Gallery, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Southern Exposure, SF MOMA Artist Gallery and Blankspace Gallery. His work has been featured in group exhibitions nationally and throughout California as well as numerous online and print publications, including New American Painting.
He was born in San Diego, California to military parents and has lived around the world in Japan, Russia, England, and France. Hall received his BFA from the California College of the Arts and his MFA from Mills College. He currently lives and works in Oakland, California. Since 2003, he taught at Creative Growth Art Center, where he began the first video production class for artists with developmental disabilities. Additionally, he taught painting at Mills College, UC Berkeley and has participated on the curatorial board at Southern Exposure in San Francisco. In the Fall of 2016 he joined the Faculty of the Department of Art at California State University East Bay as Assistant Professor, Painting and Drawing.
Professor Hall's work focuses on finding empathy and complexity in situations that are often polarized and oversimplified. His work, whether painting, drawing, video or participatory works, is informed by his knowledge and practice of painting.
- MFA, Mills College
- BFA, California College of Arts (and Craft)
Not teaching this semester.
Recent Press
Joe Rosato Jr., San Francisco Art Show Highlights Veterans, NBC News Bay Area, Post and air date: November 11, 2016
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San-Francisco-Art-Show-Highlights-Veterans-400855721.html
Sam Whiting, Art show looks at war’s impact on those who wait at home, SF Chronicle, Published: Wednesday, November 9, 2016
http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Art-show-looks-at-war-s-impact-on-those-who-10601896.php
Jan Worm, Making Out Mark, Exhibition Catalog with essay by Jan Worm, Richmond Art Center
Nina Bozicnik, New American Painting, Issue 121, curated by Nina Bozicnik, December 2015
Tina Case and Donna Conwell, Lucas Artist Residency Profile: Michael Hall, Post date: July 29, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-Xw5-iyZSk
Katie McCracken, Artists Speak Podcast – Episode #3, Air date: June 30
http://www.artistsspeak.org/michael-hall.html
Beth Spotswood, “Comfort zones take a hit at ‘Security’”, SF Chronicle, Datebook, Sunday, May 31, 2015
Michele Carlson, “How Artists Use Their Skills to Pay the Bills”, KQED Arts, September 30, 2014
http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2014/09/30/how-artists-use-their-skills-to-pay-the-bills/
blog.OtherPeoplesPixels.com, “OtherPeoplesPixels Interviews Michael Hall”, May 2012
http://blog.otherpeoplespixels.com/otherpeoplespixels-interviews-michael-hall
Jessica Carew Kraft, “Toxic Art”, East Bay Express, March 23, 2011
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/toxic-art/Content?oid=2533379&storyPage=1
Amos Dai, “Renovation of Old Photos”, The Outlook Magazine, China, Issue #106, Featured Artist, February 2011
http://www.theoutlookmagazine.com/2824/
Lawerence Rinder, New American Painting, Issue 91, curated by Lawerence Rinder, January 2011
California Contemporary Art, September / October 2010, pg. 22
http://www.scribd.com/doc/37590573/California-Contemporary-Art-September-October-2010
DeWitt Cheng, Visual Art Source, Editorial Recommendation, September 2010
http://www.visualartsource.com/index.php?page=editorial&pcID=26&aID=616
Beautiful Decay online, October 2010
http://beautifuldecay.com/2010/10/27/michael-hall/
Boooooooom.com, “Reclamation, paintings by Michael Hall”, October 2010
http://www.booooooom.com/2010/10/28/artist-painter-michael-hall/
Heidi J. De Vries, “Reclamation”, Engineer’s Daughter blog, October 2010 http://engineersdaughter.typepad.com/engineers_daughter/2010/10/reclamation.html
Empty Kingdom, blog post, November 2010
http://www.emptykingdom.com/featured/michael-hall/
Recent Exhibitioins
2017
Juncture, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA June
With Liberty and Justice for Some, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA April
100 Days Action, (Call to Love Call to Action project with Julia Goodman) Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA March
Call to Love, Call to Action with Julia Goodman, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, February
With Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA January-March
2016
Not Alone, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA November-March 2017
2016 Faculty & Staff Exhibition, University Art Gallery, Hayward, CA October
Making Our Mark, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA September
Mistaken Impressions, Root Division, San Francisco, CA January
Bird in Hand, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA January
2015
Epic Fail, UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice Faculty Exhibition, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA, October 28 - November 13
Security Question, David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA May 28 – September 10
Equilux, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, March 21
2014
Juried Art Show, Piedmont Center for the Arts, Piedmont, CA November 1 – December 1
The One and Only, UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice Faculty Exhibition, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA October 22 – November 7
Soft Muscle, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, June 11 – June 28
Vacnacy/No Vacancy, Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, OH, April 4 – May 14
Smoke and Mirrors, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, March 22
2016
Joan Mitchell Foundation, Artist in Residence, Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA, July - August
2015
Residency Fellow, Montalvo Arts Center, Spring
2014
Alameda County Arts Leadership Award
2010
Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant
2008
Headlands Center for the Arts MFA Fellowship
Herringer Foundation MFA Award
CSUEB Gallery Committe
CSUEB Community College Outreach Committe
Advisor to the CSUEB Art and Design Club
Member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Arts for CSUEB
Member of the Board of Directors of Creative Growth Art Center