Bio
Michael Endo was born in Portland, Oregon in 1979. He received an M.F.A. in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, in 2009 and a B.A. from Portland State University, Oregon in 2005. Endo’s studio work has been included in national and international exhibitions at venues such as The National Glass Centre (Sunderland, UK), Disjecta (Portland, Oregon), Yuan Yuan Art Center (Jinan, China), and Bullseye Projects (Portland, Oregon and Mamaroneck, New York). Endo is currently the curatorial consultant at Bullseye Projects, organizing exhibitions at The Byre and assisting with traveling exhibitions and art fairs. In 2019, Endo moved to Yucca Valley, California where he founded High Desert Observatory with his partner Emily Endo. Michael is currently the Artistic Director at Pilchuck Glass School
Statement
Locked in a loop of familiarity and strangeness, my gestural paintings, drawings, glasswork and sculptures exist in a moment of tension. By depicting the boundary between a wild space and the city I present scenes where my interest in alternative communities; the relationship between space and psychology; occult knowledge; eschatology; ecology and the uncanny converge. - Michael Endo, 2015
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Education
2009 Master of Fine Art, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2006 Bachelor of Art, Magna Cum Laude, Portland State University, Oregon
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2016 Cosmic Pessimism, Bullseye Resource Center New York Gallery, Mamaroneck
2015 Heteroptia, Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington
2013 The End and After, with Stacy Lynn Smith, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2013 Isolated Growth, with Emily Nachison, Gallery 333, Toledo, Ohio
2012 Of Other Spaces, with Emily Nachison, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2011 Et in Arcadia Ego, Portland Building Installation Space, Oregon
2011 Pain Scale, FalseFront, Portland, Oregon
2010 Rah Rah Rah, FalseFront, Portland, Oregon
2006 Lines of Communication, Rake Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2005 Where it is That They Really Live, Urban Wine Works, Portland, Oregon
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 The Paperweight Biennial V, Coquit Gallery, Landers, California
2022 Collect 2022, Somerset House, London (exhibited with Bullseye Projects, Portland, Oregon) (catalog)
2019 I Went to the Desert, Compound Gallery, Yucca Valley, California
2018 Altered Views, Lexington Art League, Kentucky
2018 Shift Invitational 2018, Shift Gallery, Seattle
2015 Drawing: An expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence, National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland, UK
2014 Expressions in Glass: The Second International Glass Biennial, Minnetrista Cultural Center, Muncie, Indiana (catalog)
2014 Oregon Art Beat Exhibition, Pioneer Galleries, Portland, Oregon
2014 Flatlands, Nisus Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2013 Durden and Ray: History Lessons, Disjecta, Portland, Oregon
2013 SOFA Chicago (Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon)
2013 Hearts of Darkness, galleryHOMELAND, Portland, Oregon
2013 Other Worlds, The Milk Factory, Chicago
2012 True Places, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, California
2008 Ephemeral Sensuality, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2006 Color, Ink, Space, Yuan Yuan Art Center, Jinan, China (catalog)
Professional Experience
Artistic Director, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington (2023 – present)
Curatorial Consultant, Bullseye Projects, Portland, Oregon (2019 – present)
Co-Director, High Desert Observatory (2018 - Present)
2018 - 2022. Co-curator, Dust to Dust, Portland, Oregon and Yucca Valley, California
2018 - 2022 . Advisor, Yucca Valley Material Lab, California
2009 - 2018 . Curator, Bullseye Projects, Portland, Oregon
2012 – 2018 Adjunct Instructor, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland
2017 Curator, Emerge/Evolve 2016, Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington
2011 - 2016 Part-time Instructor, Portland Community College, Oregon
2012 - 2016 Juror, Portland Building, Regional Arts and Culture Council
2013 Teaching Assistant for Jeffrey Sarmiento, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington
2012 Teaching Assistant for Narcissus Quagliata, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington
2011 Co-curator, MAGIC>NATURE, FalseFront, Portland, Oregon
2011 Co-curator, This Fragile Skin, Schack Art Center, Everett, Washington
2008 - 2009 Artist’s Assistant for Beverly Fishman, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2008 - 2009 Teaching Assistant, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2008 Instructor, Cranbrook Summer Institute, Bloomfiled Hills, Michigan
Lectures and Panels
2019 . Contemporary Themes in Glass, Mondays at the Museum, Palm Springs Art Museum, California
2018 Tradition, Translation, and Transformation: Bellevue’s Craft Biennial, Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington
2017 Women in Kiln-glass, Palm Springs Art Museum, California
2015 Lecturer and Panelist, BeCon 2015, Bullseye Resource Center Bay Area, Emeryville, California
2014 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, School for American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
2014 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada
2014 Lecturer, The Scottish Glass Society, Glasgow, Scotland
2014 Lecturer, “Retrospective: Collaborations in Glass,” Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah, Indiana
2014 Visiting Artist, University of Wisconsin Madison
2014 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, University of Wisconsin Steven’s Point
2013 Lecturer, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
2013 Panelist, Emerging Artists, SOFA Chicago, Illinois
Bibliography
2019 . Of Cabinets and Complexes, Essay, Brave New Worlds, Palm Springs Art Museum (exhibition catalog)
2019 . Emerge/Evolve 2018: Rising Talents in Kiln-glass, Neues Glas - New Glass No. 3/2019
2016 . Building a Permeable Structure, Permeable Structure, Bullseye Glass Co. (exhibition catalog)
Awards and Residencies
2015 Emerging Artist-in-Residence, National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland, UK
2011 Finalist, Betty Bowen Award, Seattle Art Museum, Washington
2011 Regional Arts & Culture Council Installation Grant, Portland, Oregon
Publications
2013 Shawn Waggoner, The Spaces in Between, Glass Art Magazine, December
2013 Oregon Art Beat, Artist and Curator Michael Endo, Oregon Public Broadcasting, April 18
2012 Richard Speer, Michael Endo and Emily Nachison: "Of Other Spaces" at Bullseye Gallery, art ltd., May/June 2012
2012 Katharine Morales, OPENING: “Of Other Spaces” at Bullseye Gallery, The Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet, February 29
2011 John Motley, Pain Scale: Exploring Color’s Arbitrary Meaning, Arts & Entertainment Guide, The Oregonian, July 8
2010 Richard Speer, Spotlight Portland, art ltd., November