Education
Tyler School of Art,Temple University, Philadelphia,PA, B.F.A
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Hoover Public Library Galleries, Hoover, AL “Invisible Imitations”
2016
Season, Seattle, WA “Free Dirt”
2014
Steele Gallery, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA “Experimental Cinema/comma”
2013
Season, Seattle, WA “The (mentholated) Roads Around Naples”
2004
Gallery 4Culture, Seattle, WA “Corduroy Symptom”
1985
Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY
1983
Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY, “Skin and Bone”
1976
Tyler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL “Similar but Different”
2020
Season, Seattle, WA “Born to Be Alive”
2018
The Brooklyn Waterfront Coalition, Red Hook, Brooklyn “Painting to Survive 1985-1995” Curated by Jonathan Weinberg
2016
V2 Arts Center, Seattle, WA “American Painting Today” Curated by Matthew Offenbacher
2016
Hunter College, New York, NY “Something Possible Everywhere: Pier 34 NYC 1983-1984” Curated by Jonathan Weinberg
2016
The Alice, Seattle, WA “this is not NOT a peepshow”
2015
The Alice, Seattle, WA “Everyone’s In”
2015
King Street Station, Seattle, WA “Out of Sight”
2015
River House Arts, Perrysburg, OH “The Other Line is Moving Faster”
2014
THEODORE:Art, Bushwick, Brooklyn “Exchange Rates” in conjunction with Blackwater Polytechnic (UK)
2014
Glasswing, Seattle, WA “Shapes, A Collaboration with Wyatt Orr and Vignettes” Curated by Sierra Stinson
2013
Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA “Octahedron: Invitational”
2013
Gallery onetwentyeight, New York, NY “Seven Artists”
2011
Feature Inc., New York, NY “I Am Not Monogamous, I Heart Poetry”
2011
Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland WA “The Three Dimensional Line” Curated by Ellen Ziegler
2010
Feature Inc., New York, NY “Power to the People”
2010
Gallery onetwentyeight, New York, NY “Geometric Themes and Variations” Curated by Gloria Klein
2009
Feature Inc., New York, NY “Skulture”
2009
Gallery onetwentyeight, New York, NY “Goo’z Part Two”
2009
Soil, Seattle, WA “Dig, Soil Invitational/2009”
2007
Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA “Tyler Alumni Exhibition, Painting 2007”
2007
Pratt Gallery, Seattle, WA, “Faculty Exhibit”
2006
Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA, “On the Edge”
1999
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue,WA, “1999 Pacific Northwest Annual”
1998
Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle,WA, “Pratt Faculty Exhibit”
1998
Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland,WA, “Faculty Exhibit”
1996
Site21/21 artspace, Albuquerque, NM, “Carpet”
1991
P.S. 122 Gallery, New York, NY, installation:”An Exact Address”
1987
Gallery Alexander Wood, New York, NYGallery Alexander Wood, New York, NY, “Fire”
1986
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY, “The East Village”
1985
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, “Forbidden Dream”, curated by Colleen Thornton
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, “Real/Surreal”, curated by Colleen Thornton
Sandy Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, “Current Trends in New York Art””
1984
Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland, “Inside the East Village”
1983
Alexander F.Milliken Gallery, New York, NY “Three Part Variety”, curated by David Wojnarowicz
Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
Sharpe Gallery,New York, NY, “Self Image”
1980
Westbeth Painters Space, New York, NY
Bibliography
The Village Voice — March 28, 2018, “Everything Old School is New Again,” R.C. Baker
Two Coats of Paint — October 28, 2016, “Michael Ottersen: Logic and intuition,” Erin Langner
Hyperallergic — October 27, 2014, “West Coast Represents at Exchange Rates Bushwick,” Benjamin Sutton
Montem — September 2013, “Michael Ottersen,” pg. 26-32, Naoto Miyazaki
Art Nerd: Seattle — September 27, 2013, “Michael Ottersen, the Mentholated Roads Around Naples at Season” Sharon Arnold
New American Paintings/Blog — July 29, 2013, “Navigating the Mentholated Roads Around Naples: Michael Ottersen at Season,” Erin Langer
Visual Art Source — August 16, 2013, Editorial: Features “Michael Ottersen,” Matthew Kangas
Huffington Post — May 27, 2011, Huffpost Arts/Haiku Reviews “The Three Dimensional Line,” Peter Frank
Seattle Post-Intelligencer — August 17, 2006, Arts and Entertainment, pg.C4, Regina Hackett
Seattle Post Intelligencer — February 5, 2004, Arts and Entertainment, Regina Hackett
Albuquerque Tribune —August 9, 1996, pg. B1, T.D. Mobley-Martinez
New York Native —October 7, 1991, pg.43, David Hirsch
Artnews—September, 1985, pg. 141, Maurice Poirer
Details — September, 1985, Cookie Mueller
Artnews —January 8, 1984, pg.160, Eleanor Heartney
The East Village Eye —August, 1983
Collections
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Grants
Artist’s Fellowship Inc. New York,NY
Teaching Experience
The University of New Mexico/Continuing Education
Harwood Art Center
New Mexico Art League
Gage Academy of Art
Northwest College of Art and Design
North Seattle Community College
Bellevue Art Museum
Pratt Fine Arts Center
Kirkland Art Center
