ABOUT

Michael Walden takes his viewers on an exploration of surface and visual narrative. The journey he creates, with figures and interior spaces, brings us into the very essence of artistic expression. He challenges viewers to move beyond the need to understand a painting and asks, instead, that they look for their own personal connections and significance. 

A year in Europe, as a child, captured Walden’s interest in art and led him, during college, to study painting in Florence, Italy. A natural teacher, Walden earned an MFA in Art Education, in 1996, from Boston University. Following this, he became an artist/teacher at an inner city arts magnet school. 

After many years of teaching, Walden returned to graduate school. In 2014, he received a MFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art. He has been a two-time recipient of the Returning Residency Program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA (2016-17). In 2017, he had his first solo exhibition at the Leslie Lohman Museum, in New York City. In 2018, 2019 and 2023, he was awarded artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and on Cuttyhunk Island. In 2020, he was the Visual Arts Fellow at the Independence Art Studios in Houston TX. 
 

Walden has shown his work in New York, Boston, Houston, and California. Internationally, he was an invited guest artist at the Nepali-an Art exhibition, Virtually Nude. His work was presented in a solo exhibition at the Mini Modern, in 2020. 
 

View his CV for more information and a complete exhibition history. Walden is currently represented by Prince Street Gallery, in Manhattan.