Michael Mahalchick

June 9 -15, 2024

Photo by Essentials Creative

Michael Mahalchick is an artist from Pottsville, PA . He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His works typically center around sculpture, collage and performance. Working primarily with found materials his work engages with themes of value, memory, temporality, identity and chance.

He received a 2010 Bessie New York Dance and Performance Award for his work with choreographer luciana achugar and in 2021, Canada, his long standing gallery, published a monograph chronicling nearly twenty years of his visual and performance work. His work has been noted in The New York Times, Artforum, and Frieze and has performed at The Tate Britain, The Walker Art Center, MN, The Whitney Museum, NY, The Kitchen, NY, Danspace Project, NY, and Movement Research, NY among others. He received a BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA in 1993 and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA in 1995.

Michael Mahalchick, Masks (detail), 2021, pigmented latex rubber