Michael Hall Faculty Profile
Michael Hall
Associate Professor
Department of Art
- E-mail: michael.hall@csueastbay.edu
- Phone: (510) 885-3111
- Office: AE 205
- Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00-12:00 and by appointment
- Vitae: View my CV
- Home Page: www.michaelhallstudio.net
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Michael Hall is a Bay Area artist and educator whose recent drawings, paintings, and videos question and rediscover meanings assigned to personal objects and ephemera, and capture casual, poetic daily moments. His recent work has been informed by the development of his child, complexities of parenthood, family dynamics and pandemic domesticity. Through sensitive 1 to 1 scale renderings and complex, layered compositions, Hall focuses on the act of recording; attempting to slow the inevitable march of time through deep-listening and mindful observation. Hall’s renderings of these objects (sometimes along with actual objects) confuse the read of representation and hint at the complexity of belief, how we exchange information, and its impact on our lives.
Hall earned an MFA from Mills College and a BFA from California College of the Arts & Crafts. He is a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, an Alameda County Arts Leadership Award, and an MFA Fellowship at the Headlands Center for the Arts. In addition to the Headlands, recent residencies include Joan Mitchell Center and Montalvo Art Center. Recent Bay Area solo exhibitions include Catharine Clark Gallery and Townsend Center for the Humanities. Hall has taught throughout the Bay Area, including UC Berkeley, Mills College and 13 years at Creative Growth Art Center, where he began their video production and digital media program. He is currently an Associate Professor of Fine Arts Practice at California State University East Bay.