Bio
NEWS
Finalist for Tweed Regional Gallery's biennial regional award - Wollumbin Art Award 2022
BIOGRAPHY
Australian artist/photographer - based in New York and Gold Coast.
Mediums: Photography, illustration, painting, collage, mixed media and printmaking
Michael studied fashion design and worked as a photographer’s assistant in Sydney and NYC. His frenetic painting, illustrations and mixed media compliment his edgy photographic style, as his surrounds heavily influence each discipline.
His works combine his appetite for art, fashion and photography with an energetic street-art appeal where he says, ugliness and beauty coexist, just as they do in reality. Michael uses his works as commentary on the excess of contemporary culture, portraying the vulnerability, desire, anxiety and lust for consumption in a modern world.
“If Basquiat and Keith Haring had a son and he was drawing with his left hand” TheGolddigger.net
'Friends on Bowery' - Michael's iconic faces, started in 2011 when Michael decided to try his hand at drawing. He had just moved to NYC and was struggling to continue his fashion label ‘Stiegler’, despite having the likes of Kate Moss and Chrissy Teigen wearing it. He began working in a retail store in Soho where, to make ends meet and decided he needed a creative outlet and began drawing on receipt paper when the store was quiet. The characters were inspired by the people and faces he would see on his way to and from work. Walking from Soho, down the Bowery to his flat in Lower East Side. His style is iconic and Stiegler has never drawn the same face twice, possibly drawing tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of faces over the last 8 years.
Collaborations:
- Kate Moss
- Dina Broadhurst
- Ines Rau
- The Kills
- The Dark Hawks
History
2015
- The Other Art Fair - Sydney
- LOCO PROJECT
2016
- Artist residency in Sydney
- New Young Cunts - first large scale series completed
- Kate Moss - Silkscreen prints limited run - unique print
2017
- The Other Art Fair - New York - Brooklyn Expo Centre June
- The Really Really Affordable Art Fair - BWAC - Red Hook - Sept - Oct
- ADIDAS Skateboarding - Showcase NY - Feature Artist - Nov
- JUXTAPOZ Magazine - Featured Artist from ADIDAS Skateboarding Article - Nov
- The Other Art Fair - New York - Brooklyn Expo Centre - Nov
- Andrew Edlin Gallery - NY - Et Tu, Art Brute? - Group Show - Nov
2018
- Dina Broadhurst Collaboration - Australia/USA - Feb
- Greenpoint Gallery - Grand Winter Salon - Feb
- The Other Art Fair - New York - Brooklyn Expo Centre - May
- Saatchi Art - Feature Artist for The Other Art Fair - fair canvas bag - May
- MAD Gallery Pop-Up Group Art Exhibition - Manhattan, NYC - Jun
- The Golddigger - www.thegolddigger.net - fseature editorial - Jul
- Metanoia - NYC - group show - Aug
- Lavita Gold - Feature Artist - Sept
- The Other Art Fair - New York - Brooklyn Expo Centre – Nov
2019
- The Other Art Fair - Los Angeles - Magic Box - April
- The Other Art Fair - New York - Brooklyn Expo Centre - May
- Solo show - ‘ON BOWERY’ - Lone Goat Gallery - Byron Bay - Oct-Nov
- The Other Art Fair - Sydney - Barangaroo - Oct
- Saatchi Art - Feature artist for The Other Art Fair - Oct
- Byron Arts Magazine - BAM Popup Gallery November 2019 - Feb 2020
- Spring Court Feature Artist October 2019 - March 2020
2020
- Byron Arts Magazine - BAM Popup Gallery - Feb 2020
- Spring Court Feature Artist October 2019 - March 2020
- Byron Arts Magazine - Issue 16 Feature
- Northern Rivers Community Gallery - Ballina - Solo show - On Orchard - August 2020 - October 2020
- Tweed Regional Gallery - Murwillumbah - Solo show - Origin of Identity - Feb - April 2020
- Byron Arts Magazine - Bushfire Art Auction
2021
- Byron Arts Magazine - Feature artist - Issue 19
- Tweed Regional M Arts - 'Origin of Identity' - Feb 2021
2022
- Tweed Regional Gallery - Wollumbin Art Award 2022 - Finalist
- Virgin Hotels - NYC - featured artist
- Side Gallery Brisbane - Burn - end of year show