solo exhibitions
2018 Michael Lazarus, No. 10, Holding Contemporary, Portland, OR
2016 No Title, Envoy Enterprises, New York, NY
2014 Part Two, Participant Inc, New York, NY
2013 recent works, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2012 You Are Real, Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2009 tend to forget, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 Sister, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Wait, Sister, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Hold Your Mistake Up, Feature Inc, New York, NY
2003 Feature Inc, New York, NY
2003 Walter Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2003 M du B, F, H & g, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2001 Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Exceptance, Feature Inc, New York, NY
2000 Andrea Rosen Gallery, Gallery 2, New York, NY
1999 Readjusted, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
1999 ANP, Antwerp, Belgium
1998 Feature Inc, New York, NY
1996 Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ
selected group exhibitions
2017
Mixed Bag, Real Estate, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Joe Bradley
I Am This, Art by Oregon Jewish Artists, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, Portland, OR
2016
Portland Biennial, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR; Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR, curator Michelle Grabner
and from this distance one might never imagine that it is alive, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
2015
Good Neighbor, The Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, curator Amanda Donnan
2012
East West Shift to the Middle Part #1, Bill Brady / KC, Kansas City, MO
2011
Here / Now, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2010
Underground Pop, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, curator David Pagel
The Jewel Thief, The Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY,
curators Ian Berry and Jessica Stockholder
Power To The People, Feature Inc, New York, NY
2009
The Perpetual Dialogue, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
LA Now, Las Vegas Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV, curator David Pagel
Prescriptions, Acme, Los Angeles, CA
Just Like This Train, Phil, Los Angeles, CA
2008
That Was Then… This Is Now, PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY
Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious), Deitch Studios, Long Island City, NY
Scene/Seen: Recent Acquisitions from the Luckman Fine Arts Complex Permanent Collection, 1979 – 2006, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California Sate University, Los Angeles, CA
A Dead Serious Group Show, Sister, Los Angeles, CA
Caetano de Almeida, John Hodany, Michael Lazarus, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
2007
One Day I Will Control The Sun, The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, New York, NY, curator J.J. Garfinkel
In The Belly of The Whale, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York, NY, curator Patrick Callery
Horizon, EFA Gallery, New York, NY, curator David Humphrey
2006
A Century of Collage, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2005
Sensory World, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
2004
Crosscurrents at Century’s End: Selections from the Newberger Berman Art Collection, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, CA; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY, curator Jerry Saltz
About Painting, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
beat the reaper!, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA, curator Joe Bradley
Happy, OH+T Gallery, Boston, MA, curator Ryan Steadman
2003
A red letter day, Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY curator Terry R. Myers
Fright Wig, Feature Inc, New York, NY
2002
Alex Grey, Sam Gordon, Michael Lazarus, M du B, F, H& g, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Dubrow Biennial, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY, curator Norman Dubrow
Paintings, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
Guide to Trust No. 2, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA curator Jimi Dams
2001
The Approximative, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France curators Meghan Dailey and Alison Gingeras
Group Show, ATM Gallery, New York, NY
Smile, Here Gallery, New York, NY, curator Melissa Zexter
2000
Not A Lear, Torch, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; S&H de Buck Gallery, Gent, Belgium; Art Process, Paris, France; Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA; Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY, curator Jimi Dams
The Continued Investigation of the Relevance of Abstraction, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Art-31-Basil, Basil, Switzerland
Collectors Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY, selected by Norman Dubrow
1999
Painting: Fore and Aft, Acme, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY
Cookie Snow Feature, Cookie Snoei, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
curious.parking@stupendous.strawberry, S&H de Buck Gallery, Gent, Belgium
Pretty Happy Paintings, M du B, F, H&g, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1998
Message To Pretty, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, curator Lia Gangitano
Yoyogaga, Feature Inc, New York, NY
He Swam Down, Away, Audiello Fine Art, New York, NY, curator Tony Payne
Group Show, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
1996
Michael Lazarus & Rachel E. Harrison, Feature Inc, New York, NY
1996 Contemporary Annual, National Arts Club, New York, NY
1994
Funny Bone, PS 122, New York, NY
bibliography
2015
Curator and Critic Tours, Connective Conversations: Inside Oregon Art 2011-2014,
The Ford Family Foundation and University of Oregon, pp 172-173
New American Painting, pp 86-89
2011
Brereton, Richard, Cut & Paste, pp. 104-109
Holland Cotter, New Sparkle for an Abstract Ensemble, The New York Times, January 6
2010
Ken Johnson, Art in Review, The New York Times, September 2
Holland Cotter, Art in Review, The New York Times, January 8
2008
Anat Ebgi, Flash Reviews, Flash Art, November December 2008
Joe Bradly, Salon XXIV, the Journal, Entry No. 24, reproduction p. 104
Dan Halm, Portfolio: Michael Lazarus, Visual Arts Journal, Fall 2008, pp.22-29
2007
Toni Morrison, Dan Cameron, Toby Devon Lewis, ArtWorks, The Progressive Collection, p.170
Untitled publication, no. 1 (Spring 2007), Feature Inc., New York
2006
David Pagel, Into a void of inhuman beauty, The Los Angeles Times, September 29
Lilly Wei, Reviews, Art News, April
2005
Lisa Kirk and Keith Mayerson, Wake the Sleepers, Art US, May-June
Nobue Isono, 2005 New York Ateliers, pp. 96-99
2004
Melissa E. Feldman, Reviews, Art in America, March
2003
Meghan Dailey, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, May
2001
Zoey Mondt, Reviews, Art Issues, November/December
2000
Holland Cotter, Art in Review, The New York Times, March 31
Stephanie Cash, The Hotel as Art, Art in America, December
1999
David Pagel, Art Reviews, The Los Angeles Times, July 9
Terry Myers, Review, Art/Text, #67 Fall
Luc Lambrecht, Amerikaans en Toch Niet, De Morgen, February 12
1998
Holland Cotter, Art in Review, The New York Times, November 20
Steve Mumford, To Be Baroque, Review, March 1
1996
Holland Cotter, Home Is Where the Art Is, The New York Times, August 2
Bill Arning, Homies, The Village Voice, August 6
awards and residencies
2018
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
Ford Family Foundation Fellow
education
1994 MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1992 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI