Father and Son Sundays (Pride in Ownership), 2023
Acrylic, acrylic paint markers, and acrylic spray paint on canvas, 60 x 72 in.

Installation view of A Boundless Tomorrow by Michael Vasquez, corridor, Orange County Innovation Lab, Orlando, Florida
Installation view of The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century at the Baltimore Museum of Art, with a painting by Michael Vasquez

PUBLIC COMMISSION · 2026

A Boundless Tomorrow

Orange County Innovation Lab, Orlando, FL. Twenty-one hand-stretched canvas panels and integrated murals across a lobby and corridor, with an augmented reality layer that animates the paintings with sound.

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MUSEUM TOUR · 2023–2025

The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century

Baltimore Museum of Art; Saint Louis Art Museum; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Cincinnati Art Museum; Art Gallery of Ontario.

Exhibition history

About

Michael Vasquez (b. 1983, St. Petersburg, Florida) is an American painter known for large-scale figurative paintings and portraits that explore identity, masculinity, and the cultivation of community with what is at hand.

Collections include the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Rubell Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, and the Microsoft Art Collection. He lives and works in Seminole, Florida.

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