Father and Son Sundays (Pride in Ownership), 2023
Acrylic, acrylic paint markers, and acrylic spray paint on canvas, 60 x 72 in.
News
2026 · PUBLIC COMMISSION
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.
2023–2025 · MUSEUM TOUR
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.
Work
The Brew Up (Keg Stand), 2017 Acrylic and acrylic spray paint on canvas, 60 x 78 in.
Ark Aground (Last House), 2015 Acrylic and acrylic spray paint on canvas, 108 x 144 in.
275 North - OZ and Red, 2016 Acrylic and acrylic spray paint on canvas, 96 x 72 in. The Dean Collection
Calm Before the Storm (Doublethink), 2017 Acrylic and acrylic spray paint on canvas, 48 x 72 in.
Make Do and Mend (White House), 2015 Acrylic and acrylic spray paint on canvas, 96 x 96 in. Microsoft Art Collection
This Is Ours - AJ, 2011 Acrylic on canvas, 96 x 72 in.
CSPG: Southway Zoo - Tropical Boyz, 2016 Acrylic and acrylic spray paint on canvas, 58 x 84 in. The Dean Collection
Totem, 2011 Acrylic on canvas, 96 x 72 in.
The Flood Out (KingTide), 2017 Acrylic and acrylic spray paint on canvas, 48 x 48 in.
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.