Michael Stevenson is a visual artist based in Baltimore, Maryland. His work investigates how mark and image operate as sign systems across scripts, cultures, and bodies - remaining legible without being literal. Working in both acrylic on canvas and water media on paper, he builds surfaces through accumulation: gestural drawing, flat color, and structural line held in tension without resolution. His work moves between large-scale canvas and intimate works on paper, maintaining a consistent inquiry into what form carries when meaning resists easy translation. He is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Award and a full fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, among other awards and residencies. His work is held in private and institutional collections.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018 Blossom, Yuri-G, Baltimore, MD
2017 Loud Out, Gallery 1086, Chico, CA
2017 Your Strengths Made You Stronger When You Were Younger, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
2014 Komono, Gallery 788, Baltimore, MD
2006 Belle Epoque, Angel's Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles
2005 Belle Epoque, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ
2003 New Non-Fiction, New Urban Art, Phoenix, AZ

Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Best in Show, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD 2013 Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
2005 Mesa Contemporary Arts, City of Mesa Municipal Museum, Mesa, AZ
2003 Angel's Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2002 ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

Selected Collections
Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Janet Turner Museum, Chico, CA
Mesa Contemporary Arts, City of Mesa Art Museum, Mesa, AZ

Selected Press
Art in America, December 2002
Artweek, November 2006 Arizona Republic, June 2002