- Education
- Tyler School of Art,Temple University, Philadelphia,PA, B.F.A
- Solo Exhibitions
2016Season, Seattle, WA "Free Dirt"
2014Steele Gallery, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA "Experimental Cinema/comma"
2013Season, Seattle, WA "The (mentholated) Roads Around Naples"
2004Gallery 4Culture, Seattle, WA "Corduroy Symptom"
1985Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY
1983Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY, "Skin and Bone"
1976Tyler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- Selected Group Exhibitions
2024Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL "Similar but Different"
2020Season, Seattle, WA "Born to Be Alive"
2018The Brooklyn Waterfront Coalition, Red Hook, Brooklyn "Painting to Survive 1985-1995" Curated by Jonathan Weinberg
2016V2 Arts Center, Seattle, WA "American Painting Today" Curated by Matthew Offenbacher
2016Hunter College, New York, NY "Something Possible Everywhere: Pier 34 NYC 1983-1984" Curated by Jonathan Weinberg
2016The Alice, Seattle, WA "this is not NOT a peepshow"
2015The Alice, Seattle, WA "Everyone's In"
2015King Street Station, Seattle, WA "Out of Sight"
2015River House Arts, Perrysburg, OH "The Other Line is Moving Faster"
2014THEODORE:Art, Bushwick, Brooklyn "Exchange Rates" in conjunction with Blackwater Polytechnic (UK)
2014Glasswing, Seattle, WA "Shapes, A Collaboration with Wyatt Orr and Vignettes" Curated by Sierra Stinson
2013Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA "Octahedron: Invitational"
2013Gallery onetwentyeight, New York, NY "Seven Artists"
2011Feature Inc., New York, NY "I Am Not Monogamous, I Heart Poetry"
2011Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland WA "The Three Dimensional Line" Curated by Ellen Ziegler
2010Feature Inc., New York, NY "Power to the People"
2010Gallery onetwentyeight, New York, NY "Geometric Themes and Variations" Curated by Gloria Klein
2009Feature Inc., New York, NY "Skulture"
2009Gallery onetwentyeight, New York, NY "Goo'z Part Two"
2009Soil, Seattle, WA "Dig, Soil Invitational/2009"
2007Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA "Tyler Alumni Exhibition, Painting 2007"
2007Pratt Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Faculty Exhibit"
2006Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA, "On the Edge"
1999Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue,WA, "1999 Pacific Northwest Annual"
1998Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle,WA, "Pratt Faculty Exhibit"
1998Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland,WA, "Faculty Exhibit"
1996Site21/21 artspace, Albuquerque, NM, "Carpet"
1991P.S. 122 Gallery, New York, NY, installation:"An Exact Address"
1987Gallery Alexander Wood, New York, NY Gallery Alexander Wood, New York, NY, "Fire"
1986Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY, "The East Village"
1985City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, "Forbidden Dream", curated by Colleen ThorntonCity Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, "Real/Surreal", curated by Colleen Thornton Sandy Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, "Current Trends in New York Art""
1984Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland, "Inside the East Village"
1983Alexander F.Milliken Gallery, New York,NY "Three Part Variety", curated by David WojnarowiczGracie Mansion Gallery, New York,NY Sharpe Gallery,New York,NY, "Self Image"
1980Westbeth Painters Space, New York, NY
- Bibliography
- The Village Voice — March 28, 2018, "Everything Old School is New Again," R.C. Baker
- Two Coats of Paint — October 28, 2016, "Michael Ottersen: Logic and intuition," Erin Langner
- Hyperallergic — October 27, 2014, "West Coast Represents at Exchange Rates Bushwick," Benjamin Sutton
- Montem — September 2013, "Michael Ottersen," pg. 26-32, Naoto Miyazaki
- Art Nerd: Seattle — September 27, 2013, "Michael Ottersen, the Mentholated Roads Around Naples at Season" Sharon Arnold
- New American Paintings/Blog — July 29, 2013, "Navigating the Mentholated Roads Around Naples: Michael Ottersen at Season," Erin Langer
- Visual Art Source — August 16, 2013, Editorial: Features "Michael Ottersen," Matthew Kangas
- Huffington Post — May 27, 2011, Huffpost Arts/Haiku Reviews "The Three Dimensional Line," Peter Frank
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer — August 17, 2006, Arts and Entertainment, pg.C4, Regina Hackett
- Seattle Post Intelligencer — February 5, 2004, Arts and Entertainment, Regina Hackett
- Albuquerque Tribune —August 9, 1996, pg. B1, T.D. Mobley-Martinez
- New York Native —October 7, 1991, pg.43, David Hirsch
- Artnews, September —
1985, pg. 141, Maurice Poirer
- Details, September —
1985, Cookie Mueller
- Artnews —January 8, 1984, pg.160, Eleanor Heartney
- The East Village Eye —August, 1983
- Collections
- University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
- Grants
- Artist's Fellowship Inc. New York,NY
- Teaching Experience
- The University of New Mexico/Continuing Education
- Harwood Art Center
- New Mexico Art League
- Gage Academy of Art
- Northwest College of Art and Design
- North Seattle Community College
- Bellevue Art Museum
- Pratt Fine Arts Center
- Kirkland Art Center