Michael Hall was born in Lafayette, Indiana in 1952.  An expressionist artist who believes that the only absolute is the action of life, he imbues the common and familiar objects in his paintings with a spiritual levity.  He lives in Salt Lake City.

Hall studied at the Art Institute of Cincinnati and moved to Salt Lake in 1983. In 1990, he was awarded a Visual Arts fellowship from the Utah Arts Council. He received a National Endowment for Arts fellowship in 1992, the only Utahan to be so recognized.

Hall’s mixed media and oil pastels works demonstrate that the oddity and poignancy of the commonplace be realized.  His works use a layering technique of small images. He combines nonobjective and objective styles with wide color gestures and a tight simplified line.  Examples of his work are Dada Pizza Boy (1990), a mixed media painting, and Go To Idiot (1997), an oil pastel.  The Phillips Gallery in Salt Lake City represents his work.

Biographical information on this page was adapted from Artists of Utah.