Rainbow Project By Michael Jones McKean

Michael Jones McKean was born on Chuuk Island (formally Truk Island) in Micronesia on March 2, 1976. McKean’s family moved to the United States in the late 1970s settling in Arden, Delaware. McKean attended Marywood University, a small liberal arts college in Scranton, Pennsylvania where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2000. Two years later he received his Master of Fine Arts from Alfred University in Western New York State.
McKean was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010. McKean has also been awarded grants and residencies from the Nancy Graves Foundation, the Artadia Foundation, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the International Studio and Curatorial Program, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, the Archie Bray Foundation and The Core Program at the Glassell School/Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Since 2006 he has been an Assistant Professor in the Sculpture and Extended Media Department at Virginia Commonwealth University.
McKean’s work is represented by Horton Gallery in New York City and Gentili Apri in Berlin, Germany.