EDUCATION:

M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 1995
B.F.A., Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA 1993

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2009
For What It's Worth, CANADA, New York, NY

2006
False Profit, with Aaron Brewer, Second Gallery, Boston, MA
The Paris Line, with Brian Bellot, Atelier Cardenas Bellanger, Paris, France

2005
Unnatural Desires, CANADA, New York, NY

2004
insides, CANADA, New York, NY

2003
Fresh and Upcoming, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2002
Transmogrification, with Jocelyn Shipley, CANADA, New York, NY

2001
Space Defines Relax Muthafucka This Is Only a Test!, big/little Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS:

2008
Summertime Rolls, David Patton, Los Angeles, CA
of the Cloth, The Shore Institute of The Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ

2007
A Point in Space is a Place for an Argument, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Between the Clock and the Bed, David Patton, Los Angeles, CA
Kantor/ Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006
In Practice Program, The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
We Made It, Second Gallery, Boston, MA
Ragged, Kate MacGarry, London, England
The Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art,
Peekskill, NY
NDP: The Movie, The Kitchen, NY, NY
Take One, Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston, TX   

2005
Excitations, curated by Matt Keegan, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
Ab Ovo, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
WITH US AGAINST REALITY, OR AGAINST US!, curated by Ida Ekblad and Anders Nordby,
Willy Wonka Inc., Oslo, Norway and Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway
The Picture I Carry In My Head, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Greater New York, 2005, PS 1, Long Island City, NY
I am Five, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, NY

2004
Multiples, Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Showdown!, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Brothers, FUC, Austin, TX
Majority Whip, White Box, New York, NY

2003
Ta Da, White Box Annex, New York, NY
In Love, Monsters and Miracles, Berlin, Germany
Regarding Amy, Greene/Naftali, New York, NY
You Are My Sunshine/You Is My Sunshine, CANADA, New York, NY

2002
Step Up to the Mic, L.A. Freewaves Festival, Los Angeles, CA (screening)
Monsters and Miracles, Organized by Wolfgang Mayer and Christina Gomez-Barrio, Cinema at Z-Bar, Berlin, Germany (screening)

2001
Collaboratory, with David Galbraith as The Experimental Makeup, Gale Gates, Brooklyn, NY
Song Poems, organized by Steven Hull, Cohan, Leslie and Brown, New York, NY
Waveform, Organized by David Galbraith and Teresa Seemann,
The New Museum, New York, NY
Edges of the Earth, Organized by Ingrid Bromberg and Julian Pozzi, Void, New York, NY (screening)
songs of love and hate - side a, Galerie Weiland, Berlin, Germany

2000
Agains, Studio 480, Los Angeles, CA

1999
High Mornhill, Hark! Call us the craziest, primo-chic, far- seeing jokers making nothing. - Liar N, Studio 480, Los Angeles, CA
Antiworld, Gallery: untitled, Dallas TX

1998
Hotel California, Alrington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX, catalog

PERFORMANCES:

2006
 Paris Line, Atelier Cardenas Bellanger, Paris, France
Aladlona (I Love You Green), with Discoteca Flaming Star, The Kitchen, NYC

2005
The Living Room, Miami, FL
HEXEN, P.S. 1 Long Island City, NY
Love The S.C.R.E.A.M.I.N.G., with Marcos Rosales and Jeremy Wade, The Kitchen, New York, NY

2004
We Are Legion, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
USAVSUSA, Blind Dates, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
When There is No Room Left in Hell, CANADA, New York, NY 

2003
Plan B: or Don't Leave Me This Way Because I Will Always Love You,
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Don't Ask, Can't Tell, Movement Research at Judson Church, New York, NY
Hardcore Karaoke and How can you just walk away... with Discoteca Flaming Star, Parlor Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2001
Songs from The Back of Laughter, as The Experimental Makeup with
Marcos Rosales, Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY
The Medium is the Massage, as The Experimental Makeup with Dan Silverman, Good/Bad, Brooklyn, NY
Freaks, as The Experimental Makeup, with Jeremy Wade, Cohan, Leslie and Brown, New York, NY
Giant, Galerie Weiland, Berlin, Germany
AACB/DBCA, with Discoteca Flaming Star, Bastard, Berlin, Germany

1999
On Becoming a Man, Studio 480, Los Angeles, CA
Beat Rock Revolution Groove Mechanics, with David GalbraithAtomic Cafe, Munich, Germany

1998
Walk On By, Knitting Factory, New York, NY
Fortitude: Madonna Ciccone's Sixth Grade Talent Show Performance, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX

1997
The Warrior, Al's Bar, Los Angeles, CA
Sincerely, with a little feeling, Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles, CA

1996
Ultra Sweet Pickled Egg, Spaceland, Los Angeles, CA
Fortitude: Madonna Ciccone's Sixth Grade Talent Show Performance,
Beyond Baroque, Literary Arts Center, Venice, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2007
Cohen, David, "Ample Room for Argument", The New York Sun, August 2
Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review", The New York Times, July 20

2006
O'Reilly,Sally, "Ragged", Time Out London, November 11
Maine, Stephen, 'Down East', Art in America, May, p. 65
Sharp, Chris, 'Brian Belott and Michael Mahalchick', Flash Art, October, illus. p.55
Frick, Ean, 'Aaron Brewer and Michael Mahalchick,' Big Red and Shiny, June 18
Rockwell, John, "A Nude Duet with Twists, Anguish and Eroticism," The New York
Times, Feb. 3               

2005
Waxman, Lori, "Michael Mahalchick", Critic's Picks, ARTFORUM.com, November 23, illus.
Ammirati, Domenick, "Michael Mahalchick", artUS, October/November, illus.
Ammirati, Domenick, "Focus: Michael Mahalchick", Contemporary Magazine, Issue 75, August

2004
Cotter, Holland, "Art in Review: Michael Mahalchick, insides", The New York Times, Feb.27
Ammirati, Domenick, "Reviews: Michael Mahalchick", ARTFORUM, Summer
Grayson, Kathy, "Michael Mahalchick:insides", Flavorphill, March 2
Reviews, "Don't Miss: Michael Mahalchick, insides", Time Out New York, March 1
Stone, Katie, Art: "Michael Mahalchick, insides", The Brooklyn Rail, April
Roberts, Todd C. "Performance: Michael Mahalchick" Flavorpill LA, November 4
Cattelan/Giori/Subotnik, "Everybody Was There, The Wrong Guide to New York in 2004" ARTFORUM, December

2003
Cotter, Holland, "Art in Review: Transmogrification", The New York Times, Feb. 28
Raskin, Lisi, "Jocelyn Shipley and Michael Mahalchick", Frieze, July/August
Schambelan, Elizabeth, "You Are My Sunshine/You Is My Sunshine", ARTFORUM.com's Critic's Picks, June 28
Smith, Roberta, "A Grand Finale of Group Show Firewords", The New York Times, July 18
Smith, Roberta, Art Guide, The New York Times, August 1
Schutte, Christoph, "Panoptikum der Obsessionen", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Stadtausgabe, October 14

PUBLICATIONS: 

2005
North Drive Press #2, editor Matt Keegan, June