Michael Ellis is a multimedia artist whose practice includes sculpture, drawing, painting, installation and digital art. His expressionistic work deals with memory, trauma, and their effects on the construction of identity.
Ellis has shown his work throughout central and northern New Mexico. Selected venues include The Orpheum Community Hub, fourteenfifteen gallery, William Platz Gallery, the Jean Cocteau Theater gallery, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
He teaches a variety of art theory and studio courses. He has taught workshops and courses at the Remarque/ New Grounds Print Workshop & Gallery, Manzano Day School, Albuquerque Public Schools and the Bernalillo Public Library system. He was a core faculty member at the Southwest University of Visual Arts in Albuquerque, NM. He has taught art, English and theatre in Albuquerque middle and high schools.
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Michael Ellis is also a working illustrator, comic artist and graphic designer. He has illustrated and designed for clients internationally and throughout the United States. As a contributor to the 27 Club Anthology from Red Stylo/ Action Lab Comics, he was nominated for a Harvey Award in 2015. His comic Cletus the Defeatist was voted Best Local Comic in the Weekly Alibi’s Best of Burque awards in 2015.
He currently works as a Special Effects technician in the thriving New Mexico film industry.