J Michael Walker is an LA-based multi-disciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, photography, and digital media. His work confronts issues of erasure, misrepresentation, and fetishization, through portraiture that illuminates the spiritual essence of marginalized people and women, particularly women of color.
J Michael has received fellowships from Art Matters, the City of Los Angeles, and (twice from) the Sacatar Institute of Brazil; eight grants from Los Angeles Cultural Affairs, and the California Council for the Humanities; three artist residencies from the California Arts Council; and solo shows at, among others, the Autry Museum, Harvard University’s Rockefeller Center, el Museo Nacional de Arte Popular in Mexico City, and both the Mexican Consulate and the Mexican Cultural Institute in Los Angeles. He has participated in over 120 group exhibitions in the US, Mexico, and South Korea.
J Michael’s work is in the collections of the Museum of Latin American Art, the Autry Museum, the Smithsonian, the Arkansas Arts Center, UCLA, and UCSB. His book, All the Saints of the City of the Angels: Seeking the Soul of LA on Its Streets (Heyday Books, 2008), which he wrote and illustrated, won awards for best art book and best non-fiction about the Pacific West, in 2009.
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