The MassArt Graduate Programs and the 2D and 3D fine art departments are pleased to welcome Michael Zachary as a Visiting Artist of the Fall 2026 Fine Arts Lecture Series. Please join us in the Design and Media Center Lecture Hall at 12:00pm on Wednesday, November 4. 

Michael Zachary grew up in New Hampshire and lives and works in Boston,MA.

 He holds a BA from Bowdoin College and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and  Design. 

His most recently solo and two person exhibitions include: Boston University (2025); Simmons University (2025); Cost Annex in Boston, MA (2020);  Rhode Island College (2018); Room 68 in Provincetown, MA (2020 and 2017); Frontierspace in Missoula, MT (2016); and The Arts Research Collaborative in Lowell, MA (2014). His work is also featured regularly in group exhibitions nationally and internationally. 

In 2024 he was a resident at the Dipper A.I.R program in Billings, MT; in 2020 he received a residency fellowship from the Josef and Anne Albers Foundation and an Assets for Artists Grant from Mass MoCA; in 2018 he was awarded a Finalist’s Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Fellowship Program; and in 2017 he received both an individual grant from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation’s Artist’s Resource Trust and a Blanche Coleman Award from Boston University. 

He has taught at Northeastern University, The University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and Simmons University and currently teaches painting at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.

This event is free and open to the public.

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu.

Image detail: Michael Zachary, Burn Area: Hillside, 2025.