Moore College of Art & Design


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Mike Geno, MFA

Adjunct Faculty

Department

  • Fine Arts: 2D
  • Foundation

Education

  • MFA, Southern Illinois University
  • BFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University

Recent Exhibitions

  • Cheese Portrait Exhibition, Wedge & Fig shop, Philadelphia, PA, 2013.
  • 2012 Group Exhibition, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2012 Group Exhibition, Yumilicious, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
  • Sushi paintings will be shown at Skidmore Contemporary Art at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, CA, 2012 
  • "wedge & fig," cheese portraits, Old City's Cheese Bistro, Philadelphia, 2012.
  • Nice Things Handmade boutique, Philadelphia, PA 2011.
  • "Annual Small Works Show", The Rosenfeld Gallery", Philadelphia, PA 2009.
  • "Bacon Art", Group Exhibition at MEW Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2009.
  • "READYMADE- Found Objects from the American Landscape" Group Exhibition at The Moore Galleries at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, 2009
  • "Meat and Sugar", Two person exhibition at Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola College, MD, 2009
  • "Control_Shift_Options:Contemporary Drawing", Space 301 Gallery, Mobile, AL, 2009
  • "Gigantic Smlla Works Show", Rosenfeld Gallery, 2008
  • “Sock Monkeys Rule,” June 1-July 31, 2007, The Frame Shop & Gallery, Lambertville, NJ
  • "Suburbia Redefined," May 4-July 22, 2007, Towson Arts Collective, Towson, MD
  • "Art of the City," July 12-October 5, 2007, Philadelphia, PA
  • “P-500: Experimentations in Photography,” March 24-April 29, 2006, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

Recent Activities

  • Interviewed for the March issue of Food Network Magazine.
  • Interviewed by Der Feinschmecker (German Groumet) magazine for the February issue
  • Cheese portrait will be in Cheese Connoisseur Magazine, 2012 
  • Cooking Light Magazine, featured on page 30 in the new issue (November) for their 25th anniversary double issue, 2012.
  • Commissioned to paint three best in show American artisan cheeses as the 2012 Resident Artist for The American Cheese Society.  
  • Interviewed by the New York Times in April 2012 regarding his ongoing series of Cheese Portraits
  • Interviewed on “The Food Seen,” a show on Heritage Radio in New York.
  • Interview and Photo Essay, Esquire Magazine, 2012.
  • Interviewed on Michael Tucker's radio show "The Food Seen", 2012. 
  • Interviewed by Esquire Spain, 2012.
  • Like the Mona Lisa, but on a Cracker , New York Times, 2012
  • "Cheese Portraits: An Artist Captures the Many Faces of Cheese" Portraits and Text  by Mike Geno, CULTURE magazine, Winter Issue 2011.
  • Nineteen paintings from ongoing series of "cheese portraits" featured in the winter issue of Culture magazine
  • The Art of "Meat Man" Mike Geno featured on foodiggity: the greatest food culture site ever: foodiggity, May 2011
  • Painting featured on the cover of Seattle's weekly magazine The Stranger, Seattle WA, 2010.
  • Bacon Art Press on the Thrillist and Philadelphia Weekly, 2009.
  • Interviewed and artwork featured on Food Art Blog, Eat Me Daily, 2009
    • Mike Geno pretzel
    • Mike Geno
      Pretzel

    • Mike Geno Bacon Composition
    • Mike Geno
      Bacon Composition

    • Mike Geno Bacon Composition
    • Mike Geno
      Bacon Composition

    • Mike Geno Bacon Composition
    • Mike Geno
      Bacon Composition

    • Mike Geno Cannoli
    • Mike Geno
      Cannoli
      Oil on Wood
      9x6x5

    • Mike Geno Cheese
    • Mike Geno
      Cheese

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