Art has always been a way to announce, “I am here, you are here, I exist, and in this brief moment we actually matter.” And more importantly one matters to oneself.
— Michael Ajerman
Michael Ajerman was born in New York in 1977. As a teenager he took part in the Cooper Union Outreach Program, later studying at the Corcoran School of Art, the New York Studio School, along with the Yale Summer School at Norfolk. In 2003 he completed his Masters Degree at the Slade School of Art and received the British Institute Award from the Royal Academy the same year.
Ajerman has consistently exhibited internationally. He is a contributor to Garageland Magazine where he has written articles on cinema, music, literature, and painting. In 2018 he was awarded UCLA’s Kitaj Research Fellowship, where his investigation of artists R.B. Kitaj and Walter Sickert culminated in the lecture, From Tipperary to Westwood. Select press includes: The New York Times, Flash Art, The Guardian, The Sun, Arte, Garageland, Bay Area Reporter, and the Royal Academy Magazine. Ajerman lives and works in London.
