Michael Grimaldi (b. 1971, New York City)

Michael Grimaldi is a Hudson Valley-based visual artist whose work primarily focuses on monochrome paintings and drawings. He has exhibited extensively throughout the US and abroad and has taught drawing, painting and anatomy for over twenty years at various institutions including the School of Visual Arts, National Academy, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Art Students League of New York. Currently, Grimaldi is the Director of the Departments of Drawing and Anatomy at the New York Academy of Art and serves on the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts’ Board of Trustees.

Michael Grimaldi studied painting and drawing at the New York Studio School, the National Academy, the Art Students League of New York and performed independent studies in anatomy and dissection at the Facultad Medicina in Buenos Aires and Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. Since 2009, he designed and taught an advanced anatomy course that is hosted by Drexel University College of Medicine where art students are given the opportunity to directly study from human cadavers alongside medical students in Drexel’s Gross Anatomy Labs. His Advanced Artistic Anatomy course was featured in WHYY’s Emmy nominated Friday Arts: The Gross Lab and in National Geographic magazine’s Leonardo: A Renaissance Man for the 21st Century (May 2019) and Why Human Bodies are Medicine's Most Essential Taboo (June 2022).

He has lectured on the relationship of art and science and his own work at numerous institutions including the Leon and Norma Hess Center for Science and Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (NY), The Morgan Library & Museum (NY), the South Street Seaport Museum (NY), the Lyme Academy of Fine Art (CT), Studio Incamminati (PA), Drexel University College of Medicine (PA), the International Center for the Study of Painting (Italy), and the Institute of Classical Architecture (Italy and NY).

He has received numerous awards including the Alma Schapiro Prize/Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, Montello Foundation Residency, the Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant, two Stacey Foundation Grants, and two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants.

He has exhibited at museums and galleries around the world including the Arnot Museum (Elmira, NY), Villa Bardini/Museo Pietro Annigoni (Florence), Beijing Art Museum (Beijing), Brooklyn Museum (New York), Chauncey Stillman Gallery (Connecticut), DAAP Reed Gallery (Cincinnati), de Young Museum (San Francisco), Fontbonne University Gallery (St. Louis), Mori Arts Center (Tokyo), Museo Europeo d’ Art Moderno (Barcelona), Naples Museum of Art (Naples, FL), the National Academy Museum (New York), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum (Philadelphia), John Pence Gallery (San Francisco), Forum Gallery (New York), Hirschl & Adler Modern (New York), Mark Miller Gallery (New York), Joshua Liner Gallery (New York), MANA Contemporary (New Jersey),  James Oliver Gallery (Philadelphia), the Salmagundi Club (New York) and the Woodmere Museum of Art (Philadelphia).