May

• Solo Exhibition at SUNDAY in New York City.

April 9 - TBA

• I will have some work in a group show at The Ice House in Phoenix, Arizona titled The Margins.

April 8

• I’ll be participating on a panel discussion titled “A Question of Depth” in Phoenix, Arizona at the National Conference on the Education of Ceramic Arts Conference.

March 23 -
April 15

• I’ll have some work in the exhibition, Physical Reminders at the University of Arkansas, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The show is curated by University of Arkansas Professor Bethany Springer.

March 22

• I’ll be at the University of Arkansas as a visiting artist and to give a public lecture on my work.

February 7

• Art Papers’ Magazine is having their 10th Annual Art Auction at Mason Murer Fine Art in Atlanta, Georgia, which opens with a special preview on February 6 with the auction concluding on the 7th. I have some work that will be included in the auction.

November 19-20

• I’ll be a visiting artist this fall at the Maryland Institute College of Art and will be giving a public lecture.  Contact MICA’s sculpture department for more details.

November 15-
January 11

• I’m very excited to be participating in Learning by Doing, an upcoming group exhibition at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Please contact the museum for more details.

November3

• I’m participating on a very interesting panel in Berlin this fall titled “OBJECTHOOD and THEORETICAL PHYSICS: Perspectives on Forces and Matter.” A group of very diverse panelists will try to dig deeper into contemporary perspectives on the age-old problems of object-hood, materialism and time. The panel will be moderated by Pier-Luigi Tazzi, curator of Documenta IX.

October 25 - December 10

• Pole Shift, a group exhibition organized by Stephen Lichty of Project Gentili in Italy opens in Berlin.  I’ll be in Berlin for about a week prior to the opening.  If you are around, please stop by.  Contact Project Gentili for more details.

October

• There is a fantastic article on the Teignmouth Electron in the October issue of Yachting Monthly. The 10-page spread includes many images (including a photo of me with a tape measure by the Electron) and some text about my project with the boat.

September 19 - November 22

• I’ll have some work at Project Gentili in the group show preview of Pole Shift, which will open in Berlin this fall.

September 5

• There is a nice preview of the upcoming Pole Shift exhibition titled A Spiritual Movement? on Rhizome.com by Marissa Olsen

September

• I’ll have a work in Omaha, Nebraska this fall at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art for their Art Auction Preview Exhibition.  The exhibition of artist’s participating in their Live auction will be up until the auction itself, which will be held on Saturday, November 22. This event promises to be pretty amazing.

August 1

• I’ll be talking about my exhibition brown gold braid and field and plantlife at ThreeWalls in Chicago. Contact ThreeWalls for more information.

July 27

• There is a nice review of my exhibition brown gold braid and field and plantlife in “TimeOut Chicago” by Garin Pirnia.

July 24

• There are some nice words about my exhibition brown gold braid and plantlife in “New City” by Damien James.

July

• Check out the recent spread in the July issue of Cruising World by David Shaw covering the Teignmouth Electron Project.

June 27

• Karsten Lund, a Research Fellow at MOCP in Chicago, has written a short, short piece about my exhibition at ThreeWalls in Flavor Pill.

June 27

• Solo exhibition at ThreeWalls in Chicago, Illinois.
  An exhibition of new work created while in residence at ThreeWalls will open June 27 and run through August 2.

June 8 -
August 1

• I’ll be in Richmond for parts of the summer while I work with an outstanding group of students in the VCUArts’ Post-Baccalaureate Program.  If you are in Richmond this summer please stop by.

May 2

• Check out the interview with Eric Zimmerman in issue #98 of Fluent~Collaborative’s…might be good called, The Historian and the Astronomer. 

May

• The MFAH Core Program, in celebration of it’s 25th anniversary, is publishing a  book, Core: Artists and Critics in Residence.    

Spring and Summer

• I’ll be in residence in Chicago at ThreeWalls working on a new project.
  I'm there April 15 – June 29.

April 10

• I’ll be a visiting artist at Gettysburg College on April 9 and 10. I’ll be giving a public lecture on my work at 5pm on April 10. Please contact the university’s art department for more details.

April

• My work is featured in the April issue of Flash Art in a short article by Chris Chambers.

March 26

• I’ll be giving a public lecture titled Beauty, The Limit and Failure as part of the University of Illinois, Springfield’s Visiting Distinguished Scholars Program. The lecture is March 26th and starts 6pm. Please contact the university’s art department for details.

March

• There is a short video piece by Lerri Bolognesi at Exibart.tv of me talking briefly about The wake the saint the sound the branch at Project Gentili in Italy.

March

• The catalog Michael Jones McKean: Selected Projects 2003-2008 is now available.  It includes texts by Stacy Switzer, Artistic Director at Grand Arts in Kansas City and Brian Gillis, Assistant Professor at University of Illinois, Springfield.  Read Stacy’s essay here.

February 21

• Solo exhibition at the University of Illinois, Springfield as part of their Visiting Distinguished Scholars Program. I’ll be speaking about the work prior to the opening on February 21st. A catalog will accompany the exhibition. Check back for more details soon. The project runs through March 27th

February

• Project Gentili in Italy is producing a small publication that documents the recent project, The wake the saint the sound the branch.  It includes a conversation with Michael Jones McKean and archeologist Matthew Edgeworth, a PhD Research Associate at the School of Archaeology at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.  Please contact the gallery for more information.  Read the interview here.

• Sasha Lee highlights Michael Jones McKean in Beautiful Decay

• I’ll have a solo exhibition this winter in Italy at Project Gentili in Prato, Italy just outside of Florence. The exhibition will open January 19th. I’ll be in Italy for about 5 weeks to build and install the project. Check back for more info soon.

• Sean Carroll has written a review about The Astronomer, The Builder, and the Volunteers at Inman Gallery in the January edition ArtsHouston.
  Read the review here.

• Douglas Britt has written some nice words about the exhibition The Astronomer, the Builder and the Volunteers at Inman gallery in the Houston Chronicle. Read the article here.

• Paddy Johnson has written some amazing words about the work at NADA in Miami with SUNDAY on her blog Art Fag City.

• I’ll be having a solo presentation of new work at the NADA Art Fair in Miami, Florida with SUNDAY, New York, NY.
  There is a preview on December 4th.  The fair dates are December 5-9.

• I’ll be having a solo exhibition of work at Inman Gallery in Houston, Texas in their North Gallery space. The opening reception is November 30, from 6-9pm.

• Karen Rosenberg reviews The Discipline of Astronomy and Wind At Sunday in the New York Times. Read the review here.

• The good people at The Joanna were nice to include me in their drawing show that opens September 21.  Please stop by this great new space in Houston. 

• James Wagner has written some nice words about my exhibition The Discipline of Astronomy and Wind at SUNDAY on his blog.

September 6 - 30

• Solo Exhibition at Sunday
  Opening Reception: Thursday, September 6, 6-9 PM
  The gallery is located in the Lower East Side of New York at
  237-A Eldridge Street  New York, NY 10002

August 3

• This past December I visited Cayman Brac, a small island in the Caribbean to research the Teignmouth Electron, a 40 foot sailboat involved in a failed solo attempt to circumnavigate of the earth without stopping in the late 1960’s. The boat has been beached on the island for the last 25 years. Here’s a link to some images of the boat and a brief narrative of it’s bizarre history. After about two years of research, travel and lots of tribulation, I purchased the boat from its longtime owner, Winston McDermott. Read the press release. I have a few projects that are in the works involving the boat. Check back for more.

July 12

• Michelle White, the Assistant Curator of the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas and the Regional Editor of ArtLies has written a feature about my work in the current issue of ArtPapers.

July

• A 28-page catalog for the exhibition The Possibility of Man and the River Shallow is now available. The catalog features an interview by Christopher Cook, the Curator at the Kemper Museum with Michael Jones McKean and a short text by Diane Barber, co-director and curator of DiverseWorks Art Space. If you’d like to receive a catalog by mail please email me at mjonesmckean@hotmail.com. Click here to view the PDF.

Summer

• Michael Jones McKean’s studio is looking for a couple interns this summer. 
  Click here to view details.

June 20

• If you happen to be in Richmond Virginia, I have some work in the VCU Sculpture Faculty Exhibition. It runs through June 26th.

May 17 - June 17

• I’ll have some work at Sunday in their Project Space
  Opening Reception: Thursday, May 17, 6-9 PM
  The gallery is located in the Lower East Side of New York at
  237-A Eldridge Street  New York, NY 10002

• Artadia Reprised, an exhibition of work from the Artadia Award finalists.
  Opening reception is March 9th 6-8 pm at DiverseWorks in Houston, TX 
  A catalog will accompany the exhibition.

• College Art Association, New York, New York
  Toward Incongruency.  I’ll be speaking about my work and participating on a panel at the College Art Association conference in New York City,
  Check back for more details…

• Check out Bill Davenport’s review of The Possibility of Men and River Shallows, on GlassTire.

• The Possibility of Men and the River Shallows,
  solo exhibition at DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas
  Opening Reception:  Friday, January 12, 6-8pm
  a catalog will accompany the exhibition

• Listen to Catherine Lu’s interview with Michael Jones McKean on KUHF’s Up Front.  Michael discusses his recent project,
  The Possibility of Men and River Shallows.  
  Click here to listen to interview or download here.

• Aqua Art Miami, Miami, Florida, with Inman Gallery

• Visiting Artist/Lecture, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

•  Lecture, University of Illinois, Springfield

• Artissima Turin, Italy with Inman Gallery

• The Affair @ The Jupiter Hotel, Portland Oregon with Inman Gallery

• Take a look at the September/October issue of Ocean Navigator magazine.  There’s a small article on The Great Circuit discovery by Madeleine O’Connor titled “The Longest Route.”

• Solo Exhibition at Grand Arts in Kansas City, Missouri. Riverboat Love Songs for the Ghost Whale Regatta will open on Friday, September 1 and will include a small brochure with an essay. The exhibition closes of October 21. View Ad

• Will join the Sculpture and Extended Media Faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University

• I’ll be in residence at Grand Arts in Kansas City, Missouri while working on Riverboat Love Songs for the Ghost Whale Regatta. Come Visit.

• 2006 Artadia Award, Finalist

• Visiting Artist, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

• The Great Circuit is discovered! After nearly two years of research and development the longest possible walk-able route around the earth has been discovered.  Titled The Great Circuit, the project was realized at the University of Kansas while working closely with the university’s Geography and Cartographic Departments. The project was funded generously by Grand Arts in Kansas City, Missouri as part of the forthcoming exhibition Riverboat Love Songs for the Ghost Whale Regatta as well as The Nancy Graves Foundation based in New York, New York. Read more…

• Opening reception for The Core Artist in Residence Exhibition at the MFAH Glassell School of Art in Houston, Texas.  A catalogue will accompany the exhibition and will be available in March 2006.  The exhibition runs through April 21st.

• Opening reception for “Leg,” a group exhibition at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Texas.  The show will include the work of Gilad Efrat, Michael Jones McKean, Demetrius Oliver, and Carl Suddath. A small catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

• Lecture at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

• Awarded the 2005 Nancy Graves Foundation Award by the Nancy Graves Foundation

• Lecture at Emporia University, Emporia, Kansas

• The Zephyr Breeze and the Deepest Ocean Valley, a solo exhibition at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska. The opening reception is August 26th 6-9pm, with an artist lecture on August 27 at noon. The exhibition will close October 17