ARTIST BIO

Michael Flowers is an interdisciplinary Artist working predominantly in video, video effects and motion graphics design. He also has a strong history in event planning and production, theatre, and makeup design. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Studio For Interrelated Media at The Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

He is currently involved in several ongoing collaborative projects designing performance visuals for both emerging and established drag artists based in New York and Boston. He has designed video based work for Royale in Boston and Sasha Velour’s “Nightgowns” in Brooklyn at National Sawdust. 

Other credits include: "Fascination"(Artistic Director, Resident Video Artist), “The Normal Heart” (Projection Design)(2014 IRNE Award), The Provincetown Theater’s production of “The Normal Heart” (Projection Design), "Trigger Warning"(Projection and Scenic Design), and “The Midway”: an immersive site-specific installation in collaboration with Bunker Hill Community College (Scenic Design). Michael has also worked with Punchdrunk Theatre Co. as a Scenic Volunteer on their Drama Desk award winning production of “Sleep No More” (NYC). Other Scenic Design credits include “SubUrbia”, “What the Butler Saw”, “Night Sky”, “The Good Doctor” and “Hedwig And The Angry Inch”. Michael was selected as one of Broadway World Rhode Island’s 2013 “Critics Picks” for his portrayal of Luís in Counter Productions Theatre Company’s world premier of “Nico Was A Fashion Model.

ARTIST STATEMENT

“In my work, I seek to reclaim the dialogue surrounding queer liberation by subverting the assimilationist tactics of mainstream gay politics and culture. Through an interdisciplinary approach to story telling, visual media and public intervention, I engage in a process of blurring boundaries between public and private space thus pushing the internal queer narrative back into the physical and cultural territory co-opted by heteronormativity. My work seeks to transgress the ideas surrounding the socially palpable identity of queerness while simultaneously integrating queer people in a conversation around the esoteric history of our own identity, sexuality and community.”