Michael Fajans was born in Philadelphia and moved to New York City where he attended high school and developed an early interest in experimental theater. As an undergraduate at Antioch College, he devoted himself to dance, multi-disciplinary performance art and films documenting modern dance. His career as a public artist began with six murals painted on rural Ohio buildings in 1973 funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, followed by a stunning set of airbrush paintings on the sides of semi-trucks (see the “Other Public Art” section of this website). He moved to Seattle in 1977 and in the following three decades created some of the most profound public art in the Pacific Northwest. He also produced more than fifty large figural paintings that offer a highly refined depiction of visual reality with rich undertones of human psychology, emotion and interdependence. [see Extended Biography].

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