Michael Hafftka

Background

Hafftka was born in Manhattan in 1953 to Eva and Simon Hafftka, European refugees and Holocaust survivors and was raised in the Bronx.

Education

He attended public schools in the Bronx.

Career

Hafftka designed covers for Urizen Books, including Detour, Wedding Feast and Circuits, by Michael Brodsky. Kevin Begos of Guignol Books published Hafftka's drawings in 1982.

His first one-person show was at Art Galaxy. Among the New York galleries that subsequently have featured his work are: the Rosa Esman Gallery, the Aberbach Gallery, the Mary Ryan Gallery, and the DiLaurenti Gallery. He has also exhibited widely in the United States and abroad.

The Housatonic Museum of Art mounted a retrospective in October 2004. Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History in New York held a solo exhibition I of the Storm, a major show of recent works, March through August 2009.

Achievements

• He is an internationally acclaimed visual artist. His art works are represented in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern art, Carnegie Museum of Art and The National Gallery of Art.

Works

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• painting

  • Bicameral Mind

  • Direct Line to Heaven

  • Eyes

  • Magician

  • Memory

  • Refractions

  • Shakespearean

  • Stop

  • The Observer And The Observed

  • The Old Story

  • Visitors

Connections

Spouse:

Yonat Hafftka

References

• Michael Hafftka., A Retrospective: Large Oils 1985-2003. Introduction by Robbin Zella. Essays by Michael Brodsky, Sam Hunter. October 21 through January 14, 2005.
• Michael Haffka ART