Awards

2017 
Artist chosen to participate in “Art Inspired By a Presidential Home” by the JFK Hyannis Museum. To create art from materials salvaged from the renovation of JFK and Jackie’s home on the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis.

2014
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

2010
Juror’s Choice, Members’ Juried sculpture exhibition (juried by Stacy Latt-Savage), Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA.

2009
Artist in Residence, Cape Cod Community College, West Barnstable, MA
Best Sculpture, Members’ Juried group exhibition (juried by Fabio Fernandez), Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA.

2007
Best in Show, Schoolhouse Gallery Juried Exhibition (juried by Nona Hershey, Massachusetts College of Art; Daniel Heyman, RISD), Provincetown, MA.

2006
Michael E. Deluty Outstanding Sculpture Prize, 9th National Prize Show  (juried by Cheryl Brutvan, Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA), Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA.

2004
Full Fellowship Award, Artist’s Residency at the Vermont Studio Center, Berkshire Taconic Foundation, Sheffield, MA.

2001
Second Place Winner, 22nd Annual Juried Exhibition (juried by Peter Held, Director, Holter Museum, Helena, MT), Custer County Art Center, Miles City, MT.

1999
National Competition Solo Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

1998
National Competition Winner (juried by Portia Harcus, Portia Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA), Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA.

 

 

Education

Towson State University, Towson, MD
Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA: workshops with Maria Magdalena Compos-Pons, Paul Bowen, and Romolo Del Deo
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA: workshops with Paul Bowen and Sal Del Deo

 

Private Collections

Edward Albee
Philip Lim
Grace Knowlton
Michael and Karen Rotenberg

Public Collections

Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA

 

Curating

2014
Moderns vs. Regulars, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA.

2011
Beyond Surface: Karen Cappotto, Liz Carney, Megan Hinton, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA.

2010
Flotsam/Jetsam, Cape Cod Maritme Museum, Hyannis, MA

2009
Peter Watts, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

2007
Emerging Artists, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

 

Publications

Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: Abstraction by Deborah Forman, 2016
Art From Cape Cod: Selections from the Cape Cod Museum of Art Collection, 2016
Pieces of Provincetown, Cape Cod Times, 2015
Modern-day Mooncusser, Provincetown Banner, 2015
Mike Wright and the Modernist Continuum, Provincetown Arts Magazine, 2009
Artist Profile: Mike Wright, Cape Cod Life Magazine, 2005
Art Inspires the Wright Life, Provincetown Banner, 2005
Exhibition for National Competition Winner, Provincetown Advocate, 1999