Mikey Estes

Mikey Foster Estes (he/they) is Galleries Director for the School of Art within Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. His artistic practice, which spans film/video, installation, performance, photography, sculpture, sound, and writing, is rooted in the language of everyday life and personal narrative. His works have been presented in exhibitions and screenings in both the United States and Europe. Recent solo exhibitions include Beaver, Eye Lounge, Phoenix, AZ (2021) and Private Rainbows, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2018). His debut film shot on 16mm, Me loving you/You loving me, is an official selection of the 2023 Bogotá Experimental Film Festival. He earned his MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College, City University of New York in 2018, and his BFA in Sculpture at Arizona State University in 2014. His writing on art has appeared in publications such as Java Magazine, Phoenix New Times, The Arts Beacon, and Tongue, Taste, Appetite.