Michael Cullen (1946 – 10 July 2020) was an Irish Neo-Expressionist painter.
Early life Cullen was born in Kilcoole, County Wicklow in 1946.
Career Cullen studied at the Central School of Art and Design (London) and at National College of Art and Design (Dublin).
He lived and worked in Spain, Morocco, the United States, Mexico and Berlin. He won the Independent Artists’ Major Painting Award in 1984 and the National Portrait Award in 1989. He was elected to Aosdána in 1984.
According to Aidan Dunne,
His works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Ireland, The Hugh Lane, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Dundee Contemporary Arts.
Cullen died in 2020. References