Mike Chavez-Dawson is an artist-curator based at Rogue Artists’ Studios, a Lecturer on the Foundation Art & Design course at the University of Salford, UK. His interdisciplinary practice interrogates the visual language of art history and cultural institutions, utilising them as tools to decode structures of reverence, power, and belief.  

Through mischief, activism, and rule-breaking, he challenges mythologies of artistic production, authorship, and value. 

Collaboration is central to his approach, dissolving rigid distinctions between individual and collective endeavour while maintaining a critical awareness of accountability.  

His practice draws from esoteric traditions, institutional critique, and the compulsive energy of creation, embedding material provenance, collaborative dynamics, and production methods into the work’s mythos.

Current explorations examine analogue-digital intersections, including AI-assisted processes under the ‘Studies’ series, probing the artist’s role in post-digital contexts.  

Chavez-Dawson’s work interrogates art’s ecosystems—galleries, museums, alternative spaces—as sites of critical discourse. It persistently asks: Where does an artwork begin, end, or endure?

He has exhibited and performed at TATE Britain, Barbican, ICA, British Art Show 7 at Nottingham Contemporary, ZsONAMACO MÉXICO ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO 2017, Design Miami, Multiplied, LAF16, The Whitworth Art Gallery, HOME, Castlefield Gallery, Grundy Art Gallery, Summerhall, BAM, The Whitaker Art Gallery & Museum, In-Situ, Harris Art Gallery & Museum, UNION, The Whitstable Biennale (2008).

Chavez-Dawson has also undertaken various international shows and projects in Tokyo, Busan, New York, Sans Francisco, Miami, Mexico City, Rome, Lisbon, Lahore, Seoul, Helsinki, Edinburgh and Dresden.