Michael Scogin is an interdisciplinary artist based in Dallas, Texas. His work often focuses on the overlooked, hidden, or gradual within our world. From wooden blocks, to Legos, K’nex, and other building toys (and toys and objects not strictly meant to be building materials), designing, building, and creating started young. Michael made his way into construction building offshore oil drilling rigs, learning how to weld while assisting a Shipfitter from Kerala, India. Woodworking came after inheriting tools from the person that taught him the basics. From there it was some (terribly bad) furniture, then briar pipes, leatherworking, and then some more (really good) furniture. This then moved into imitating artists whose work he admired, to the desire to make his own. The time spent in each craft he picked up along the way created an appreciation and admiration of the skill required to craft an object, and the vast number of people whose shared methods, tools, and ingenuity allow us to create such works.
The desire to create his own art became a journey through earning his BFA in Sculpture in 2019 and then his MFA at The University of Texas at Arlington in 2024, where he developed lasting relationships with mentors that continue to help hone his practical skills and deepen his understanding of his work.
Michael is currently an art educator as well as a bronze foundry assistant and serves as Parliamentarian for the board of the Texas Sculpture Association. He has exhibited work across Texas, New Mexico, and Louisiana, including a solo exhibition of his sculptural work, Denatured, at SAS Gallerie in Shreveport, Louisiana.