Michael Hafftka

Michael Hafftka is an American symbolic expressionist painter active in New York City. His perform is represented in the surviving collections of a number of museums, including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, New York Public Library, McNay Art Museum, Housatonic Museum of Art, Arizona State University Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, and Yeshiva University Museum.

Hafftka was born in Manhattan (1953) to Eva and Simon Hafftka, European refugees and Holocaust survivors. He was raised in the Bronx and attended public schools.

Hafftka meant covers for Urizen Books, including Detour, Wedding Feast and Circuits, by Michael Brodsky. Kevin Begos of Guignol Books published Hafftka's drawings in 1982.

His first one-person play a role was at Art Galaxy. Among the New York galleries that following have featured his action are: the Rosa Esman Gallery, the Aberbach Gallery, the Mary Ryan Gallery, and the DiLaurenti Gallery. He has as well as exhibited widely in the United States and abroad.

The Housatonic Museum of Art mounted a retrospective in October 2004.

Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History in New York held a solo exhibition I of the Storm, a major discharge duty of recent works, March through August 2009.