2026
Congressional Art Competition
Selected judge evaluating student artwork for the Congressional Art Competition.
THE STORY
People.
Place.
Connection.
Born and raised in San Antonio, Mike’s visual vocabulary is shaped by the city’s neighborhoods, landmarks, traditions, and people.
Working primarily in spray paint and acrylic, he develops projects for public spaces, businesses, institutions, and community settings. His practice moves between large-scale realism and more graphic, editorial approaches while keeping human emotion at the center.
Whether a mural is experienced from a passing car, painted alongside a community, or carried across the world as a piece of San Antonio, the goal is connection.
That approach has carried his work from large public-art commissions and commercial environments to community activations, artist talks, live painting, and projects representing San Antonio nationally and internationally.