Michael Tarbi (born 1980 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American artist.
Michael Tarbi's work was first exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art[1] in 1998 where he received the national "American Visions Award" for his work entitled, "Small Portraits".[2] This work went on to be exhibited at the President's Office of Arts and Humanities.[1]
Tarbi studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia from 1998 to 2002.[3] There he received numerous awards including "the Angelo Pinto Prize for Experimental Work" and "the Henry J. Schiet Travel Scholarship".[1]
Since 2002, Tarbi's work has appeared in galleries and museums nationwide including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and the White Box - Annex Gallery in New York.[2] In 2006 he was presented with the Irene Palenski Memorial Award at the Carnegie Museum of Art.[4] His first major one person exhibition followed at Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago in 2006.[5] [6]