Michael Patrick Bailey (b.1986) was born in Indianapolis and raised in the Miami Valley just south of Dayton, OH. A self-taught painter, his experience as a lifelong sportsman and lover of the outdoors blazed the trail for him to become an award-winning wildlife artist.

His wildlife and landscape works are featured in private and public collections around the world and have been shown in New York, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Salem, Cheyenne, Livingston, Honolulu, Wichita, Indianapolis, and beyond. Michael is also a published illustrator — his works include the comics Uprooted Vol. I and II, The Happy, and Le Poux, as well as the children's books Now We Are Seven, Stella Rose and the Sea Dragon, and The Joy of Being the First.

He is an associate member of the American Impressionist Society, Oil Painters of America, as well as the Hoosier Art Salon. He is also a member of The Indiana Artists Club, and the Indiana Plein Air Painters Association.

He always wanted to be a cowboy.

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