Michael Killelea is an artist, author, teacher and traveler.

His work and biography have been included in the Smithsonian Institution's Library for the
American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Watson Research
Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and those have become the basis for permanent
files on him. He has been included in the Burchfield Penney Art Center data base as one of 215
best past and present artists in Western New York. He has traveled extensively and painted in
plein air almost everywhere he’s been.

He is the former Secretary and Signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists
(ASMA). He's also a Signature member and Program Committee chair of the Niagara Frontier
Watercolor Society, a former Board member of the Niagara Arts & Cultural Center in Niagara
Falls, and a signature member of the Buffalo Society of Artists. Until Covid ended it, he painted
year round in plein air with the All Weather Gang. Killelea is a graduate of SUNY Farmingdale
and has attended Pratt Institute and the School of Visual Arts. His work is in numerous private
collections, has been reproduced on book and magazine covers, posters, prints & greeting cards
and is featured in two books he wrote and illustrated about Long Island's rural North Fork.
His website is www.killeleart.com, and he posts a new painting every week on the Killeleart
Facebook page.