Michael
Assiff
2026
Installation view from dropping, dropping
Untitled (Tickseed) & Untitled (Petunia)
Traffic striping paint on cast concrete
2026
Untitled (Tickseed)
96 x 30 x 1.5"
Traffic striping paint on cast concrete
2025
Untitled (Petunia)
71 x 30 x 1.5"
Traffic striping paint on cast concrete
2025
Untitled (Bindweed)
91 x 30 x 1.5"
Cast concrete
2025
Untitled (Astor 5) & Untitled (Astor 6)
Traffic striping paint, rebar, copper pipe, cast concrete
2026
Untitled (Deer Park, salt dome, red clover)
Methacrylic and latex on canvas, 36 x 48 X 1.5”
2025
Untitled (Swamp Milkweed, Mountain Dew)
Latex and methacrylic on canvas
60 x 48 x 1.5”
2024
Untitled (Shredded Tire, Fleabane)
Latex and methacrylic on canvas
48 x 36 x 1.5"
2023
Untitled (Contrails, Grasshopper)
Latex and methacrylic on canvas
36 x 48 x 1.5”
2023
Untitled (Queen Anne’s Lace, Soy, Center Pivot Irrigation)
Latex and methacrylic on canvas
48 x 36 x 1.5"
2023
Installation view from Supply Chain Flowers at The Valley, Taos
Untitled (Turbines, Chicory) 
Latex and methacrylic on canvas
18 x 14 x 1.5"
2023
Installation view from Supply Chain Flowers at The Valley, Taos
Untitled (Utility Poles, Pipeline)
Latex and methacrylic on canvas
48 x 36 x 1.5"
2024
Untitled (Pinklady Motif, Buried Gas Line)
Methacrylic and latex on canvas
18" x 18"
2024
Untitled (Common Tansy, Tire Tread)
Methacrylic on canvas
48 x 36 x 1.5"
2023
Pinkladies Motif 2
Methacrylic and latex on aluminum
10 x 10 x 1”
2024
Fleabane Motif 2
Methacrylic and latex on aluminum
8 x 8 x 1”
2024
Untitled (Fleabane Motif)
Aluminum leaf and methacrylic on aluminum panel
16x16x1"
2024
Untitled (Fleabane Motif, Inspection Certificate)
Aluminum leaf and methacrylic on aluminum, hardware
15 x 15 x 1"
2024
Weeds (WDFY04 Vidia Purple, WDMN02 Pink Bow Beauty)
Methacrylic, copper, steel, acrylic, latex paint and gesso on cotton
47 x 58.75 x 3”
2020
Volunteers (19-4058 Beaucoup Blue, 18-1658 Pompeian Red, 20-0072 Raspberry Soda)
Methacrylic, tinted gesso, acrylic, latex, steel wire, copper wire on canvas
48 x 36 x 6 1/2”
2021
Installation view from Volunteer Flowers at Ashes/Ashes, NY
9/10-10/24/2021
Volunteers with Housefly and Goldenrod Crab Spider (16-1511 TCX Rose Tan)
methacrylic, oil paint, tinted gesso, latex, and steel on canvas
47.5 x 59.5 x 8"
2021
Volunteers with Cabbage White Butterflies and Parasitoid Wasp (17-1928 Poppy Red, 20-0072 Raspberry Soda)
methacrylic, latex, acrylic, tinted gesso, steel on canvas
47 x 59 x 6"
2021
Installation view from Volunteer Flowers at Ashes/Ashes, NY
9/10-10/24/2021
Weeds with house flies (Cinnamon 'n Spice 1215)
Methacrylic, copper, eps foam, latex and acrylic paint on canvas
52 x 44 x 3”
2020
Ginkgo, Nest
Plastic, House paint, Recalled ginkgo biloba supplements, Copper, Hardware.
20 3/4 x 16 1/4 x 3 1/2"
2017
Ginkgo, Nest
Plastic, White wash, Recalled ginkgo biloba supplements, Copper, Hardware.
26 x 15 x 3 9/16"
2017
Ginkgo, Nest
plastic, recalled ginkgo biloba supplements, house paint, copper, wood putty, hardware.
22 x 16 x 4"
2017
Installation view from Pier 1 at Galerie Chez Valentin
2017
Greenhouse gas (Triflic acid)
Recycled copper, soldier, stickers
38 x 20 x 20"
2017
Greenhouse gas (detail)
Stretcher bars (French Mandate Syria and Lebanon)
Carved walnut, mineral oil, pigeon spikes
25 x 42"
2017
Installation view from Pier 1 at Galerie Chez Valentin
2017
Installation view from Pier 1 at Galerie Chez Valentin
2017
Mural (Palmyra)
Acrylic, Travertine tile, grout, on wood, restaraunt chairs
Dimensions variable, Panel: 37 3/10 x 59 11/16 x 1 9/16 Inches. / 95 x 151,5 x 4 cm
2017
Installation view of Remediation Flowers at First Continent
2016
Hyperaccumulators
plastic on Belgian linen
14 x 18"
2016
Hyperaccumulators
plastic on army cotton duck
14 x 18"
2016
Abatement (Sinks)
latex, spackle and hardware
2016
Hyperaccumulators (Clippings)
plastic and coaxial cable on Belgian linen
14 x 18"
HVAC (Phytoremediation)
grow lamp, Martha Stewart Organic Sunflower Seeds and Miracle Gro in airconditioning duct
Installation view of Ozone Flowers at Galeria Mascota
2017
Hyperaccumulators
plastic, dye, metal on cotton army duck
14 x 18”
2017
Hyperaccumulators
plastic, metal and enamel on painter´s dropcloth
16 x 20"
Carbon Offsets
house paint on burnt and gouged drywall
both 2017
Carbon Offsets
house paint on burnt and gouged drywall
2017
Cap and Trade
plastic and Terrapass voluntary carbon offset certificate on pleather stool seat, 14" round
2017
Untitled (Rat Worship, Karni Mata)
Plastic and latex on disarmed NYC rat trap
2015
Untitled (Woman in Yellow in the Forest)
plastic on canvas 
22 x 28” 
2015
Landlords triptych
plastic on canvas
2015
African Grey (Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet)
plastic on canvas
60 x 80”
2016
Installation view of Hangry at Shoot the Lobster
2015
Seamless (French Intervention in Mexico)
bicycle, plastic and latex on bicycle tire, delivery bag, dimensions variable
Bas-Relief (Free Range)
hydrocal and house paint
dimensions variable
Fridge
plastic and magnets on refrigerator
60 x 28 x 28”
2015
Fridge (detail)
plastic and magnets on refrigerator
60 x 28 x 28 inches
2015
Fridge (detail)
plastic and magnets on refrigerator
60 x 28 x 28”
2015
HVAC (Chris Christie)
direct to substrate print and latex on powder coated steel, air fresheners
11.75 x 13.75 x 16”
2015
Installation view of TulipoMania at Balice-Hertling (offsite)
with Sterling Crispin, Will Benedict & Sergei Tcherepnin
2015
Untitled (Henri Rousseau, Attacked by a Jaguar)
plastic and latex on canvas 
48 x 72” 
2013
Untitled (Henri Rousseau, "Tropical Forest with Monkeys")
plastic on canvas
48 x 72”
2014
sculpture: Nicolas Party
HVAC (World Trade Organization)
repoussé on hvac vent
2015
HVAC (World Trade Organization)
repoussé on hvac vent
2015
HVAC (World Trade Organization)
repoussé on hvac vent
2015
Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip
Ink and Latex on canvas
48 x 72"
2015
Installation view of The Fishbone Diagram: Sturgeon's Law and the 10% Potable at U.S. Blues
2014
Untitled (Designer Thoughts, Sugar Crush!)
plastic and ink on canvas 24 x 32"
2014
Untitled (Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story)
dye, branding, plastic and ink on canvas
24 x 32"
2014
Untitled (Cicero, 85th & 3rd, Lizards)
plastic and ink on canvas
24 x 32"
2014
Untitled (Freelancer with Glyphs and Franchise Blueprints) 
Plastic, ink and clay on canvas 
24 x 32”
2014
Burritos 
Newtown Creek Barge Park
2015
Motion Sensor (Forest)
motion sensor light, hardwood ash, acrylic, LED and incandescent bulbs
16 x 8 x 6"
2017
Installation view of New England's Dark Day
at Hotel Art Pavillion
2017
Stretchers (Newfoundland & Laborador V AbitibiBowater, Inc)
boiled linseed oil, latex, and plastic on poplar
19 x 20"
2017
Ginkgo Biloba
Plastic on burlap
16 x 18”
2016
Cache
Custom Netflix sleeves, DVDs, lighting
Dimensions variable
2017
Cache
Custom Netflix sleeves, DVDs, lighting
Dimensions variable
2017
Proposal for emergency three-stage water salvaging mechanism:
water collection/reverse osmosis filter, infrared purification lights, hand crafted carbon filters (set of divining rune stone figurines)
As part of Pretty Days: MIA
In collaboration with BFI and Anna Frost
2017
Proposal for emergency three-stage water salvaging mechanism:
water collection/reverse osmosis filter, infrared purification lights, hand crafted carbon filters (set of divining rune stone figurines)
2017
Proposal for emergency three-stage water salvaging mechanism:
water collection/reverse osmosis filter, infrared purification lights, hand crafted carbon filters (set of divining rune stone figurines)
2017
Nike (Pakistan)
Repoussé and UV print on galvanized steel
12 x 12"
2015
Lowes (Gowanus)
aluminum, hardware and UV print on galvanized steel
12 x 12"
2015
Installation view of Efficient Frontier @ Magenta Plains
2016
Vent
aluminum
13 x 9"
2016
This Am Life
vinyl on air conditioning system
2016
Vent (Save the rainforest. Save tigers)
inkjet on powder coated aluminum
16 x 18”
2014
Installation view of FRESH AIRE
at Good Weather
2014
Wind Chimes (Wilson Ti3)
acrylic, enamel, cord, tennis ball
2014
Untitled (South China Tiger, Wind Chimes)
plastic on canvas
30 x 42"
2014
“Day Three” (Commissioned Cartoon)
framed inkjet, illustration by Clay Schiff
8 x 10”
2013
Extinction Stack (2009, 2006, 2002, 2011) / Untitled
Bali Ha’i @ Culture Room
2013
2006(Chirostoma Bartoni)
plastic on canvas
22 x 26”
2013
2002(Baiji River Dolphin)
plastic on canvas
22 x 26”
2013
Bali Ha’i Produce
mangos, custom produce stickers
2013
Untitled (Jaguar); Untitled (Antelope)
plastic on canvas
12 x 48”
photographed at zeze
2013
Hole (Poor Door)
cut drywall
~3 x 6"
2015
Untitled (Power box)
Plastic, house paint on conduit
Dimensions variable
2016
Tread(Chirostoma bartoni, Black-faced Honeycreeper) & Tread (Florida Cave Bear, Javan Lapwing)
22 x 48" each
2014
Installation view of Aqueduct at University of the Arts, Philadelphia
2014
Aqueduct (www.realnews24.com/gray-whale-dies-bringing-us-a-message-with-stomach-full-of-plastic-trash)
pvc pipes, oil paint
each 118 x 2"
Aqueduct @ University of the Arts, Philadelphia
2014
Artists' LEED Certification of Installation
vinyl
Aqueduct @ University of the Arts, Philadelphia
2014
Energy Saver Bulb
bamboo in CFL fixture
2016