Professor of Painting in the School of Art at the University of Houston. He lives in Houston, Texas. In September 2019, Charles opened a new exhibition at the UMLAUF in Austin, Texas. The exhibit includes both old and new works, a site specific work about the slave ship Clotilda, as well as select items from Charles' research collection of racist imagery in advertising. References External links "(Forever Free) Big Head #5" by Michael Ray Charles in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (23.2) Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips from PBS series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century - Season 1 (2001). https://web.archive.org/web/20080425222257/http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/aah/studio_art/faculty/charles.cfm "Painted Race", Article by Rebecca S Cohen Weekly Wire, February 2013 1967 births Living people African-American contemporary artists American contemporary artists University of Houston alumni American contemporary painters University of Texas at Austin faculty Painters from Louisiana Painters from Texas 20th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century African-American painters 21st-century African-American artists 21st-century American painters 20th-century American male artists