Michael Kagan was born in Virginia Beach, the United States in 1980 and studied at The George Washington University. He was awarded The Morris M. Aein Memorial Prize in 2003 for his painting. He studied at New York Academy of Art in 2005 and became the recipient of The Chubb post graduate fellowship for his outstanding results. Since 2012, Kagan has held many solo exhibitions in French Antilles, New York, Miami and other places, and held his first large solo exhibition at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in 2019. Currently active in New York.