Mike Wirth is a visual artist,
digital experience designer,
and muralist, best known for his thoughtful murals, public art installations, and client-driven commercial design work that focus on major social justice issues and his identity as a Southern, Jewish-American. Over the past 20+ years, Wirth’s murals, published works, and digital museum exhibits have appeared in New York, Miami, Charlotte, NC, and internationally in Croatia, Poland, France, and Israel.
Wirth is an avid educator, serving as Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Queens University and as artist-in-residence with the Stan Greenspon Center for Holocaust and Social Justice Education. In mentoring programs such as Five Sense, Iconic Charlotte: A Civic Symbol Design Initiative, and Project Protege‘. He is a founding member and board mentor for the Talking Walls Festival, Charlotte’s first annual, citywide mural and public art festival. In 2021, Wirth was one of 10 artists-in-residence selected for Charlotte’s wildly successful Immersive Van Gogh Exhibition. In December of 2022, Mike was a featured artist in the JADA art fair during Miami Art Week.