Micah Ofstedahl

About

Born in 1982 in Austin, Minnesota, Micah Ofstedahl is a contemporary artist based in Oregon, known for his 'altered realism' style that reimagines hyper-realistic landscapes disrupted by distortions resembling water, glass, or invisible energies. His work evolved from a decade of 'biological surrealism,' drawing from anatomical forms and 19th-century illustrations by Ernst Haeckel, influenced by his childhood precision in coloring books and formal training in sculpture and ceramics at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where he earned a BFA. Ofstedahl's paintings blend control and chaos, exposing fractures in nature to question perception, time, and space, with roots in human anatomy, psychology, and personal observations of nature's changes.

Altered realism and biological surrealism