EDUCATION                                                                                                                                 
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pa.      M.F.A.   Sculpture  
VCU, Richmond, Virginia                       B.F.A.    Sculpture       
 
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020 - 2025 
Drop - Shift - Burn - Stack - Float 
2019
Yard Work Gallery, Open Field, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn
One Look, la Rocca - Mondavio, Italy 
Geba Gallery, Art is Money, Bogota, Columbia 
E.V. Art View, Art is Money, NYC 
2016
Museum of American Finance, 6th Wall Street Bourse, NYC
Artesia, Piagge, Italy 
2015
Brattleboro Museum of Art, Gathering Threads, Brattleboro, VT
2014
30/30_IAP, Look & Listen, St. Chamas, France
AFA Gallery, Asente / Luchetti, Scranton, PA
2013
Blackburn 20/20 Gallery, Silhouettes, Elizabeth Fdn for the Arts, NYC
The Art Factory, Paterson, NJ
2012
English Kills Gallery, Hoggard Wagner Collection, Bushwick, Ny 
2010
Islip Art Museum, All in the Family, Islip, LI, New York
2009
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, By a Thread, NYC
Momenta Art, Infinite Possibilities, Brooklyn, New York
Tyler Sculpture alumni biennial, Phila., Pa.
2008
The White Hotel, art fair, CCNOA, Brussels, Beligium
H29, La Vie en Rond, Brussels, Belgium
2007
H29 Gallery,  Asente/Luchetti, Brussels, Belgium
2006
Schroeder Romero Gallery, Money Changes Everything, Bklyn
CCNOA, Painted Objects, Brussels, Belgium
- Bailey House, Smack Mellon, Momenta, Postcards From the Edge - benefit auctions
2005
Smack Mellon, On the Subject of WAR, Brooklyn, NY
Provisions Library, On the Subject of WAR, Washington, DC
2004
CCNOA-Center For Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Molti Multipli, Brussels, Belgium
2003  
GV/AS, The Colors of , Brooklyn, NY    Solo  Exhibition
Schroeder Romero Gallery, Decade, Brooklyn, NY
Scope Artfair, Cynthia Broan Gallery, Dylan Hotel, NYC
Cynthia Broan Gallery, NYC,  Recession 2003 
2002   
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, Shikishi
Cynthia Broan Gallery, NYC, Barometer, 
Winston Hotel, Amsterdam, NL, Red Light-Images of Desire 2
Methaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY,   Love Shack
India Habitat Center, New Dehli, India,   Carry-On:
 - Maharaja Sayajirao Gallery, Univ. of Baroda, Baroda, India
 - Rapid Transit Gallery, Savannah, Georgia and other sites
2001
Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NYC    Humanoid
Diverse Works Art Space, Houston, Texas   Humanoid
Stockholm Art Fair, Arena@Feed Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2000  
Le Fondation de la Tapisserie, From Rags to Riches, Tournai, Belguim
Spruill Center for the Arts, Take a Second Look, Atlanta, Ga
Arena @ Feed, Meatmarket Art Fair, NYC
1999  
art Moving, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY,      Solo Exhibition 
City Gallery at Chastian, Atlanta, Ga,    Unrealized Solo Exhibition 
White Columns, NYC, Outer Boroughs       
Richard Anderson Fine Arts, The Passion, NYC 
The Vadanta Gallery, Chicago, Ill   Humanoid
Momenta Arts, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY   Buff        
Gale Gates, Brooklyn, NY   Size Matters
1998   
Genovese/ Sullivan Gallery, Boston, MA   Humanoid
Abraham Lubelski Gallery, NYC   99 44/100% Pure
1997   
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY   Current Undercurrents
Everything is Everything, #4, Brooklyn, NY
Pierogi 2000 Flat Files,Brooklyn, NY    Selections:
Witherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina; The Gasworks, London, England
Corner House Gallery, Manchester, England
Grammercy Park International Art Fair, NYC Pierogi 2000
Four Walls/art Moving , Williamsburg, BNY  Bedbugs at Fourwalls
1996   
Central Industrial Supply, NYC, Industrial Supply Show
art Moving, Brooklyn , NY  Beach Culture 
1995   
White Columns, NYC      Mini-mundus
Flamingo East Lounge, NYC,    Either / Or
1994   
Flamingo East Lounge, NYC,  Benefit
Crest Hardware Store, Brooklyn NY,  The Crest Hardware Show
1993   
Information Gallery, NYC      Asente / Sheinkman
The Drawing Center, NYC,  Exquisite Corpse
1992
Franklin Furnace, NYC   Cam-Tu; Vietnam Suicide Memorial -- Solo Exhibition 
LedisFlam Gallery, NYC   Rubber Soul
Richmond International Airport, VA   Mirror on the Wall
Test-Site, Brooklyn, NY   Group Show
1990   
PS 122 Gallery, NYC     Asente/ Atura/ Knight
MoMing Gallery, Chicago IL   The Monkey Speaks It’s Mind 
The Limelight, NYC
1989   
Artists Space, NYC          Selections          
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Holland Cotter,On The Subject of War, New York Times, March 18,2005, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn New York
James Wagner, http://JamesWagner.com/mt_archives/2005_02.html  Feb 13, 2005, On The Subject of War
Jill Conner,  On The Subject of War,Contemporary issue #75, 2005
Tina Barry, In the Navy Yard, Daily News, June 26, 2005
Aron Namenwirth, Mike Asente at GV/AS, Zing Magazine, issue #18, 2004
Lisa Zeitz, Humanoid, Frankfurter Allmeine Zeitung, January 2002
Voices Choices, Village Voice, Humanoid, Frederieke Talyor gallery, NYC, Jan 22, 2002
Carol Schwarzman, Mike Asente, Zing Magazine, issue # 11, Winter 2000
Paul Laster, Brooklyn Spice, Artnet.com Magazine, October 19, 1999
Matt Murphy, The Humanoid, artsMEDIA, March 1998
Shawn Hill, Loving and Delving, Bay Windows, February 26, 1998
Bill Arning, Brooklyn in the House, The Village Voice, August 26, 1997
Roberta Smith, Central Industrial Supply Show, The New York Times, 1997
ReView, EiE #4, [Mike Asente as] Chevell Picou, 1997
Kim Levin, Crest Hardware Show, The Village Voice, 1996
Tim Griffin, Crest Hardware Show, World Art, December 1996
Andrea Conture, It’s Rubber..., Rubber and Plastic News, October 26, 1996
Robert Atkins, Vietnam Redux, The Village Voice, February 18. 1992
Review, Salem Evening News, Salem MA, 1992
Mosacio, Periodico Trimestrale D’Arte, Anno IV - Numbero 9, Torino, Italy 1985
 
PUBLICATIONS
2000 Rags To Riches exhibition catalog, Fondation de la Tapisserie, Toutnai, Belgium Text by Petra Bungert and Javier Fernandez                                                                                 1995  Mini-mundus Exhibition Catalog, White Columns, NYC  text by Teresa Bramlette
1989  Selections Exhibition, Catalog, Artists Space, NYC text by Constance Butler
1987  Unwinding the Vietnam War, edited by Reese Williams, Washington Project for the Arts, Real Comet Press
 
GRANTS
2003       NYFA, Recovery Grant, NYC
2000/01  Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant, NYC
1985       Artists Space, artist collective grant, NYC
 
RESIDENCIES
2019 The Centre of Foundation OBRAS, Portugal 

         The Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio, Tweed,                Australia (unrealized) 
1996    Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
1995    Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY