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Mikeal Béland is a photographer and mixed media artist from Yellowstone Country in Southern Montana. His early life was shaped by a love of the natural world, influenced by the cattle ranching and outdoorsman culture of his family. An Eagle Scout, classically trained pianist, and 4-H Equestrian, his early photography and art earned multiple accolades at local and state competitions.
While at the University of Washington in Seattle for Visual Arts & Comparative History, he embarked on Landscape Intrusions in 2008, a 3-volume, 10,000-mile expedition documenting wildfires, deforestation, habitat impact and climate change on America’s World Heritage Sites: Yellowstone, the Redwoods, and Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. After traveling to New York he worked under Avedon protégé and fashion photographer Andrea Blanch, contributed to Thornton Studio Photographers in Manhattan, and debuted as one of GLAAD’s top 100 Artists at the OUTAuction NYC in 2008 and 2009. Collaborating with mixed media artist Jamila of Brooklyn, “Meditations in Entropy” was featured at the Thornton Room in Chelsea for Christmas 2009. Michael Scott of the Vancouver Sun has called his work “captivating, subtle and emotive”.
Based in Seattle, he divides his time between the East Coast, Rocky Mountains and West Coast working on fine art photography, documentaries, editorials & portraiture, and digital media projects.
