Mickey Haldi is a multimedia artist creating work in Missoula, MT. They earned their Bachelor of Arts in painting with a minor in Art History at the University of Montana in 2021. Haldi has shown their work at the Missoula Art Museum, the Zootown Arts Community Center, and have had work collected by the Museum of Modern Arts and Culture. As a contributor to the arts scene in Missoula since 2015, they have taught music, film, and art camps through the ZACC and the Roxy Theater, participated in local arts festivals, and figure model through UMT, Life Drawing Missoula, Pattee Canyon Ladies Salon, and privately for local artists. Haldi also hosts Life Drawing Missoula in rotating venues. Most recently, they are working large, painting murals both residentially and commercially. Haldi aspires to live a life in paint.

My work seeks to address the relationship between microcosms and macrocosms, focusing on the interrelatedness of psychology and sociology. Each of us exist at our own intersections as a result of inherent traits (physical) and those adopted (environmental). The painted surface acts as the body, existing in linear time. The marks indicate the subconscious, ethereal hallmarks of an identity, existing in past, present, and future. As change is a constant, the lens or perception of every painting varies, yielding a new reality, always in conversation with those that came before.