2025 Quest for the West® Artist of Distinction Exhibit
August 22 - September 27
MICHAEL OME UNTIEDT
Born 1952 in Lamar, Prowers County, Colorado; lives in Denver, Colorado
BORN AND RAISED IN RURAL SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO, Michael Ome Untiedt maintains a studio in Denver. Visiting various locations, he studies the history, stories and mythologies of the people living in the area and then incorporates this into imagery that a twenty-first-century psychology can identify with. Through the color, brush strokes, and symbolic subject matter of his paintings, he attempts to examine the human predicament and its connections to legacy and heritage.
Michael has participated in numerous shows, including The Eiteljorg Museum’s Quest for the West, The Russell Art Show and Sale, Settlers West Miniatures Show and Great American West Show, Western Masters Art Show and Auction, The Buffalo Bill Art Auction, Briscoe Museum Night of the Artists Show, and the Masters in Montana. In 2005, he received the Tuffy Berg Award at the C. M. Russell Auction of Original Art. In 2014, he was awarded the Committee’s Choice Award at the Briscoe Museum Night of the Artists Show and Sale, the Wells Fargo Gold Award at the Buffalo Bill Art Sale and Auction, and the People’s Choice Award at the Brinton Museum 6 x 6 Show and Best of Show at the 2025 Brinton Art Rendezvous in Sheridan, WY. He received the People’s Choice award at the 2021 Buffalo Bill Art Auction Quick Draw.
Gallery Representation
Insight Galleries, Fredericksburg, Texas
Sanders Gallery of Tucson, Tucson, Arizona
Adobe Gallery, Ruidoso, New Mexico
Nacy Cawdrey Gallery, Whitefish, Montana