Michael Enn Sirvet

American, b. 1967

BiographyMichael Enn Sirvet is a contemporary sculptor and multidisciplinary artist who lives in Washington, DC, and Baltimore. He was born in New Jersey to an engineer father, a carpenter grandfather, and a nature painter grandmother. Sirvet attended Fordham University, where he studied finance and art history, then entered the publishing industry in Manhattan. During this time, he began to closely relate the machines and intricate mechanical designs of his father’s work, the craftsmanship of his grandfather’s wood creations and the delicate freedom of his grandmother paintings with the complex rhythms, structures and patterns he discovered in the nature and the wild, resulting in his first serious creative forays into the visual and musical arts.Sirvet returned to college at the University of Maryland, graduating with a degree in structural engineering and a deepened fascination with science, the arts, nature and the patterns that bind them together.

He practiced engineering with some of the leading engineering firms in Washington, DC, including Robert Silman Associates, working on such structures as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Museum of American History. In 1999, Sirvet began creating sculptural works of art in evenings and on weekends. As his engineering career advanced, the intrigue of purely aesthetic, abstract structures eventually overtook him, and in the autumn of 2008, he left an immensely rewarding position to pursue a career as a sculptor. Today Sirvet’s artwork is in collections across the globe and he is represented by multiple galleries across the United States.

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