Michael Vallera

Michael Vallera is a musician and photographer who lives and works in Chicago. Prolific as both a solo artist and collaborator, he has released albums under his own name and as COIN (Opal Tapes), with percussionist Steven Hess as Cleared (Immune Recordings), and with Joseph Clayton Mills as Maar (Umor Rex, Entr’acte). He is a member of the experimental rock group Luggage (Self Sabotage Reocrds). An MFA graduate of School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his work has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.

“head-spinning material that evoke the razor-thin liminal space between here and the hereafter.” SPIN

“an intoxicating walk down a road of rhapsodic soundscapes” Secret Decoder