Michael Rozen is an Irish-Canadian artist born in so called Vancouver, Canada, which exists on the traditional unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. He studied political science and history at McGill University in Montréal. He is now based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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He creates distinct sets of artwork based on a process of investigation including interviews and historical analysis. Michael’s travels taught him how art can educate, empower, and connect people to the past and compel them to change the present, documenting humanity’s psychological and material struggles. Michael's recent paintings have been looking at humans’ worsening effects on our ecosystem. They develop narratives of ways that greed and power are pushing humanity towards extinction, the impacts, and how communities resist this trajectory through forms of solidarity. These narratives are a lens onto damage and resilience. Together they reflect our precarious present. He has had three solo shows in Vancouver since 2019 and shown in group exhibitions in Rotterdam, Vancouver, Montréal, New Jersey, Berlin, and Barcelona.