Michael Evans

Michael Evans brings over twenty years experience in the art world to Taos Auction Co. which offers a rich variety of art, artifacts, and decorative objects from Native American, African, Inuit, Oceanic and Asian cultures, as well as Ancient art from the Greek, Roman and Near Eastern worlds.

Michael was born and raised in New Zealand, where he completed his undergraduate and graduate studies with a concentration in art history. Subsequently, he has lived and worked in Europe and the United States and has now moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico to begin a new chapter with the Taos Auction house.

As a private dealer in fine art, Michael has worked extensively with clients, dealers, and curators across the United States, Europe, and Australasia. His interest in tribal and ethnic art increased after moving to America. In 2005 he began specializing in ethnographic art and artifacts, with an emphasis on Oceanic and Inuit material as well as 19th Century photography of tribal peoples. He has written several catalogs on his areas of concentration and has exhibited regularly at major tribal art fairs in the United States and Europe. Since returning to the US in 2017 Michael began to focus his attentions more on Native American material and became the Director for the Native American and Tribal Art depart at Skinner Auctions in Massachusetts in late 2017, and subsequently for Bonhams/ Skinner after the merger of the two companies in 2023.