Michael was born in 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio and resides in Farmington, Connecticut. In 1972 he graduated from the Paier College of Art in New Haven, CT. with his primary major in photography. He has been featured both nationally and internationally in exhibits. One of the most notable appearances of his work was as part of “Americans on Americans,” the photographic tour that opened at the Kiev Museum of Art in Kiev, Ukraine in 1997, and curated by Tom Caravaglia, Professor of Photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, NY. It featured work from his Venice Beach, California series, and was displayed in the company of works by Annie Liebowitz, Walker Evans, Dorthea Lange, Herb Ritts, Bernice Abbot, and “beat” poet Alan Ginsburg. As a photographer, Sundra is most known for his black and white portraits and high quality archival prints, which were created out of his Hartford, CT., Colt building studio and darkroom. During his twenty years in Hartford, Sundra has also worked commercially for many national clients, Ad Agencies and Fortune Five Hundred companies. Many of his fine art photographs reside in corporate and private collections. In the early 1990’s Sundra slowly shifted his interest to painting with early explorations in mixed media, combining his portraits with paint and on canvas, all the while creating new photographs. By the early 2000’s he made painting his primary focus. Sundra’s last body of work, In Relationship With Time, shown in New Haven, Connecticut, and curated by Jonas Rhuta embraced ancient architectural forms, primarily the arch. His current body of work in abstract painting explores the Taoist philosophy and spiritual practice of Wu Wei, embraced by performance artist John Cage and other artists. It employs the principal of Action/Non Action, Doing/Not Doing, allowing nature to take its course and have a greater part in the creation of one’s art.