Michael Hafftka is an American figurative expressionist painter born 1953 in Manhattan.

The Housatonic Museum of Art mounted a retrospective (2004)

Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History in New York held a solo exhibition I of the Storm (2009)

"I am a figurative expressionist artist. I express an emotional reaction to my subject, imaginary or real. Sometimes, when a person poses for me, we both experience a very special bond, a kind of high that adds a lot to the painting." https://news.artnet.com/market/artnet-asks-michael-hafftka-georges-berges-331777