Michele Roccotelli, born in Minervino Murge, began exhibiting in 1968 and has since then held numerous solo exhibitions. Present in important national exhibitions and contemporary art fairs, always hosted by prestigious Italian galleries, where he has exhibited permanently for about thirty years as in the exhibition spaces of Ghelfi in Verona. Present in Naples, in Castel dell'Ovo, with the solo exhibition "mediTERRANEO", an exhibition then transferred to Brussels in the headquarters of the European Parliament. Returns to Naples exhibiting his most important works on the theme "The Chamber of Wonders" which he proposed in exhibition spaces in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

In the meantime he is continually called for solo and retrospective exhibitions as a significant representative of local painting and dedicates himself to ceramics taking inspiration from Apulian forms and techniques for ever new inventions. Participates in art Biennials and has been awarded important prizes several times. Numerous and prestigious catalogues have been published by renowned cultural institutions, with contributions from well-known critics, preserved at the Thomas J. Watson Library of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

His latest solo exhibitions include large-format paintings, ceramics, sculptures, and works of recycling waste objects, but revived with his particular creative stamp, made of colours and materials. A tireless art teacher for talented students at the Accademia Margherita in Bari, he prepares exhibitions with them in art galleries and public and private exhibition spaces.