Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Michael Singer's work opened new possibilities for outdoor and indoor sculpture and contributed to the definition of site specific art and the development of public places. His most recent work has been recognized as a solution to joining large scale public works projects to aesthetic concerns and the communities that are served by this infrastructure. In 1993, The New York Times chose Singer's design of a massive waste recycling and transfer station in Phoenix as one of the top eight design events of the year.

In recent years, Singer has been involved in a variety of landscape and outdoor environment and infrastructure projects in the United States and Europe. He has completed a woodland garden and sculpture for a two acre site on the Wellesley College campus, Wellesley, Massachusetts. In Stuttgart, West Germany Singer completed a one acre sculptural garden commemorating "Those Who Survived" as part of a new public park. In 1994 a sculptural floodwall and walkway that serves as a model riverine reclamation project designed by Singer for the Grand River East Bank in Grand Rapids, Michigan was completed. For the Denver International Airport Singer completed a large interior sculpture garden design and installation for Concourse C. At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Singer developed a masterplan for the use and redesign of the outdoor gardens as part of a two year residency. Singer was selected with Behnisch & Partner to design and fabricate interior gardens for the IBN, a Dutch Environmental Research Center. The gardens serve as biofilters for air and water recovery for the facility, completed in 1998. The Canal Corridor Association and Chicago Parks Department selected Singer to design a new urban park on the Chicago River which interprets the history and impacts of canals on the city, as well as reclaims wildlife habitat and restores a wetland ecosystem. With support from the Rockefeller Foundation he lead a multidisciplinary team with the environmental group River Watch Network on the master plan for Troja Island Basin in Prague, Czech Republic. He has been working on several Co-generation Power Facilities incorporating sustainable building principles, aesthetic design, and land use planning. He recently completed a design for Trans Gas Energy and Orion Power for sites in the New York City metropolitan area. His design for the largest power facility in New England is currently under construction in Londonderry, New Hampshire.

Michael Singer earned a BFA at Cornell University in 1967 and since 1971 has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. His works are part of public collections in the United States and abroad, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, among others. Singer has participated in a number of the most important exhibitions of the past thirty years including the Guggenheim's "Ten Young Artists Theodoron Award Show, Documenta, The Kunsthaus Zurich's "Mythos and Ritual", "Sculpture in the Twentieth Century" in Reihen, Switzerland, The Walker Art Center's "Sculpture Inside Outside", and The Museum of Modern Art, New York City "Primitivism in the 20th Century". He had several one-person shows in galleries and museums, most notably "Michael Singer" curated by Diane Waldman at the Guggenheim Museum, New York City.