ARTIST PROFILE

Michelle C Jaffe

  • United States (b. 1958 in Melbourne, florida)
  • Currently in New York, United States.
  • I create immersive participatory installations that interweave sculpture, sound & video. These environments initiate a fecund opportunity to explore the mythos of the collective, gender politics, & how individual psychology & pathology impact society.

CONTACT & LINKS

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015

  • Wappen Field, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY, United States.
  • Come to Bed - Like Alice, Bosi Contemporary, New York, NY, United States.

2012

  • Wappen Field, Bosi Contemporary, New York, NY, United States.
  • Awakening , Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Gallery Foundation, New York, NY, United States.

2011

  • Wappen Field, UICA Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, United States.

2010

  • Susan Berko Conde Gallery, New York, NY, United States.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015

  • In Conversation, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, BMCC, New York, NY, United States.

2014

  • Painting Black, Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Gallery Foundation, New York, NY, United States.
  • What Not to Wear: Women Sculptors, George Washington University, Brady Art Gallery, Washington DC, United States.

2013

  • Wappen Field in Sight & Sound, Beall Center for Art + Technology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States.
  • Tandem Pursuits: Armor & Ichthyology, Wave Hill, New York, NY, United States.

2012

  • Momentum: Women/Art/Technology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States.

LOCATION

  • Born 1958 in Melbourne, Florida, United States.
  • Lives and works in New York, United States.

EDUCATION

  • 2001 - 2002
    Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York, United States
    Certificate in Media
  • 1991 - 1992
    New York Studio School, New York, United States
    Certificate in Sculpture / Drawing
  • 1990 - 1991
    Sculpture Center School, New York
    Certificate in Stone Carving (Claire Lieberman)
  • 1975 - 1979
    University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
    BA Fine Arts & French Literature in

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2014
    QAF Grant for “Neural: Soul Junk”
    Queens Council on the Arts, NY, New York, United States
  • 2014
    Fiscal Sponsorship for "Neural"
    New York Foundation for the Arts, New York
  • 2013
    QAF Grant for “Neural: Cleave”
    Queens Council on the Arts, New York, United States
  • 2011
    Individual Artist Grant, "Wappen Field"
    New York State Council on the Arts, New York, United States
  • 2010
    Artist as Entrepreneur Boot Camp - Grant
    New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, United States
  • 2008
    Fiscal Sponsorship for "Wappen Field"
    New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, United States
  • 2008
    Individual Artist Grant for "Wappen Field"
    New York State Council on the Arts, New York, United States

RESIDENCIES

  • 2008
    Pritzker Foundation Endowed Residency, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA, United States
  • 2005
    Residency, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, United States
  • 2003
    Artist-In-Residence, Department of Computer Music, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, United States

COLLECTIONS

  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, United States
  • Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, United States
  • Musée de la Mode et Costume, Paris, France