Maggie Michael (b. 1974, Milwaukee, WI) received her MFA from American University in 2002, an MA from San Francisco State University in 2000, and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 1996.
Her paintings are included in several public collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the United States Embassies in Romania and Barbados, the Federal Reserve Board, the Corcoran Collection, American University, and the University of Maryland. She was awarded an Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in 2013, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in 2008, The Trawick Prize in 2008, and an Artist’s Residency at the Hirshhorn Museum in 2006.
Recent and forthcoming solo exhibitions include A Phrase Hung in Midair as if Frozen, Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC (2016); Colored Grounds and Perfect Xs, G Fine Art, Washington, DC (2015); Some Threads are Loosely Tied, Cecilia Jaime Gallery, Ghent, Belgium (2014); There is No Rising or Setting Sun, G Fine Art, Washington, DC (2011); Tattoos of Ships, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (2010); The Logic of Sense, Same as it Ever Was, Green Gallery West, Milwaukee, WI (2010); Emotional Infinity (Subtitling Houellebecq’s The Elementary Particles), Pocket Utopia, Brooklyn, NY (2009); Unspoken (Nothing Says More), Art Space, New Haven, CT (2009).
Recent select group exhibitions include We Are Here, Cecilia Jaime Gallery, Ghent, Belgium (2014); Closer to Gaza, Kuelhaus Berlin, Germany (2014); SIGIL |ˈsijÉ™l|, Addison/Ripley, Washington, DC (2013); Siamo Quel Che Mangiamo/Sustenance and Art, Milan, Italy (2013); Cetate IV, 418 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania (2012); Lyrical Color, Pocket Utopia, Brooklyn, NY (2012); Call and Response: Textures, Hamiltonian Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2011); Modern and Contemporary Art since 1945, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2011); Liberté Mutuelle, STUDIO, Paris, France (2011); Artscape, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (2010); Turning Point: The Demise of Modernism, and the Rebirth of Meaning in American Art, Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (2008);
Michael lives and works in Washington D.C.
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