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Michelle Murphy
Chicago, IL
216.225.4135
Michelle Murphy is an Artist and Scholar living in Chicago, IL.
Education
2017 MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
2011 Foley Gallery Artist Mentorship Program, advisement on Photography, New York City, New York
2004 BFA Cleveland Institute of Art: Photography, Film, and Video, Cleveland, OH
2002 Advanced Adult Space Academy, Huntsville, Alabama
Awards and Scholarships
2015-2017 New Artists Society Fellowship, MFA Program, SAIC Chicago
2013 Merit-based Scholarship for Residency, Contemporary at Artist’s Center, Troy, NY
2008 NASA Team award, digital imaging excellence, Space Exploration Proposal
2006 NASA Team award, excellence in Photography, Ballistics research of the Columbia Investigation
2003 Mildred Eynon Woodell Grant for Liberal Arts and Art
2002 The Joyce Seid Grant for Excellence in Photography
1999-2004 Portfolio Scholarship, the Cleveland Institute of Art
Residencies
2018 Mana Contemporary Miami, Florida
2017 S.I.T.E.Lab, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2015 Artist in Residence at the 9 Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio
2014 Elsewhere, Greensboro, North Carolina
2013 Contemporary Artist’s Center, Troy, New York
2011 Shared Space Studio, Pentwater, Michigan
Solo Exhibitions
2021 (forthcoming, September) Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, NM
2017 Responsive Beauty, Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), Chicago IL
2016 Shimmering Schemata, 2731 Prospect Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
2013 Beauty & Perception, Waterloo Arts Gallery, Cleveland Ohio
2011 America: a Comedy, Brandt Gallery, Cleveland
Public Art
2020 Photographic stop-motion as a public projection, rooftop in San Francisco curated by Claire Frost, Berkeley Art Museum
2018 Mural, a large-scale photograph of make-up which looks like a planet, Dalad collection, Cleveland
2015 Public Artwork, Interactive Op works, Waterloo Arts Festival, Cleveland
2014 Social Practices Project, creating messages for Outerspace, Brite Winter Festival, Cleveland
Performances
2021 Hibernation Station, Calgary, Ontario, Canada
2020 Westward Expansion performance at Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL
Recreational Recycling at a defunct recycling plant in Cleveland, OH
Tumblegeddon, public performance on Route 66 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
2019 Spread Out, Tuck and Roll, public performances at White Sands National Monument & Missile
Range, Alamogordo New Mexico
2018 River Explorer/Predator, public performance, DFBRL8R Bubbly Creek performance festival, Chicago
Eluding Gravity, public performance, involving flyboarding in the Biscayne Bay, Miami
2017 Extending for Equilibrium, public performance sprinting with a small resistance parachute at the
United Center, Chicago
Mothering Earth, public performance, nurturing Earth prop in the Garfield Park Conservatory,Chicago
Gravity-bound Exploration, public performances at Maggie Daley Park and the Adler Planetarium
L A S T I N G at Sullivan Galleries, Chicago
2016 Journey to the Moon, after the Mercury 13 New Blood Festival, Links Hall, Chicago
Journey to the Moon, after the Mercury 13, public journey, Art Institute to Northwestern Hospital
Group Exhibitions
2021 Hibernation Station Calgary, Ontario, Canada
2020 Re: Acker , M. LeBlanc gallery, Chicago IL
2019 Tete e Tete, ZhouB Art Center, Chicago IL
2018 Elegant Disruption, DFBRL8R with artists Aram Han Sifuentes, Edra Soto, Erica Mott, Hanna Barco, Hugh Sato, Ashley Gillanders, and Azi.
Please Touch, Mana Contemporary Jersey City curated by Ysabel Pinyol, with artists – Cindy Sherman, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Catherine Opie and more
Dual Roles with artists – LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lorna Simpson, Alice Neel, Sally Mann, Julie Mehretu
Gravity-Bound Explorer, video at Mana Contemporary Miami curated by Molly Feingold, April 2018
2017 S.I.T.E. space at School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MFA exhibition at Sullivan Galleries, Chicago IL
Bright Speck exhibition HANDWERKER, Ithaca College Gallery
2017 Bearing: object body and space SUGS Gallery at Neiman Center, School of the Art
Institute of Chicago
Auto Biography After Fiction at the Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection, Flaxman Library
2016 Witchita Art Museum (WAM), ART + FILM exhibition with Joseph Beuys
Fed Galleries Kendall College Art & Design, Land of Here and Now, Grand Rapids MI
2015 Akron Art Museum, NEO GEO exhibition, Akron, Ohio
SPACES The Revisionists Natural Itstories group exhibition, Cleveland
2015 SAIC, Greater Expectations exhibition, Sullivan Center, Chicago
2011 Carpaccio Magazine & Atem Books, Nofound Photo Fair, Paris, France
Bibliography
2021 Emergency Index vol 9, Ugly Duckling Presse, artwork and essay feature, NYC
2020 Funny Looking Dog Quarterly, Literary Magazine, Issue 4, poetry published, Chicago
2019 Emergency Index vol 8, Ugly Duckling Presse, artwork and essay feature, NYC
2018 Afterimage (Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism) vol 45, no. 4; cover image and review
Emergency Index vol 7, Ugly Duckling Presse, artwork and essay feature, NYC
2017 Between the Real and Utopia, catalog and essay “Gravity-Bound Explorer” Chicago Tribune Performing the space between reality and utopia by KT Hawbaker
ArtDaily, review of exhibition at LUMA Loyola’s Museum of Art
Third Coast Review, review of exhibition at LUMA Loyola’s Museum of Art
FNEWS, exhibition review for Bearing: object body and space
Comp-Dumpling peer publication advised by Kelly Kaczynski, SAIC
Chicago Tribune, LUMA gets lost in a beautiful space, by KT Hawbaker
2015 ARTfile Magazine NYC, Interview and Artwork Feature “Playing w/ Perception”
2014 360, cover image and portfolio feature, Dec/Jan Issue, Switzerland
2013 Popular Photography print, online, iPad feature and interview, February Issue
2012 Discover Magazine online, “Visual Science”
BuzzFeed website, artwork review
Picture Dept – Newsweek and the Daily Beast Tumblr site, artwork review
NATIVE Publications online artist feature
2012 Art and Science Journal, review and artwork feature
Field Projects Gallery NYC Tumblr site, artwork review
2011 Carpaccio Magazine, issue 16 p.10, Spain
Collections
Art Institute of Chicago; Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Flaxman Library, Chicago; Progressive Art Collection; Cleveland Clinic; University Hospitals; Private Collections in: Switzerland, Guatemala, NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Cleveland
Lectures
2021 Harold Washington College, Chicago IL
Cleveland Institute of Art
University of Utah
2020 Re: Acker poetry reading with Claire Finch, Douglas Martin, Noa/h fields, Ryan Greene, Nat Pyper, Ang Zheng, Jennifer Karmin at M. LeBlanc gallery, Chicago IL
2019 (virtual) Artist’s lecture, University of Utah Photography Department, invitation of Jaclyn Wright
2018 This Moment Here, podcast (iTunes or SoundCloud)
“Hype and Afterlife” Low-Res MFA Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s Lecture, University of Chicago, DoVA Department, for graduate students in studio art
Performative Artist’s Lecture and studio visits at the Cleveland Institute of Art
“Eclipse” lecture, Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, Florida
2017 “Exploration + Disorientation” at Ithaca College, Handwerker Gallery
“Between the Real and Utopia” Panel Discussion, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
Artist’s Lecture, SAIC, Photography Department
2016 Artist’s Lecture, SAIC, Photography Department
2015 Artist’s Lecture, SAIC in topics course “Confronting the Abject”
2014 Artist’s Lecture Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Ohio
2013 Artist’s Lecture Cleveland Institute of Art
2011 Artist’s Lecture, Cleveland State University’s Photography Department
2010 President Obama presented image of mine for a lecture on NASA
2008 Cleveland Institute of Art, Photography Department
Society for Photographic Education (SPE) Regional Conference Presentation
Natural History Museum, Science and Art, Cleveland Ohio
Work Experience
2019-(currently) Faculty, Interdisciplinary Projects, Pre-College, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2021 Visiting Faculty, RE:Tool Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2019-2020 (Jan 2019 – May 2020) Visiting Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico, Art and Art History Department
courses: Topics Course: “Living with the Camera ON: Photography + Performance in the age of self promotion and late Capitalism”; Graduate Seminar; Advanced Photography + Interdisciplinary Projects; Photographic Lighting; Intermediate Photography; 4 Graduate Student Tutorials (bi-weekly meetings); 2 Undergraduate Independent Study (bi-weekly meetings)
2017-2019 “Documenting, Context, Afterlife” series of workshops at SAIC in the Career and
Professional Experience Program (CAPX) and for the Low-Res MFA Program
Faculty, Extended Studies Summer Institute Residency Program
2016 Faculty, Cleveland Institute of Art, Continuing Education & Pre-College
2016 Teaching Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
2015 Teaching Assistant, “Confronting the Abject” photo and video art topics course
with Oli Rodriguez, SAIC
Teaching Assistant, Large Format Film course, SAIC
2004-2015 Photographer for NASA, NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field
– experience included Creative Direction, Execution, short and long term deadlines, and work for Publications, Public Engagement, Project Funding, and Archival purposes
2011-2013 BFA Thesis Faculty Advisor, Cleveland Institute of Art
2012 Adjunct Faculty, Cuyahoga Community College, Digital Photography
2010, 2011 Adjunct Faculty, Cleveland Institute of Art, Photography (analog and digital) and Video courses
Curatorial and Related Experience
2008-2021 (currently) Co-Founder and Co-Curator MAKE8ELIEVE International art & culture magazine
2018 Juror, Artists Alliance, Scholastic Art Awards in NYC, Digital Art category
2017 INTERLINK Visiting Artists Coordinator, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
“Autobiography After Fiction” a research based exhibition at Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection
2016 Student Exhibition, Confronting the Abject, at Mana Contemporary Chicago
2015 “Greater Expectations” Sullivan Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2013-2015 Director & Founder, Micro Art Space, Artist’s residency program & gallery, Cleveland Ohio