MICHELLE BLADE


Michelle Blade is a visual artist working primarily in painting. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Center for Contemporary Arts; Santa Fe, The Bonnefantenmuseum; Netherlands, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm; Jack Hanley Gallery; NY, Southern Exposure; San Francisco, Western Exhibitions; Chicago, Roberts & Tilton; LA and The Torrance Art Museum, among others. Her work has been featured in The NY Times Magazine, The LA Times, The Paris Review, Juxtapoz, The California Sunday Magazine, and Art Maze Mag. Blade holds a BA from Loyola Marymount and an MFA from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. She currently lives and works in LA.

michellecourtneyblade@gmail.com
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Michelle Blade
b. 1981, LA, CA

Education:
MFA, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Ca, 2008
BA, Loyola Marymount, LA, Ca, 2003


Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2021: Blue Horse, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm Sweden
2020: Into the Forest, Wilding Cran Gallery, LA, CA
2020: Viewing Room / Odd Ark, LA
2019: Pansy, Nationale, Portland, OR
2017: Partnerlook, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA
2016: Gentle Existential, Brilliant Champions, Brooklyn, NY
2015: If The Spirit Moves You, PATA PDX, Portland, OR
2014: Gathering Into Being, CULT Exhibitions, SF, CA
2013: 366 Days of the Apocalypse, CCA, Santa Fe, NM
2012: Hanging Fire, Carter & Citizen, Los Angeles, CA
2011: Cast & Cascade, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2010: Nigredo, Albeo, Citrinitas, Rubedo, Bravin Lee Gallery, NYC
2009: Blow As Deep As You Can Blow, Triple Base, SF, CA
2008: The Elliptical Good-Kind, Jack Hanley, San Francisco, CA


Selected Group Exhibition

2022: Juggernaut, The Pit, Los Angeles 
2021: Urban Whisper, WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong
2021: Urban Whisper, Make Room, Los Angeles
2021: My Secret Garden, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2021: Ridiculous Sublime, SFA Advisory, NY
2021: From LA to Milan, F2T Gallery, Milan, Italy
2020: It’s a Sad & Beautiful World, Wilding Cran, LA
2020: Poem from Home, Jacob’s West, LA
2020: Track 16, If Everything is an Outrage, Los Angeles
2019: The Pitt / Binder of Women, Collectio Release, LA
2018: Project Space, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, Co
2017: A Way to Say, Chandran Gallery
2017: New Suns, Bonnefantenmuseum, Netherlands
2016: Ritual Night, Left Field Gallery, San Louis Obispo, CA
2016: Metagalactic, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, Co,
2015: No Matter New Matter, Ed. Varie, NY, NY
2014: Decade of Decadunce, Cinders, Brooklyn, NY
2013: Aftergow, Saint Mary's College Museum of Art, CA
2013: Drawing Down the Moon, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2013: Sunbeams, Art Speak, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2013: The Modern Monster, Queen's Nails, San Francisco, Ca
2012: Immaterial, Mark Wolfe Gallery, San Francisco, Ca
2011: Domestic Goods, Eric Firestone Gallery, Hampton, NY
2011: Unseen, Torrence Art Museum, Torrence, Ca
2010: Grey Day, Roberts & Tilton, LA, Ca.
2010: Chapel, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX,
2010: Alchemy, Southern Exposure, SF, CA
2009: Hot and Cold, Baer Ridgeway, SF, CA
2008: New Wave, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles
2008: White Noise Drawn Together, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen


Awards & Residencies:

FB AIR Program, Menlo Park, 2015
Aurobora Press Residency, San Francisco, 2012
Children's Creativity Museum Artist in Resident, 2011
ProArts 2x2 Artist Grant, 2011
Alternative Exposure, Southern Exposure Grant, 2010
Murphy-Cadogan Fellowship, 2007