Michelle Blade
Born: Los Angeles, CA
Live and works in San Francisco, CA

BA Loyola Marymount University, 2003
MFA California College of the Arts, 2008

Exhibitions

Solo:
2007
-I Would Give Everything, Parklife, San Francisco
2006
-Drift Wander Migrate, Renowned Gallery, Portland, Ca

Group:
-I’m OK, Playspace Gallery, CCA, San Francisco, Ca
-Visiting, Paper Boat Gallery, Milwaukee, Wi
-Affair at the Jupiter Art Fair, Triple Base Gallery, Portland, Or
-Aqua Art Fair, Triple Base Gallery, Miami, FL
-Immediate Future -Cadogan Fellowship, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Ca
-Centennial All-College Honors &Scholarship, Oliver Arts Center, CCA, Ca
-Fecal Face Anniversary, 111 Minna, San Francisco, Ca
-Immaterial Assemblies, JUNC Gallery, LA
-Optimism, The Hardware Gallery, San Francisco
-White Light, Motel Gallery, Portland Or
-Forever is not Long Enough, Broad Art Center UCLA, Ca
-We Are Where We Are Not, Gasp Gallery, Boston
-Us and Them, Virginia Commonwealth University, Anderson Gallery, VA

2006
-20 x 20, 111 Minna, San Francisco, Ca
-Guest Artist, RX Gallery, San Francisco
-The Beholder Presents, Ritual, San Francisco, Ca
-Rattle the Chandelier, The Lab 101, Culver City, Ca
-Business Minded, Renowned Gallery, Portland, Or
-Create Fixate, Spring Arts Center, LA, Ca

2005
-Leband Group Show, Leband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Ca
2004
-Leband Group Show, Leband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Ca
-Experimentor, Consejo Nacional Para La Cultura y el Arte, San Salvador, El Salvador

Awards:
-Graduate Fine Arts Honors, CCA 2007
-Fine Arts Murphey & Cadogan Fellowship, 2007


Press:
-Empty Magazine- Artwork Feature, August 2007
-The Guardian- Review of “I Would Give Everything” by Stacy Martin, 2007
-SF Weekly- “Hold Me” by Hiya Swanhuyser, 2007
-Flavorpill- “Spectacle”, 2007
-NY Times Magazine- Original Artwork, 2007
-The Age of Feminine Drawing- Published in Hong Kong, 2006
-Curvy I & II- Published by Yen magazine and Design is Kinky
-Tinyvices- artwork feature, online 2007
-Fecalface- artwork feature, online 2007
-Guest Lecturer, Painting II @ CCA