RESUME

MICHELE FOYER                              www.michelefoyer.com  mefoyer@gmail.com   @michelefoyer

EDUCATION:

MFA, San Francisco Art Institute / BFA, California College of Arts /  BA, UC Berkeley, Honors + Dept. Honors / Bennington College

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024        This is the Future of Non-Objective Art, Atlantic Gallery online; curator: Suzan Shutan; JUROR PRIZE

                 Cut Paste Create: The Art of Collage, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA; forthcoming  

                 View, SFAI Artist Alumni Online Exhibition

2023         a clearing, NIAD Art Center (invitational), Richmond, CA; curator: Mel Prest

                 A Good Jawn, While Columns (invitational online); curator: Brittany Adeline King

                 New Painting, Site: Brooklyn (online); juror: Rachel Gugelberger 

                 Brand 51: Paper, Brand Library + Art Center, Glendale, CA

                 Chromatics, Milano Arts Gallery, (invitatonal)  Crockett, CA; curator Percy Cannon

 2022        Turning the Page, 4-Person Contemporary Paper Exhibition, Sykes Gallery, Millersville University, PA

                 All You is Brimming: 2-Person Invitational: Michele Foyer, Patricia Sonnino, GearBox Gallery, Oakland, CA 

                 SFAI Onward, San Francisco Art Insitute Alumni Artists (online)

2021         Color Travels, Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, CA; curator: Marlene Angeja.  SOLO

                 Weave, Bundle, Cut + Layer, Invitational, Root Division, San Francisco, CA; curator: Lisa McCutcheon 

                 Lucid Art Foundation Alumni Resident Exhibition (online), curator: Fariba Bogzaran

                 Crocker Kingsley 80th National Juried Exhibition, juror: Carrie Lederer

2020         Brand 48: Paper, Brand Library + Art Center, Glendale, CA;  juror: Dan McCleary

                 Panic Mode, OCCA, Santa Ana, CA; juror Lucia Oubunmi Momoh, UC Berkeley Art Museum

                 2020 Left Coast, Sanchez Art Center, CA;  juror: Carin Adams, Associate Curator, Oakland Art Museum

                 Twixt Lip + Cup, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA, juror: Amanda Donnan, Curator, Frye Art Museum

2019         Winter Solstice, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA, juror: Andrea Schwartz,Schwartz Gallery

                 Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure SF, CA

                 Small & Smaller, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, juror: Heather D. Bhandari

                 14th National Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA, juror: Amy Owen, curator McEvoy Art Foundation

                 Orium III, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA

                 Errant Charms, Imply Data, Burlingame, CA, curator: Anne Albagli SOLO

2018         Introductions, Jeff King, San Francisco, CA

2017         Start Up Art Fair, San Francisco, CA

                 Lucid Arts Foundation Residency Exhibition, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA

                 28-Day Cycle of Art, Studio 110 Projects, Sausalito, CA

2015         MASque ATTACK, Temporary Space, LA, CA, juror: Kio Griffith + Max Presneill, Curator, Torrance Art Museum

                 10th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, Max Presneill, Curator, Torrance Art Museum

2014         Three Walls & a Window, Untitled Prints + Editions, four-person show, Los Angeles, CA

                 Random Aggregates, Mystic, San Francisco, CA SOLO, curator: Jennifer Kaufman

                 Works of Passage, Studio 110 Projects, Sausalito, CA, curator:  Michal Wizniowski, 

2013         Overturn the Artifice, SOMArts, curator: Jack Leamy, SF, CA

2012          I am Crime: Art on the Edge of Law: Confessions for Your Art, contributor, SOMArts, SF, CA

                  50/50, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, juror: Barry Sakata

2011          Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne, Los Angeles, CA, curators:  Doug Harvey and Christian Cummings

                  Elastic Rhymes, SOLO, San Francisco Art Institute: Vernissage, SF, CA

2010          Contemporary Drawing, Diego Rivera Gallery, SF, CA, curator: Ana Belen Cantoni

2009          Living Archives, Swell Gallery, SF, CA, curator: Sebastien Pluot

                  Constraint, Swell Gallery, SF, CA, curator: Paulina Solis Velazquez

                  Continuing, Diego Rivera Gallery, SF, CA, curator: Eric Petiti

                  Abstraction: Alive and Kicking, Swell Gallery, SF, CA, curator: Kimberly Rowe

                  Add & Straction, SOLO, Diego Rivera Gallery, SF, CA

2008          Wilderness, San Francisco Art Institute, SF, CA, curator: Ben Echeverria

                  Current Quad, San Francisco Art Institute, SF, CA, Curator: Brett Reichman

                  HB2: Contemporary Drawing, Diego Rivera Gallery, CA, curator: Robert Minervini,

                  Camera One and Camera Two, The Luggage Store, curator: Marian Parmenter, SF, CA 

                  Elastic Wonderland, San Francisco Art Institute, curator: Susannah Prinz, SF, CA

RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS / HONORS / AWARDS

2023         Ucross Foundation Residency, Fellow, Clearmont, WY 

2022         Morris Graves Foundation Residency, Fellow, Loleta, CA

2019         Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Fellow, VA

                 Juror’s Prize, Axis Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA; juror: Amy Owen, McEvoy Art Foundation

                 Purchase Award, IMPLY, Burlingame, CA,

                 Juror, Abstract, Occidental Art Gallery, Occidental, CA 

2016         Lucid Arts Foundation, Fellow, Inverness, CA

2015         Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2014         Critique Program, Fellow 2013-14, directed by Ginger Wolfe-Suarez SF + LA, CA

CURATORIAL PROJECTS / MAX OCCUPANCY ART PROJECTS 

2017         Flock, Lisa McCutcheon: Collage, large and small that contemplates the image and vulnerability + aggression

                 Paradox of Habitation, Annie May Johnston: Artist maps psycho-geography of life in small apartment

                 Flight Map, Patricia Sonnino: Juxtapositions of diverse spaces resemble a “still life” in flight

2016         Millennial Elegy, Jack Leamy: Paintings play utopian ideals against their usurpation as a rationale for war

                 Sleight of Hand, Angela Pryor: Complications of memory and writing of history of 1970s Argentina

                 Harvest, Jennie Lennick: Hybrid drawing, sculpture & functional items that navigate high art, craft and memoy

2015         You’ve Been Here Before, Carissa Potter Carlson + Heather Van Winckle: Interventions in hotel 

                  Sky Level, Percy Cannon: Abstractions suggest flat screen video games, Giotto and views from moving car

                  Resonant Forms, Laura Boles Faw + Catherine Fairbanks: Duet installations explore notion of object

                  Endless Forest, Angelique Benicio: Paintings subvert childhood innocence evoking eerie Grimm’s fairytales 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2024         New American Painting, West Coast Edition, forthcoming       

                 Friends of the Artist, Volume #17; book editor: Ty Bishop

                 Artists of Lucid Art Foundation; book editor: Fariba Bogzaran

                 Future of Non-Objective Art, Exhibition Catalog; curator Suzan Shutan

                 White Hot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Martha Colburn

2023         "Ucross Residencies,"  Southwest Contemporary Art Magazine, Steve Jansen

2021         Special Mention, Create! Magazine, guest editor: Erika B. Hess, I Like Your Work Podcast

                 SFAI: Spirit of Disruption: “Painting Department: Are You Listening?”, curator: Margaret Tedesco, Apple Podcast 

2020         Brand 48, Exhibition Catalogue, Brand Library

                 Twixt Lip + Cup, Exhibition Catalogue, Gallery 110

2017         SF Artful Living, Good Vibrations, by Kate Patterson

2013         Art Practical, Overturn the Artifice, by Mark Van Proyen 

                 SOMArts, Interview: Michele Foyer, by Lex Kosleradzk 

ORIGINAL WRITING

 2011          My Orange: Child of Paprika & Chocolate / Secret of the Lost Umbrella, SketchBloom, editor: Miti Aeillo