RESUME

Michelle Marcuse  she / her                                                                                                                                                      Based in Philadelphia, PA                                                                                                                                                        From Cape Town, South Africa

DOB February 19th, 1957

Solo Exhibitions

2023   Binding Ties, Facture, Philadelphia, PA

2021   Installation, Terminal A, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA

2020   Holding Absence, List Gallery, Swarthmore College

2019   SoftMachine Gallery, Allentown, PA

2019   MAC@Intuitive Art Space, Manayunk, PA

2019   GrizzlyGrizzly, Philadelphia, PA

2016   Fleisher Art Memorial Wind Challenge Exhibition, Philadelphia. PA

2013   Carrying the Dreamer, LGTripp, Philadelphia., PA

2007   Present Tense, LGTripp Gallery, Philadelphia. PA

2005   Hive and Hue,The Gallery at R&F, Kingston, NY

2004   Hive and Hue, University City Arts League, Philadelphia, PA

Group Exhibitions

 2025    Contemporary Ruins, Future Visions, The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

2025    Arise and Away, The Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Philadelphia, PA

2024    Re(FOCUS) at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA

2023    Woodmere Annual 81st  Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA

2022    Renewal, Luther W. Brady Art Gallery@The Corcoran, Washington, DC

2022   Cultivated Space, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ

2021    Her Power, Art Life Foundation, Hong Kong

2021    Restart Museum in Hangzhou, China

2018   Against Gravity: TECTONICS - Imagined Spaces:  Doral Contemporary Art Museum, Doral, FL

2018    Woodmere Annual 77th Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA

2017   Things Fall Apart, Science History Institute, Philadelphia, PA

2017    As by Digging,The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

2016    Art and Love : Arte y El Amor, Taller Boricua, NYC

2016   BLAM Projects, Brooklyn, NYC

2015   Borderless Caribbean, Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance, Miami,  Florida      

2015  The Woodmere Art Museum 74th Juried exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2014   Flight Plan: Drawings on Paper and Leaf: Henry Bermudez, Michelle Marcuse, Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC
2014  Apollonian|Dionysian: The Constraints of Freedom, The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA

2014  Current|Approaching, Bahdeebahdu, Philadelphia, PA

2014  Cosmobilities. Rowan University Art Gallery, Glasboro, NJ

2012  Sum of All Parts: Henry Bermudez & Michelle Marcuse at the Leonard Perlstein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2008   Woodmere Endowment Fund Memorial Prize, 68th Annual, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA  

2007   Remix at The Gallery at Penn College, Williamsport, PA

Public Collections

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Philadelphia, PA

Coventry First, Fort Washington, Philadelphia, PA

The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA

R&F Handmade Paints Inc., Kingston, NY

The Bangkok Collection, Cultural Fiber, United States Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand
 

Grants / Awards

2021   Short listed for Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship in NY

2020   CFEVA Fellowship, CFEVA, Philadelphia, PA

2018   Nominated to apply: Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2018   Hugh & Marian Scott Prize, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2012   Full Scholarship to Vermont Studio Center Residency

2010   Jurors Award, 21st National Drawing/Print Exhibition, Gormley Gallery,

2010   First Place in Show: Notre Dame College, Baltimore, MD

2005   The Greater Harrisburg Arts Council, Harrisburg, PA

1999   Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA

1997   The Leeway Foundation, Honorable Mention in Fiber Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Visiting Artist / Residencies

2024   Artist in Residence @Brandywine Print Workshop in Philadelphia, PA

2023   Artist in Residence @Inliquid in Philadelphia, PA

2012   Vermont Studio Center, [Full Fellowship], Johnstone, VT

2008   The Perkins Center for The Arts, Collingswood, NJ

2008   Visiting Artist, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library Jolla, CA

2007   Penn College of Technology, Williamsport, PA

2005   Visiting Artist, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA

2004   Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA

2000   Illinois State University, Normal, IL

Publications / Reviews / Audio

 2020   The Galleries at Moore, radio interview

2019   SpeakSpeak  GrizzlyGrizzly

2017   The Art Blog review: As By Digging at The Painted Bride

2016   The Art Blog Audio, interview with Roberta Fallon

2016   The Art Blog – Wind Challenge exhibition

2016   Studio Visit Magazine 2017/2017 Winter Edition

2010    New American Paintings, Mid-Atlantic, The Open Studios Press
 

Past Committees

Art Advisory committee for Taller Puertorriquena, Philadelphia, PA

Art advisory committee for the Art in City Hall program, Philadelphia, PA

Community

2024                Fundraising committee to support South African conservation Project Rhino

                         and The Human Elephant Foundation

2010-2020      HOUSEGallery Co-director with Henry Bermudez, Philadelphia, PA
 

Teaching Experience

Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Main Line Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

Moore College of Art, Career symposium, Philadelphia, PA

Howard Pyle Studios, Wilmington, DE

Chester Springs Studios, Chester Springs, PA

Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

Visiting Artist, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA

Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH Irvine Valley College, Irvine, CA

Illinois State University Visiting Artist Program, Normal, IL

Education

1985-1986   BFA. Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. USA

1982-1984   Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa

1979-1981   Bachelor of Design, Shenkar College of Fashion and Textile Technology, Tel Aviv, Israel