About
Michelle Marcuse
1816 Frankford Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19125
215.901.719
marcusemichelle@gmail.com
www.michellemarcuse.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Installation, Terminal A, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia.
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. P
2005 Hive and Hue,The Gallery at R&F, Kingston, NY
2004 Hive and Hue, University City Arts League, Philadelphia, PA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Woodmere Annual 81st Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2022 Renewal, Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, Washington, DC
Cultivated Space, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ
2021 Her Power, Art Life Foundation, Hong Kong
2018 Against Gravity: TECTONICS - Imagined Spaces: Doral Contemporary Art Museum, Doral, FL
Woodmere Annual 77th Jury Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Things Fall Apart, Science History Institute, Philadelphia, PA
As by Digging,The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Art and Love [Arte y El Amor, Taller Boricua, NY, NY
BLAM Projects, Brooklyn, NY [2016]
2015 Borderless Caribbean, Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance, Miami, Florida
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, NY, NY
Apollonian|Dionysian: The Constraints of Freedom, The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA
Current|Approaching, Bahdeebahdu, Philadelphia, PA
Cosmobilities. Rowan University Art Gallery, Glasboro, NJ
2012 Sum of All Parts: Henry Bermudez & Michelle Marcuse, Leonard Perlstein Gallery,
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Woodmere Endowment Fund Memorial Prize, 68th Annual,
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, 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
2020 CFEVA Fellowship, CFEVA, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Finalist, Pew Fellowship in the Arts
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,
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
PUBLICATIONS, REVIEWS AND 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
The Art Blog – Wind Challenge exhibition
Studio Visit Magazine 2017/2017 Winter Edition
2010 New American Paintings, 2010. The Open Studios Press
2008 New American Paintings, Mid-Atlantic
VISITING ARTISTS AND RESIDENCIES
2024 upcoming Artist in Residence @Brandywine Print Workshop in Philadelphia, PA
2023 4 months Artist in Residence @Inliquid in Philadelphia, PA
2012 Vermont Studio Center, [Full Fellowship], Johnstone, VT
2008 The Perkins Center for The Arts, Collingswood, NJ
Visiting Artist, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library Jolla, CA
2007 Penn College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
Visiting Artist, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
2005 Visiting Artist, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
2004 Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
2000 Illinois State University, Normal, IL
PAST COMMITTEES
Art Advisory committee for Taller Puertorriqueno, Philadelphia, PA
Art advisory committee for the Art in City Hall program, Philadelphia, PA
COMMUNITY
2010-2020 HOUSEGallery Co-director with Henry Bermudez, Philadelphia, PA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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, ILL
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 B.Des. Shenkar College of Fashion and Textile Technology, Tel Aviv, Israel