Recent
ART MICHELLE BIRD
Exhibitions, Residencies & Projects
Michelle Bird has exhibited her art at Galerie Cècile Charron in Paris, Galleria Ingenio in Torino and Galleria del Arte Ill Milennio in Venice Italy, in Switzerland at the Gallery Knoerle Baetig Fine Art, Gallery Mainau, Zurcher Kantonal Bank and AXA Winterthur. In the Netherlands she apprenticed with the painter poet Anton Martineau and attended the Rietveld Academy. In India she apprenticed at the Honey Arts Modelling Center learning single bronze casting techniques. She received art grants from the SSV Uppbyggingarsjóðs Vesturlands in Iceland and the Karolina Funds in 2018, 2017, 2016. Other art venues included art residencies and at the Baer Art Center and the Association of Icelandic Visual Artists center. In Iceland she established the platform Fluxus Design Tribe where she features collaborative social art initiatives. She is the co-organizer of the Borgarnes Film Freaks Event in 2018, 2017 and co-produced the documentary Pourquoi Pas Borgarnes, both of which received grants. In Switzerland she co-founded and organized the artist platforms and events: Open Doors and Outside Inside. For 6 consecutive years she published the annual art publication MAP Magazine Artist Professionals in Winterthur. In The Netherlands she co-produced and illustrated the book 'Closed Curtains Lives of de Wallen'. Paintings and illustrations of hers have been published by The Café Review Maine's Poetry Journal and the Dutch & Belgium publication Joie de Vivre.