Michelle La Perrière
CURRICULUM VITAE
Studio Location: Baltimore, Maryland / Phone: 410-404-6160 / Contact Michelle / Download PDF
Awards/Residencies
| 2017 | Residency, Windy Mowing Artist Residency, Halifax, Vermont |
| 2016 | Lucas Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art |
| 2015 | Marcella Brenner Faculty Development Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art
Residency, Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, Wyoming |
| 2014 | Marcella Brenner Faculty Development Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art |
| 2013 | Lucas Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art |
| 2012 | Marcella Brenner Faculty Development Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art
Lucas Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art |
| 2010 | Marcella Brenner Faculty Development Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art |
| 2009 | Marcella Brenner Faculty Development Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art |
| 2008 | Lucas Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art |
| 2007 | Faculty Development Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art |
| 2006 | Lucas Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art |
| 2005 | Residency, Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, Wyoming
Faculty Development Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art; travel to Ireland |
| 2003 | Faculty Development Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art |
| 2002 | Lucas Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art |
| 2001 | Faculty Development Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art; travel to Italy |
| 2000 | Individual Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council
Trustee Award for Excellence in Teaching, Maryland Institute College of Art |
| 1999 | Faculty Development Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art |
| 1998 | Residency, The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia |
| 1997 | Residency, Alfred and Trafford Klots Residency Program, Rochefort en Terre, Brittany, France |
| 1993 | Residency, The Millay Colony for the Arts, Steepletop, Austerlitz, New York |
| 1992 | Individual Artist Grant, The Mayor’s Advisory Council on Art and Culture, Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1990 | Third Prize, Aspects of Landscape, Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
| 1988 | Second Prize, Recent Realism, Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
| 1986 | Residency, The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont |
| 1985 | Purchase Prize, The Drawing National, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York |
| 1984 | Honorable Mention, Traveling Fellowship Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois |
Education
| MFA 1989 | Maryland Institute College of Art – Hoffberger School of Painting, Baltimore, Maryland. Grace Hartigan, Director |
| BFA 1984 | School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Parsons School of Design, New York, New York University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado |
Selected Exhibitions
| 2016 | Solo: In Be(TWEEN), Tuttle Gallery, McDonogh School, Owings Mills, MD |
| 2015 | Under the Sun: Artists of Sol Print Studio, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, D.C. |
| 2014 | The Empathy Project, Leidy Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art The Art of Caring, Area 405, Baltimore, MD |
| 2013 | Faculty Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art The Art of Caring, Area 405, Baltimore, MD |
| 2012 | 60th Annual Exhibition of the Keisho Art Association, Aishi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
XS/XL, Maryland Federation of Art, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Metromontage, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA The Art of Caring, Load of Fun Gallery, Baltimore, MD Sabbatical Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art |
| 2011 | The Art of Caring, Load of Fun Gallery, Baltimore, MD |
| 2010 | Graphite on Paper, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
Baltimore Counts Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD Video Screening – No Evidence (for Vickie, my mom), eight-minute video, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Colorado |
| 2009 | Video Screening – Morning Coffee (for Vincent), eight-minute video, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Colorado |
| 2008 | Hidden and Revealed, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Collaboration: Nuages (with choreographer Lisa Green-Cudak) Peabody Dance Spring Showcase, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Solo: Selections from (loss and Celebration), Greenspring Racquet Club, Lutherville, MD |
| 2007 | Solo: Amalgam (loss and celebration), McDaniel College, Westminster, MD
Ties that Bind, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, Maryland |
| 2006 | Liquid/Solid, Contemporary Abstract Painting, Rice Gallery, McDaniel College, Westminster, MD |
| 2005 | Sabbatical Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art |
| 2004 | 25th Anniversary Auction, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, Delaware
Mini Golf Hole Exhibition (collaboration with Stuart Abarbanel), Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware 52nd Annual Exhibition of the Keisho Art Association, Aishi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan |
| 2003-2004 | Conversations – Influence and Collaboration in Contemporary Art, Evergreen House, Baltimore, Maryland. Oct-Jan 2003-04; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware, Feb-May 2004 |
| 2003 | Declaring Space – Drawings by Baltimore Artists, Artscape, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Maryland
40 Years of Painting, Museum, Chateau at Rochefort en terre, Brittany, France |
| 2002 | Everybody Draws, Fleckenstein Gallery, Towson, Maryland
50th Annual Exhibition of the Keisho Art Association, Aishi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan 9/11/01, Gormley Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, Maryland |
| 2001 | 49tth Annual Exhibition of the Keisho Art Association, Aishi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan |
| 2000 | Critics’ Picks: Critics Residency Program – 11 artists works selected by Susan Canning and Laurence Hegarty, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland
Works by Contemporary Maryland Artists 2000, Government House, Annapolis, Maryland |
| 1999 | Reality Check, Mill River Gallery at Oella, Ellicott City, Maryland
Readings: Artwork Inspired by Books, Columbia Art Center, Columbia, Maryland |
| 1998 | Two Person: Chasing the Memory, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art
Alumni Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mid-Atlantic Region, Parish Gallery, Washington, D.C. |
| 1997 | Three Person Exhibition, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Maryland
Hidden Realities, Secret Visions; Invitational, Pascal Center for Performing Arts Gallery, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Maryland Drawing, a Biennial Invitational, Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson, Arizona Resident Artists, Museum, Chateau at Rochefort en terre, Brittany, France Night Light, Metropole, Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1996 | Solo: Recent Work, Columbia Art Center, Columbia, Maryland
The Untold Tale: Mysterious Narrative Drawings and Paintings, Metropole, Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1995 | Solo: Tapdance Dreaming and Other Riddles, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland
Two Person: Recent Work, Galerie Francoise e.s.f. Brooklandville, Maryland Solo: Magic in the Afternoon: drawings, paintings and other surprises of fascination Chesapeake Gallery, Harford Community College, Bel Air, Maryland |
| 1994 | Maryland Institute, Then and Now, Josiah White Exhibition Center, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel-Bowie, Maryland |
| 1993 | Realism: Psychological, Social, Lyrical, Artscape – Baltimore’s Festival of the Arts, Baltimore, Maryland
Drawing Coast to Coast, Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, Maryland |
| 1992 | Scene/Unseen, Northeastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico
Baltimore’s Emerging Artists Multi-Media Survey, Bauhaus, Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1991 | Solo: Java Rumba: Mysteries of Forsaken Nighttime, Villa Julie College, Stevenson, Maryland |
| 1991 | Invitational, Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, New York
War and Peace, Tuttle Gallery, McDonogh School, Owings Mills, Maryland |
| 1990 | Aspects of Landscape, Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Three Rivers Arts Festival, Sponsored by the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| 1988 | Passages – Images of Transformation – Four Person Exhibition, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland
National Multi-Media Exhibition, Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, New York Recent Realism, Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
| 1987 | National Graduate Drawing Exhibition, Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Drawing Surveyed, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Maryland Juror: Martha Beck, former Director – The Drawing Center, New York, New York |
| 1986 | Self-Portraits, Then or Now; ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Jurors: Mary Jane Jacob, Ray Yoshida |
| 1985 | The Drawing National, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, Nov-Dec 1985; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, Jan-Feb 1986; Moody Art Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Mar-Apr 1986; Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York. Sep-Oct 1986; New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut, Nov-Dec 1986. Jurors: Clement Greenberg, Nancy Hoffman, John PerreaultIllinois landscape Exhibition, Springfield Art Association Gallery, Springfield, Illinois |
| 1984 | 6X6 – 10th Annual Juried Exhibition of Work by Illinois Artists, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, Illinois
Traveling Fellowship Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois |
Performance
| 2011 | The Vagina Monologues. Performer. BBox Theater, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, 11, 12, 13 February |
| 2010 | C’mon Baltimore, Everybody Suz-ercise! Performer. Produced by Susan Lee-Chun, 23 June 2010, Baltimore Inner Harbor; hosted by Maryland Art Place |
| 1989 | Taking Out the Trash, Solo Performance.10 May, 9:00pm Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1986 | Sweet Tooth (The Decaf Exhibit), 15 Dec, 8:00pm Igloo Theater, Chicago, Illinois Co-organized evening of performance art, created solo performance |
Related Work
| 2015 | Panelist, An Artist’s Well Being (Diversity and Intercultural Development; MICA); 04 December |
| 2014-2015 | Drawing Circle participant – Thinking Through Drawing |
| 2013 | Panelist/committee member – Body Image (Diversity and Intercultural Development; MICA); Fall |
| 2011 | Blue Rock Productions Studio – Secrets of Success, the Nature of Creativity
Panelist, 01 September; Steven Fischer, moderator |
| 1997 | Jacket cover artwork: Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and theQuestion of Difference Lynne Huffer
Juror: Pennsylvania State Arts Council, Awards in Painting |
| 1995 | Jacket cover artwork: Yale French Studies, #87 |
| 1992 | Jacket cover artwork: Another Colette: The question of gendered writing Lynne Huffer |
| 1987 | Jacket cover artwork: The Rackham Journal of the Arts and Humanities, University of Michigan |
| 1986-1987 | Conceived and organized series of exhibitions: Behind the Tie and Apron: Tangible Proof for the Patron, Jerome’s Restaurant, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1982-1985 | Designer/Painter/Production Manager, Whitehead Studios Custom Ceramic Tiles, Chicago, Illinois
Projects included large-scale murals installed at O’Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois, and mosaics installed at the Vatican Pavilion, 1984 World’s Fair, New Orleans, Louisiana |
Teaching
| Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Co-Chair, Foundation Department Coordinator of Foundation Advising Professor: Drawing, Painting, Foundation Departments Instructor: School for Professional and Continuing Studies Visiting Artist: Career Development Graduate Teaching Assistant (color drawing, life drawing, 2-D design) |
1990-Present 2000-2010 1999-2001 1991-Present 1990-1998 1990 1987-1989 |
| Harford Community College, Bel Air, Maryland Instructor: drawing, design, watercolor |
1990-1996 |
| Goucher College, Towson, Maryland Instructor: painting, 2-D design |
1992 |
| Baltimore School for the Arts, Baltimore, Maryland Instructor: life drawing |
1989-1991 |
Select Reviews
- Siri Lise Doub, Wayne Arnold –
Baltimore Counts children’s book (one of 25 artists) - McCabe, Bret. “Visions of Excess”
Baltimore City Paper. August 2008. - Zappardino, Pam. “’Amalgam’ mixes life, memory”
Carroll County Times. January 2008 - Livingston, Jack. “Recommended: Art”
Urbanite #42. December 2007. - Zappardino, Pam. “Still Liquid/Still Solid”
Carroll County Times. June 2006 - Bowers, J. “Old School – faculty artists lead by example in group show”
Baltimore City Paper. September 2005. - Baltimore City Paper. “Top Ten – the year in art”
December 2003 - Bowers, J. “Drawing No Conclusions”
Baltimore City Paper. August 2003 - Hayman, Susan. “Studio Review – Michelle La Perriere”
Radar. December 2002 - Selby, Holly. “Objets de Garbage”
The Baltimore Sun. January 2002 - Selby, Holly. “September 11 in eyes of area artists”
The Baltimore Sun. December 2001 - Canning, Sue. “Critics in residence”
The Washington Review. February/March 2000 - Raczynska, Joanna. “Michelle La Perriere”
The Washington Review. February/March 2000 - Giuliano, Michael. “Readings” is sure not for the literal-minded”
The Columbia Flier. November 1998 - Dorsey, John. Exhibition Review
The Baltimore Sun. November 1997 - Regan, Margaret. “Making Their Marks”
The Tucson Weekly. August 1997 - Giuliano, Mike. “Keeping it Unreal”
Baltimore City Paper. November 1997 - Dorsey, John. “Shared Insights: Artists explore self and others”
The Baltimore Sun. March 1995 - Giuliano, Mike. Exhibition Review
Baltimore City Paper. March 1995 - Brodie, Amy. “Tap Dance Dreaming: riddles of art and gender”
Women’s Studies Newsletter, Goucher College. Spring/Summer 199 - Eltringham, Dana. “Mesmerizing exhibit in Rosenberg Gallery”
Goucher College Quindecim. February 1995 - Giuliano, Mike. “Remembrance of Things Past – enigmatic works at Goucher”
Baltimore City Paper. February 1995 - Dorsey, John. “Past meets the present perfectly in Riddles Exhibit at Goucher”
The Baltimore Sun. January 1995 - Huntington, Richard. “Woodcuts, pencil and paint in a mixed artists invitational”
The Buffalo News. January 1991 - Giuliano, Mike. “Learning to be an artist”
Supplement to the Patuxent Papers. July 1989 - Huntington, Richard. “Artists call shots in show titled Realism”
The Buffalo News. May 1988 - Dorsey, John. “A thoughtful, sensitive show at School 33”
The Baltimore Sun. March 1988 - Chayat, Sherry. “Everson takes a rare look at the direction of drawing”
Syracuse Herald-Journal. November 1985
“Imagery marks Drawing National’s massive works”
Syracuse Herald-Journal. December 1985
Collections
Public and private, including –
- AIDS Interfaith Residential Services, Baltimore, Maryland
- Borg-Warner Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
- Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Professional Affiliation
- Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education
Ongoing Studies / Relevant Practice
- September 2016-August 2017 – therapeutic yoga teacher training (200 hours)
- November 2015-present – co-founder, Contemplative Practices group – MICA faculty and staff November 2013 – Integrity of Practice: A Contemplative Vision for Higher Education, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts (Workshop presenter – “Drawing to Practice”)
- Fifth Annual Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education (ACMHE) Conference
- April 2013 – Emotional Healing and Spiritual Awakening with Tara Brach, Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C.
- July/August 2012 – Eighth Annual Contemplative Pedagogy Summer Session – ACMHE, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
- March 2012 – Fifth Annual Conference – Mindfulness: Foundation for Teaching and Learning – Mindfulness in Education Network – Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
- August 2011 – Dancing Voice / Singing Body – Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble, New York, New York