Visiting Artist Lecture Series—Visual Arts MFA—Columbia University
Visiting Artist Lecture Series—Visual Arts MFA—Columbia University

Tuesday September 8th: Michele Abeles

Michele Abeles, Baby Carriage on Bike or Riot Shield as Carriage, 2015.

Michele Abeles  received a BA from Washington University and an MFA from Yale University. In 2015 she presented a solo project at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York and was included in their inaugural collection exhibition for their new building, America is Hard to See. Other recent solo shows include those at Sadie Coles, London and 47 Canal, New York; her work has featured also in major group exhibitions including Speculations on Anonymous Materials, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (2013); Test Pattern, Whitney Museum of Art, New York (2013); 12th Biennale de Lyon, France (2013); Empire State, curated by Norman Rosenthal and Alex Gartenfeld, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2013); and New Photography (2012), Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. She is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and the Dallas Museum of Art.  Abeles lives and works in New York.