Mychaelyn Michalec

Education

2005 Masters of Library and Information Science, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS

2002 Bachelors of Art, Art History, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

2000 Bachelors of Fine Art with Distinction, Painting & Drawing, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Grants, Fellowships, and Recognitions

2023 Individual Artist Grant, Montgomery County Cultural Arts District 2022 NEA Arts Renewal Grant

2021 Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council

Individual Artist Grant, Montgomery County Cultural Arts District

2020 Fellowship, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE

2018 Fellowship, Golden Family Foundation for the Arts Residency, New Berlin, NY

2017 Winner, People’s Choice Award, Art in the City, Dayton, OH

2016 Grant Recipient, Vermont Studio Center residency, Johnson, VT 2015 Best in Show, Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors

2015 Lombard Prize / Best in Show, Dayton Visual Arts Center

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Not to Stifle but to Clarify. Alice F. & Harris K. Weston Gallery. Cincinnati, OH curated by Dennis Harrington

2022 If I could say for sure what I have loved. Sarah Gormley Gallery, Columbus, OH

Three Square Meals of Disaffection. K Contemporary, Denver, CO.

2021 All that we went through was for nothing. Sean Christopher Gallery, Columbus, OH

Future Ruin, Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH

From a Basement on a Hill, The Contemporary, Dayton, OH curated by Michael Goodson 2018 Personal Fable, Divisible, Dayton, OH

2017 I’ve never stopped wondering what my life would have been like, Dutoit Gallery, Dayton, OH 2015 No Accounting for Taste, Welker Rollins Studio, Kettering, OH

2015 Comes Furnished, Goes Furnished, Wright-Dunbar Historic District, Dayton, OH

2000 Real Objects Made by Hand or Machine, Skylab, Columbus, OH

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Meanwhile curated by TIm Reitenbach, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Women to Watch : New Worlds, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH,

Medici Museum of Art, Warren, OH, ArtSpace, Lima, OH,

West Art Gallery Cincinnati, OH,

Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, Portsmouth, OH

Intersect Palm Springs with K Contemporary, Palm Springs, CA.

2022 The Bunker Art Space, West Palm Beach, FL

Anthem X, Curated by Jared Owens, for Malin Gallery, New York, NY at Art Basel Miami, FL.

Intersect Aspen with K Contemporary, Aspen, CO

Somebody, Nobody, Anybody, Marquee Projects, Bellport, NY

Future Planets, Curated by James Williams, Longwood Center for Visual Arts, Farmville, VA

Unraveled: Confronting the Fabric of Fiber Art, Untitled Gallery, New York, NY

2020 I Do Not Ask Any More Delight, Quappi Projects, Louisville, KY

Tuft, curated by Tim Eads, Group Projects, Philadelphia, PA

Femme Maison: Mychaelyn Michalec & Karen Weeks, House Guest Gallery, Louisville, KY curated by Megan Bickrel

2019 Ohio Arts Council Biennial, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH

From a Place of Personal Understanding, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH

The Other Art Fair, curated by Saatchi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Sentimental and Not, Bridgette Bogel, Ashley Jonas & Mychaelyn Michalec, Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Body Language, Krasl Arts Center, Saint Joseph, MI

/just to be alive/, 1628 Ltd. Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

Made in Paint, Sam and Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY

2018 The Other Art Fair, curated by Saatchi Gallery, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL

oh mOTHER, Custom House Gallery, Edinburgh , Scotland, U.K.

The Other Art Fair, curated by Saatchi Gallery, Brooklyn Expo Center, Brooklyn, NY Cox Fine Arts Center, The Ohio State Fair, curated by the Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH

Light Years Ahead, Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, OH

Belladonna, Tejas Gallery, Dayton, OH

The Hamilton Current, Fitton Center for the Creative Arts, Hamilton, OH

Artist Invitational, Muse Gallery, Hilton, Columbus, OH

2016 Cox Fine Arts Center, The Ohio State Fair, curated by the Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH

Resonate, Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, OH

Votes for Women, curated by Kelsey Projects, Dutoit Gallery, Dayton, OH

The Dig, Kelsey Projects, Front Street Warehouse, Dayton, OH & Miami Township Library, Miamisburg, OH

2015 The Body Electric, Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, OH

Collections

The Bunker Art Space / Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection of Carla Shen

Collection of Sara M. Vance Waddell Dayton Metro Public Library

Private Collections

Artist Residencies

2021 The Object Hotel, Bisbee, AZ

2020 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, Nebraska

2018 Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, New Berlin, NY

2016 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Bibliography

Friend of the Artist, Issue 8, 2019

Cooties Zine, Issue 2, 2018

Create! Magazine, Issue 8, 2018

Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 40, 2018

Art Maze Magazine, Issue 4, pg 83, 2017

Artist Talks

Artist Talk, Kelsey Projects, Miamisburg, OH

Press

Natalie Weis, “Textile Show at Louisville’s Houseguest Gallery Explores Technology and Motherhood,” All Things Considered, NPR, WFPL Louisville, February 13, 2020.

Erika Hess, “Artist Mychaelyn Michalec: Motherhood, Taking Time Off & Taking the Reins of Your Art Career,” I Like Your Work (podcast), February 10, 2020.

Interview with Mychaelyn Michalec, The Jealous Curator (blog), October, 2018.

http://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2018/10/24/mychaelyn-michalec/

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