Michelle Forsyth
Page 1 | Biography
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Born: Vancouver, BC
Lives: Pullman, WA
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2001 M.F.A., Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
1996 B.F.A., University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
1993 Associate of Visual Arts, Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada
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2008 Solo Exhibition, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC, Canada
2007 Paperwork, Hogar Collection, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2007 Marking Time, Lorinda Knight Gallery, Spokane, WA, USA
2006 Routine Incidents, Charleston Heights Art Center, Department of Culture, Las Vegas, NV, USA
2006 Loops and Dashes, Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
2005 Tracing Absence, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, BC, Canada
2004 Trace Evidence, Lorinda Knight Gallery, Spokane, WA, USA
2000 Upper Crust, Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2000 MFA Thesis Show, MGSA Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
1997 It's a dog eat dog world, Gallery Sansair, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1997 Jetsam, Havana Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1997 Flotsam, xchanges Gallery, Victoria, BC, Canada
1996 Mint, Rogue Art, Victoria, BC, Canada
1995 Daydreaming of a Transparent Landscape, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
1993 Recent Work, Rogue Art, Victoria, BC, Canada
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2007 Drawn to the Wall, Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane WA, USA
2007 Sundays (2-person exhibition), Kirkland Arts Center, Seattle, WA, USA
2007 Bridge Art Fair @ 350 West Mart Center, Chicago, IL, USA
2007 Red Dot Art Fair @ the Park South Hotel, New York, NY USA
2007 The War on Terror; Abstract Painting in Today’s World, Miami University Young Painters Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award, Hiestand Galleries, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA
2006 Bridge Art Fair @ the Catalina Hotel & Beach Club, Miami, FL USA
2006 The Whole is the Sum of its Parts, Hogar Collection Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2006 Spitting Images (3-person exhibition), Truck Contemporary Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2006 Disaster, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA, USA
2006 The Antholgy of Art, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Budesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany (catalogue)
2005 Little Shift: Small Works, Shift Seattle, WA, USA
2005 New Members Exhibition, Shift, Seattle, WA, USA
2005 The Antholgy of Art, ZKM/ Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
2004 The Anthology of Art, Akademie der Künst, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
2004 The Mac Collects: Art for the New Millenium, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, WA, USA
2004 Spokane River and Gorge Falls, Lorinda Knight Gallery, Spokane, WA, USA
2003 Northwest Contemporary Figuration, Northwest Musuem of Arts and Culture, Spokane, WA, USA
2003 Push Play, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON, Canada
(in conjunction with Toronto’s Images Festival)
2003 Stop and Go, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ, USA
2002 Seasonal Exhibition, Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2002 Deluxe, Community Gallery, 111 First St, Jersey City, NJ, USA
2000 Hit & Run 4, Pier 40 Warehouse, New York, NY, USA
2000 CAA MFA Exhibition, Hunter College, Times Square Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2000 Y2K Solution, Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
1999 Passions of Art, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
1999 Gifted, Rogue Art, Victoria, BC, Canada
1999 Swap Meet, Sol Koffler and Market House Galleries, RISD, Provinceton, RI, USA
1999 Exchange, Patricia Doran Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
1999 Y2K Solution, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
1998 Untitled, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
1997 Gifted, Rogue Art, Victoria, BC, Canada
1997 art.com, Rogue Art, Victoria, BC, Canada (catalogue)
1997 Harvest, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1996 It's a Beautiful Thing, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC, Canada
1996 Trout: BFA exhibition, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada (catalogue)
1995 Colette Parras, Michelle Forsyth, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
1995 Gifted, Rogue Art, Victoria, BC, Canada
1994 Bumper Crop, Federal Building,, Victoria, BC, Canada
1994 Exquisite Corpse, Buzzard's Lunch, Victoria, BC, Canada
1994 14, Big Art Society, New Era Social Club, Victoria, BC, Canada
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2007 Brian Sherwin, “Art Space Talk: Michelle Forsyth, “ myartspace.com, posted May 23, 2007.
2007 Bill London, “Artist Steps into the Spotlight,” WSU Today, January 24, 2007.
2006 Katie Anania. "Death and Praxis: Michelle Forsyth's Presentation of Incidents is Hardly Routine," City Life, Las Vegas, NV, April 27, 2006
2006 Kristin Peterson. “Mad, Mad Media,” Las Vegas Sun. April 7, 2006.
2004 Jochen Gerz. The Anthology of Art: in Theory and Dialogue. DuMont Verlag, Cologne, Germany. p 224 (image)
2004 Julianne Crane. “MAC Collection Once Again Unveiled; Exhibit Features Tucked-Away Art,” The Spokesman-Review. Friday, November 19.
2004 Lila Hurowitz. “ North of the Border: The Banff Centre,” Artist Trust Journal. Volume x1. No. 1, Spring 2004. p.5
2004 Sheri Boggs.“Ghosts of Salmon,” The Pacific Northwest Inlander, Friday August 4
2004 Julianne Crane. “Young Artist Profile: Michelle Forsyth,” The Spokesman-Review Friday July 23, p. 26
2004 Sherri Boggs. “Inlander Picks: Pattern and Dissolution,” The Pacific Northwest Inlander, April 1, 2004, p. 42
2003 Sherri Boggs. “Figures Reinvented,” The Pacific Northwest Inlander, July 17, 2003, p. 21-22
2003 Grant Purdum. “Keynote Speaker to Discuss Climate of Art, Technology,” The Daily Evergreen. Friday, January 17, 2003. p. 11
2003 Gerfried Stocker,. “Unplugged: Art as the Scene of Global Conflicts,” ARS Electronica 2002 Katalogue.
2002 Tom McGlynn. “Surface Considerations,” Deluxe. (URL: www.orangesideout.org)
2000 Paula Gustafson. Review with photograph. Asian Art News. September/October 2000, p. 103-104
2000 Kelly Keegan. “Master Thesis of the Universe,” Inside Beat, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ, USA, March 9, 2000. p. 12.
1999 “Visions of New Brunswick,” Inside Beat, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
1998 Meghan Moorhouse. “State of the Arts,” Inside Beat, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, December 10, 1998, p. 10-11. (photographs).
1996 Interview, CFUV Radio, Victoria, BC, Canada
1996 art.com, exhibition catalogue, Rogue Art, Victoria, BC, Canada
1996 Trout, exhibition catalogue, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
1992 Robert Amos. “Stroll Reveals Depth and Breadth of Victoria's Creativity,” The Times Colonist Victoria, BC, Canada, August 8, 1992. p. c6 (photograph).
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2007 GAP Grant, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA, USA ($1,500 USD)
2007 Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada ($13,000 CDN)
2007 Second Prize, Young Painters Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA ($1,500 USD)
2006 Edward R. Meyer Project Award, College of Liberal Arts, WSU, Pullman, WA, USA ($1,000 USD)
2005 Professional Artist Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada ($9,000 CDN)
2005 Initiation Grant, College of Liberal Arts, WSU, Pullman, WA, USA ($300 USD)
2004 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts c/o the Banff Centre ($3203 CDN)
2004 Edward R. Meyer Project Award, College of Liberal Arts, WSU, Pullman, WA, USA ($1,029 USD)
2003 Initiation Grant, College of Liberal Arts, WSU, Pullman, WA, USA ($700 USD)
2002 Completion Grant, College of Liberal Arts, WSU, Pullman, WA, USA ($1050 USD)
2001 Travel Grant, Raritan Valley Community College, Somerville, NJ, USA ($150 USD)
98-99 MGSA State Funded Scholarship in Art, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA ($3500 USD each year)
1996 Helen Pitt Graduating Award, Second Place, Vancouver Foundation, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada ($300 CDN )
1995 Helen Pitt Bursary, Vancouver Foundation, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada ( 300 CDN)
1993 Visual Arts Grant, Greater Victoria Arts Council, Victoria, BC, Canada ($1,500 CDN)
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Visiting Artist in Residence | Upcoming: 2009
University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME, USA
I have been invited to be in residence at the University of Southern Maine during the spring semester of 2009. During this time I will teach a condensed version of my course, Drawing Through Process, and work with the students there to produce an exhibition in their gallery. The exhibition will be made out of thousands of cut pieces of paper mounted to their gallery walls with the aid of sewing pins.
100 Drawings | 2005 - present
When complete, this current project will consist of one hundred drawings documenting my experiences within historical sites of disaster. Each site for this project has been chosen based on a historical photographic document in my archive. As opposed to existing as images of aesthetic spectacle, as those depicted in the photographs, each drawing exists as a visual record of a place where there is simply "nothing left to see." The works in this series record the location of each event, yet the event has already occurred, often years prior to my documentation.
This Project was generously funded by two Artist Grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Initiation Grant from the College of Liberal Arts at WSU.
Sunday Paintings | 2006 - 2007
This series of work consists of exactly 53 watercolor paintings done from sculptural collages of the Sunday New York Times in 2006, between Sunday, January 1 and Sunday, December 31, 2006. The work examines the connection between the realm of leisure and the invasive images that tend to permeate that sphere in our society. The New York Times, as with many contemporary newspapers today, often contains at least one image of a military action, death or some kind of human suffering, yet the Sunday New York Times is associated with leisure due to the fact that its sheer volume promises no swift reading. It is this paradox that I attempt to uncover in this series of paintings documenting the Sundays in 2006.
This Project was generously funded by an Edward R. Meyer Project Award from the College of Liberal Arts at WSU.
Florescence Installations | 2004 - present
In the summer of 2004 I took part in a 6-week, thematic residency at the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta. Thirty-four artists from around the globe had been invited to participate. While the residency’s focus centered on examining the “importance of multiple and fractured forms of national relationships occurring within supposedly-unified nations,” my work focused on the media images that threaten this supposed unity. During my stay at the Banff Centre I worked to examine “images of terror” by focusing on a single one of these images taken from the Internet. The piece was made of approximately 6,000 hand cut circles mounted to approximately 2,000 sewing pins created and displayed at the Intra-Nation Thematic Residency at the Banff Centre for Continuing Education, May 23rd - July 3rd, 2004.
Since at the centre I have created four installation pieces that examine images from the war in Iraq available on Internet sites. In August, I will create one of these for the Jundt Museum in Spokane.
This Project was generously funded by an Edward R. Meyer Project Award from the College of Liberal Arts at WSU, and a Travel Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts through the Banff Centre for Continuing Education.
Paper Sculptures | 2005 - present
This series of work, begun in 2005, is a three-dimensional exploration of some of the formal elements in my paintings. Although they began as investigations in making painting more physical, they have become for me abstractions of some of the ideas explored in my other work. They suggest digitized body parts or small cluster bombs.
Trauma Paintings | 2001 - 2005
Using images of disaster and accident in much of my work, I have often addressed the human costs involved in living within contemporary technological society. Culled directly from those image sources, the images in these pieces are built up of thousands of tiny, sinuous brush strokes. In doing this, I have rescued them from their de-personalized context and imbued them with a sense of beauty.
Aquarium Views | 2003 - 2005
Public aquariums are strange and glorious places that provide me with a place to get lost in. Peering into these small worlds filled with elaborately ornamented creatures through a pane of glass is parallel for me with gazing at the screen of my television or computer. In these works that consist of both paintings and digital video, I wanted to express this idea of wonderment, of getting lost in an opulent place. I consider viewing the surface of the ocean or the fauna of the deep as akin to viewing images of disaster through the screen as they both tend to foster a distant gaze.
Undulating Surfaces | 2002 - 2005
This series of paintings and short video loops depict the undulating surfaces and topography of the water's surface. These visual, panoramic views feature vistas from the places where I have lived, including views of the Hudson River and the Jersey shore. In its formal rendering this work emphasizes the uncontrollable nature of water paired against a rigid structure, and explores the aesthetic potential of water as a matrix of motion and change.
Video Loops | 2001 - 2003
These video experiments were made between 2001 and 2003. With them I was experimenting with layers of digital video, and think of them as quick studies. Whereas my paintings provide me with a vehicle to slow down and solidify appropriated imagery, video allowed me to incorporate the element of change.
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