Michelle Lewis

Born: 22nd of January 1968 (Philadelphia, USA)
Currently lives and works in London


Education

Postgraduate Diploma History & Theory of Conternporary Art Chelsea College of Art and Design January 1996 - January 1998 The London Institute
MA Fine Art Sculpture Chelsea College of Art and Design September 1994 - September 1995 The London Institute
BFA Hons Sculpture Tyler School Of Art, Temple University September 1986 - May 1991 Pennsylvania, USA
January - May 1989 Temple University in Rome, Italy


Selected Solo Exhibitions

'I Call Myself (three spaces)," Sound Installation May - June 1996 The Gallerette 15 Club Row London E2

"Ocular" Zone One Gallery Site -specific installation September - October 1993 Philadelphia PS, USA


Selected Group Exhibitions

"disEmplacements" A Four Person site specific project March - April 1999 Woodlands Art Gallery London

"Souvenirs" Museum Street An interventionalist site-specific project

"Crock&rsquo," August 1997 Site-specific sound installation Shoreditch Town Hall London

"Location - Dislocation" Site-specific sound installation June 1997 St Peter's Heritage Centre Vauxall, London

"Stick Your Hands In the Air" Site-specific sound installation November 1996 The Acorn Storage Building, Hammersmith, London

"(Hys)theria" An exhibition organised by practising artists studying theory October 1996 Chelsea College of Art & Design London

Chelsea Mid-Year Show March 1995 Chelsea College of Art & Design London

Chelsea Final Exhibition September 1995 Chelsea College of Art & Design London


Publications on the Artist

Time Out Mark Currah Nov 27 - Dec 4 1996 No.1371 p. 54 Review of 'Stick Your Hands In The Air"

Pubilcations by the Artist
University of Derby "The Waters, A Silent Rapture" June 1997 Catalogue essay on the work of artist Chloe Brown


Collections

"Feet" Salt block sculpture April 1990 Private collection of llona Granet New York

"The Lovers" Alabaster sculpture March 1989 Private collection of Baldessare Conticello Pompeii, Italy


Awards

ACAVA First Base Project Open competition April 1996 - April 1997 between twelve London Art Colleges for free West End studios

The London Arts Board, funded artists and exhibition: "Stick Your August 1996 Hands In the Air'


Conferences

"Soap Box 2: World" In association with the International Institute of Visual Arts Education Programme. The panel included: Javier Flores-Blanquet, Pascal Michel Dubois, Denzel Everett, Keiko Tsutsumi and Michelle Lewis. This conference was held in connection with the exhibition "Location -Dislocation" at St Peter's Heritage Centre. Held at: INIVA, Kirkman House 12 -14 Whitfield St. London.

Academic Papers (Unpublished) All papers written at Chelsea College of Art and Design:

writing as a process, essay as musical text (some notes on nothing) November 1997

John Cage's Silence: What Is It ? Who Am l? (an interpretation) June 1997

Poetry, Motion, Time and Space: Some Thoughts On Yoko Ono March 1997

Spaces Within The Virgin Animal Mind, A Contemporary Conversation With Virginia Woolf, December 1996

Female Sexuality and Narrative: Looking At The Works of Helene Cixous, Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Bronte October 1996

Coming To Writing: A Dialogue With Helene Cixous, March 1996