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Michelle C. Gevint (1980) is an Israeli-American
interdisciplinary artist currently based in Brooklyn. Her work examines personal and social relationships to
architectural spaces and built environments specifically touching on topics
such as displacement, alienation, and failure.Through images, videos, and installations she reflects on the power of cultural myths and archetypes in a contemporary
context.
Gevint obtained my BFA
from Bezalel Art Academy, Jerusalem and moved to NYC after receiving a
scholarship to complete my MFA at Parsons. Selected group exhibitions and
residencies include The Bronx Museum of Art, AIM Biennial, Fridman gallery,
NYC, NYABF Moma PS1, Lanzia Museum, Poland, 2-person exhibition at Local
projects gallery space, LIC, NY, Governors Island Art Faire, Trestle Gallery
residency and group exhibition, NY, Hermitage Museum, Russia, Beijing Design
Festival, China, Auckland Photo Festival, NZ, Sotheby's Chicago, MICA,
Baltimore, G91, NY, Marble House Residency, VT, Vermont studio center, VT. My
work has been featured in publications such as The Chicago Sun-Times, Bronx
Museum catalog, Humble arts foundation, Aint-bad online Magazine, Float
Magazine, The artist catalog, Recinema catalog, ICP blog, Sidney College of
Arts and Arts Culture Beat, online Columbia university blog, Art Fuse and The
Berkshire Eagle. My most recent film has been screened at the UN climate change
summit COP23 at the Kunst Museum Bonn, Germany, organized by the museum TBA21.
Contact: meshieg@gmail.com
Instagram: Michelle_Gevint
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Education
2014
Masters of Fine Art Photography
Parsons the
New School for Design, NY
2009
Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts, Department of
Photography
Bezalel
Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel,
2005
Tel Aviv University, Israel,
Studies
towards a Bachelor Degree in Anthropology-Sociology and East Asia studies
Selected Group and 2-person Exhibitions
2021
Made In Contact, dispersed exhibition, Asylum Arts.
2020
Art Mutters, Triangle residency, Brooklyn
2019
When artists enter the factories, Brooklyn Army Terminal, NYC
Mini Mono Mental, Chashama, NYC
All Ready Made, Almacen Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018
Bric Media Fellowship screening
Currents New Media Film Festival , Santa Fe, NM
Dubai Art Book Fair Upcoming
There is no Threat, 145 Chambers st, NYC
2017
Odds and Ends Art Book Fair, Yale University Art
Gallery
Absence,
Planta Baja Gallery, Brooklyn
TBA21, UN
climate change summit COP23, Bonn, Germany
NYABF MOMA
PS1, NYC
Laznia Museum, Poland
Bronx Museum
of Art Biennial, NYC
2-person
show, Concrete, Local Projects Gallery Space, LIC, NY
‘Respect’,
St Paul’s Cathedral, NY
‘Syntax’,
Open Projects at ALPHA artspace, NYC
2016
Future Isms, Humble Arts Foundation online
exhibition
Borderless:
In Perspective, Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin
Boxed, Nave
Gallery, Somerville, Massachusetts
Welcome,
Abroad! /~Goodbye art project, Bushwick, NY
Beauty,
Openings, St Paul’s Cathedral, NYC
Brooklyn Art
Space Members Saloon, Trestle Gallery
2015
Quantum Leap, Trestle Gallery
Governors
Island Art Fair, NY
Lift Off,
Fridman Gallery, Lower East Side, NYC, curated by Elisabeth Biondi
The Armed
Eye, The New Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
2014
Paddle 8 CCNY Silent Auction
Fresh Paint
Art Fair, Tel Aviv, Israel
#IRL in real
life MFA graduating thesis, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, Parsons
Future
Projections, Auckland Festival of Photography, Auckland, NZ
Fashion and
Culture: Reflections of Society, Moscow, Russia
Still life
and Man: Interpretations, The State Hermitage Museum
Making
Meaning, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, Parsons
Made in
China, Brooklyn Fire Proof, NY
2013
Photoville, Brooklyn, NY
Re-cinema,
Sydney, Australia
2012
Align, The Atrium Gallery, Tyler School of Art,
Philadelphia
International Photo Festival, Jaffa, Israel
Beijing
Design Festival, Beijing, China
Ping-Yao
Photo Festival, Ping-Yao, China
Remnant,
Conduit gallery, Rehovot, Israel
Bank Leumi
Secret Art Project, Beit Mani, Tel Aviv, Israel
Bezalel
Alumni Honors on Tour Exhibition, Maltz, Museum for Jewish Heritage, Cleveland;
Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC; RISDY; MICA, Maryland Institute College of
Arts, Baltimore; Sotheby's Chicago
2011
Bezalel Board of Governors Art Auction, New York
2009
Excellence Graduate Exhibition, Tel-Hai Museum
of Art, Tel-Hai, Israel
Awards | Residencies
2020
Asylum Arts Artist grant
2019
New York City Economic Development Corporation Grant
2018
Fetured Artist Asylum Arts
Official selection NewFilm Makers film festival, Anthology film archives, NYC
Official selection Imagine Science film festival, NYC
Artis Grant
Woman CineMakers Magazine Biennial Edition Official Selection
Asylum Arts Workshop
Keyholder printshop grant and residency
Mass Moca residency
Bric Media fellowship award
2017
Artist in the marketplace ‘AIM' Program, Bronx
Museum of Art
2016
NYFA immigrant program, NYC
2015
Vermont Studio Center Residency, Vermont
Brooklyn Art
Space, Trestle Gallery
Marble House
Residency, Vermont
Shortlisted
for Aperture summer exhibition
The Artist
Catalogue, fall 2015, featured cover artist
2012
Deans Scholarship, Parsons The New School
2008
Travel grant to Hungry for the purpose of documenting the remaining Jewish community after the Holocaust
2005-2007
Awarded a teaching scholarship, Bezalel Art
Academy
Bibliography
2018
Woman CineMakers Magazine Biennial Edition
Fetured Artist Asylum Arts
2017
Bronx Museum of Art Biennial Catalogue, Aint-bad
online Magazine
2016
Future Isms, Humble Art Foundation online
exhibition, Float Magazine
2015 ‘Quantum Leap’, Trestle Gallery, Governors
Island Art Fair, The Artist Catalogue Fall 2015 Issue, The Berkshire Eagle, VT,
Marble House Residency, Der Greif Magazine, Feature Shoot, ICP Blog
2014
Fresh Paint, Sallona, CCNY Paddle 8 Auction,
#IRL, The New School, AMT Blog, Arte Fuse, Post: portal
2013
Arts Culture Beat Columbia Art Blog, RE: Cinema
2012
'Pingyao' Photo Festival" catalog,
'Kalkalist' Magazin, 'Chicago Sun-Times', Musee magazine, Haaretz News Paper
Publications
2015 Non-Places, Printed and Bound by Conveyor Arts ,
Printed matter
Artist talks
2019
Artist talk at Artist contemporary
2018
Directors Q/A NewFilm Makers film festival, Anthology film archives, NYC
Panel discussion:Imagine Science film festival, NYC
2017
Artist talk Bronx Museum of Art
2015
Artist talk at Fridman Gallery, NYC
2014
Artist talk at Parsons pre-college students
2013
Artist talk for Parsons pre-college students
Collections
Yifat Gurion Collection
© Michelle C. Gevint 2018