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MICHELLE DOLL

Education

2006 New York Academy of Art, NY, Master of Fine Art, Cum Laude

1999 Kent State University, Kent, OH, BFA, Cum Laude

Solo Exhibitions

2019 As Above, So Below, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY

2017 Tokens, Pontone Gallery, London, England

2015 New Works, Galleri Ramfjord, Oslo, Norway

2015 Between Love and Me, Lyons Weir Gallery, New York, NY

2012 Shelter, Blank Space Gallery, New York, NY

2012 Winter Wind, Hamilton Square, Jersey City, New Jersey

2009 Say I am You, DFN Gallery, New York NY

2008 Works from St. Barths, Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, French West Indies

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Club Tropicana, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2025 The Lillian Orlowsky & William Freed Grant Winners Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown MA

2024 Big Stories, The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, Curated by Bo Bartlett, Noah Buchanan & Carl Dobsky

2024 Continuum: The Artwork of Charles Basham, Including Former Students & Influences, Kent State University, Kent, OH

2023 Big Stories, Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus GA Curated by Bo Bartlett, Noah Buchanan & Carl Dobsky

2022 New Jersey State Council of the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Artworks Trenton, Trenton, NJ

2022 Naked Lunch: Love Junk, Spring Break Art Show, NYC, Curated by Jason Patrick Voegele

2022 Oslo-New York, Galleri Ramfjord, NYC

2021 Give Me Some Skin, Sugarlift Gallery, NYC, Curated by Michelle Doll and Jason Patrick Voegele

2021 Women Painting: All Over the World, Museo Europe de Arte (MEAM), Barcelona, Spain

2020 Art on Paper Fair, Looks Good on Paper, Simon Garvey and DFN Projects

2019 Painting Today, Museo Europeo de Arte Moderno (MEAM), Barcelona, Spain

2019 Food for Thought, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Susan Meisel

2018 Autumnal Group Exhibition, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY

2018 Arcadia Contemporary, Five & Under, Pasadena, CA

2018 Take Home A Nude, Sotheby’s, NYAA Auction Benefit, New York, NY

2018 Scope Art Fair, ABContemporary, New York, Ny

2018 Novado, Leveling, Jersey City, NJ

2017 Women Painting Women in Earnest, Customs House Museum, Clarksville, TN

2017 Size Doesn’t Matter, Bernaducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY Curated by Susan P. Meisel

2017 Forever, Lodge Gallery, New York, NY Curated by Akeem Duncan

2017 Luminance, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY

2017 Formation, Bernaducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

2016 Scope Miami, Galleri Ramfjord, Miami FL

2016 Obseration/ Reference/ Gesture, Willis Smith Gallery, Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL

2016 Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s, New York, NY

2016 Instalarity, Q Art Salon, Santa Ana, CA, curated by F Scott Hess

2016 Summer Sessions, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY

2016 Three Woman Show, Galleri Ramfjord, Oslo, Norway

2016 Scope Basel, Galleri Ramfjord, Basel, Switzerland

2016 NYAA Group Exhibition, The Vendue, Charleston, South Carolina

2015 Between Us, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY

2015 Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s, New York, NY

2015 The Mayfair Exhibition, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY

2015 Artist’s Gaze: Seeing Women in the 21st Century, Sirona Fine Art, Hallandale, FL

2015 Art Palm Beach, Sirona Fine Art, Palm Beach, FL

2014 Love it, Locket, Leave it, Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY

2014 Art Miami, Lyons Wier Gallery, Miami, FL

2014 Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s, New York, NY

2014 Thou Art Mom, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ

2014 Summer Group Show, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY

2014 Voyeur, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Dina Brodsky

2014 Pageant, Proto Gallery, Hoboken, NJ

2013 Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s, New York, NY

2013 REvulsion, Visual Arts Gallery, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ

2013 New York Academy of Art Special Exhibition, Art Southampton, Southampton, NY, Curated by Eric Fischl

2013 Memphis Social, Hyde Gallery, Mephis College of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, Curated by Tom McGlynn

2013 Single Fare 3, RH Gallery, New York, NY

2013 Ladies, Kraine Gallery, New York, NY

2013 The Big Small Painting Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ

2012 Awakened, AFA Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Alix Sloan

2012 New York Academy of Art Summer Exhibition, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY

2012 The Drawing Room, Milavec Hakimi Gallery, New York, NY

2012 Somatic Shift, Island Weiss, Gallery, New York, NY

2012 Art Naples Contemporary Art Fair, Island Weiss Gallery, Naples, Florida

2012 Love is in the Air, The Cell, New York, NY

2011 New Jersey City University Faculty Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

2011 Salvaged, Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY

2011 B-Sides, York College, Jamaica, NY

2011 Psssttt, Kraine Gallery, New York, NY,

2011 Single Fare 2, Swipe Again Please, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY

2011 Deck the Walls, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

2010 Intimate Immensity, Dean Project, New York, NY

2010 Small Works, Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA

2010 Scope Basel, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Basel, Switzerland

2010 Remnants, Fuse Gallery, New York, NY

2010 Draw, Museo de la Cuidad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

2010 Looks Good on Paper, DFN Gallery, New York, NY

2010 Single Fare, Brooklyn, NY

2009 Water/Bodies, Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, French West Indies

2009 Small Works, Sarah Bain, Anaheim, CA

2009 Reconfigured and Relocated, DFN Gallery, New York, NY

2009 Art Hamptons, DFN Gallery, Bridgehamptons, NY

2009 Old School, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY

2009 Draw, Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008  Summer Exhibition, NYAA, New York, NY, curated by David Salle, Will Cotton & Nicola Hicks

2008 Take Home a Nude, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY

2008 Draw, Stolen Space Gallery, London, England

2008 We are L.I.C., Dean Project, Long Island City, NY

2007 Small Works, Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA

2007 Travel Sized: Small Works by Young American Artists, Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths

2007 Draw, Gallery Lombardi, Austin, TX, Curated by Eric Foss and Curse Mackey

2007 Place as Object, Figure and Landscape, Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, Curated by April Gornik

2006 Draw, Fuse Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Eric Foss and Curse Mackey

2006 Take Home a Nude, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY

2006 New Works, Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, Curated by Eric Fischl

Awards

2026 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Fellowship Grant

2024 The Lillian Orlowsky & William Freed Grant in Association with Provincetown Art Association & Museum

2022 Galleri Ramfjord Artist Residency, Oslo, Norway

2022 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, Raymar Traditional Art Award Finalist

2019 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Fellowship Grant

2018 The Bennett Prize, Honorable Mention

2018 Galleri Ramfjord Artist Residency, Oslo, Norway

2016 Space SBH Artist Residency, St. Barths, French West Indies

2014 Residency, Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ

2008 Travel Grant and Residency, Eden Rock, St. Barths, French West Indies

2006 Prince of Wales/ Forbes Foundation Travel Grant, Chateau de Balleroy, Normandy, France

2004- 06 Academic Scholarship Award, New York Academy of Art

CURATORIAL

2021 Give Me Some Skin, Sugarlift Gallery, NYC, Curated by Michelle Doll & Jason Patrick Voegele

2016 Mementos, Panepinto Galleries, Jersey City, NJ, Curated by Michelle Doll & Lisa Lebofsky

2015 My Favorite Things, Panepinto Galleries at the W Hotel, Hoboken NJ, Curated by Michelle Doll

2015 Barely Imagined Beings ll, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, Curated by Dina Brodsky & Michelle Doll

2015 Barely Imagined Beings, Proto Gallery, Hoboken NJ, Curated by Dina Brodsky & Michelle Doll

2014 Behind the Curtain, Mark Miller Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Dina Brodsky & Michelle Doll

2012 Love is in the Air, The Cell, New York, NY, Curated by Island Weiss & Michelle Doll

2010 Remnants, Fuse Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Michelle Doll & Lisa Lebofsky

PODCASTS

2025 The Professional Artists Podcast, Episode 20, Interviewed by Cristina Demiany

2025 Hoboken Talks, The Hoboken Historical Museum, Interviewed by Jason Patrick Voegele

2023 Arthaus Radio, Big Stories Artists Talk with host Bo Bartlett & Artists Noah Buchanan, Carl Dobsky, Patricia Watwood, Michelle Doll & Tim Short

2023 Mother Artist Podcast, Exploring Intimacy & Connection Through Painting with Michelle Doll, Interviewed by Kaylan Buteyn

2021 John Dalton Gently Does It, Michelle Doll Uncut, Interviewed by John Dalton

2020 The Drop, Episode 21 Michelle Doll, Interviewed by Tom Sena

MAGAZINES AND BLOGS

2024 New American Paintings, Northeast Issue #170, Curated by Artist Amy Sherald, Also Featured in the Foreword by Art Critic Michael Wilson

2024 Bold Journey, Meet Michelle Doll

2023 Canvas Rebel, Meet Michelle Doll

2019 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Painting Intimate Portraits of True Love, Interviewed by Nicole Gordon

2019 Quiet Lunch, The Last Days of As Above, So Below by Michelle Doll, by Akeem Duncan

2019 White Hot Magazine, Three Figurative Painters, by Daniel Maidman

2019 Artspeak, Interview with Michelle Doll, by Atesh M. Gundogdu

2019 American Art Collector, September Issue, Michelle Doll: Flesh and Bone

2015 Cleaver: Philadelphia’s International Literary Magazine, Works on Love by Michelle Doll, Issue No. 12

2014 Evolved Magazine, Featured in the September Issue

BOOK PUBLICATIONS

2022 The Archive № 5 | Michelle Doll, by Akeem Duncan, Published by Quiet Lunch

2017 The Figurative Artist's Handbook: A Contemporary Guide to Figure Drawing, Painting, & Composition, by Robert Zeller, Published by Montecelli Press

2014 The Figure: Painting Drawing & Sculpture, by Margaret McCann, Published by Rizzoli

VISITING ARTIST LECTURES, CRITIQUES, PANEL DISCUSSIONS  AND JUROR

2023 Artist Lecture for Big Stories Exhibition and Artist Panel Discussion, Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus GA,

2024 Visting Artist and Guest Critic, MFA Students, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

2022 Visiting Artist Lecture and Guest Critic, University of Kentucky School of Visual Arts, Lexington, KY

2022 Visiting Artist and Guest Critic, MFA Students, New England College, Massachusetts

2021 Juror for The Raritan College, BFA Juried Show

2019 Visiting Artist and Guest critic, Byrdcliffe Artist Residency, Woodstock, NY

2018 Visiting Artist Lecture, Influences Process and Work, The Florence Academy of Art, Jersey City, NJ

2016 Artist Lecture Panel Discussion, Four Generations of Faculty from The New York Academy of Art, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY

2014 Visting Artist Lecture and Critic, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA