Michelle Stuart was born on 1933 and is an American multidisciplinary artist known for her sculpture, painting and environmental art.
11 Facts About Michelle Stuart
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Michelle Stuart worked in Mexico about 1951 as a studio assistant to Diego Rivera.
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Michelle Stuart lived for 3 year in Paris, then moved to New York, where she has resided since 1957.
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Michelle Stuart embarked on a series of gridded paintings that introduced beeswax, seashells, blossoms, leaves and sand embedded in an encaustic surface.
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Michelle Stuart created complex multi-media installations involving light and sound elements.
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Michelle Stuart's series titled Extinct was inspired by a Victorian-era album of leaves.
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Michelle Stuart has published artists' books, including The Fall, a book-length prose poem about keeping historical records and Butterflies and Moths.
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Michelle Stuart has exhibited in Europe, Asia and the United States for more than thirty years.
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In 2013, Michelle Stuart was the subject of a retrospective that focused on her drawing.
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In 2008 Michelle Stuart was part of a group exhibition called "Decoys, Complexes and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s," at the SculptureCenter in Long Island City, New York other artists in this exhibit included Alice Adams, Alice Aycock, Lynda Benglis, Agnes Denes, Jackie Ferrara, Suzanne Harris, Nancy Holt, Mary Miss, and Jackie Winsor.
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Michelle Stuart's works were featured in Documenta VI, Kassel, Germany and in the American Biennial Pavilions in Seoul, Korea, and Cairo, Egypt.