Resume

Education:

Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, M.F.A.; 1978 (Painting/Multi-Media)
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, M.A.; 1976 (Art History)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, B.F.A. Honors; 1971 (Painting)


Selected Solo Exhibitions:

• Tangible Marking: The Dimensional Drawings of Creighton Michael,
Esther Massry Gallery, The College of Saint Rose,Albany, NY: 2010-11
• VIVID: New Paintings, Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2009
• CURSIVE, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO; 2008
• Lesley Heller Gallery, New York City; 2008
• SQUIGGLElinear: Paintings and Installation Works, Center for the Arts, Towson University; Baltimore, MD; 2007 travels to the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE; 2008
• WAVElengths: The Drawings of Creighton Michael, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfj๖rdur; Start Art, Reykjavํk, Iceland; 2008
• PLANE DRAWING, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA; 2008
• Graphite: Drawings and Installation Works, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO; 2006
• Paintings: Creighton Michael, Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2006
• Intersection: Works by Creighton Michael, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL; 2006
• VantagePoint IV Creighton Michael: Patterns of Perception, Mint Museums, Charlotte, N.C.; 2005
• Creighton Michael: Dialects of Line; selected works 1985-2003, Collaborative Concepts Beacon, NY; 2003 (includes a collaborative installation with composer, John Morton)
• Articulated Spaces: Paintings by Creighton Michael, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA.;2003
• Mark To Multiple, The von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL; 2003
• Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO; 2003,1999, 1997, 1994, 1992, 1990
• Creighton Michael: Between, Kenise Barnes Fine Arts, Larchmont, NY; 2002
• Haiku/Innuendo: Paintings by Creighton Michael, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY.; 2001
• Stitch: Works by Creighton Michael (1976-1999), Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA; 2001
• Visual Matrix: Paintings/Drawings (1997-1999), Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; 2000
• Kim Foster Gallery, NYC; 1999, 1997, 1996, 1995
• Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA; 1999
• Galerie Trois Points, Montreal Canada; 1999
• Creighton Michael: Painting (1995-1998), The Queens Museum of Art at Bulova Center, Queens, NY; 1998
• Creighton Michael: Marks and Metaphor/Drawings (1990-1995), Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; 1996
• Creighton Michael: Landscape, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; 1994
• New Sculpture and Drawings, Littlejohn Contemporary, NYC; 1992
• Drawing Sculpture, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX; 1992
• Creighton Michael: Constructions 1990, Ruth Siegel Gallery, NYC; 1991
• Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; 1990, 1988
• Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1990


Selected Group Exhibitions:
• FILAMENT: The work of Bill FitzGibbons and Creighton Michael, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennnessee, Knoxville, TN; 2010
• Beneath The Surface: Excavating the Belger Collection, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO; 2010
• Surface Tension: Pattern, Texture, and Rhythm in Art from the Collection, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA; 2010
• SCAVENGERS, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; 2009
• Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA; 2007 travels until 2009
• Monumental Drawings, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX; 2007 (Barbara MacAdam, curator)
• Cursive, Artist Commune, Hong Kong, China; 2007
• EELight, a collaboration with Bill FitzGibbons, The LAB, New York City; 2006
• GRID: Process and Structure, Kreft Gallery, Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI; 2006,travels to Wooster Arts Space, NYC; 2007
• SENSi/aBLE SPACES: Space, Art and the Environment, University of Iceland, Reykjavํk, Iceland; 2006
• PAGES, I Space, University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Chicago, IL; 2005 (organized by Buzz Spector)
• Optical Simulations, Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, NY; 2005
• IDEAL: Selections from the American Abstract Artists, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, N Y; 2005
• In Line, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY; 2005
• CURSIVE, Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, NYC; 2005
• Dimensional Line, Munson-Willams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY; 2004
• Synthesis: Experiments in Collaboration, Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA; 2003; Axel Raben Gallery, New York City; 2004
• The Essence of Line, Concordia Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY; 2004
• Art in Embassies Exhibition, Zagreb, Croatia; 2003-2006
• Art in Embassies Exhibition, Nicosia, Cyprus; 1999-2002
• Body Language, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; 2002
• Outside In, Arvada Center for the Art and Humanities, Arvada, Co; 2002
• Body Work, The Workspace, NYC; 2001
• Act of Drawing, Tompkins College Center Gallery, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA; 2001
• Lines, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA; 2001
• Another Story Altogether: Abstraction in Painting Today, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY; 2000
• End Papers: 1890-1900 and 1990-2000. Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; 2000
• Abstraction, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI; 1999
• Selected Works From The New York Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; 1999
• A View To The Future: Recent Acquisitions, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; 1994
• 1994 National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; 1994
• Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; 1993
• First Sightings: Recent Modern and Contemporary Acquisitions, Denver Art Museum, Denver CO; 1993


Selected Teaching:

Visiting Assistant Professor, Hunter College, New York, New York, since 2005
Visiting Artist, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia; 2010 (lecture)
Visiting Artist, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey; 2009 (lecture)
Visiting Artist, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania; 2008 (lecture)
Visiting Artist, Towson University, Baltimore, Maryland; 2007 (lecture)
Adjunct Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; 1986-1997, 2004 (drawing, 2-D design, 3-D design)
Visiting Lecturer, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; 2003 (adv. sculpture), 2001, 2000, 1998 (drawing)
Visiting Artist, University of Richmond, VA; 2003 (lecture),
Visiting Artist, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Aspen, Colorado; 2003 (painting)
Visiting Artist, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY; 1988 (sculpture) 2001 (drawing)
Visiting Artist, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; 1991 (lecture), 1999 (workshop) 2003 (critic)
Visiting Artist, Haverford College, Haverford, PA; 1997, 1993 (lecture)
Critic, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; 1995-1996


Selected Distinctions:

Embassy of the United States of America, Reykjavํk, Iceland exhibition grant; 2008
College Art Association, Panelist, Atlanta, Georgia; 2005
Honorarium, Selection Committee, Mortimer Hayes-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship; 2003
Golden Foundation for the Arts Grant; (painting) 2000
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Finalist; 1998
College Art Association, Panelist, Toronto Canada; 1998
Honorarium, Selection Committee, New York Foundation for the Arts (sculpture); 1993
Awards in the Visual Arts (SECCA) Nominee; 1989
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Nominee; 1988
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (sculpture); 1987
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant; 1985
Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship; 1985

Selected Collections:

American Express
AT&T
Edward Albee The Brooklyn Museum
The John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation
David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University
Denver Art Museum
Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfj๖rdur, Iceland
High Museum of Art
Neuberger Museum of Art
Markel Service, Inc., Richmond, Virginia
Meeschaert USA, New York and Paris
The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Mint Museums of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art
National Gallery Art, Washington, D.C.
New York University
Pfizer, Inc
Progressive Corporation
Prudential
R.I.S.D Museum of Art
Prof. Pieter Sanders, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
University of Richmond Museums
Vanderbilt University
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC Greensboro
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana

 

 

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