b. El Paso, TX
Lives and works in NYC
EDUCATION:
2011 MFA: Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2009 BFA: University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
2008 Yale Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk, CT
ONE PERSON EXHIBITS:
2022
Dishwater Holds No Images, Company Gallery, New York, NY (Upcoming)
2022
Rock of Eye, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2019
When You Look At Me You Only See My Surroundings, Frieze London, London, EN
2017
Fat Cat Came to Play- Company, New York, NY
Pull A Comb Through Your Coal Black Hair- Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS:
2022
The Condition of Being Addressable, ICA LA, Los Angeles, CA
Not Me, Not That, Not Nothing Either, The Leslie- Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
2021
In Some Form or Fashion, The Momentary, Bentonville, AR
OFF ROAD II, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, BE
From The Limitations of Now, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa,OK
De Por Vida, Company Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Miami Basel- Company Gallery
“This is America: Art USA Today”- Kunsthal KAdE- Amersfoot, NL
Independent- Company Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Great Force- Institute of Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
On Refusal: Representation and Resistance in Contemporary American Art, The MAC, Belfast, IE
Open Call 2018- The Shed, New York, NY
Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth. - Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
2019 Whitney Biennial- The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Stonewall 50- Contemporary Art Museum Houston, TX
Peel- Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA
Tissue- Company, New York, NY
2018
Paris Internationale- Paris, FR
Queer/Art: "After Mentorship"- HBO Pop-up, Provincetown, MA
Le Colt est Jeune et Haine- DOC!, Paris, FR
Revival: Contemporary Pattern & Decoration- El Museo Del Barrio at Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx ,NY
Aesthetics of Matter- VOLTA curated by Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont, New York, NY
Queering Space II- Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2017
Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon- New Museum, New York, NY
FOUND: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction- Leslie- Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY
2016
Washashore- Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Queering Space- Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
Open. Wide. Sparagmos- Hercules Art Studio Program, New York, NY
James Baldwin/ Jim Brown and the Children- The Artist's Institute, New York, NY
2015
A Constellation- Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2014
Queer Art Mentorship Show- Leslie- Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Project Space, New York, NY
Gay- Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
TEN- Cindy Rucker Gallery, NY
2013
Outside the Lines: Rites of Spring- Contemporary Art Museum Houston, TX
Tis Bank- Torrance Shipman, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Disappearing Acts II- Anna Kustera, New York, NY
Bricoleurs- BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Disappearing Acts- Anna Kustera, New York, NY
2011
Bosch Young Talent Show- Bosch Young Talent Show, Stedlijk s’Hertogenbosch, s’Hertogenbosch, ND
2009
A Proposito: Pan- Latino Dialogues- Ely House Gallery, New Haven, CT
HONORS AND AWARDS:
2020
Hodder Fellowship, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton, NJ
2016
Art Matters Artist Grant
2015
Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Emerging Artist Grant
FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES:
2018 Denniston Hill, Glen Wild, NY
2017 Recess Art, New York, NY
2016 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2015 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2014 Workspace Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
2013 Queer Art Mentorship
MONOGRAPHS:
2021
Rock of Eye, Siglio Publishing
FEATURED BOOKS:
2020
The Age of Collage 3: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art, edited by Gestalten, Belgium, October 2020
Young Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists, Antwuan Sargent, D.A.P, September 29, 2020
GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUES:
2019
Great Force, edited by Amber Essevia, Institute of Contemporary Art at VCU
Whitney Biennial 2019, edited by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta, Yale University Press
2018
Trigger:Gender As A Tool And A Weapon, edited by Johanna Burton, New Museum Publications
2014
Rites of Spring (Outside the Lines), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Publications
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS:
2022
Greenberger, Alex, At California African American Museum, Troy Montes- Michie Offers Up Meditative Collages the Mine Histories of Violence, February 16th, 2022
Liberty, Megan N. Troy Michie's Rock of Eye, Brooklyn Rail, 2022
2021
Saka, Rasheeda. "The Beholder", Alta, December 20th, 2021
2020
Michie, Troy. Cover endorsement. Landscape Unknown (detail). 2019, The Paris Review No. 234, Emily Nemens, 2020.
Nemens. Emily. “New and Recent Work: Troy Michie Portfolio ”, The Paris Review No. 234, Fall 2020
Michie, Troy. Cover endorsement. Ojitos. 2018, The Denver Quarterly Vol. 54 No. 2, Vincent James, June 2020.
Karp-Evans, Elizabeth. “30 Under 35: Troy Michie Refuses Marginality”, Cultured Magazine, 2020
2019
Michie, Troy. Cover endorsement. Riots (June 7, 1943). 2019, Effects Journal No. 2, London, 2019.
Page, Christopher. “Riots: A Meditation on Invisibility and Hypervisibility”, Effects Journal No. 2, 2019
Holland Cotter. “The Whitney Biennial: Young Artist’s Cross-Stitched with Politics.”, The New York Times, May 16, 2019
Evan Moffitt. “The 2019 Whitney Biennial Is Unafraid To Be Beautiful.”, Frieze Magazine, May 20th, 2019
Ben Davis. “The 2019 Whitney Biennial Shows America’s Artists Turning Toward Coded Languages in Turbulent Times.”, Artnet, May 20th, 2019
2017
Carl Swanson. “He and She and They.”, New York Magazine, September 18th, 2017
Holland Cotter. “When It Comes to Gender, Let Confusion Reign.”, The New York Times, September 28, 2017
Holland Cotter. “Art Once Shunned, Now Celebrated in ‘Found:Queer Archaeology;Queer Abstraction’.”, The New York Times, August 23, 2017