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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 
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Holland Cotter. “Art Once Shunned, Now Celebrated in ‘Found:Queer Archaeology;Queer Abstraction’.”, The New York Times, August 23, 2017 


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