Michelle Weinberg is a painter who creates art for surfaces, interiors, architecture and public spaces. She received her BFA from School of Visual Arts in NYC and her MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She is the recipient of awards, fellowships and residencies including a NYSCA Grant to Individual Artists, a NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship, a residency at Yaddo, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Awards (2016, 2025), a Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, Studios at MASS MoCA, a Joseph Robert Foundation Award, SouthArts, a Creative Learning Grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, a Wavemaker Grant from Cannonball Miami, a South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship in Visual and Media Art, an Individual Artist Fellowship and Artist Enhancement Grant from the State of Florida, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, 100 West Corsicana in TX, MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, homesession and Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, and Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic. Exhibitions of her work include: Studio 502, NYC, Pulp Holyoke, Project: ARTspace, NYC, ArtPort Kingston, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, FIU Frost Art Museum, Schmidt Center Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, the Wolfsonian Museum, Emerson Dorsch Gallery and Dot FiftyOne Gallery in Miami, La Plataforma in Barcelona, The Hewitt Gallery at Marymount Manhattan College and ARENA by Renee Riccardo in NYC, The Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Edison State College in Fort Myers, FL, The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA and Islip Art Museum, NY. Commissions include a 700 linear foot mural “River Semaphore” in Lower Manhattan produced by ArtBridge and partners including Battery Park City Authority, NYC Parks, Downtown Alliance, NYC, murals for The Wolfsonian Museum-FIU, Facebook offices in Miami and Young at Art Museum in Dania, FL, public art projects for Miami-Dade County, Miami International Airport, City of Tampa, City of Pembroke Pines, Cultural Council of Jacksonville, and City of Hollywood, in FL. Weinberg has organized exhibitions and presentations of work by other artists, including “Artists Draw Their Studios” and “Cuts a Figure” via her platform Available Space (availablespaceishere.com). Weinberg is Creative Director of Girls’ Club in Fort Lauderdale, and a consultant to museums and non-profits, developing exhibitions, education programming and more. She is a Lecturer at SUNY Purchase College and an Instructor at Marymount College.
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(photo: Stephan Goetlicher)