Troy Montes-Michie
Troy Michie | |
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| Born | 1985 (age 40–41) |
| Education | University of Texas at El Paso BFA, 2009 Yale School of Art MFA, 2011 |
Troy Montes-Michie (born 1985) is an American interdisciplinary painter and collage artist.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Troy Michie was born in El Paso, TX. He received a BFA from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2009 and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in Painting/Printmaking in 2011.[2]
Career
[edit]Michie participated in the Tuesday Night MFA Lecture Series at BU School of Visual Arts.[3]
Fat Cat Came To Play
[edit]On December 3, 2017, Michie held his first solo exhibition Fat Cat Came To Play through Company Gallery, which lasted until January 21, 2018.[4] In the solo exhibition, Michie explores the significance of zoot suits, which are “broad-shouldered suits that were popular with Italian, black, and Latino men in the United States in the 1940s”.[5] The installation was inspired by the Zoot Suit Riots, which took place in 1943 after white servicemen attacked a group of Mexican Americans wearing Zoot suits.[5] The artist was also inspired by forms of dazzle camouflage.[6] Unlike his earlier works, which dealt with sex, Fat Cat Came To Play focused on exploring “blackness, queerness, and sexuality within an assemblage” by expressing socio-economic traits on to the Zoot Suit.[7] In many of his installations, Michie cuts out the faces of photographs from this era to address that these histories of the minorities are still relevant today.[4] A notable piece of the exhibition was “Disruptive Patterns”, which aimed to remind people that police officers were among the attackers in the Zoot Suit Riots.[4] The exhibition stayed true to Michie's philosophy of representing the cultural expressions, specifically through fashion, of “historically marginalized American male figures”.[8]
Exhibitions
[edit]- "Found: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction”, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art[9]
- Stedelijk Museum-Hertogenbosch[10]
- "Rites of Spring" (group show), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, (January 11, 2014 – September 3, 2014)[11]
- "A Constellation" (group show), The Studio Museum in Harlem, (November 12, 2015 – June 3, 2016)[12]
- "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon" (group show), The New Museum, (September 27, 2017 – January 21, 2018)[13][14]
- 2019 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art; curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta[15]
- 2022 "Rock of Eye", California African American Museum (CAAM) Los Angeles, California; curated by Andrea Anderson[16]
- The Banner Project: Troy Montes Michie, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (June 25, 2024 – June 23, 2025)[17]
References
[edit]- ↑ Michie, Troy Montes. “Troy Montes-Michie.” Sothebys.com, 4 Nov. 2022, https://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/troy-montes-michie .
- ↑ "Troy Michie, lecturer". Yale School of Art.
- ↑ "Visiting Artist: Troy Michie". Boston University.
- 1 2 3 "Company Gallery : Fat Cat Came to Play". companygallery.us. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- 1 2 Sutphin, Eric (March 1, 2018). "Troy Michie". ARTnews.com. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ↑ Fountain, Daniel (2026). Queer Crafts: Material Practices and the Making of Identity. Critical Craft Studies (1st ed.). London: Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-350-35935-2.
- ↑ Stewart, -Chris. "TROY MICHIE - FAT CAT CAME TO PLAY". GAYLETTER. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ↑ "Troy Michie Refuses Marginality". Cultured Magazine. November 26, 2019. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ↑ Cotter, Holland (August 23, 2017). "Art Once Shunned, Now Celebrated in 'Found: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
- ↑ "11 Amazing Young Queer Artists You Should Know". advocate.com. November 4, 2013. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
- ↑ "Rites of Spring (Outside the Lines series)". Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
- ↑ "A Constellation | The Studio Museum in Harlem | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
- ↑ "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon". newmuseum.org. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
- ↑ "Troy Michie @New Museum". Collector Daily. January 16, 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
- ↑ "Whitney Biennial 2019". whitney.org.
- ↑ "CAAM | Troy Montes-Michie: Rock of Eye". caamuseum.org. Retrieved November 5, 2022.
- ↑ "The Banner Project: Troy Montes Michie | Museum of Fine Arts Boston". www.mfa.org. Retrieved April 3, 2026.
External links
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- 1985 births
- Living people
- University of Texas at El Paso alumni
- Yale School of Art alumni
- LGBTQ people from Texas
- LGBTQ people from New York (state)
- African-American LGBTQ people
- American LGBTQ artists
- African-American painters
- African-American contemporary artists
- American contemporary painters
- Hispanic and Latino American artists
- 21st-century African-American artists
- 20th-century African-American artists
- Artists from El Paso, Texas