Troy Montes-Michie (born 1985) is an American interdisciplinary painter and collage artist.[1]
Troy Michie | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1985 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Texas at El Paso BFA, 2009 Yale School of Art MFA, 2011 |
Early life and education
editTroy 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
editMichie participated in the Tuesday Night MFA Lecture Series at BU School of Visual Arts.[3]
Fat Cat Came To Play
editOn 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] 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.[6] 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”.[7]
Exhibitions
edit- "Found: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction” – Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art[8]
- Stedelijk Museum-Hertogenbosch[9]
- "Rites of Spring" (group show) - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston – (01/11/2014 – September 3, 2014)[10]
- "A Constellation" (group show) - The Studio Museum in Harlem – (11/12/2015 – June 3, 2016)[11]
- "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon" (group show) – The New Museum – (09/27/17 – 01/21/18)[12][13]
- 2019 Whitney Biennial – Whitney Museum of American Art – curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta[14]
- 2022 "Rock of Eye" - California African American Museum (CAAM) Los Angeles, Ca. - Curated by Andrea Anderson[15]
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.
- ^ a b c "Company Gallery : Fat Cat Came to Play". companygallery.us. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ^ a b Sutphin, Eric (March 1, 2018). "Troy Michie". ARTnews.com. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ^ 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.