Mychaelyn Michalec is a textile artist who studied Painting and Drawing and Art History at The Ohio State University. She received her Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Southern Mississippi. She has mounted recent solo exhibitions at K Contemporary Denver, CO, The Weston Gallery in Cincinnati OH, The Contemporary Dayton, OH; and Roy G. Biv in Columbus, OH. Michalec has been included in group exhibitions at The Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, OH, The Bunker Art Space in West Palm Beach, FL ; Marquee Projects in Bellport, New York; The Longwood Museum of Art in Longwood VA; and Untitled Space Gallery in New York, NY, among others. Her work is held in the Collections of Beth Rudin DeWoody / The Bunker, The Collection of Sarah and Michelle Vance Waddell, Cincinnati, OH, Carla Shen, Brooklyn, NY and other private collections. She was awarded residencies at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska and The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts in New York and The Vermont Studio Center among others. Michalec was recently selected as a Ohio Woman to watch by the Ohio Advisory Group for the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. And is a recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award winner in Craft
Education
2005 Master of Library and Information Science, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
2002 Bachelor of Art, Art History, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH0
2000 Bachelor of Fine Art with Distinction, Painting & Drawing, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Grants, Fellowships, and Recognitions
2023 Selected as an Ohio Woman to Watch by the Ohio Advisory Group for the National Musuem of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.
Individual Artist Grant, Montgomery County Cultural Arts District
2022 Recipient of a Dayton Regional Arts Renewal grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and administered by Culture Works Dayton
2021 Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council
Individual Artist Grant, Montgomery County Cultural Arts District
2020 Fellowship, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
2018 Fellowship, Golden Family Foundation for the Arts Residency, New Berlin, NY
2017 Winner, People’s Choice Award, Art in the City, Dayton, OH
2016 Grant Recipient, Vermont Studio Center residency, Johnson, VT
2016 Featured Artist for Serena & Lily (www.serenaandlily.com)
2015 Best in Show, Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors
2015 Lombard Prize / Best in Show, Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, OH
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Trying to get all my birds to land in the yarn, K Contemporary, Denver, CO
2023 Not to Stifle but to Clarify curated by Dennis Harrington, The Weston Museum, Cincinnati, OH
2022 Three Square Meals of Disaffection, K Contemporary, Denver, CO
2021 From a basement on a hill, The Contemporary, Dayton, OH curated by Michael Goodson
Future Ruin, Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH
All that we went through was for nothing. Sean Christopher Gallery, Columbus, OH
2018 Personal Fable, Divisible, Dayton OH curated by Jeffery Cortland Jones
2017 I've never stopped wondering what my life would have been like, Dutoit, Dayton, OH
2015 No Accounting for Taste, Welker Rollins Studio, Kettering, OH
2015 Comes Furnished, Goes Furnished, Wright-Dunbar Historic District, Dayton, OH
Select Exhibitions / Fairs
2024
ÆMPIRE\ curated by John O Donnell, ArtSpace Hartford, Hartford, CT
Riveting: Women Artists from the Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Collection, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
National Women in the Arts Museum, Women to Watch: New Worlds, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH,
Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, Portsmouth, OH
2023
Meanwhile curated by Tim Reitenbach, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
National Women in the Arts Museum, Women to Watch: New Worlds, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH,
Medici Museum. Warren, OH, ArtSpace, Lima OH
Intersect Art Palm Springs with K Contemporary, Palm Springs, CA
2022
The Bunker Art Space, Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody, West Palm Beach, FL
Anthem X, Curated by Jared Owens Malin Gallery, New York, NY in Miami, FL
Somebody, Nobody, Anybody, Marquee Projects, Long Island, NY
Intersect Art and Design Aspen with K Contemporary, Aspen, CO
2021
Future Planets, Longwood Museum of Visual Art, curated by James Williams, Longwood, VA
Major Figures, Saatchi Art, Online Exhibition
Unraveled: Confronting the Fabric of Fiber Art, Untitled Space Gallery, New York, NY
2020
I Do Not Ask Any More Delight, curated by James Brooks Quappi Projects, Louisville, KY
Tuft curated by Tim Eads, Group Projects, Philadelphia, PA
Femme Maison- Mychaelyn Michalec & Karen Weeks, curated by Megan Bickel, Houseguest Gallery, Louisville, KY
2019
Ohio Arts Council Biennial Exhibition, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
From a Place of Personal Understanding, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH
The Other Art Fair curated by Saatchi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sentimental and Not, Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Body Language, Krasl Art Center, Saint Joseph, MI
/just to be alive/, 1628 Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Made in Paint 2019, Sam and Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY
2018
The Other Art Fair curated by Saatchi Gallery, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
Oh motHER, Custom House Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2017
The Other Art Fair curated by Saatchi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Group Show Invitational, Muse Gallery, Hilton Downtown, Columbus, OH
The Ohio State Fair, Cox Fine Arts Center, Columbus, OH
Hamilton Current, Fitton Center for the Creative Arts, Hamilton, OH
2016
The Dig, Kelsey Projects, Dutoit Gallery, Dayton, OH & Miami Township Library, Miamisburg, OH
Resonate, Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, OH
The Ohio State Fair, Cox Fine Arts Center, Columbus, OH
2015 The Body Electric, Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, OH
Collections
Dayton Metro Public Library
The Collection of Carla Shen
The Collection of Sarah and Michelle Vance Waddell
The Bunker Artspace West Palm Beach Florida / The Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody
Private Collections
Artist Residencies
2021 Object Hotel Residency, Bisbee, AZ
2020 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
2018 Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, New Berlin, NY
2016 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Bibliography
Friend of the Artist, Issue 8, 2019
Cooties Zine, Issue 2, 2018
Create! Magazine, Issue 8, 2018
Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 40, 2018
Art Maze Magazine, Issue 4, pg 83, 2017
Artist Talks
2024 Artist Talk, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Artist Talk, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA
2023 Artist Talk, Riffe Gallery, The Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH
Artist Talk, Weston Art Gallery Cincinnati, OH
Guest Speaker Miami University, Oxford, OH
Guest Speaker Indiana University East, Richmond, IN
2022 Artist Talk with Poet Maggie Smith, Sarah Gormley Galley, Columbus, OH
2021 Artist Talk, Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH
Artist Talk with Curator Michael Goodson, The Contemporary Dayton, Dayton, OH
2020 Artist Talk, Indiana University East, Richmond, IN.
Artist Talk and Guest Curator, Jackson Dinsdale Art Center, Hastings College, Hastings, NE
2019 Artist Talk, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH
Guest Speaker, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Guest Speaker, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2017 Guest Speaker, Department of Art, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
2016 Artist Talk, Dayton Visual Arts Center, Resonate, Dayton, OH
Artist Talk, Kelsey Projects, Miamisburg, OH
Press
2024 She Weaves the Complexity of Womanhood into Art. Post Industrial Magazine by Lindsay Fleuriet. August 2024.
Trying to Get All My Birds to Land in the Yard by Maggie Sava. Daria Magazine. April 2024.
Reimagining Female Identity: Mychaelyn Michalec’s Textiles and the Legacy of Craft. Interview with Bader + Simon Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2023 Reflections on being Misunderstood. Canvas Rebel
2020 Textile Show at Louisville’s Houseguest Gallery Explores Technology and Motherhood by Natalie Weis. All Things Considered, NPR, WFPL Louisville. February 13, 2020
2020 Artist Mychaelyn Michalec: Motherhood, Taking Time Off & Taking the Reigns of Your Art Career, I Like Your Work Podcast by Erika Hess. Feb 10, 2020.
2019 Ohio Artists in top form in juried exhibition at Riffe Center by Peter Tonguette, Columbus Dispatch. Dec 15, 2019.
2019 Pretty Girls Making Cool Shit
2019 Mychaelyn Michalec, Artist, Mother Maker Podcast
2019 Friend of the Artist, Vol. 8
2018 Five Dots Magazine
2018 The Jealous Curator
2018 Chicago: An Interview with Artist Mychaelyn Michalec, Canvas Blog, Saatchi Art
2018 Seven Questions, Artist Interview-Mychaelyn Michalec, Faithwaites / Cat Greene
2018 Cooties Presents: Mychaelyn Michalec, Cooties Zine
2018 #5 Women Artists: And the Domestic Realm, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
2018 Create! Magazine, issue 8
2018 Studio Visit Magazine, volume 40
2017 The Art Show, PBS, Season 7, Episode 12, Aired
2017 Elephant Magazine's Five Must See Artists at The Other Art Fair, Canvas Blog, Saatchi Art
2017 Art Maze Magazine, page 83, Issue 4
2017 After Vermont stay, Oakwood artist creates show with memories of home, Pam Dillon, Dayton Daily News
2017 Mychaelyn Michalec: Art Install at Miamisburg Library
2016 Living Dayton, Reimagining Works Interview
2016 Young Space Interview, Young-Space.com
2015 Top Ten for Dayton Visual Arts 2015, Dayton Most Metro
2015 Artists chosen for library's Miamisburg branch, Dayton Daily News
2015 Painting in the Dark, Dayton at Work and Play
2015 Michalec wins Lombard Prize, Best in Show at DVAC exhibit
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