Troy Michie | |
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Born | 1985 El Paso, TX |
Nationality | American |
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.
Early life and education
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.
Career
Michie participated in the Tuesday Night MFA Lecture Series at BU School of Visual Arts.
Fat Cat Came To Play
On December 3, 2017, Michie held his first solo exhibition Fat Cat Came To Play through Company Gallery, which lasted until January 21, 2018. 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”. 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. 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. 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. 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. The exhibition stayed true to Michie's philosophy of representing the cultural expressions, specifically through fashion, of “historically marginalized American male figures”.
Exhibitions
- "Found: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction” – Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
- Stedelijk Museum-Hertogenbosch
- "Rites of Spring" (group show) - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston – (01/11/2014 – September 3, 2014)
- "A Constellation" (group show) - The Studio Museum in Harlem – (11/12/2015 – June 3, 2016)
- "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon" (group show) – The New Museum – (09/27/17 – 01/21/18)
- 2019 Whitney Biennial – Whitney Museum of American Art – curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta
- 2022 "Rock of Eye" - California African American Museum (CAAM) Los Angeles, Ca. - Curated by Andrea Anderson
References
- 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.
- ^ "Company Gallery : Fat Cat Came to Play". companygallery.us. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
- ^ 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.
External links
Categories:- 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