Faculty:

Michelle Murillo

FOUNDATIONS
Asst. Professor
(M.F.A., Printmaking, University of Alberta, Canada)

office: FA-333C
phone: 817-272-3441
email: mmurillo@uta.edu

Biography

Michelle Murillo received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Alberta, Canada and a BFA in Painting from Boston University. Her work has been exhibited in the US, Canada, and Europe. In 2008 she will exhibit at the Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists Gallery in Edmonton, Canada and at Proyecto’ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she will be an artist in residence.

Most recent exhibitions include: “Los Angeles Printmaking Society 19th National Exhibition,” Riverside Art Museum, California, “American Print,” Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado, “Beyond Printmaking,” Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, “New Art 2007,” MPG Contemporary Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, “5th Biennale Internationale d’ Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivieres,” Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, “Under the Sieve,” Fine Arts Building Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, “Memory House,” Stamperia del Tintoretto Spigolo Aperto Gallery,Venice, Italy, “A Many Colored Spectacle,” Southern Graphics Council Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, “Synergies: Prints from the University of Alberta,” Kloster Bentlage Cultural Centre, Rheine, Germany, “Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial,” Boston, Massachusetts.

Murillo is an active member of the international printmaking community and participates in collaborative projects and conferences in Argentina, Canada, Cuba, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the US. She has received grantstc "Grants | Awards " \l 2 from The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canada (2005), The Canada Research Council (2004) as well as travel grants from The Educational Bridge Project, St. Petersburg, Russia (2002), The Print Foundation Bentlage, Rheine, Germany (2005) and the University of Alberta, Canada (2005). Her work has been collected by The Amity Foundation, The Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts, Boston University College of Fine Arts, The University of Alberta Art and Artifact Collection, Canada, and The Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

Backsliding - 2006

Bromeliad - 2006