Michele Abeles

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Michele Abeles
Born
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Education Washington University in St. Louis (BA)
Yale University (MFA)
Known forPhotography
AwardsRema Hort Mann, Visual Arts Grantee 2010
Richard Benson Award, Excellence in Photography, Yale University, 2007

Michele Abeles is an American visual artist and photographer.

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Life and work

Michele Abeles was born in 1977 in New York. [1] She graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis, and has an M.F.A. in photography from Yale University. Her photographs combine everyday objects such as bottles, pots, rocks, and scraps of paper with flashes of bright color and fragments of male bodies. [2]

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

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References

  1. Museum of Modern Art (October 2012). "New photography, 2012: Michele Abeles" . Retrieved March 10, 2018.
  2. 1 2 Saatchi Gallery (2018). "Michele Abeles" . Retrieved March 10, 2018.

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