Troy Montes-Michie

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Troy Michie
Born1985
El Paso, TX
NationalityAmerican
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. [1]

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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. [2]

Career

Michie participated in the Tuesday Night MFA Lecture Series at BU School of Visual Arts. [3]

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. [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

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References

  1. ↑ Michie, Troy Montes. “Troy Montes-Michie.” Sothebys.com, 4 Nov. 2022, https://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/troy-montes-michie .
  2. ↑ "Troy Michie, lecturer". Yale School of Art.
  3. ↑ "Visiting Artist: Troy Michie". Boston University.
  4. 1 2 3 "Company Gallery : Fat Cat Came to Play". companygallery.us. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  5. 1 2 Sutphin, Eric (March 1, 2018). "Troy Michie". ARTnews.com. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  6. ↑ Stewart, -Chris. "TROY MICHIE - FAT CAT CAME TO PLAY". GAYLETTER. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Troy Michie Refuses Marginality". Cultured Magazine. November 26, 2019. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ "11 Amazing Young Queer Artists You Should Know". advocate.com. November 4, 2013. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  10. ↑ "Rites of Spring (Outside the Lines series)". Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  11. ↑ "A Constellation | The Studio Museum in Harlem | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  12. ↑ "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon". newmuseum.org. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  13. ↑ "Troy Michie @New Museum". Collector Daily. January 16, 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  14. ↑ "Whitney Biennial 2019". whitney.org.
  15. ↑ "CAAM | Troy Montes-Michie: Rock of Eye". caamuseum.org. Retrieved November 5, 2022.
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