Michelle Blade is an artist born in Los Angeles who makes paintings and drawings documenting time, closely examining the stillness, strength, and persistence of the natural world and our relationship to it.
Recent exhibitions include her solo show "The Blue Horse" at Loyal, Stockholm (2022), and “Into the Forest” at Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles (2020). Some recent group exhibitions include When The Sun Loses It’s Light at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles(2022); High Voltage 3 at The Nassima-Landau Project, Tel Aviv, Israel (2022); Machines of Desire at Simon Lee, London (2022); “If you Forget My Name I will go Astray) at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles (2022), and “My Secret Garden” at Asia Art Center curated by Emilia Yin and Melanie Ouyang Lum (Taipei).
She has also exhibited at Anat Ebgi (LA), La Loma Gallery, (LA); The Pit (LA), WOAW Gallery (Hong Kong), Make Room (Los Angeles), F2T Gallery, (Milan); The Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe), The Bonnefanten Museum (Netherlands), Jack Hanley, Roberts & Tilton (Los Angeles), and The Torrance Art Museum (Los Angeles). Blade’s work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review, Juxtapoz, The California Sunday Magazine, and Art Maze. Michelle Michelle has a BA from Loyola Marymount and an MFA from the California College of the Arts, in San Francisco.