Troy Michie

Troy Michie (born 1985) is an American collage artist, painter, interdisciplinary installation artist, and sculptor based in New York City.[1] Michie's work is often in dialogue with the canon of collage; as well as, investigating society's understanding of race, gender, sexuality, and other fields of identity and power.[2]

Troy Michie
Born1985
El Paso, TX
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Texas at El Paso
BFA, 2009
Yale School of Art
MFA, 2011

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.[3]

Career

Michie participated in the Tuesday Night MFA Lecture Series at BU School of Visual Arts.[2]

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

References
  1. "Graduate Fine Arts | PennDesign". www.design.upenn.edu. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  2. "Visiting Artist: Troy Michie". Boston University.
  3. "Troy Michie, lecturer". Yale School of Art.
  4. "Company Gallery : Fat Cat Came to Play". companygallery.us. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  5. 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.
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