CURATORIAL PROJECTS - Michelle Nye - Bay Area Artist and Curator

Discover the work of over forty Bay Area artists in the curatorial projects below. The exhibitions explore themes such as beauty, memory, muse, technology, nature, women’s rights, diversity and diaspora. These community projects were executed as an independent curator and during a twenty year tenure at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery (an arm of SFMOMA dedicated to the support of local arts through art exhibitions, sales and rentals.) Embracing collaboration and aiming to uplift artist voices, Michelle has produced beneficial art experiences for hundreds of Bay Area artists, colleagues, institutions, business partners and art appreciators.

FEATURED CURATORIAL PROJECT

THE FABRIC OF REPRESENTATION

CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

MAR – OCT 2020

Organized by SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Curator Michelle Nye, Interim Director

View More

ADDITIONAL SAMPLE PROJECTS

Abstract artwork by Matthew Scheatzle, of dark cherry wood patterns held in place with blue plastic molding, making star patterns.

ALISON WOODS + MATTHEW SCHEATZLE

ART AT COLORFLOW

OCT 2013 – FEB 2014

Curator, Michelle Nye

A painting by Jason Michael Aumann of a photograph of a victorian era woman, seen four times repeated, in progressive states of deterioration of the photograph, with painterly qualities of the four images. Generally tones of brown, white, cream and yellow seen throughout.

AMANDA BOE + JASON MICHAEL AUMANN + NIF HODGSON

ART AT COLORFLOW

AUG – OCT 2013

Curator, Michelle Nye

A Rachelle Reichert photograph of dried roses dusted in graphite

DANIEL GRANT + RACHELLE REICHERT

SFMOMA ARTISTS GALLERY

MAR – APR 2014

Curator, Michelle Nye

A photograph by Adreinne Waheed of a crowd of black people dancing, some with tattoos, wearing stylish clothes and accessories, with blue sky and clouds above.

DIASPORA VOICED

A BAY AREA JURIED ART EXHIBITION

SEP – OCT 2019

Presented by Rhythmix Cultural Works in partnership with curator Michelle Nye

JURORS Demitri Broxton of the Museum of the African Diaspora, Daniel Nevers of the Berkeley Art Center and Mayumi Hamanaka of Kala Art Institute

Emily Dvorin's sculpture of plastics is a pot with plastic clear tendrils poking out from all sides, and pink plastics waven at the top of the vessel, with bright green, orange, purple, blue and teal as the lower part of the vase.

VISION

AN ARTIST’S PERSPECTIVE

JULY 2016

Presented by Gutfreund Cornett Art with UniteWomen.org

JURORS Michelle Nye and Suzanne Gray