Education

Certification of Completion 2015

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

– Intensive Writer’s Program, Summer School, The Writer’s Workshop

Master of Fine Arts 1985

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

-Major: Photography

-Minor: Sculpture, Art History

Bachelor of Fine Arts 1983

University of Montana, Missoula, Montana

-Major: Sculpture/Photography

-Minor: French, Art History, Emphasis in Film

Additional Studies

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 1982

-Semester Exchange Program Photo Art History-Bill Jay

Burgundy Program, U of MT French Dept., Beaune, France 1981

-Exchange Student, Junior Year Abroad

Collections

Henry Mendehlson Buhl Collection

New York, New York

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Paris, France

Maison Européenne de la Photographie

Paris, France

Galerie der Stadt Villach

Villach, Austria

U. N. E. S. C. O.

Paris, France

Southeast Museum of Photography

Daytona Beach, Florida

Miami Center for the Fine Arts Museum

Miami, Florida

Earth Library

Kumamoto, Japan

Fellowships

Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin Upcoming (after COVID), 2022

Berlin, Germany

Nominated For: Henri Cartier-Bresson Award, 2021

Paris, France

Interviewed For: Albert Kahn Museum Award, 2021

Boulogne-Billancourt, France

SLAM, 2021

Bozeman, Montana

Montana Arts Council, Strategic Investment Grant, 2021

Helena, Montana

Montana Arts Council, Cares Grant, (Covid support for juried artists), 2021

Helena, Montana

Golden Light Awards, top 100 Photographers 1996

Maine Photographic Workshops

Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft Forschung und Kunst 1996

Vienna, Austria

Cité Internationale des Arts 1996

Paris, France

Aaron Siskind Foundation 1995

 New York, New York

 Cité Internationale des Arts 1994-95 

 Paris France

 National Foundation or Advancement in the Arts (CAVA Award) 1993-1995

 Miami, Florida

 Connecticut Commission on the Arts1991

 Hartford, Connecticut

 Change Inc. 1990

 New York, New York

Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation 1989

Brooklyn, New York

Montana Arts Council 1989

Helena, Montana

Exhibitions

2022

Love

Exhibizione

Ontario, Canada

Winter Visions 2022

PH21 Gallery

Budapest, Hungary

2021

3Shots

Triptych Festival

Milan, Italy

Significant Color

PH21 Gallery

Budapest, Hungary

2021

The Art of Photography

VALID WORLD HALL

Barcelona, Spain

Personality: Contemporary Portraiture

PH21 Gallery

Budapest, Hungary

ART IN THE TIME OF CORONA

Dab Art

Ventura, California

Feminine/Masculine — Jurors Award — Curated by Zsolt Bátori

PH21 Gallery

Budapest, Hungary

2020-2021

En Pausa/On Hold

Museo de la Carcova-(Carcova Museum)

Buenos Aires, Argentina

ART IN THE TIME OF CORONA

Dab Art

Los Angeles, California

2020

Sink or Swim

The Curatorship-online

Dublin, Ireland

Winter Exhibition — Curated by Sylvia White

realArt

Los Angeles, California

The Wonders of Women

WOW Gallery

Houston, Texas

Summer Exhibition — Curated by Sylvia White

realArt

Los Angeles, California

2019

The Erotic Teapot

Montana Modern Fine Art

Kalispell, Montana

2017

Bushwick Open Studios

Castlebraid

Brooklyn, New York

2016

Summer of Love — All Female Art Exhibit

 Sappari

Whitefish, Montana

2013

SEX/LOVE — Curated by Harvey Stein

Umbrella Arts Gallery

New York, New York

2010

Summer Show

Noice Gallery

Kalispell, Montana

2007

SEEING ANGELS

The Knead

Kalispell, Montana

1998

The Hand of the Master — Organized by the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris for the 12th Annual SAGA Print Drawing and Photo Exhibit

Espace Eiffel Branly

Paris, France

Narratives Of Desire

Troyer, Fitzpatrick Lassman Gallery

Washington D.C.

1997

Alex Amann-painter, Michelle Luke-photographer

Damtschach Castle

Wernberg, Austria

Betwixt — Michelle Luke Photography

Lionheart Gallery

Boston, Massachusetts

1996-97

Michelle Luke photographies

Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris

Paris, France

1996

Michelle Luke/Jerald Frampton

Fotogalerie Wien

Vienna, Austria

Flirt

Kunsthalle Exnergasse

Vienna, Austria

1995

CAVA Award Exhibit

N.F.A.A., 420 West Broadway

New York, New York

The Body Photographic

Contemporary Arts Center

New Orleans, Louisiana

Michelle Luke/

U.N.E.S.C.O.

Paris, France

Michelle Luke

Imago Lucia Fotogaleria

Porto, Portugal

Reverberations — (Traveling Exhibition)

Cornell Museum

Winter Park, Florida &

Southeastern Museum of Photography

Daytona Beach, Florida

1994-95

Matter, Shadow, and Fiction, Recent Enrichments to Contemporary Photography

Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris

Paris, France

1994

Photo Biennal

Westport Art Center

West Port, Connecticut

Night Visions and Other Obsessions

Marguerite Oestreicher Gallery

New Orleans, Louisiana

New Art of the West

Eitlejorg Museum

Indianapolis, Indiana

1993-94

Montana Choice — *Montana Arts Council Grant Recipients* — (Traveling Exhibition)

Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell, Montana, Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana, Copper Village Museum, Anaconda, Montana, Holter Museum, Helena, Montana, Western Montana College Gallery, Dillon, Montana

1993

The Lovers Of Luxembourg Gardens

Midtown-Y-Gallery

New York, New York

16 Montana Photographers — (Traveling Exhibition)

Shimada Art Museum

Kumamoto, Japan

Photo Invitational

Mackey Gallery

Denver, Colorado

1992

 20/20 Vision

Cranbrook Art Museum

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Fellowship Artists

Showcase Gallery

Hartford, Connecticut

1990

If Wishes Had Fins

Performance Studio

New Haven, Connecticut

1989

Re-inventing Romanticism

John Slade Ely House

New Haven, Connecticut

Collector’s Choice

Madison Gallery

Madison, Connecticut

New Work/New Haven

Artspace

New Haven, Connecticut

Women In Charge

Artspace

New Haven, Connecticut

1988

Domestic Eroticism

Art In Heaven

New Haven, Connecticut

Fellowship Artist-Michelle Luke

Hockaday Center for the Arts

Kalispell, Montana

 

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