There is a certain uncertainty in my studio work. Giant knitted installations can completely unravel from one broken spot. Language made concrete in textiles ask questions that hold no concrete answers. Sharp heavy metal objects are held in silk chiffon with tiny stitches of thread, awaiting eventual rupture. Cement works degrade, rust, fade and crumble. I use common materials and techniques embedded with histories, beauty and absurdity to find entrance to larger, harder conversations about our connected humanity, invisible labor, and environmental destruction
The community projects I am involved in are totally different. They are centered around exchange; of labor, stories, time and ideas. They are designed to flatten hierarchies embedded in institutions and to embracing the gentle rhythms of making together. Often playful and absurd, these projects affirm gathering as a location of substantial change.
The community projects I am involved in are totally different. They are centered around exchange; of labor, stories, time and ideas. They are designed to flatten hierarchies embedded in institutions and to embracing the gentle rhythms of making together. Often playful and absurd, these projects affirm gathering as a location of substantial change.
CV Michelle Montjoy
Selected Exhibitions
2022 The Breathing Room New Children's Museum, San Diego, CA
Fiber Art International Pittsburgh, PA, traveling to Fort Collins CO in 2023
Small Acts- the craft of subversion San Diego City College
Syntax- Art Produce Gallery San Diego, CA
2021 Sowing Seeds, Mesa College, San Diego, CA
Tricksters and Transformation, Textile Arts LA, Culver City, CA
Chorus, permanent installation at Seabird Resort, Oceanside, CA
2020 Mesa Drive-In: a drive-thru art exhibition Mesa College, San Diego, CA
Borrow Pit Brandes Gallery, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA
Edges Frayed with Bhavna Mehta and Irma Sophia Poeter, Cannon Gallery, Carlsbad CA
2019 A Dime to Call Home, public art installation at Liberty Station, Point Loma, CA
Faculty + 1, San Diego City College, San Diego, CA
To Do - a mending project, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Correspondence, 1805 Gallery, San Diego, CA
2018 Being Here With You/ Estando Aquí Contigo, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego,
To Do-a mending project, 1805 Gallery, San Diego, CA
That’s What She Said, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College San Marcos, CA
Terra Infirma, Space4Art, San Diego, CA
Figure of Speech, installation at San Diego International Airport, San Diego, CA
Dia de Mujer, The Front/ Arte Cultura, San Ysidro, CA
2017 The Maker’s Eye, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College San Marcos, CA
New Contemporaries, San Diego Art Prize, CM Curatorial, San Diego, CA
DomesticACTion, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA
River, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Nasty Women, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA
2016 Michelle Montjoy, Sophies Gallery, Kensington San Diego, CA
UnRest: Carrie Minikel, Michelle Montjoy and Lissa Corona Linksoul Lab/HSCC, Oceanside, CA
Flat Earth, Ship in the Woods, Escondido, CA
Looking Back/Forward: 20 years of Art Produce, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA
Socially Engaged Projects
To Do: a mending project Michelle Montjoy, Siobhan Arnold, and Anna O’Cain
DomesticACTion California Arts Council-Artists Engaging Communities grant with Art Produce Gallery
River Creative Catalyst grant project with Oceanside Museum of Art
Around the Corner, Uncommon Core, Interchange, Espero Sparrow
Co-facilitator: Community Art Projects: 1+1=1, Coordinates and Request
Awards
2022 Fiber Arts International Third Place award
2020 Artist Residency: Brush Creek Art Foundation, Saratoga, WY
2018 Excellence in Fibers IV: Fiber Arts Now, Winter 2018
2017 Artist Residency: Ipark Foundation, East Hadaam, CT
2017 San Diego Art Prize nominee, Emerging Artist category, San Diego, CA
2017 California Arts Council/Artists Engaging Communities grant with Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA
2016 Creative Catalyst Grant fellowship, San Diego Foundation, San Diego, CA
2007-8 Artist Residency: Painting’s Edge, Idyllwild, CATeaching,
Speaking, Employment, Boards
Board Member: Boehm Gallery Advisory Board 2021- present
Embedded Artist Veteran’s Park Project, City of Carlsbad, CA 2020-21
Juror: San Diego Airport Arts program, Mesa College Museum Studies Program MCASD Artist under 25
Artist lectures/panel discussions : Gensler Architecture, San Diego State University, San Diego Art Institute, Cal State
University San Marcos Art Media & Design Program, MiraCosta College Art Department, Mesa College Museum Studies, Canyon Crest High School,
North Coastal Knitters Guild, Textile Guild of San Diego, San Diego, CA
Visiting Artist/Instructor Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA Athenaeum School of the Arts
Teaching Artist Monte Vista Elementary, Vista, CA 1998 -2014
Art Instructor- Studio Art Guajome Park Academy Vista, CA 2005-2007
Commissioner- Vista Arts Council Vista, CA 2005-2007
Education
Illinois State University B.S. Visual Arts/Visual Communications
Selected Exhibitions
2022 The Breathing Room New Children's Museum, San Diego, CA
Fiber Art International Pittsburgh, PA, traveling to Fort Collins CO in 2023
Small Acts- the craft of subversion San Diego City College
Syntax- Art Produce Gallery San Diego, CA
2021 Sowing Seeds, Mesa College, San Diego, CA
Tricksters and Transformation, Textile Arts LA, Culver City, CA
Chorus, permanent installation at Seabird Resort, Oceanside, CA
2020 Mesa Drive-In: a drive-thru art exhibition Mesa College, San Diego, CA
Borrow Pit Brandes Gallery, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA
Edges Frayed with Bhavna Mehta and Irma Sophia Poeter, Cannon Gallery, Carlsbad CA
2019 A Dime to Call Home, public art installation at Liberty Station, Point Loma, CA
Faculty + 1, San Diego City College, San Diego, CA
To Do - a mending project, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Correspondence, 1805 Gallery, San Diego, CA
2018 Being Here With You/ Estando Aquí Contigo, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego,
To Do-a mending project, 1805 Gallery, San Diego, CA
That’s What She Said, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College San Marcos, CA
Terra Infirma, Space4Art, San Diego, CA
Figure of Speech, installation at San Diego International Airport, San Diego, CA
Dia de Mujer, The Front/ Arte Cultura, San Ysidro, CA
2017 The Maker’s Eye, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College San Marcos, CA
New Contemporaries, San Diego Art Prize, CM Curatorial, San Diego, CA
DomesticACTion, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA
River, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Nasty Women, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA
2016 Michelle Montjoy, Sophies Gallery, Kensington San Diego, CA
UnRest: Carrie Minikel, Michelle Montjoy and Lissa Corona Linksoul Lab/HSCC, Oceanside, CA
Flat Earth, Ship in the Woods, Escondido, CA
Looking Back/Forward: 20 years of Art Produce, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA
Socially Engaged Projects
To Do: a mending project Michelle Montjoy, Siobhan Arnold, and Anna O’Cain
DomesticACTion California Arts Council-Artists Engaging Communities grant with Art Produce Gallery
River Creative Catalyst grant project with Oceanside Museum of Art
Around the Corner, Uncommon Core, Interchange, Espero Sparrow
Co-facilitator: Community Art Projects: 1+1=1, Coordinates and Request
Awards
2022 Fiber Arts International Third Place award
2020 Artist Residency: Brush Creek Art Foundation, Saratoga, WY
2018 Excellence in Fibers IV: Fiber Arts Now, Winter 2018
2017 Artist Residency: Ipark Foundation, East Hadaam, CT
2017 San Diego Art Prize nominee, Emerging Artist category, San Diego, CA
2017 California Arts Council/Artists Engaging Communities grant with Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA
2016 Creative Catalyst Grant fellowship, San Diego Foundation, San Diego, CA
2007-8 Artist Residency: Painting’s Edge, Idyllwild, CATeaching,
Speaking, Employment, Boards
Board Member: Boehm Gallery Advisory Board 2021- present
Embedded Artist Veteran’s Park Project, City of Carlsbad, CA 2020-21
Juror: San Diego Airport Arts program, Mesa College Museum Studies Program MCASD Artist under 25
Artist lectures/panel discussions : Gensler Architecture, San Diego State University, San Diego Art Institute, Cal State
University San Marcos Art Media & Design Program, MiraCosta College Art Department, Mesa College Museum Studies, Canyon Crest High School,
North Coastal Knitters Guild, Textile Guild of San Diego, San Diego, CA
Visiting Artist/Instructor Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA Athenaeum School of the Arts
Teaching Artist Monte Vista Elementary, Vista, CA 1998 -2014
Art Instructor- Studio Art Guajome Park Academy Vista, CA 2005-2007
Commissioner- Vista Arts Council Vista, CA 2005-2007
Education
Illinois State University B.S. Visual Arts/Visual Communications