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EDUCATION
2000-2002
MA, Art History, University of Texas, Austin, US
1994-1998
BA, Fine Arts and Art History, University of Pittsburgh, US
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026
"Past, Present and Future." Galerie Amélie du Chalard, NYC, US
Art Market San Francisco with Donna Seager Fine Arts, San Francisco, US
2025
"Seams from a Garden", Le Salon Vert Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Art Paris with Le Salon Vert Gallery, Paris, FR
Studio Ashby, Galerie Amélie du Chalard, London, UK
The 1818 Collective, Galerie Amélie du Chalard, Hamptons, USA
2024
"Locus Solus," Galerie Amélie du Chalard, Paris, FR
Art on Paper with Muriel Geupin Gallery, New York, US
"Material Matters," Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, US
2023
"Watering the Stones," Le Salon Vert Gallery, Genève, CH
"Artist Praxis," Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, US
2022
"Invisible," Muriel Guépin Gallery, NYC, US
KAOS Festival of International Collage, Kranj, SL
"Le temps d’un mois," Galerie Belle Beau, Arles, FR
"Invisible; Unseen; Unknown," Le Salon Vert Gallery, Geneva, CH
"Les Heures Grises," Ségolène Brossette Galerie, Paris, FR
2021
"Piecing It All Together," Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, US
"The Art of the Book," Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, US
"All Figured Out," Muriel Guépin Gallery, NY, US
"Beyond Boundaries," Galerie Zone, Leiden, NL
2020
"Women Artists Making Their Mark," O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, US
"Popup," Miniartextile, Como, IT, Montrouge, FR and Busto Arsizio, IT
2019
"Regardez-moi," The Fibery Gallery, Paris, FR
"Ladies Room," Jen Tough Gallery, San Francisco, US
"La Biennale d'Issy," Musée de la Carte à Jouer, Issy-les-Moulineaux, FR
KAOS Festival of International Collage, Kranj, SL
2018
"Internazionale della Carta," Lucca Biennale, Lucca, IT
2017
"LeftOvers by Procreate Project," 198 Contemporary Arts Gallery, London, UK
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2026
Laureate, Prix MEREA
Mas Molière avec Galerie Amélie du Chalard, Paradou, FR
2023
Joya: AiR, Vélez-Blanco, Almería, ES
2022
NG Creative Art Residency, Maussane, FR
2020
Finalist, Prix Carré-Sur-Seine
2019
Centre Pompadour Neofeminist Laboratory, Ercourt, FR
2018
Innovation In Technique Award, The Surface Design Association
COLLABORATIONS
2022
La Soufflerie, Paris, FR
2019
Wilhemine and Valentine Gauthier, Paris, FR
PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA
BOOKS
Le fil dans l'art contemporain: 125 artistes au cœur de la création, Charlotte Vannier,
Editions Pyramyd, 2025
The Collage Book of Ideas, Alannah Moore, ILEX Press, 2018
Press
“Shifting the Needle,” Departures International, February 2026
“Scènes végétales,” Milk Decoration, September 2024
“Living Small in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn,” NYTimes, 11 August 2023
“Ségolène Brossette, Photographie et Dessin," Côté Paris, October 2022
“Les Heures grises," Paris Art, March 2022
“Michele Landel,” The Jealous Curator, December 2019
“For There She Was,” Selvedge, March 2018
“Family Matters,” Surface Design Journal, Winter 2018
PODCASTS
“#51 – Michele Landel,” Art Lovers Forum, 2025
“Innovative Textures: Michele Landel on Collage & Form,” La Vie Creative, 2025
“Michele Landel,” Artist Praxis, 2023
“Constructing an Art Career Abroad with Michele Landel,” Artist Mother Podcast, 2020
TEACHING
2020-2025
Thrive Together Network, Artist Mentor, International
2019-2021
American Business School, Lecturer, Paris, FR
2017-2020
ISCOM - Ecole de Communications, Lecturer, Paris, FR
Michele Landel creates beautifully eerie patchwork paintings using photographs, fabric, paper, and thread. Whether draped or flattened, her embroidered paintings are about engaging the need and desire to look and the inherent power struggle between the one looking and the one being looked at.
She stitches over figures, cut flowers, and domesticated spaces to evoke symbols of power, loss, and memory. Mirroring and shadows are also often repeated to show self-awareness and internal worlds. Drawing on the intimacy associated with stained and mended secondhand bedsheets and the machine embroidery connected with craft, her artwork references the domestic while also deliberately distancing itself from traditional fiber arts. In her recent series, Michele has drawn upon Virginia Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness novels as a common thread. Both explore the politics of power, wedging the female perspective into a world seemingly only validated by men.
Michele is an American artist who lives and works in Sèvres, France. She holds degrees in Fine Arts and Art History. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout Europe, the UK, and the US and appears in The Collage Ideas Book (Ilex Press, 2018). She was awarded the 2018 Innovative Technique Award by the Surface Design Association and was a finalist for the Prix Carré-Sur-Seine in 2020.
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Michele Landel embroiders photographs on old stiff bed sheets similar to those found in the creaky cupboards of family homes. Figures, flowers, bottles... At first glance, nothing too shocking. Up close, however, the flowers wilt and the eyes recede, the colors fade and shapes disappear – all seem to be visibly threatened, if not already gone. Everywhere in her photographs mystery hovers and uncertainty lurks.Threads chosen tone-on-tone from an muted palette becomes both a medium of connection and disintegration, puncturing the plane in a dance of scars and sutures and turning faceless silhouettes into something akin to voodoo effigies. Michele Landel deliberately uses whatever domestic tools are at hand; an iron and butcher's paper are used to transfer portraits and still lifes onto fabric before stitching them together with a sewing machine – the sturdy instrument of progress that mechanized an ancestral gesture, a woman's gesture, the perfect housewife’s gesture. Her needlework on bed linen evokes the dull rhythm of everyday life, the monotony of a prolonged stay within four walls. House arrest, then, but there's also a sense of independence, this tug-of-war with memories and emotions between the stitches and stains. Textiles and politics are intertwined in these patchworks, inspired by the writings of Virginia Woolf and poems by Emily Dickinson and Mary Oliver. For they constantly reiterate the prevented history of the second sex.
Virginie Huet
