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Selected Exhibitions 

 

RESIDENCIES & PROJECTS

2022, Collage Artists Residency, Sanquhar, Scotland, September 

2021, Ano Asites Artists Residency, Crete, Greece, October

2020, Wildforest Sanctuary, Annapolis, CA, June

2019 & 2018, Dirty Girls of Lesvos Island Artist in Residence, Lesvos, Greece

2019, Love the Bulb, Albany, CA 2019

2018 & 2017, Joshua Tree Artward Bound Creative Camp for Wayward Girls,

2018 & 2017, Love-In, Hayes Valley Art Works, San Francisco, CA

2016, I-Park Foundation International Artist-in-Residence, East Haddam, CT April 2016

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SOLO SHOWS

2022, Reimagining the Flag, Hayes Valley Art Works, San Francisco, CA 

2016, Reclaimed Room, San Francisco, CA 

2015, Spark Arts, San Francisco, CA 

2015, Cliche Noe Valley Gallery Shop, San Francisco, CA 

20152, The Club at the Claremont, Berkeley, CA 
Art @ the Library, Napa, CA March 2008 
North Berkeley Frame and Gallery, Berkeley, CA March-April 2006
The Club at the Claremont, Berkeley, CA March 2003 
Salmon Graphics Art Gallery, "Everyday Miracles", Berkeley, CA, March 2001
Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA, January 2000 
Galeria Scola, Oakland, CA, June 1997 
Veritas Software Corporate Headquarters, Mountain View, CA, Feb-April 1997 
Berkeley YWCA, Berkeley, CA, March 1997 

Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR, November 1996 
Chico Art Center, Chico, CA, June 1995
El Camino Real Women's Club, San Clemente, CA, October 1994 
St. Francis Foundation, San Francisco, CA, July 1993

 

JURIED & CURATED SHOWS

2025, Visualizing Gertrude Stein, Art Haus, San Francisco, CA

2025, Consumed, The Drawing Room, San Francisco, CA 

2025, What Can't be Spoken, Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA

2024, Politically Charged, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA

2024, Women Create Space, Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA 

2024Access: An Ordinary Notion, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2024, Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA

2024The de Young Open, San Francisco, CA

2023, Red, White and Blue. What Does it Mean to You?, 6th Street Studios, Gilroy, CA 

2023, Mysterious Landscapes: Secrets of the Vale, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

2023, Seen and Imagined, Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes, CA

2023, The Frayed Stories of Life, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

2020, Traces, Village Theater Art Gallery, Danville, CA January 14-March 12, 2020

2020, Emotional Numbness: The Impact of War on the Human Psyche and Ecosystems,

Platform 3, Tehran, Iran

2019, Art on the Grounds, Bioneers Conference, San Rafael, CA

2019, Bulbfest 2019, Albany, CA

2018, Earth: An Art Exhibit at the Office of Senator Wiener, San Francisco, CA 

2017, Reclaiming Earth, WEAD Exhibition, Jewett Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

2016, Murmurations, June Steingart Gallery, "Oakland, CA 
2016, Art for Animals, Studio 23
, Alameda, CA

2016, Present Ground, Hayes Valley Art Works, "", San Francisco, CA

2016, New Quarters, Hayes Valley Art Works, San Francisco, CA,

2016, Mosser Hotel, San Francisco, CA

2015, Fort Pop-Up Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2014, Collect, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 
2013, Silicon Valley Small Works, Vargas Gallery, Mission College, Santa Clara, CA
2011, 50-50 Show III, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2011, Arizona Aqueous, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ
2010, Bay Area Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2010, Mosiacs, ArtWorks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
2010, Postal: Artist Created Postcards, Garage Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2009, Beyond Boundaries, Seed Corn Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2009, Valentine Show, Garage Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2000, Pro Arts, "New Visions: Introductions 00", Oakland, CA 
1998, Pro Arts, Juried Annual, Oakland, CA 
1998, Pro Arts, "New Visions: Introductions 98", Oakland, CA
1997, Antioch Lynn House Gallery, "Sports", Antioch, CA
1996, Crocker-Kingsley Biennial Exhibition, Sacramento, CA

 

GROUP SHOWS
2022, New Normal: Learning From the Past to Move Forward Together, China Brotsky Gallery at 
Tides Converge, San Francisco, CA

2013, Array, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2014, 2013, 2010, 2008, ArtSpan San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
2003, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, Pro Arts Open Studios, Berkeley, CA

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES  

SITE STEWARD, Hayes Valley Art Works, San Francisco

   A project to activate outdoor space awaiting development.

TEACHING ARTIST, Kids & Art, Burlingame, CA

   Provide art workshops to children with cancer and their care circles to improve

   their well-being. 

FORMER TREASURER/BOARD MEMBER, WEAD (Women Environmental Arts Dialog) 

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PRESS

San Francisco Chronicle, "Found Art in Building Supply Store", November 24, 2016

San Francisco Chronicle, "Art Garden Grows in Hidden Hayes Valley Site",  August 5, 2016

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Michelle Echenique is a mixed media, multidisciplinary artist meaning she works in a myriad of ways with an expansive list of materials. Despite the variety of medium, there is a through line in the work via the nature of materials she chooses, which is typically what people throw away. She revels in the challenge of transforming the familiar and unseen into something new, ideally surprising enough to cause viewers to reconsider “trash”.

 

Using throwaways is key to the work’s impact and intention. She honors the integrity and original purpose of these found materials by making use of the innate histories and forms embedded in each fragment. The process is evolutionary, beginning with cleaning, repairing and prep, then figuring how to build and create a work of art. This deliberate process allows for a message or story to surface organically. In the end something new emerges, a work with hints of the familiar juxtaposed with compelling mystery that invites engagement and scrutiny.

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Outside the studio Michelle is a volunteer artist at Hayes Valley Art Works. She is a volunteer teaching artist at Kids & Art. Formerly on the Board of Directors and Treasurer of WEAD, she is a member of WEAD (Women Eco Artists Dialog) 

©2009-2025 Michelle Echenique. All rights reserved.

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