Michelle Echenique
Artist
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
2024, Access: An Ordinary Notion, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2024, Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2024, The 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
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)