Bio

MICHELLE MURILLO is a California based artist working across traditional and innovative media. Murillo seeks to expand the vocabulary of print and the multiple in an interdisciplinary context. Her work can be broadly understood as a practice of archiving: the lost, found, re-membered and collected.

Murillo is an Associate Professor and Chair of Visual Arts at California State University Fullerton. She received a MFA from the University of Alberta, Canada, and BFA from Boston University.


Selected Exhibitions:

Adrift, (Solo Exhibition) Museo de Prehistoria y Arqueologia de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Nexo, Kaskadenkondensator Gallery, Basel, Switzerland

Technology and Touch, Islensk Grafik, Reykjavik, Iceland

Thinking Outside the Frame, The New Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, California

Temperature Check: Body of Evidence, MACLA / Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, San Jose, California

Idols and Impossible Structures: New Prints 2017/Winter, International Print Center New York, New York

Hidden Narratives, Erin Dickson, Michelle Murillo, Jeffery Sarmiento, and Kathryn Wightman, Bullseye Projects, Portland, Oregon.

A Measure of Time, (Solo Exhibition) Bullseye Projects, Emeryville, California

2015 International Krakow Print Triennial, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow, Poland

Global Print 2015, Lamego Museum, Alijo, Portugal

Textile Conversations in Glass, San Jose Museum of Textiles and Quilts, San Jose, California

Beyond Printmaking 4, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

7th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro, Douro Museum, Alijo, Portugal

Contemporary Painting and Printmaking, Wenying Art Highland Museum, Guangzhou, China

Landed, (Solo Exhibition) Limerick Printmakers Gallery, Limerick, Ireland

Infinite Mirror; Images of American Identity, International Arts & Artists, traveling nationally to museums and university galleries through 2015

2012 Pacific States Biennial National Print Exhibition, (Juror’s Award), University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hawaii

Border Art Biennial 2010/Bienal Fronteriza de Arte 2010, El Paso Museum of Art, Texas and Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juarez, Mexico


Grants and Residencies:

The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canada

Mullowney Printing, San Francisco, California

Edition Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California

Proyecto'ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California

Bullseye Glass, Emeryville, California

The Guanlan Original Printmaking Base, Shenzhen, China


Collections and Archives:

Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts

Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas

Douro Museum, Alijo, Portugal

China Print Museum, Guanlan, Shenzhen, China

Lahti Art Museum, Lahti, Finland

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC

Corning Museum of Glass, New Glass Review Archive, Corning, New York

Museum of History, Anthropology and Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico

SGC International Collection, Zuckerman Museum, Kennesaw, Georgia


Complete CV available upon request