Michelle Weinberg
Born in Brooklyn NY, 1961 and lives in Miami Beach
Michelle Weinberg is a painter who creates art for surfaces, interiors, architecture, and public spaces. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and her MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She is the recipient of awards, fellowships, and residencies including the Studios at MASS MoCA, a Joseph Robert Foundation Award, a Creative Learning Grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, a Wavemaker Grant from Cannonball Miami, a South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship in Visual and Media Art, an Individual Artist Fellowship and Artist Enhancement Grant from the State of Florida, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, 100 West Corsicana in TX, MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, home session and Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, and Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic. Exhibitions of her work include Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, FIU Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian Museum, Emerson Dorsch Gallery and Dot FiftyOne Gallery in Miami, La Plataforma in Barcelona, The Hewitt Gallery at Marymount Manhattan College and ARENA by Renee Riccardo in NYC, The Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Edison State College in Fort Myers, FL, The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA and Islip Art Museum, NY. Commissions include murals for The Wolfsonian Museum-FIU, Facebook offices in Miami and Young at Art Museum in Dania, public art projects for Miami-Dade County, Miami International Airport, City of Tampa, City of Pembroke Pines, Cultural Council of Jacksonville, and the City of Hollywood, all in FL. Weinberg is Creative Director of Girls’ Club in Fort Lauderdale, and a consultant to museums and non-profits, developing exhibitions, education programming, and more.