Curriculum Vitae

Exhibitions:

2025 Embroidery, Bedford Gallery, Lester Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek CA

2024  The Neverending Thread, Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art, James Madison University, Harrisonburg VA

2023 Gen X Forever, bG Gallery, Santa Monica CA

2023 Common Thread, Dowd Art and Art History Gallery, Santa Clara University Santa Clara CA

2023 Unusual Surfaces, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2023 Spectrum Gestalt 2023, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2023 A Thousand Past Days, Solo Exhibition, bG Gallery, Santa Monica CA

2022 Outside the Box 2, bG Gallery, Santa Monica CA

2022 Mother Nature Exhibit, Core Club, New York, NY

2020 Art is Love Instagram Exhibit, bG Gallery, Santa Monica CA

2020 15 Artist from 15 Years, Anniversary Show, Foley Gallery, New York NY

2019 10 Year Anniversary Exhibit, bG Gallery, Santa Monica CA

2019  Peripheries, Solo Exhibition, bG Gallery, Santa Monica CA

2019  Uncommon Thread, curated by The Jealous Curator Danielle Krysa, bG Gallery, Santa Monica CA

2019  Tiny Pricks: Tweets, Textiles, and Trump, Mule Gallery, San Francisco CA

2018  Dearer Than Truth, Solo Exhibition, Foley Gallery, New York NY

2017 bG Anniversary Salon Exhibit, bG Gallery, Santa Monica CA

2017  Women and Power Retreat, The Omega Institute, Rhinebeck NY

2017  Intimate Lines: Drawing with Thread, The Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton NJ

2017 Striking Portraits, bG Gallery, Santa Monica CA

2017  Spectrum Gestalt 4, bG Gallery, Santa Monica CA

2017  Day Dreamers, bG Gallery, Santa Monica CA

2017 Stitched, Part 1, Paradigm Gallery and Studios, Philadelphia PA

2017 Outside the Box, bG Gallery, Santa Monica CA

2017 Stitch Fetish 5, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles CA

2017 LA Art Show, The Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles CA

2017  Figure 8, Foley Gallery, New York NY

2016  A Generous Kingdom, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland OR

2016  Scope Art Show, bG Gallery, Miami FL

2016  Ornament Group Exhibition, Offline at Central Booking, New York NY

2016  Michelle Kingdom Solo Exhibition, bG Gallery, Santa Monica CA

2016  Take Me Home LA, SAGE Projects, Los Angeles CA

2016  Fiber Art Master Works, The Fresno Art Museum, Fresno CA

2016  Stitch Fetish 4, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles CA

2016  LA Art Show, The Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles CA

2016  Rolling Holiday Exhibit, bG Gallery, Santa Monica CA

2015  Neo Mythology, bG Gallery, Santa Monica CA

2015  GuildTrip.com Launch, The Permanent, Vancouver British Columbia

2015  Feminist Fiber Art Exhibition, Washington Street Gallery, Somerville MA

2015  Unusual Mediums, bG Gallery, Santa Monica CA

2015  Put the Needle on the Record, Twilight Gallery, Seattle WA

2015  The Living Mark, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR

2015  27th Annual Decatur Arts Festival,  The Dalton Gallery, Decatur GA

2015  The Storied Stitch, Azarian McCullough Art Gallery, Sparkhill NY

2015 Stitch Fetish 3, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2014 Pip Squeak: Small Works, Big Vision, Northbrook Public Library, Northbrook, IL

2014 Sheltered: Art Benefit for Animals at Risk, Davis Arts Center, Davis, CA

2014 The Living Mark, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR

2014 Slice: A Juried Cross Section of Regional Art, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA

2014 Through My Eyes - How I See It, Las Lagunas Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2014 Burbank Art Association Spring 2014 Exhibition, Geo Gallery, Glendale, CA

2014 26th Annual Decatur Arts Festival, The Dalton Gallery, Decatur, GA

2014 The Heart of the Matter, Oceana Art Gallery, Pacifica, CA

2014 27th Annual Women's Works 2014, Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock IL


Publication:

2025  With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories, Nicole Nehrig, W. W. Norton & Co, NY NY

2025  Textile Art, Helen Adam’s, Quercus/Lawrence King Publishing, London England

2024 Narrative Textiles, Ailish Henderson, Batsford Books, London England

2024 Santa Clara Review, Santa Clara University  Publication, Volume 111 Issue 2, Santa Clara CA

2023 Cover Artwork, Girls’ Book of Knots, K. D. Harryman, BlazeVOX Books, Buffalo, NY

2022 Art for Everyone, Chemeketa Community College Faculty, Oxford University Press, OR

2022 Spirituality & Health Magazine, May/June 2022 issue, North America print run

2022 Researching Gender-Based Violence, Embodied and Intersectional Approaches, Petillo and Hlavka, NYU Press, NY

2021 Embroidery, The Art of Stitches, Sandu Publishing, Guangzhou China

2021 Unraveling Women’s Art, Creators, Rebels and Innovators in Textile Arts, Aurora Metro Publications, UK 

2021 Merceria Actualidad Magazine, Issue 125, Barcelona Spain

2021 Cover Artwork, It Was One Mind, Mariko Yamauchi, Kobunsha Co., Japan

2021 Cover and illustrations for book of Poetry, Quiseramor by Luciana Burlamaqui, Editora Historias  para Comtar, Brazil

2020 Cover Artwork, Needlework, Fiber Arts Now eBook, East Freetown MA

2020 Album Cover Artwork, Little Flower, Emily Rockarts, Montreal Canada

2020 Cover Artwork, The Illness Lesson by Clare Beams, Penguin Random House, NY

2019 Cover Artwork, After June, Poems by Charity Gingerich, Green Writers Press, VT

2019 Cover Artwork, The Lilac Girls, by Martha Hall Kelly,  Klidarithmos Publishing, Greece

2019 The Minnesota Review, A Journal of Creative and Critical Writing, Issue 92, MN

2019 Michelle Kingdom Peripheries Exhibition Catalogue, bG Gallery Santa Monica CA, Mag Cloud Publications

2019 Embroidery, The Textile Art Magazine, March/April Issue, United Kingdom

2018 Winter Tangerine Review, Beyond the Breadcrumbs, Spitfire Series

2018 Spirituality & Health Magazine, September/October Issue, North American print run

2018 Standard Deviation (CD), Danny Schmidt, Austin TX

2018 De Fil en Aiguille, La broderie dans l'art contemporain, Charlotte Vannier, Pyramyd Editions, Paris France

2018 Here on This Plain, Poems: Jane Hoogestraat, Moon City Press, Missouri State University, Springfield MO

2018 DMQ Review, Summer/Fall 2018, San Jose CA

2018 LAB Magazine, Issue 16, Embroidered, London England

2018 Fiber Art Now, Volume 7, Issue 4: Summer 2018, CA

2018 MAR Mid-Atlantic Review, Volume XXXVIII, Number 2, Bowling Green State University, OH

2018  The Amazing Art of Weaving, Limited Edition Calendar, Itema Group, Italy

2018  Psychological Perspectives Journal, C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles

2017  MAR Mid-Atlantic Review, Volume XXXVIII, Number 1, Bowling Green State University, OH

2017  Creative with Workbox Magazine, Issue 6 Be Inspired, United Kingdom

2017  Wohn! Design Magazine, September/October 2017, Germany

2017 Simply Sewing Magazine, Issue 34, Oh Sew Beautiful, United Kingdom

2017 'Cause Magazine, Nature Edition, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

2017  Stitch-illo, Encyclopedia of Inspiration, Uppercase Publishing Volume S, Alberta Canada

2017  PRESENT, ANZATA Singapore News, Issue #06 May 2017, Singapore

2017 Hi-Fructose Magazine, Volume 43

2017  Hey! Modern Art & Pop Culture Magazine, No. 29, Paris France

2017  Transfervindue (cover art), Novel by Maria Gerhardt, Politikens Forlag, Denmark

2017  Mr X Stitch 2017 Calendar, United Kingdom

Michelle Kingdom 2016 bG Gallery Exhibition Catalogue

2016  Witch Craft Magazine, Issue Three, Fall 2016

2016  C Magazine, California Style, October Issue 2016

2016  The Paradox, Online Art Magazine, 4th Edition, Bogota Colombia

2016  Reservoir, Online Literary  Journal, Issue II

2016  Dialogist Quarterly Poetry & Art, Vol. III, Issue III

2016 Winter Tangerine Review, Reshaping the Bell Jar, Vol. 6

2016  Frrresh Visual Arts Magazine, Issue 36

2016 Spirituality & Health Magazine, March/April Issue, North American print run

2016 Blink Magazine, Issue 45, Korea

2016 a|b: Auto|Biography Studies, The Journal of the Autobiographical Society, Vol. 31, Winter 2016, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

2016 Mr X Stitch 2016 Calendar, United Kingdom

2015 DPI Magazine Taiwan, Art Quarter Vol. 10, The Best Needle Arts of the World

2015 Textiel Plus, Autumn 2015 issue

2015 Fiber Arts Now Magazine, Summer 2015 issue

2015 Eleven Eleven, Journal of Literature and Art, Issue 18, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA


Lectures and Discussions:

2024  NeedleXChange Podcast, Jamie Chalmers, Episode 61, Michelle Kingdom - The Handmade Tales

2018  The Jealous Curator Podcast

2016  Through the Eye of the Needle Lecture, Surface Art Association, Los Angeles, CA

2016  Fiber as Medium Panel Discussion, The Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno CA


Education:

1995 Certificate in Fashion Design, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

1990 BA Fine Art, University of California, Los Angeles, Magna cum Laude


Press and Media:

Colossal

Textile Artist

The Jealous Curator

Craft With Conscience

The re:art

Beautiful Bizarre

TextileArtist.Org

The Creator's Project

Its Nice That

Art Upon

Ignant

Faith is Torment

YouTube Video

Ja T'ho Faras

Bored Panda

Harper's Bazaar Taiwan

Juxtapoz

Beautiful Decay

Colossal

Huffington Post

Hi Fructose

Beautiful Decay

Vellum Artzine

Yay LA Magazine

Mr X Stitch

Artistic Moods

Art is a Way

Feeling Stitchy

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