Troy Montes Michie
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Troy Montes Michie is an interdisciplinary painter and educator. Using collage as his methodology, Montes Michie engages with archives to reveal the complexity of the gaze and trouble the representation of powerful groups targeted for oppression. Employing an array of materials, Montes Michie investigates the influence of print media in mass culture, disrupting modes of consumption that historically erase and fetishize specific communities.
Montes Michie’s recent solo exhibitions include Black on the Face of the Moon, Company Gallery, New York (2025); Rock of Eye at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2022) and The California African American Museum, Los Angeles (2022). A forthcoming solo exhibition will be presented at Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2025). Other notable group exhibitions include those at the Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles; Frist Art Museum, Nashville; ICA Los Angeles; The Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts; The MAC Belfast, Ireland; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; New Museum, New York; The Artist’s Institute, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York. His work was featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. His work is included in numerous public collections, including the Philbrook Museum, OK; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; RISD Museum, RI; Ulster Museum, North Ireland; and the Zabludowicz Collection, London.

Exhibitions

Solo Show
Black on the Face of the Moon
Mar13–Apr262025

Solo Show
Dishwater Holds No Images
Feb24–Apr242022

Group Show
De Por Vida
Jan22–Mar62021
