ABOUT
Michel Droge is a multi-media artist whose work engages with the environment and ideas of multi-species, non-binary, and entangled life systems. Inspired by oceans and land, mapping, and environmental research, their immersive collaborations, paintings, drawings, and prints visually explore vulnerable and under-represented environmental areas to promote awareness and conservation.
“Across my work, I aim to surface the aesthetic, political, and environmental implications of uncertainty. To bring mystery and wonder to the forefront and share a poetic expression of science and philosophy. By foregrounding the instability inherent in both natural systems and artistic processes, I seek to create visual spaces that invite reflection on how we perceive, inhabit, and imagine our rapidly changing world.”- Michel Droge
A component of Michel’s practice is collaborative engagement with scientific researchers, conservation groups, and communities, including the Schmidt Ocean Institute, Bigelow Laboratories, Maine Gun Safety Coalition, Good Food Council Lewiston, Eastport Health Care, and Maine Audubon,
Michel is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation award, a co-recipient of a Kindling Fund grant, and three Maine Arts Commission grants. They have been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center, MEAR Fellowship, Surf Point, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Hewnoaks Residency, The Tides Institute, The Joseph Fiore Foundation, The Stephen Pace House, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Their work has been included in exhibitions, amongst which are The Frost Museum, Art Basel Miami, The Field Museum , The Cue Art Foundation, Bates College Art Museum, University of Maine Orono and Augusta, Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA and the Maine Jewish Museum.