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Michelle Hauser, a visual artist living in Maine. Her recent work uses vernacular photography, found photographs, snap shots, mug shots, and everyday portraiture as a central element. Her process combines photographs with sewing and painting, creating Pop Photograpica. Hauser is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for painting and has been awarded artist-in-residence fellowships at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, The MacDowell Colony for the Arts, Millay Colony for the Arts and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Michelle earned her BFA, at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied with Ray Yoshida. She has taken workshops with Susie Brandt at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine and with Christopher James and Brenton Hamilton at Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine. On the topic of photography and collecting, Michelle has interviewed Robert E. Jackson, W.M. Hunt, Daile Kaplan, and John Maloof for The Design Observer. Her artistic practice also uses historic photographic processes: cyanotypes, ziatypes and gum bichromate as well as oil, gouache, and watercolor paints. Along with her partner, Andrew Flamm, they founded Odd Fellows Art & Antiques. Known for pioneering new trends in the field of antiques; researching, building collections and promoting American Material Culture in the marketplace, most notably the American snapshot, resulting in an exhibition: 20th Century Folk Photos: A Lost Medium at the Washburn Gallery, in New York City.
MICHELLE HAUSER
Mailing address: P.O. Box 1572, Rockland, Maine 04841
www.michelle-hauser.com Email: MichelleHauser100@icloud.com
Instagram: @m_hauser_studio @meeting_hall_maine
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 - LIBERTY HALL, Pop-up: Meeting Halls: Inspiring Maine’s Collective Future, Machiasport, ME
2025 - BLUE HILL MAINE LIBRARY, Meeting Halls: Inspiring Collective Futures, Blue Hill, ME
2023 - REVERSING HALL, Pop-up: Meeting Hall Maine, Pembroke, ME
2023 - LIBERTY HALL, Pop-up exhibition: Meeting Hall Maine, Machiasport, ME
2023 - ART IN THE CAPITOL, Meeting Hall Maine, Augusta, ME
2021 - YARD DOG ART, Camera-less Photographic Paintings, Austin, TX
2021 - MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM, Meeting Hall Maine, Portland, ME
2017 - PHOPA GALLERY, Painting & Photography: An Alliance of Mediums, Portland, ME
2008 - WASHBURN GALLERY, 20th Century Folk Photos: A Lost Medium, New York, NY
2000 - THE NEW O’FARRELL GALLERY, Michelle Hauser: Paintings, Brunswick, ME
GRANTS/ RESIDENCIES/AWARDS
KINDLING FUND, Grant: Meeting Halls: Inspiring Maine’s Collective Futures - 2025
HEWNOAKES ARTSIT COLONY, Artist-in-Residence, Lovell, ME - 2016, 2017, 2021
MAINE ARTS COMMISSION, Project Grant for Artists - 2017, 2020
MONHEGAN ARTIST' RESIDENCY, Artist-in-Residence, Monhegan Island, ME - 2016
HAYSTACK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF CRAFTS, Open Studio Residency, Deer Isle, ME - 2013
THE MACDOWELL COLONY FOR THE ARTS, Artist-in-Residence, Peterborough, NH - 1993
THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION GRANT, New York, NY - 1993
THE MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS, Artist-in-Residence, Austerlitz, NY - 1985
THE SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, Skowhegan, ME - 1981
EDUCATION
THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, BFA Studio Arts – 1983
REVIEW SANTA FE, 23rd annual Photo Symposium and portfolio review, Santa Fe, NM 2024
MAINE MEDIA WORKSHOPS, Rockport, ME - 2010, 2011, 2018, 2019, 2020
Advanced Alternative Photographic Processes, Historic Techniques & Portfolio w/Brenton Hamilton
Introduction to Alternative Photographic Processes w/Christopher James
HAYSTACK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF CRAFTS, Workshop w/Susie Brandt, Deer Isle, ME - 2013
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Photography Conference: Vernacular Reframed – 2004
THE SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, Skowhegan, ME - 1981
Faculty: Vija Celmins, Milton Resnick, Ronald Bladen, Al Blaustein, Rafael Ferrer, and Al Loving
OXBOW, SAIC: Painting Workshop with Cynthia Carlson, Saugatuck, MI – 1980
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC ART, Carmel, CA
“International ONLINE,” Jurors: Darren Ching & Debra Klomp Ching - 2021
CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART, Rockland, Maine
“[ON} NOW VIRTUAL EXHIBITION: CONCURRENCE” - 2021
SKOWHEGAN ALUMNI VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Jan 2021
“Endless State” https://endlessstate.work
HEWNOAKS ARTSIT COLONY, Lovell, ME
“Wild Light Art Exhibition” – August 10, 2019
SOHO PHOTO GALLERY, 15 White Street, New York, NY
“14th Annual Alternative Process Competition”
Juror: Dan Burkholder– November 2018
LINCOLN STREET CENTER Jean B. Chalmers Gallery, Rockland, Maine
“Practice and Process: Exploration of Life Drawing” – May 2011
L.C. BATES MUSEUM AT GOOD WILL-HINCKLEY, Hinckley, Maine
“Animal Homes” – May 15 to October 15, 2009
“Portraits: A Maine Natural History” – May 15 to October 15, 2004
CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPARY ART, Rockport, Maine
“2002 Juried Biennial Exhibition” – May 11 to June 16, 2002
CHEWONKI FOUNDATION, Wiscasset, ME
“Sense of Place: Visual Art and the Environment” – September 2001
BLAINE HOUSE, Maine Arts Commission, Augusta, Maine
“Maine Artists” – January 2001
THE NEW O’FARRELL GALLERY, Brunswick, ME
“November Song” - November 2 to December 31, 2001
“ Maine Summer” – August, 2001
“ Winter Solstice” – November 23 to January 6, 2000
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York, NY
“ Employee Art Show” – 1995
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York, NY
“ Employee Art Show” – 1991
BRATTON GALLERY, INC., 328 E. 10TH Street, NY, NY
“Group Show” – 1988
P.S. 122 GALLERY, 409 E. 9th Street, NY, NY
“Invitational Benefit” – 1986
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO School Gallery: Chicago, IL
“Worlds Within, Worlds Without: Aspects of Landscape” – 1984
“Fellowship Exhibition” – 1983
“Survey of Six Undergraduate Painters” –1980,
Morton Wing: “The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Show” –1982
PUBLICATIONS/REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS/ARTIST TALKS
PECHAKUCHA NIGHT MIDCOAST MAINE, Camden, ME
Camden Opera House - Nov. - 10, 2017 Michelle Hauser: https://vimeo.com/243334029
FARNSWORTH ART MUSEUM, Rockland, ME
“Monhegan Artists' Residency: Artist Talks” Jan. 28, 2017
DESIGN OBSERVER: Designobserver.com/ Interviews posted by Michelle Hauser:
“Pop Photographica: An Interview with Daile Kaplan” – Feb. 8, 2012
“A Fluid and Expressive Medium: An Interview with Robert E. Jackson” – Nov. 24, 2010
“Finding Vivian Maier” – An Interview with John Maloof - March 31, 2010
“Folk Photos” Essay on vernacular photography – July 8, 2008
THE NEW YORK SUN, New York, NY
“The Flawed Beauty of Folk Photos”, by Francis Morrone - July 10, 2008
THE MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM, Portland, ME
Review of solo show in an article by Philip Isaacson – May 21, 2000
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York, NY
Original holiday card & wrapping paper design “Poinsettia Shoe” Published – May, 1995
THE KENNEBEC JOURNAL, Augusta, ME
“The Night Sky Provides Her Inspiration” – October 29, 1994