Michael Tice received a B.F.A. from the University of South Carolina, fellowships to MacDowell and the SC Arts Commission, and has done graduate work at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and at New York University. He lived and worked in New York City for 35 years, and now resides in Carrboro, NC.
While in New York, Tice exhibited widely, including solo shows at the 55 Mercer Gallery, Sensory Evolution Gallery, the Gallery at Flamingo East, Lucky Strike Gallery, and also at Time & Space, Ltd. Solo exhibitions outside New York included the University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, and the Aiken Center for the Arts, Aiken, SC. His work has been featured in several curated exhibitions in New York at The Painting Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, The Durst Organization, Margaret Bodell Gallery, George Billis Gallery and in other group shows at Exit Art, Sara Meltzer Gallery, PS 122, New York University, Ceres Gallery, Leslie-Lohman Foundation, Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center, Artist’s Space, Lower East Side Printshop, Times Square Lobby Gallery, Westbeth Gallery, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, La Mama Gallery, Bess Cutler Gallery, and the Gracie Mansion Gallery among others. Tice’s work has appeared nationally in group exhibitions at the Stroud Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; the Weatherspoon Gallery at UNC, Winston Salem, NC; the French Library and Cultural Institute, Boston, MA; the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; the Stamford Museum of Art, Stamford, CT; and the Minnesota Museum of Art in St. Paul, MN. His work is found in numerous corporate and private collections.
