Discipline: Visual Art – installation

Michelle Oosterbaan

Discipline: Visual Art – installation
Region: Maplewood, NJ
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004
More: www.michelleoosterbaan.com
Michelle Oosterbaan has exhibited internationally and has work in numerous public and private collections. Highlights of her national exhibition history includes shows at The Drawing Center, The Delaware Art Museum, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and Museum (PAFA), The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO and the Weatherspoon Art Museum. She has also exhibited in Amsterdam and Croatia. Oosterbaan has held residential fellowships at Cite des Arts International, Paris, MacDowell, New Hampshire, Yaddo (as a John T. and Catherine E. MacArthur Fellow), New York and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts among others. Additionally her international residential fellowships have included travels inspired by the natural designs and grandeur of light, space, and engineering in Iceland, Amsterdam, and Berlin, Germany. She received her M.F.A. from Indiana University (Bloomington), 1992 and B.F.A. from Washington University (St. Louis), 1990, as a Distinguished Fred Conway Scholar. She currently teaches at The University of the Arts, Drexel University, and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Museum (PAFA) in Philadelphia, PA.

Studios

Adams

Michelle Oosterbaan worked in the Adams studio.

Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…

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