CV
Education
PhD University of Western Ontario, September 2016 – October 2022
Art and Visual Culture – Studio Stream
MFA University of Manitoba, School of Art 2013 - 2015
School of Photographic Arts: Ottawa 2006 - 2008
Photographic Arts and Production Diploma
BFA University of Ottawa, Visual Arts 2001 - 2005
Graduated Cum Laude
Research Experience
Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership, 2023 - 2024
Postdoctoral Scholar
GardenShip and State, Artistic Research Project and Exhibition 2019 - 2024
Centre for Sustainable Curating, UWO 2021 - 2022
Soil as a Relational Medium, Huron University College 2021 - Ongoing
Teaching Experience
Fanshawe College 2024 - Present
Sessional Instructor, Fine Arts
OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario 2023 - Present
Sessional Instructor, Faculty of Design
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario 2016 - 2021
Teaching Assistant, Visual Arts
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario 2019 - 2020
Project Mentor, School for Advanced Studies in Arts and Humanities
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2016 - 2017
Sessional Instructor, School of Art
Community Teaching
Arts Education Classroom Experience 2018 – 2021
Educator, Various elementary schools in London, Ontario
Art City 2014-2016
Digital Art Instructor and Rotary Program Coordinator, Winnipeg
Winnipeg Art Gallery 2013-2016
Mixed Media Art Instructor, Winnipeg
Grants
2024
Canada Council for the Arts: Creating, Knowing, Sharing ($100,000)
Level UP! Strategy Initiative ($3,000)
London Arts Council, CAIP funding ($3,000)
Canada Council for the Arts: Creating, Knowing, Sharing ($100,000)
SSHRC Connections Grant ($50,000)
Ontario Arts Council, Indigenous Arts Projects: Collective ($16,000)
Ontario Arts Council, Artists in Communities Projects ($8,400)
2023
London Arts Council, CAIP funding ($5,000)
2022
London Arts Council, CAIP funding ($7,475)
2015
Manitoba Arts Council Creation and Production Grant ($2,000)
Honours and Awards
2023
Mitacs: Accelerate Postdoctoral Scholarship
2022
Manitoba Arts Council Scholarship
2020-2021
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
2019
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
David Magee Scholarship in Visual Arts
2017
Graduate Thesis Research Award
University of Western Ontario
Manitoba Arts Council Scholarship
Video Pool New Artist in Media Art Fund
2016
Fine Arts and Humanities Chair’s Entrance Scholarship
University of Western Ontario
Fine Arts and Humanities Dean’s Entrance Scholarship
University of Western Ontario
Western Graduate Research Scholarship
2015
Rosemary and Cliff Kowalsky Scholarship
University of Manitoba
2014
Professor Richard Emerson Williams Graduate Scholarship
Marvin and Irma Penn Scholarship in Fine Arts
James B. Hartman Scholarship in Fine Arts
2013
University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship
Exhibition Record
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Water (Deshkan Ziibi), Art Lab Gallery, London, ON and streaming online
SustainableCities: A Collective Eclipsing, Art Lab Gallery, London, ON
Phantazein: Phantasm, Forest City Art Gallery, London, ON
GardenShip and State, Thames Art Gallery, ON
unclaim. unsettle. belong, McIntosh Gallery, London, ON
2023 Home/Making, 4th Space, Montreal, QC
Solo Exhibition, Forced Migration, New Adventures in Sound Art, South River, ON
Conversational Threads, Gallery 1c03, Winnipeg, MB
2022 FLESH: Embodying Praxis, AHVA Gallery, University of British Columbia
2021 Solo Exhibition, Outlaws, Remnants, and Wallows: Practices for
Understanding Bison, McIntosh Gallery, London, ON
GardenShip and State, Museum London, ON
After Progress, Goldsmiths University, Online
Stop Extinction! Save the Earth, The Embassy Cultural House – Online
2020 Distance makes the heart grow weak, Art Lab Gallery, London, ON
Suppose They Are All Put Together, Art Lab Gallery, London, ON
2018 Inward/Outward, Art Lab Gallery, London, ON
2017 You Can’t Steal a Gift, Satellite Gallery, London, ON
Neurocraft, Health Sciences Center, Winnipeg, MB
Revisions, Platform Centre for photographic and digital arts, Winnipeg
2016 Solo Exhibition, Speciation Dance, Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg, MB
2015 Solo Exhibition, Ghost Heart, Cercle Moliere, Winnipeg, MB
Solo Exhibition, Anima, School of Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
Sand in the Bellows, Platform Centre for photographic and digital arts, Winnipeg
2014 Solo Exhibition, VOICE: Cape Town to Nampula, Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg, MB
Her Art Her Voice, The Edge Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
Concerning the way in which two or more people or things are connected, Platform Centre for photographic and digital arts, Winnipeg, MB
2012 Solo Exhibition, A Tale of Two, DogPig Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Close to Home: Recent Additions to the City of Ottawa Fine Art Collection, City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
藝術家轟趴展, One Year Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 Solo Exhibition, See Yourself When All Is New, Red Wall Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2009 Solo Exhibition, M.L.O., La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Solo Exhibition, Subject Imagined, Arts and Architecture Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Bibliography
Print Media
Heslop, Kevin, Michelle Wilson: Interview with The /tƐmz/ Review, Issue #17
Steggles, Mary-Anne, Michelle Wilson: Cleansing the Land, Wales Art Review, January 18, 2021.
Milne, Marlene, Art Meets Neuroscience, Galleries West, March 13, 2017
Beaudette, Teghan, Blood, Brains and Mushrooms: Neurocraft exhibition opens in Winnipeg, CBC News, March 3, 2017
Under the Radar: Michelle Wilson, Studio Magazine, Fall/Winter 2016, pp. 58.
Trachenko, Alana, Into the Wild for Art, Winnipeg Free Press, July 11, 2016
Objects of Knowing, U of M’s Art Gallery Displays Works of Identity and Politics, The Manitoban, February 3, 2015
Art in the Dark, Winnipeg Free Press, September 30, 2013
Piece of My Heart, Ottawa Style Magazine, Fall 2012
Double Fantasy, Taipei Times, September 16, 2012
Beyond the Edges of the Map, Ottawa Xpress, March 17, 2011
Deachman, Bruce, Portraits That Sing, Ottawa Citizen, March 29, 2009
Radio
Wilson, Michelle “A place that's returning to nature': Londoners build new woven community hub in the Coves,” December 2, 2024
Wilson, Michelle “Forced Migration – a radio art exhibit,” CBC Fresh Air, March 4, 2023
Wilson, Michelle, Interview, CBC Radio, London, ON, September 9, 2021
Publications
Journal Publications (Peer Reviewed)
Wilson, Michelle, (forthcoming) “(re)mediating soils,” Public Journal, 2025
Wilson, Michelle, “Fight or Flight: Reimagining Charles Jesse ‘Buffalo’ Jones’ Conservation Efforts through a Bison’s Embodied Perspective,” Conservation Dialogues - Frontiers in Human Dynamics 2023
Wilson, Michelle, “Tracing CareFull Paths,” On Site Review, vol 42, 2023
Wilson, Michelle, “Speciation Dance,” tba: Journal of Art, Media, and Visual Culture, vol. 1, no. 1, 2019, pp. 68-71.
Podcast Publications
Wilson, Michelle, “Forced Migration,” SpokenWeb Podcast, December 6, 2021, https://spokenweb.ca/podcast/episodes/
Scholarly Articles
Wilson, Michelle, “The Coves Collective,” GardenShip and State: Almanac, March 10, 2023, pp. 10-13
Wilson, Michelle, “Outlaw #5,” MAWA Newsletter, Summer 2021, pp. 10-11, https://mawa.ca/pdf/MAWA_Newletter_Summer_21_WEB_HR.pdf.
Book Chapters
Wilson, Michelle, (forthcoming) “From Winnipeg to Wainwright: A Forced Migration of Bison,” Unsettling Conservation, University Press of Colorado, 2025.
Wilson, Michelle, et al. “Conversation: Lands & Mapping.” GardenShip and State, Museum London, London, ON, 2023, pp. 162–176.
Presentations and Invited Lectures
Presentation, SustainableCities Connect Workshop, Western University, 2024
Chair, “Public Art in Canada: (Re)storying the Landscape as Sites of Contemporary Insurgence/Resurgence,” Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, 2024.
Paper Presentation, “(re)mediating soils,” FEMeeting, University of Windsor, 2024
Presentation, “The Coves Collective: How a community of care is enacting anti-colonial environmentalism,” Aesthetics in Times of Turmoil: A Conference on Intersections between Art and Ecology, King’s University College, 2024
Paper Presentation, “Tracing CareFull Paths,” Home/Making Conference, Concordia University, 2023
Presentation, “On Community” Confluences: GardenShip and State Symposium, Museum London, 2023
Presentation, “Conversation with the Collab Quilt Collective” Gallery 1c03, 2023
Presentation, “Empathy for the more-than-human as UN/making” McLaren Art Centre, 2022
Paper Presentation, “Forced Migration: Bison stories and what they can tell settlers about a past, present, and future on stolen land,” Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, 2022.
Workshop, “Sowing Clay,” Support Gallery, 2021.
Presentation, “Water is Life: A Visit with GardenShip & State,” Words Festival, 2021.
Symposium Host, “Outlaws, Remnants, and Wallows: Practices for understanding Bison” McIntosh Gallery, 2021
Presentation, “Art Now!,” University of Western Ontario and Museum London, 2021.
Workshop, “Around the Kitchen Table: Artists Talk,” UnDisciplined conference, Queens University, 2021.
Presentation, “Inside the Artist’s Studio: A Visit with GardenShip and State,” Words Festival, 2020.
Paper Presentation, “Western Porcupine Grass,” Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, 2016.
Presentation, “Elephant in the Room,” MAWA, 2016.
Presentation, “Artist in Residence: Deep Bay Artist Residency,” Riding Mountain National Park, 2017.
Presentation, “Artist in Residence: Deep Bay Artist Residency,” Riding Mountain National Park, 2016.
Paper Presentation, “ANIMA,” 14th Annual Institute for Critical Animal Studies Conference, 2015.
Artist Residencies
2024 MOTHRA residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, ON (July)
2024 Artist in Residence in Wood Buffalo (April- May)
2023 MOTHRA residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, ON (July)
2017 Deep Bay, Riding Mountain National Park, MB (Sept)
2017 New Artist in Media Art, Video Pool, Winnipeg, MB
2017 Neurocraft, Manitoba Craft Council, Winnipeg, MB
2016 Deep Bay, Riding Mountain National Park, MB (Aug)
2016 The Edge Gallery, Winnipeg, MB (Aug- Dec)
2015 Biophilia, Chelsea, QC (May)
Professional Affiliations
Unsettling Conservation Collective, 2023 - Present
Founding Member.
Coves Collective, 2022-Present
Founding Member.
Forest City Gallery, 2024- Present
Member
Embassy Cultural House, 2020-Present
Contributing Editor.
London Ontario Media Arts Association, 2022
Member
Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA), 2014 – present
Member
Professional Service
Assessor
Wood Buffalo Arts Council, 2024
Assessor
Manitoba Arts Council, 2023
Symposium Organizer
“Confluences: GardenShip and State Symposium,” Museum London, 2023
Symposium Organizer
“Outlaws, Remnants, and Wallows: Practices for Understanding Bison” McIntosh Gallery, 2021
Mentor
Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA), Winnipeg, 2016
Peer-Reviewed Articles for:
tba: Journal of Art, Media, and Visual Culture
On Site Review