Painting Archives - Michelle Lisa Herman

New Artwork!

I am thrilled to post this new piece “Untitled (Ideal City) #2.” I started this painting March of 2022. The image is a composite of AI generated images that were trained on renaissance era paintings that predominantly featured architecture (like

New American Paintings MFA Annual #147 Featuring Work by Michelle L Herman Now Available

Cover of New American Paintings Issue #147

My work is featured in the New American Paintings MFA Annual #147 which is now available. You can find me on pages 52 – 55! Excited to be part of this great group of 40 other artists!

Michelle Lisa Herman is a Washington, DC-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans theoretical and philosophical research, feminist and disability politics, comedy, and conceptualism. Herman has shown internationally in both group and solo exhibitions at locations such as the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), Cinéma du Foyer Saint-François (Bourges, France), the Corcoran (Washington, DC), The Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), The Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), Goggleworks (Reading, PA), Hillyer Art Space (Washington, DC), Arlington Art Center (Arlington, VA), Visarts (Rockville, MD), and the Washington Project for the Arts (Washington, DC). Herman’s work has been written about and featured in Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, The Washington Post, NPR, and East City Arts. Herman is an alumna of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MFA, 2020) and the Sparkplug artist collective sponsored by the DC Arts Center.