Born in Québec, Canada
Resides in New York City
Solo Exhibitions:
2024
Blanc sur Blanc, La Maison Eddyfi/Previan, Qc., CA
2023
Mountaindale Biennale lll: Pain-demic Years, Mountaindale, NY
2018
Mountaindale Biennale ll: Mis/Representation, Mountaindale, NY
2017
Mis/Representation, Saint Francis College, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Impact Age, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Mountaindale Biennale l: Clowns, Mountaindale, NY
2010
Beaks in Other Worlds, Art Sites Gallery, Riverhead, NY
2006
Figment of Imagination, Hubspot Gallery, Jericho, NY
1992
Demons and Sirens, Habitat-Shaw Gallery, Detroit, MI
1991
Manifest Courage, St. Georges Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1990
Cut Flowers, St. Georges Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1986
Face Values, Arts at St. Ann Church, Brooklyn, NY
1979
Origins, South West Gallery, NY
Endangered Species, Mario Valentino Gallery, NY
1978
Soccer Fever, Rockefeller Center Gallery, NY
1976
White on White, Canadian Cultural Center, London, GB
White on White, Kornblee Gallery, NY
Blanc sur Blanc, Musée d’art Contemporain, Montréal, CA
1975
La Main Mécanique, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, FR
1973
La Main Mécanique, Musée du Québec, Québec, CA
1972
La Main Mécanique, Sauvegarde-Desjardins, Montréal, CA
The Mechanical Hand, Infinity Group Gallery, Chelsea, NY
Group Exhibitions:
2023
LoveYourNeighborhood, Photo, San Francisco, CA
Photoville Participation, Brooklyn, NY
2022
The Best Photo Sitting on Your Phone, The Brian Lehrer Show, NY
Structure/Dissonance: Raymon Elozua, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Selfie, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Summer Almost Gone, L’Oeil de la Photographie, Paris, France
2021
Street Photography Award, LensCulture, London, GB
2020
Journeys 2020, LensCulture, Paris, FR
Art Under Quarantine, Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor, NY
Newbie of the Week, GuruShots, NY, NY
Critics’ Choice 2020, LensCulture, Paris, FR
Respond 2020, Smack Melon, Brooklyn, NY
Stay Strong, Make Art, Gallery 222, Hurleyville, NY
Stay Home, Make Art, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
Art from Nature, DVAA, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, NY
Saint-Valentin 2020, L’Oeil de la Photographie, Paris, FR
About Drawing, Narrowsburg Union Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY
2019
LensCulture, Portraits & Street Photography, Aperture Gallery, NY
2018
Art in Sixes, DVAA, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, NY
2017
Truth, BRIC Center, Brooklyn, NY
Et Tu, Art Brute?, Andrew Edlin Gallery, NY
LensCulture Street Photography, San Francisco, CA
Hospitality Green, George Cooke School, Monticello, NY
2016
Bell Project, Ellenville Library, NY
2015
See Me Exposure, Musée du Louvre, Paris, FR
Nepal Earthquake Relief , Tibet House, NY
SHHH! Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor, NY
2014
Holiday Travel, L’Oeil de la Photographie, Paris, FR
Draw Now , SITU Studio and Drawing Center, NY
2013
Pound Cake, BRIC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Allan Chasanoff Book Art Collection, Yale Art Museum, CT
Art Takes Times Square Billboard, NY, NY
2011-12
The Value of Water, Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, NY
2011
Paradise 2, Proteus Gowanus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Counseling in Schools Art Auction, New York Times Building, NY
Pop-Up Art, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
Haiti Cause, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
No-ISBN, Salon Für Kunstbuch, Museum of Modern Art, Leipzig, AT
2009
Confrontational Ceramics, Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY
2008
Click, A Crowd Curated Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, NY
31st Small Works, New York University, NY
2007
Here is NY: Remembering 9/11, New York Historical Society, NY
2004
Something of Red, Bergdorf Goodman, NY
2003
Constructing Elozua, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
2002
Life of the City, The Museum Of Modern Art, NY
Reactions, Exit Art Gallery, NY
2001
Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, NY
Here is New York, 16 Prince St, NY
Sept. 11 Photo Project, 26 Wooster, NY
Materia Prima, Kleinert James Arts Center, Woodstock, NY
Brooklyn Working Artists Coalition, Pier Show 9, NY
1999-2000
Confrontational Clay: The Artist as Social Critic,
American Craft Museum, NY
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fl
Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Fl
The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
1998-1973
Participation in over 36 group exhibitions
1969
Les Beaux-Arts de Québec, Université de Sherbrooke, Qc, CA
Issuu Publications:
https://issuu.com/ferrincontemporary/docs/malaise_2018-20
https://issuu.com/ferrincontemporary/docs/mgingrasendtimesaftermath
http://issuu.com/ferrincontemporary/docs/clowns_sm.?e=10033771/53890892
https://issuu.com/ferrincontemporary/docs/mis_representation_sm
http://issuu.com/ferrincontemporary/docs/early_paintings_sm.?e=10033771/53891156
Web Sites:
Instagram:
#gingras_micheline
https://www.instagram.com/gingras_micheline/
Education:
1964-1969
Master of Fine Arts, Cum Laude, École des Beaux-Arts de Québec, CA
1970
New York University, Photography with Robert Frank, NY
Photography with Ken Heyman, NY
Museum Collections:
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec. CA
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, CA
Musée de Joliette, Québec, CA
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Yale University Art Museum, CT
Grants:
1989
Artist-in-Residence, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Portland, ME
1976
Bourse du Ministère des Affaires Culturelles du Québec: ARTS VISUELS
1974
Counseil des Arts du Canada: PEINTURE (Canadian Art Council, Painting)
1973
Counseil des Arts du Canada: PEINTURE (Canadian Art Council, Painting)
Art Related Experience:
1980-2017
Faculty Visual Arts, Saint Ann’s School, Brooklyn, NY
Member, New York Artist Equity, NY
1993
Lecturer on Equilibrium, “Body as Metaphor,” Parson College, NY
1980
Painting Instructor, School of Visual Arts, NY
1979
Director, South West Gallery, NY
1973
Assistant Director, Arras Gallery, NY
1970
Member, Artistes Professionnelles du Québec, Montréal, CA
1969-1976
Assistant Photographer, 228 West Broadway Studios, NY
1967
Assistant Public Relations Director, Galerie d’Art du Pavillon Canadien, Expo 67, Montréal, CA