MICHELE KISHITA
PAINTER
B. 1968 USA
Michele's paintings are strongly influenced by the graphic stylizations and compressed spaces of Japanese ukiyo-e prints.
Michele Kishita is a Philadelphia-based artist who uses landscape as her primary subject. Her paintings are strongly influenced by the graphic stylizations and compressed spaces of Japanese ukiyo-e prints. Kishita’s paintings are in a number of private/corporate collections, including Toyota, Capital One, and Kaiser Permanente, and her work is featured in Create Magazine, on the Poetry Foundation blog, and the Studio Break and Thyme in the Studio podcasts, as well as in several literary journals. She has participated in artist residencies in New Mexico, Russia, and Iceland and exhibited at the Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates and the Museum of Non-Conformist Art in St. Petersburg, Russia. Kishita received both her BFA and MFA in painting from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
AVAILABLE WORK
MICHELE KISHITA CV
Exhibitions
2021
Solo: Seasonal Wandering, Crossing Art Gallery, New York, NY
Group: Winter Works 2021, Cufflink Art, Fort Worth, TX
Group: Progressions, Cufflink Art, Fort Worth, TX
Group: Force of Nature, Cufflink Art, Fort Worth, TX
2020
Solo: Absent Futures, Central Tattoo Studio Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Group: Ensemble: Together Again, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2019
Group: Traditional Meets Contemporary, Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Group: Summer Rush, Hot Bed & James Oliver Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
Group: SPAR Museum Night, 2,04 gallery, Art Centre Pushkinskaya-10, St. Petersburg, Russia
Group: The Fire Theft, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Group: Collector’s Exhibition: NoBA One Year Anniversary, NoBA, Bala Cynwyd, PA
Group: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2018
Solo: Confluence, 2,04 gallery, Art Centre Pushkinskaya-10, St. Petersburg, Russia
Solo: Michele Kishita: Recent Works, NoBA Salonspace, Bala Cynwyd, PA
Group: Intersection, RH Gallery, Hockessin, DE
Group: SPAR Museum Night, The Museum of Non-Conformist Art, St. Petersburg, Russia
Group: The Way We See It, Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury, VT
Group: International Variety, Hot Bed Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2017
Solo: Transient Season, Gallery 543, URBN Corporate, Philadelphia, PA
Group: ArtPrize 9, St. Matthews Venue, Grand Rapids, MI
Group: Legions, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Group: Missing Objects: A Tribute to Hassan Sharif, Flying House, Dubai, UAE
Group: From the Pages, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2016
Solo: Ecstatic Territories, The 3rd Place Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Solo: Chromarrythmia, Central Tattoo Studio Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Two-Person: Michele Kishita & Eliza Stamps: Graphic Tales, The Drawing Room Gallery, Cos Cob, CT
Group: Reinventing Nature (Curated by Barbara Harberger), Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015
Solo: Fluid Resonance, Pennswood Art Gallery, Newtown, PA
Two-Person: Essential Impermanence: The Work of Deborah Losada and Michele Kishita, Windsor Art Center, Windsor, CT
2014
Group: FLUENT: The Language of Paint, The Drawing Room Gallery, Cos Cob, CT
Group: The Painting Center is Turning 21 Invitational, Painting Center, New York, NY
Group: Navigation Puzzle, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
2013
Solo: Of Water and Wood, The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
Two-Person: Making It Alumni Invitational: Michele Kishita and John Souter, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Group: Paper Work, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
Group: The Drawing Room Summer Exhibit: Works by Represented Gallery Artists, The Drawing Room Gallery, Cos Cob, CT
Group: Homeland: Contemporary Approaches to Contemplating the Landscape, The Drawing Room Gallery, Cos Cob, CT
2012
Group: Water, Water Everywhere, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Group: Maps, Pagus Gallery, Norristown PA
Group: RSVP 2012, LG Tripp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2011
Group: 8th Annual Juried Exhibition, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ
2011
Group: The 29th Annual Exhibition of the Emirates Fine Arts Society: Still Melting, Sharjah Art
Museum, Sharjah, UAE
Artist Residencies/Grants
2018
SPAR Artist Residency, St. Petersburg, Russia
NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2017
OCHO Artist Residency, Questa, New Mexico
Blick Grant
Publications/Interviews
2021
Blue Earth Review, Featured Artist, Issue 27, cover and pages 40~48
Sinovision.net “Michele Kishita’s Solo Exhibition, Seasonal Wandering, Opens at Crossing Art,” April 2
2020
Thyme in the Studio, “How to Burn a painting and Write an Artist Statement in Iceland with Michele Kishita,” Episode 54
artblog, “Dreamscapes Burning with Organic Memory, Michele Kishita’s ‘Absent Futures’ at Central Tattoo,” by Michael Lieberman, March 11
2018
Vermont Art Guide, Issue #7 “The Way We See It”
2017
Poetry Foundation, “Light Is a Complex Medium” by Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Suggestions of Landscape: Michele Kishita, film by Tyler Nelson
In Quotes, Volume 4: Michele Kishita, film by Wenlu Bao
Create! Magazine (Juried Bridgette Mayer), Issue III
Up the Staircase Quarterly, Winter Issue, Cover
2016
The Artist Catalogue, Volume 5, Issue 3, Fall
Up the Staircase Quarterly, Autumn Issue, Feature Artist
Third Point Press, Issue #5
The Dialogist, Volume III, Issue IV, Featured Artist
Sister, by Steven Karl, Book Cover, Noemi Press
2015
Studio Break, Interview (Episode 132), http://studiobreak.com/michele-kishita/
Fresh Paint Magazine, Issue 4, (pages 26 & 27)
Fresh Paint Magazine Studio Visit
Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studios Press, Volume 28, (pages 101 &102)
CT Bites, Homeland Exhibition
2013
The City Paper, First Friday Hitlist
Fairfield County Look, Homeland Exhibition,
2011
Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studios Press, Volume16, (pages 104 &105)
Beautiful Land, Chana Rothman, 2011 (cover, CD, & poster)
Edge: The Magazine of the University of the Arts, Fall (page 15)
The 29th Annual Exhibition of the Emirates Fine Arts Society Exhibition Catalogue, United Arab Emirates, (pages 202~205 & 218) Emarat Al Youm, Daily Newspaper, United Arab Emirates, January 10, 2011
Corporate Collections
Toyota
Capital One
Kaiser Permanente
Cira Centre
Park Towne Place
White & Case
Temple University (Howard Gittis Student Center)
Temple University (Fox Business School)
Drexel University (The Summit)
Texas Tech University
The University of the Arts
Education
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2010 M.F.A. Painting
1997 B.F.A. Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing (with honors)