Statement
There are aspects of experience on the periphery of awareness having to do with what it means to exist. I think it’s a preverbal knowledge we have residing in an emotive state preceding thoughts, stories, worldviews. It resonates with different cultural conceptions and experiences of the sublime and the void while making room for grief, humor, dread, absurdity, bliss, futility and expansiveness all at once.
Bio
Michelle Chen Dubose received an MFA in studio art and a Bachelor of Music in cello performance from the University of Houston. She is a painter based in Houston, TX and has exhibited throughout Texas. Selected exhibitions include those at Lawndale Art Center, Front Gallery, Sam Houston State University, Box 13 Art Space, Blue Star Lab, Texas State University, Houston Art League and Blaffer Art Gallery. Her work has been selected for New American Paintings and as a finalist for the Hunting Prize.
Education
University of Houston, Master of Fine Art, Studio Art
University of Houston, Bachelor of Music, Cello Performance
Solo / Three-Person Exhibitions
2025 Seeing Texas, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville TX
2018 67000 MPH Around The Sun, Front Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
2014 Euclid's Line, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (solo)
2014 No Fart No Bliss, Box 13 Artspace, Houston, TX (three-person)
2009 Collaboration Among the Arts, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (three-person)
Group Exhibitions
2019 Open Studios, Bermac Arts, Houston, TX
2017 Twelve Soloists in Harmony, Front Gallery, Houston, TX
2016 Hunting Prize Finalist Gala, Houston, TX
2016 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Jurors: Apsara DiQuinzio and Tina Kukielski, Houston, TX
2015 Empty Box, Box 13 Artspace, Houston, TX
2014 New American Paintings, No. 114, 2014, The Open Studios Press 2014
Southwest School of Art Gala, San Antonio, TX
2013 The Trojan Box, Art League Houston, Houston, TX
2013 Dollars for Scholars, Station Museum, Houston, TX
2013 Empty Box: Year of the Box, Box 13 Artspace, Houston,
2013 X-Offenders: Celebrating the Roots of Performance Art in Houston
G Gallery, Houston, TX
2012 Box 13 Collective: Right to Assemble, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2012 The Empty Box Ole: Box 13 Artspace, Houston, TX
2012 Shipped: Work by Current Box 13 Artists outside the Box,
4411 Montrose Gallery, Houston, TX
2011 Art from the Land of Cougars, Blue Star Lab, San Antonio, TX 2011 The Future is Now, Skydive Art Space, Houston, TX
2011 Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Juror: Larissa Harris, Houston, TX 2011 33:
Masters Thesis Exhibition, Blaffer Museum, Houston, TX
2010 Juried Show, Blaffer Museum, Houston, TX
2009 Through the Looking Glass, Glassell School of Art, MFAH,
Benefit and Auction, Houston, TX
2009 Migrations, Intersections, Metamorphosis, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX 2009
Nada, Rice Media Center, Rice University, Houston, TX
2008 Juried Student Exhibition, Blaffer Museum, Universtiy fo Houston, Houston, TX
2004 Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Juror: Michael Ray Charles, Houston, TX
2002 Rhythm, Gallery 101, Houston, TX
Performance
2009 Collaboration Among the Arts, with Regina Vigil and Brian Hlavinka, Live performaces of tap dancing, cello performance, poetry writing and painting staged amidst wreckage of Hurricane Ike in Galveston on Gulf of Mexico, Video documentation presented at Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
2005 High Voltage, Voices Breaking Boundaries, Diverseworks, Houston,TX
2004 48 Hours Art and Music Festival, (Vivaldi Cello Duo performed between lightweight and heavyweight boxing matches) Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
2003 A Collage of Sights and Sounds, Voices Breaking Boundaries, Diverseworks, Houston, TX
Artist Talks
2011 Brown Bag gallery tour, Blaffer Gallery, Houston TX
2005 Panel discussion with Voices Breaking Boundaries, KPFT 90.1
Curatorial
2010 Emergent Behavior, The Temporary Space, Houston, TX
Bibliography
Anspon, Catherine.”Houston’s Best Museums and Art Galleries” Papercitymag.com, Oct 2, 2017
New American Paintings, No. 114, 2014, The Open Studios Press, pp 11 (text), 46-48 (reproductions) Juror: Nora Burnett Abrams, Curator of The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver,
Boyd, Robert. "A Certain Voluntary Association of Artists" The Great God Pan is Dead, Aug 26,2013.
Barrera, Debra. Throw Me a Party or Throw Me Away, April 22, 2011. debrabarrera.tumblr.com
Vogel, Wendy. "Emergent Behavior," ...might be good, April 25, 2010. www.fluentcollab.org
Devine, John. "Double Trouble, Two juried shows stir up the Houston art scene" Houston Press, August 12, 2004
Awards
2010-2011 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Scholarship, University of Houston
2008-2010 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fellow, University of Houston
2004 Juror’s award, Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Juror: Michael Ray Charles, Houston, TX