Troy Montes-Michie (born 1985) is an American interdisciplinary painter and collage artist.

Early life and education

Troy Michie was born in

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. He received a BFA from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2009 and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in Painting/Printmaking in 2011.

Career

Michie participated in the Tuesday Night MFA Lecture Series at BU School of Visual Arts.

Fat Cat Came To Play

On December 3, 2017, Michie held his first solo exhibition Fat Cat Came To Play through Company Gallery, which lasted until January 21, 2018. In the solo exhibition, Michie explores the significance of zoot suits, which are “broad-shouldered suits that were popular with Italian, black, and Latino men in the United States in the 1940s”. The installation was inspired by the

Zoot Suit Riots The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that took place June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving United States Armed Forces, American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican ...

, which took place in 1943 after white servicemen attacked a group of Mexican Americans wearing Zoot suits. Unlike his earlier works, which dealt with sex, Fat Cat Came To Play focused on exploring “blackness, queerness, and sexuality within an assemblage” by expressing socio-economic traits on to the Zoot Suit. In many of his installations, Michie cuts out the faces of photographs from this era to address that these histories of the minorities are still relevant today. A notable piece of the exhibition was “Disruptive Patterns”, which aimed to remind people that police officers were among the attackers in the

. The exhibition stayed true to Michie's philosophy of representing the cultural expressions, specifically through fashion, of “historically marginalized American male figures”.

Exhibitions

*''"Found: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction”'' –

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (LLMA), formerly the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, is a visual art museum in SoHo, Lower Manhattan, New York City. It mainly collects, preserves and exhibits visual arts created by LGBTQ artists or ...

* Stedelijk Museum-Hertogenbosch *''"Rites of Spring" (group show) -''

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is a not-for-profit institution in the Museum District, Houston, Texas, founded in 1948, dedicated to presenting contemporary art to the public. As a non-collecting museum, it strives to provide a forum for visua ...

– (01/11/2014 – September 3, 2014) *''"A Constellation" (group show) -'' The Studio Museum in Harlem – (11/12/2015 – June 3, 2016) *''"Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon"'' ''(group show)'' –

The New Museum The New Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum at 235 Bowery, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-nam ...

– (09/27/17 – 01/21/18) *''2019

Whitney Biennial The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of contemporary American art organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932; the first biennial was held in 1973. It is considered ...

'' –

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is a Modern art, modern and Contemporary art, contemporary American art museum located in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, Meatpacking District and West Village neighbor ...

– curated by

Rujeko Hockley Rujeko Hockley is a New York–based US curator. Hockley is currently the Arnhold Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Life and education Born in Harare, Zimbabwe, Hockley relocated to Wa ...

and

Jane Panetta Jane Panetta is a New York City, New York-based curator and art historian. Panetta is currently an associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Career Curating Before working at the Whitney, Panetta spent five years in the Painting and ...

*''2022 "Rock of Eye" -

California African American Museum The California African American Museum (CAAM) is a museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, next to the California Science Center. The museum focuses on enrichment and education on the cultural heritage and history of African Americans w ...

(CAAM) Los Angeles, Ca. - Curated by Andrea Anderson''

References

External links

Troy Michie is making collage art a little more queer – Vice – André-Naquian Wheeler
{{DEFAULTSORT:Michie, Troy 1985 births Living people University of Texas at El Paso alumni Yale School of Art alumni LGBTQ people from Texas LGBTQ people from New York (state) African-American LGBTQ people American LGBTQ artists African-American painters African-American contemporary artists American contemporary painters Hispanic and Latino American artists 21st-century African-American artists 20th-century African-American artists Artists from El Paso, Texas