MICHELLE PRAZAK
b. 1977
Lives and works in Lima, Peru

Education
2006 Fine Arts Teacher Training Course, with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky, Florence, Italy
2006 Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Institute of Education, University of London 2003 Master in Fine Arts, Byam Shaw School of Art, Central St Martins College of Art and
Design, London
1999 Fine Arts Diploma, Lorenzo de Medici School of Art (Florence, Italy) 1995-97 BA FineArts,
Escuela de Arte Corriente Alterna (Lima, Peru)

Solo Exhibitions
2013 Transiciones en Tiempo y Espacio, Galeria Foum, Lima, Peru
2012 Movements in Time and Space, THE MISSION, Chicago, IL 2004 Shared Space, Galeria Wu Ediciones, Lima, Peru
2001 Paintings, Galeria Cecilia Gonzalez, Lima, Peru

Group Exhibitions
2016 Geometria y Abstraccion, Galeria El Museo, Bogota, D.C.
Shadow Dancing, Galeria Impakto, Lima Peru
Typed, Cut, Peeled, and Painted, THE MISSION, Houston, TX
2015 Plane Figures, THE MISSION, Chicago, IL
Outliers, THE MISSION, Chicago, IL
Angular II, La Galeria, Lima, Peru
Subasta, MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima, Peru
2014 the Grid, THE MISSION, Houston, TX
10 Bulls, Temporary Agency, New York, NY Pinta London, Art in the Flat, London, UK Pinta New York, THE MISSION, Chicago, IL
2012 Pinta New York, THE MISSION, Chicago, IL 2011 Marked Pages, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
Transition, THE MISSION, Chicago, IL
El Encuentro, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Pinta London, Sammer Gallery Miami, London, UK
Pinta New York, Sammer Gallery Miami, New York, NY
Art Basel, Sammer Gallery Miami, Miami, FL
2009 Begin Anywhere, House of Art and Multimedia, Berkley, CA
2007 Arts Unwrapped, Space Studios, London, UK
2005 Artaid, Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Tertulia, The Arts Gallery, London, UK
2004 Bino-Scapes, Berliner Kunstproject, Berlin, Germany 2003 Did You Feed the Ducks?, Nylon Gallery, London, UK
2002 Crumbs, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY Galeria Cecilia Gonzalez, Lima, Peru
2001 F.I.A. –Latin American Art Fair, Galeria Cecilia Gonzales, Caracas, Venezuela 1999 Galeria Via Larga, Florence, Italy

Awards, Grants, and Residencies
2015 Residency led by Claire Gavronsky and Rose Shakinovsky: The Spiritual in Art Practice 3 Florence, Italy
2014 Fundacion Cisneros Fontanals: Nomination for Emerging Art Grant, Miami, FL 2013 Fundacion Cisneros Fontanals: Nomination for Emerging Art Grant, Miami, FL
2011 Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency Program, Vermont
2010 Residency led by Claire Gavronsky and Rose Shakinovsky: The Spiritual in Art Practice 2
Florence, Italy
2010 Residency led by Claire Gavronsky and Rose Shakinovsky, Florence, Italy
2008 Residency led by Claire Gavronsky and Rose Shakinovsky: The Spiritual in Art Practice 1
Florence, Italy
2006 Residency led by Claire Gavronsky and Rose Shakinovsky, Florence, Italy
2002 Bloomberg Scholarship, Byam Shaw School of Art, Central St Martins College, London UK 2001 Residency led by Claire Gavronsky and Rose Shakinovsky,: Re-Generation Florence, Italy 1998 Residency led by Claire Gavronsky and Rose Shakinovsky: Contemporary Issues and Art
Practice, Florence, Italy

Related Professional Experience
2011 Producer: “The Light on The Hill”, Super 16mm, 90 mins, fiction film, Peru
2010 Cofounder/Instructor: Draw London, London, UK
2010 Art Lecturer and Tutor: Foundation Painting and Drawing, Shadwell Centre for Lifelong
Learning, London, UK
2007 Art Professor: BA Intermediate and Advanced Painting, Florence University of the Arts,
Florence, Italy
2006 Art Lecturer: Diploma in Art and Design, Barnet College, London, UK
2005 Art Instructor: Drawing for Adults with Disabilities, Byam Shaw School of Art, London UK