In a far-reaching practice that encompasses video, performance, photography, and public art, Michelle Handelman creates provocative works that are both confrontational and visually seductive.

Frequently taking literary giants as a point of reference, she deftly plumbs the depths of human morality by employing conflicting pairs such as attraction and repulsion, compulsive desire and narcissism, beauty and the grotesque. 

Handelman’s work also reveals the artifice of contemporary culture while simultaneously co-opting many of its deceptions
to her own advantage.

Born in Chicago in 1960, Michelle Handelman lives and works in New York and Boston. Her work has been shown worldwide at venues including MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston; Centre Pompidou, Paris; ICA, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Performa, New York; Participant INC, New York; and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT.
Recent projects include a solo exhibition at Art-Claims-Impulse, Berlin and a commissioned installation for The Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia. She received her MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College and is an Associate Professor in the Film/Video department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston.
This is the first solo presentation of her work in Texas.

“My work can be best described by theorist Helene Cixous’ ideas of Visceral Feminism: aggressively traversing the corporeal landscape in its various forms of excess and undress, while simultaneously giving it up for the viewer in an overflow of visual and psychological sensations.” Michelle Handelman