Michael Genovese (artist)
Michael Genovese is a contemporary American artist born in 1976 in Chicago, Illinois. He currently lives and works in Miami, Florida.
AbOUT
Michael Genovese's practice begins with sociocultural theories, performed through the processing of his personal experiences. The INSTRUMENTS of performance, drawing, sculpture, and painting activate through collaboration. Genovese’s work has grown out of non-academic training where he has incorporated the disciplines and materials of the applied arts within a conceptual art framework.
Projects
Genovese’s recent projects include Lo que puedes pagar (2006-2008), where through the performance of solicitation he explored cross-cultural and linguistic comparisons using affordable sign painting as a vehicle. Immigrant owned fruit-cart vendors and metal collectors were engaged to challenge ideologies of segregation, establishing a trust within inner-city communities.
Public Scribing (2008-Current), collects the thoughts and perspectives of individuals through the act of collaborative mark making. The drawings and social commentary are archived through transcribing, translating, and reinterpreting the data through others. The information is a starting point in the artist’s creative process where the source of inspiration is the unedited literal and visual information.
Radiophobia, A Chernobyl Poem in by Lyubov Sirota in Russian
Selected Exhibitions
2010 The Island, A group exhibition organized by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) and OHWOW, Miami, FL
2010 It Ain't Fair 2010, OHWOW, Miami, FL
2010 New Work Miami 2010, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, Curated by Peter Boswell and René Morales
2010 Writ Deep, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL, Curated by Shannon Stratton
2009 It's Not the Heat, it's the Humility, OHWOW, Miami, FL (solo)
2009 It Ain't Fair 2009, OHWOW, Miami, FL
2009 Confection, OHWOW, Miami, FL
2008 Institutionalized, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo/residency)
2008 Just cause it's legal doesn't make it right, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
2008 We all we got, Packer Schopf, Chicago, IL (solo)
2008 Contemplation Station, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (solo/residency)
2008 Sign Language, University of Texas at San Antonio and Unit B, San Antonio, TX (two person)