Michelle Jaffé  lived her teenage years, as an American in London, remaining to earn a BA Honours degree in Fine Arts and French Literature from the University of East Anglia in England. As a result of a three-month internship at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, she moved to New York upon graduation.

Notable Solo exhibitions are sculpture & sound installation “Wappen Field” presented at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids in 2011, and also at Rutgers University in 2013 as part of “Momentum: Women/Art/Technology”, exhibitions in New York at Susan Berko Conde Gallery in 2004, 2009, 2010, Broadway Gallery “Wappen Field: A Work in Progress” and Site Specific Installations at "PS1's Backside" & at Djerassi, and 150m3Largus in Cologne. Significant Group exhibitions are NYFA, ArtWare, Middlebury College Art Museum, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bellevue Sculpture Biennial, Islip Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, & Sacred Heart University, amongst others.

Jaffé was awarded two Individual Artist Grants for “Wappen Field” from NYSCA, Fiscal Sponsorship and an  Artist as Entrepreneur Boot Camp grant from NYFA,  Artist-in-Residence to the Computer Music Department at Brooklyn College, & residencies at MacDowell Colony & Djerassi, Queens Council on the Arts: Peer Leadership & Individual Artist Initiative grants.

30 works are in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Fashion Institute of Technology & Museé de la Mode et du Costume in Paris.