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Michelle Jaffé spent her teenage years, as an American in London, remaining to continue her studies, earning an Honours degree in Fine Arts and French Literature, from the University of East Anglia in England. As a result of a 3 month summer internship at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Jaffé decided to move to New York upon graduation.
In 2008 Jaffé was awarded New York Foundation for the Arts Fiscal Sponsorship and a New York State Council on the Arts grant to build Wappen Field, a sculpture and sound installation. In October 2008 she presented Wappen Field as a “Work in Progress” at The Broadway Gallery, coutesy of the Malka Lubelski Foundation. She also received a Queens Council on the Arts IAI, Individual Artist Initiative grant. She was awarded an Artist Residency in 2008 to Djerassi and to the MacDowell Colony in 2005. As a result of incorporating sound into her installations, Jaffé was invited to be Artist-in-Residence to the Computer Music Department at Brooklyn College in 2003-2004. In 2005, the Sound Installation, "The Booth Project" was presented at the Electro-Acoustic Music Festival at Brooklyn College, in NY.
Notable Sculpture Exhibitions include her recent site specific installations Bed of Nails, Iraq 4000 at Djerassi and Between the Clock and the Bed at the PS1's Backside exhibition, and solo shows at Susan Conde Gallery in New York and at 150m3 Largus Austellungs & Projektraum in Cologne, Germany, in addition to significant group shows including, "Informed by Function" at Lehman College Art Gallery in 2008, the Museum of Art at Middlebury College, the 2006 Bellevue Sculpture Biennial, the Islip Art Museum, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Sacred Heart University, amongst others.
An extensive body of work is in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Fashion Institute of Technology and the Museé de la Mode et du Costume in Paris, France.
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