Michelle Stuart was born in California and now works in New York. Having studied in Mexico, France, and New York, Stuart applies her wide breadth of interests—from biology to archeology—to her art in a dynamic body of paintings, sculpture, and multi-media installations. Stuart’s innovative use of organic mediums such as earth, wax, seeds, and plants has redefined the relationship between traditional artistic practices and its application to the physical world. Stuart’s work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Stuart’s Nazca Lines Southern Hemisphere Constellation Chart Correlation was recently featured in On the Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century at the Museum of Modern Art (November 21, 2010 – February 7, 2011).

This season Salomon Contemporary presented Michelle Stuart: Works from the 1960s to the Present, 8 January – 26 February 2011, in conjunction with Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects.