curriculum vitae
michele renée ledoux
born 1967 | marlborough, massachusetts
1986-98 | boulder, colorado
1998-present | evergreen, colorado
exhibitions
selected solo exhibitions
united states
2007 | "Eternal Moment." | The Business of Art Center | Manitou Springs, CO
2006 | "Enso. An Expression of the Moment." | Sliding Door Gallery | Denver, CO
2006 | "Abstract Acrylics" | Frames for All Reasons | Evergreen, CO
2005 | "Inciampare all' Italia [Trip to Italy]" | Caladan Gallery | Beverly, MA
2004 | Funky Buddha | Denver, CO
2003 | "Common Places, Uncommon Thoughts–Santa Fe/Taos #1" | 910 Arts | Denver, CO
1998 | Louisville, CO
selected group exhibitions
international
2010 | Tenuta S. Anna International Traveling Exhibit March 6th - December 2010 | Tenuta S. Anna Estate | Veneto, Italy
2008 | Moderna08 International Art Fair of Mar del Plata | Mar del Plata, Argentina
2007 | "Spirit. The Spirit in Art" International Art Exhibition | Ferrara Museum of the Estense Castle | Ferrara, Italy
2007 | 19th Anniversary Collective Exhibition | Galeria Forma | Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007 | Moderna07 Collective Exhibition | Villa Victoria Ocampo Museum | Mar de Plata, Argentina
2007 | Moderna07 Primera Feria de Grandes Maestros y Arte Emergente | Mar de Plata, Argentina
2006 | "Magica" Int'll Art Exhibition | Ferrara Museum of the Estense Castle | Ferrara, Italy
2006 | "Cultures Confrontation" Int'll Art Exhibition | San Antonio Church | Barletta, Italy
2006 | "Horizons" Int'l Art Exhibition | Villa Medicea "La Ferdinanda," Artimino | Florence, Italy
2006 | "Premio Internazionale d'Arte San Valentino" | Vico del Gargano 10th Annual Int'l Art Exhibition | Vico del Gargano | Puglia, Italy
2005 | "Emotions in Motion" Int’l Art Exhibition | Ferrara Museum of the Estense Castle | Ferrara, Italy
united states
34th Annual American Craft Council Show | San Francisco, CA
2010 Park City Kimball Arts Festival | Park City, UT
Highland Park Festival of Fine Crafts 2010 | Highland Park, IL
48th Annual Milwaukee Art Museum Lakefront Festival of Art | Milwaukee, WI
National Association of Women Artists121st Annual Exhibition | New York, NY
60th Annual Art City Austin 2010 | Austin, TX
37th Annual Fiesta Arts Fairl |San Antonio, TX
40th Annual Scottsdale Arts Festival | Scottsdale, AZ
Evergreen Fine Art 100 for 100 Fundraiser | Evergreen, CO
29th Annual Old West Museum "Western Spirit" Show | Cheyenne, WY
15th Annual Carefree Fine Art and Wine Festival | Carefree, AZ
34th Annual American Craft Council Show (Wholesale/Retail) | Baltimore, MD
2009
“Boots to Heal” Juried Exhibition | Morton Street Gallery, Richmond, TX
16th Annual Carefree Fine Art and Wine Festival | Carefree, AZ
Burr Ridge Art on the Green | Burr Ridge, IL
Cape Code Fine Arts Festival | Hyannis, MA
2008
24th Annual Juried Vail Arts Festival | Lionshead | Vail, CO
2007
"Body and Mind" | Core Clinic | San Jose, CA
"Illuminations" 5th Year Anniversary Commission | Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center | Boston, MA
"Facets of Transformation" | Gallery 181 | Lawrence, MA
"Illuminations" | Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center | Boston, MA
"Self-Portrait 2007" | Evergreen Art Center | Evergreen, CO
2006
"Art and Soul" | Southborough Arts Center | Southborough, MA
"From Our Perspective" 15th Annual National Women's Art Exhibition | Oakland Community College | Farmington Hills, MI
"Food" | Sliding Door Gallery | Denver, CO
"Botanicals and Bugs" | Tennyson Gallery | Denver, CO
"The Human Form—Bodies in Motion" | Tennyson Gallery | Denver, CO
Group Show | Satellite Gallery | Denver, CO
Group Show | Sliding Door Gallery | Denver, CO
2005
4th Annual Juried Exhibition | Organization of Independent Artists | New York, NY
"It's On!" | Sliding Door Gallery | Denver, CO
Annual Juried Exhibition | Worcester Artist Group | Worcester, MA
Alliance Francais | Silent Auction | Brown Palace | Denver, CO
"Blooms + Baubles: A Celebration of Spring" | K.D. Moore Gallery | Evergreen, CO
"7th Annual International Art Exhibition" | Upstream People Gallery | Omaha, NE
"Oklahoma: Centerfold 2004-2005" | USAO Gallery | Chickasha, OK
"Visual Text: The Other" | Fulton Street Gallery | Troy, NY
2004
"Oklahoma:Centerfold 2003-2004" | Leslie Powell Foundation/Gallery | Lawton, OK
2nd Annual San Diego Arts Festival | San Diego, CA
7th Annual Sacramento Arts Festival | Sacramento, CA
"Snap to Grid" | L.A. Center for Digital Art | Los Angeles, CA
"Mountain Masterpieces" | Snowmass Village, CO
"Summer Art 2004" | Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts | Steamboat Springs, CO
Santa Cruz Digital Arts Festival | Santa Cruz, CA
12th Annual Oceanside Art Festival | Oceanside, CA
Silicon Valley Art Museum Gallery | San Francisco, CA
MacWorld San Francisco 2004 | San Francisco, CA
Cleveland State University/NewCAT | Cleveland, OH
2003
The Collection | Evergreen, CO
MacWorld Digital Contest + Expo | Javitz Center | New York City
2002
CORE “WOW” Wide Open Whatever Show | Denver, CO
representation
international
Galeria Forma | Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fondazione ArtexArte | Milan, Italy
Paola Trevisan Contemporary Art Gallery | Ferrara, Italy
united states
Colorado Mountain Gallery | Georgetown, CO
selected collections
private collections: united states
selected commissions
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center | Boston, MA
selected awards
2010 Best of Show - Highland Park Festival of Fine Crafts | Highland Park, IL
2010 Finalist | Tenuta S. Anna Prize, Arte Laguna | Tenuta S. Anna Estates, Veneto, Italy
2009 Best of Show - Mixed Media, Boots to Heal Exhibit, Morton Street Gallery, Richmond, TX
2009 Merit Award, Burr Ridge Fine Arts Festival
2003 Winner MacWorld International Digital Contest + Expo
1998 1st Place Abstract “Surrender” | 16th Annual Tri-City Fine Arts Show | Louisville Art Association | Louisville, CO
1997 2nd Place Abstract “Doubled Over" | 15th Annual Tri-City Fine Arts Show | Louisville Art Association | Louisville, CO
selected bibliography
books
"Harvest the Bounty of Your Career" | Windrum | Axiom Action Publishing
“Illuminations 2001-2006: A Retrospective" | Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Ctr
“Illuminations— Expressions of the Personal Spiritual Experience" | Thompkins and McMahon | Celestial Arts Publishing
calendars
“Gifford Stephens 2010 Calendar of Art and Inspiration" | Denver, CO
“2008 5th Year Anniversary Calendar" | MA General Hospital Cancer Center | Cover image | Boston, MA
“2007 Evergreen Arts Center 2007" | Evergreen Arts Council | Evergreen, CO
newspapers
"Artist Comforts and Inspires," Mary Wenzel, Marlborough Enterprise, Marlborough, MA, 2007
"City Native's Art to be Displayed," Joan Simoneau, Main Street Journal, Marlborough, MA, 2007
"Homecoming", Jennifer Lord, Metrowest Daily News, Sunday Arts Cover, 2007
periodicals
Photographers.it, Paola Trevisan, 2005
Colorado Serenity, "The Camino de Santiago: A 500-mile Pilgrimmage," Michele Renee Ledoux, 2005
critical overview
Kimberly D. Moore, Curator | Evergreen Fine Art, Evergreen, CO | 2009
Michele Renée Ledoux’s body of work, “alchemy of align,” is masterful and thought provoking.
With her unique combination of printmaking, painting, drawing and photography, she has created harmony that goes beyond metaphor.
The beauty of her work lies in the various techniques of her artistic expression. Her work has an inviting quality, which becomes more revealing each time it is viewed.
It is like discovering the soul. “[A]lchemy of align” celebrates the variety of metaphoric expression that underlies and connects us all.
Paola Trevisan, Art Critic | Paola Trevisan Arte Contemporanea, Italy | 2006
“Michele Renée Ledoux, young American artist/photographer, through her photos, reveals secrets, mysteries, stories, traces of life and poetry. She’s able to freely employ and deploy her memories, her thoughts and her sensations in order to get as close as possible to the psychological sphere: those feelings, emotions and moods that make up our spiritual dimensions.
Ledoux feels the impulsive desire to stop realities and objects belonging to quotidian images, filling them with magic, rarefied, lyric effects and revealing to us details of a nature soaked with poetical aspects that often slip from us.
Ledoux with her photos shows of being an author who doesn’t pursue the objective fidelity in the photographic reproduction of nature and objects that become the subjects of her photos, but it is her eyes, her mind and all her baggage made of emotions and experiences that bring her to utilize the photographic object as subjective expressive medium, also searching the communication with the spectators with whom she will share her own visions and interpretations of the surrounding reality and truth stopped in an eternal moment.
Ledoux has developed a very personal photographic research that she continues exploring and elaborating with new and renovated creativity and power. As an art-critic, I would also like to emphasize how the poetic, emotional and artistic component of her photography remains a powerful and suggestive constant while at the same time her photographic and technical sensibility which help her to achieve intense and refined artistic results is equally important.”
professional memberships
2010 - present | National Association of Women Artists (N.A.W.A.)
2010 - present | International Encaustic Artists (IEA)
2010 - present | Center for the Arts Evergreen | Evergreen, CO
2008 | Business of Art Center | Manitou Springs, CO
2006-07 | Board Member, 910 Arts | Denver, CO
2005 - present | Evergreen Artists Association
community
2008 - present | Co-Founder/Creative Consultant, Art as Endless Possibility | Evergreen, CO
2007 | Conceptual Curator, theGallery at 910 | Denver, CO
1996 - 2008 | Creative Director, Mountain Connection | Evergreen, CO
professional development
One-on-one workshop with artist, printmaker and educator, Ron Pokrasso
“Zen of Creativity” with author, artist, Zen master, John Daido Loori
“8 Gates” with author, artist, Zen master, John Daido Loori
“Zen Calligraphy on a Large Scale” with Japanese calligrapher, Zen teacher and author, Kazuaki Tanahashi
“Transformation thru Poetry” Naropa University
Artist consultation with nationally acknowledged master of encaustic and author, Joanne Mattera
education
1986-1990 B.A. Philosophy w/emphasis in Eastern Religious Studies
University of Colorado at Boulder
