2010
National Association of Women Artists (N.A.W.A.) New Members Exhibit | New York, NY
39th Annual Bayou City Art Festival | Houston, TX
"Edge of Abstraction" Exhibit | Center for the Arts Evergreen | Evergreen, CO
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

2003
The Collection | Evergreen, CO
MacWorld Digital Contest + Expo | Javitz Center | New York City, NY

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
Made | East Hampton, NY
Colorado Mountain Gallery | Georgetown, CO

selected collections
private collections: United States

selected commissions
Private Commission | Milwaukee, WI
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center | Boston, MA

selected awards
2011 Honorable Mention | Healing Art Juried Competition | The Artistic Circle
2011 3rd Place | 50th Anniversary Armonk Art Show | Armonk, NY
2011 Doug and Annie Johnson Photographic ArtsAward | Artists Association of Northern Colorado (AANC)
2010 Nautilus Silver Book Award | “Harvest the Bounty of your Career” by Deborah F. Windrum with original art by Michele Renée Ledoux
2010 CIPA EVVY Award - 1st Place “ | “Harvest the Bounty of your Career” by Deborah F. Windrum with original art by Michele Renée Ledoux
2010 3rd Place | “Edge of Abstraction” | Center for the Arts Evergreen | Evergreen, CO
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 Book of the Year Award Finalist | ForeWord Magazine | “Harvest the Bounty of your Career” by Deborah F. Windrum with original art by Michele Renée Ledoux
2009 Living Now Book Award | “Harvest the Bounty of your Career” by Deborah F. Windrum with original art by Michele Renée Ledoux
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

periodicals
Photographers.it, Paola Trevisan, 2005
Colorado Serenity, "The Camino de Santiago: A 500-mile Pilgrimmage," Michele Renee Ledoux, 2005

critical overview
Amanda Boyle, Art Critic | allaboutarmonk.com | 201
Michele Renée Ledoux is a mixed media artist with an endless imagination. She uses encaustic (a beeswax mixture), recycled materials, solarplate intaglio, acrylics, photography, printmaking and incorporates poetry and found object frames. The mix makes for a unique product. Ledoux's work is subdued, done in natural colors, and brimming with an extra power. The textures, built up by layers of encaustic, are a highlight of her work. Recently, Ledoux has been working in the style and philosophical air of "rough luxe", which is actually the aesthetic juxtaposition the name suggests. In 2010, Ledoux was inducted into the National Association of Women Artists in New York City.

Kimberly D. Moore, Curator | Evergreen Fine Art, Evergreen, CO
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, Ferrara, Italy
“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.”

Marjorie Kaye, Director | Gallery 181, Lawrence, MA USA
“Michele Renée Ledoux is a photographer of the texture of secrets. Her very tactile works are beds of revelation, seeking to impart the essence of Salvation.”

professional development
One-on-one workshop with artist, printmaker and educator, Ron Pokrasso
Cultivating Collectors, author, art consultant, Alyson B. Stanfield
“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

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