Michelle Lopez
featured work
SCULPTURE
Ropehenge
Correctional Lighting
Rope Prop Reversal
When Under One Sky
The Forum
Continuous Line
House of Cards
Barricade
Throne
Chandelier
Smoke Clouds
Flag
Blue Angel Art Public
Blue Angels
Your Board
Ghost Tresses
C3P0
Crux
Boy
EXHIBITIONS
2026 Whitney Biennial
2026 Shadow of a Doubt
2025 Pandemonium
2023 Lasso Reprieve
2000 Boy/Posy LACE/ MOMA PS1
2019 Ballast & Barricades ICA Philadelphia
2007 Exit Music (for a Film)
2016 Invisible Object/Chandelier
2014 Angels/Flags/Bangs Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
2015 Rocks, No Longer Empty
2022 Podium Project Manila
2011 Vertical Neck
2014 Banner Year
2016 Halyard ALT (Protocinema)
2019 Ballast & Barricades II ICA Philadelphia
2021 Keep Their Heads Ringin' II
2013 Blue Angel II Bass Museum Art Public Basel
2018 House of Cards
2017 Fictitious Pivot Harvard Carpenter Center
2005-08 The Year We Made Contact LAxART/YBCA
2000 Woadsonner (Edit) Public Art Fund
2020 Keep Their Heads Ringin' I
WRITINGS
Brooklyn Rail
2026
Hyperallergic
2026
New York Times
2026
ARTFORUM
2023
ARTFORUM
2023
Frieze
2009
Artsy
2016
Chandelier essay, GG
2016
Frieze
2020
ArtReview
2022
ArtNexus
2015
Hyperallergic
2011
Stir World
2020
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
1999
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Catalogue
2014
ICA Philadelphia Catalogue
2020
The New Yorker
2011
Artforum
2011
The Violent Bear it Away (essay), SPG
2009
Artblog
2020
Artforum Online
2011
CONVERSATIONS
Whitney Museum
2026
ICA Philadelphia
2019
Tufts University Galleries
2026
Simon Preston Gallery/ICA
2019
Mousse Magazine
2020
Bomb Magazine
2015
Bomb Magazine
2020
Curators
2025 PANDEMONIUM
NEWS
ABOUT
Contact
2026 Shadow of a Doubt at Tufts
2025 Michelle Lopez in 2026 Whitney Biennial
2025 Pew Fellow Michelle Lopez on Collaboration, Technology, and Creating Pandemonium
2025 THREE ROPE PROP Acquired by Whitney Museum of American Art
2025 HALYARD at Tufts
2025 PANDEMONIUM at Moore College and Franklin Institute
2025 STEADY at The Wattis Institute
2024 Pew Fellowship in the Arts
2024 RAIR Video Shoot
2023-2024 ProcessLAB at Fabric Workshop-Museum
2023 Pew Grant Recipient
2024 ICA LA exhibition curated by Anna Sew Hoy and Anne Ellegood
2023 Solo Exhibition at Commonwealth and Council
2023 Public Art Commission Philadelphia Fishtown
2021-25 Penn's Landing Park public art commission with Sharon Hayes
2021 Book Release: Ballast & Barricades
