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Michelle Cheikin, born 1970, is a fine art documentary photographer residing in Brooklyn, NY. She is a professor at Hostos Community College CUNY in The South Bronx, teaching courses on photography, New York City and The Bronx. Her photography has been exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, ChaShaMa’s Space to Present, an En Foco Touring Gallery Exhibition, and other galleries and public venues in New York City and the United States.
Michelle Cheikin
Born: 1970, Virginia Beach, VA. Raised in Connecticut. Resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Education
2002 MFA Photography and Related Media, School of Visual Arts
1992 BA Sociology, Clark University
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Small Business, Chashama: Space to Present, New York, NY
2014 Queens Surface, En Foco at Harlem/New York Public Library, New York, NY
2013 Queens Surface, Queens Borough Hall, Queens, NY
2013 Queens Surface, Flushing Queens Library, Queens, NY
Group Exhibitions
2024 BQE an Iconography of Queens, Long Island City, NY
2024 Under Construction, Queens World Film Festival, Queens, NY
2023 Photo Shoot 2023, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2022 Women Street Photographers, El Barrio’s Artspace, New York, NY
2021 Under Construction II, Queens World Film Festival, Queens, NY
2018 American Splendor, Ilon Gallery, New York, NY
2016 WE: AMEricans, Station Independent Projects, New York, NY
2014 What is a Portrait?, Ripe Art Gallery, Huntington, NY
2014 Made in Queens, Front Street Gallery, Patterson, NY
2013 Photographic Being, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2013 Strength of Character, LIC Open Studios, Long Island City, NY
2011 Curate NYC, Online Exhibition, Curator: James Estrin
2011 The Work Office TWO, Times Square Visitors Center, New York, NY
2011 Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial, The Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
2010 Direct Objects: Still Life as Subject, Photo Place Gallery, Juror: Wendy Grossman, Middlebury, VT
2006 Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
2004 Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
2003 Winners of the 2003 Photography Competition, Camera Club of New York, Juror: Joyce Tenneson, New York, NY
Awards / Grants / Residencies
2018 The City University of New York/Professional Staff Congress Adjunct-CET: Professional Development Fund
2013 The City University of New York/Professional Staff Congress Adjunct-CET: Professional Development Funds
2011 Artist in the Marketplace Program, The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Press
2013 Portfolio ASMP NY, The Eye of Photography/Loeildelaphotographie.com
2013 Scileppi, Tammy, “Photographer Captures Borough’s Stories Through Her Lens,” Times Ledger
2013 Bartlett, Josy, “Portraits and Why People Take Them,” Queens Chronicle