Michelle Lopez Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1970 -

Michelle Lopez (b. 1970, Philippines) graduated cum laude with a BA in Literature and Art History at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York in 1992. She received her MFA in Painting and Sculpture at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York in 1994. She received a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship grant in sculpture (2011), a 9/11 support grant (2002), UC Berkeley research grants (2002–5), and NYFA fiscal sponsorship (2009). Lopez taught at Yale School of Art in the Sculpture Department, Columbia, New
York University (NYU), the School of Visual Arts (SVA) and Bard in their graduate and undergraduate programs. She also headed the sculpture division at UC Berkeley, and conducted sculptural research on large-scale 3D rapid-prototyping. She is now an assistant professor in sculpture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Graduate Fine Arts. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.