Bio
Michelle Mansour is an artist, educator, and curator as well as the current Executive Director of Root Division, a visual arts non-profit in San Francisco. Her work as been shown in a variety of non-profit and commercial venues such as The deYoung Museum, Bedford Gallery, Morris Graves Museum, and Minnesota Street Project, including solo exhibitions at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery, RB Stevenson Gallery (La Jolla), Berkeley Art Center, and The Fourth Wall (Oakland). Mansour has work in a variety of collections including Nordstroms, Hilton Hotels, Kaiser Permanente, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, and the El Camino Hospital. Mansour is the recipient of an Honorary Fellowship and multiple residencies from Djerassi Resident Artists Program and has had residencies at Cycladic Arts (Paros, GR), Chalk Hill Artist Residency (Sonoma), Cow House Studios (Ireland), and Casa Na Ilha (Brazil). She has also curated and co-curated several exhibitions including 2x2's at ProArts and Metaphysical Abstraction: Contemporary Approaches to Spiritual Content. Mansour received her MFA in Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and received a BA in Art Theory and Practice from Northwestern University and a Post Baccalaureate degree in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mansour has given lectures and been on panels with the San Francisco Arts Commission, Grants for the Arts, The Lab, San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, University of San Francisco, and Sonoma State University among others.
Learn more via interviews:
Interview: CanvasRebel - Stories & Insights: Meet Michelle Mansour
Podcast: Making Ways (Rob Goodman) - Unexpected Paths to Creative Careers: Episode 21
Interview: Medium.com (Matthew Tillman) - Artist Q & A with Michelle Mansour