MICHAEL BOYD
Education
Alabama School of Fine Arts; May 2013
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; BFA; May 2017
Work Experience
Director of Production at rootlab, Houston, TX, 2022-cont.
rootlab Special Teams Lead Fabricator at rootlab, Houston, TX, 2020-2022
La Mama Galleria Director, Manhattan, NY, 2018-2020
Fabicator at SITU Fabrication, Brooklyn, NY, 2018-2020
Fabicator at BILT in Alabama, Birmingham, AL, 2017-2018
Artist Assistant to Sarah Heath, Birmingham, AL, 2015
On call assistant at La Mama Galleria, Manhattan, NY, 2014—2018
Sloss Furnaces Summer Metal Arts Youth Apprenticeship, Birmingham, AL, 2012
Artist Assistant to Randy Gachet, Birmingham, AL, 2013—cont.
Teaching
The Cooper Union Saturday Program, Undergrad Painting Instructor, 2016—2017.
Residency
Summer Resident, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, June 2018
Awards & Honors
Vena T. Carroll Award for excellence in Art, Cooper Union, 2017
Cooper Union Yale-Norfolk School of Painting Nominee 2016
Cooper Union Tuition Full-Scholarship 2013 - 2017
Cooper Union Art Grant 2013 - 2017
National Scholastics Art Competition Regional Silver Key for Art Portfolio Award 2013
Sloss Furnaces Metal Arts Youth Apprenticeship Art Show 2nd Place 2012
Birmingham-Southern College Biennial Southeastern Competition Award 2012
National Scholastics Art Competition Regional Gold Key Award 2012 (2), 2010 (2)
State Superintendent’s Visual Arts Exhibition 2nd Place, Category II 2010
National Scholastics Art Competition National American Visions Award 2010
Selected Exhibitions
i'll stack my loves to the ceiling so that it won't cave in, solo exhibition, Vulcan Materials Gallery, Birmingham, AL 2019
by the grounds, senior exhibition with Mikhaila Quezada, 41 Cooper Gallery, Cooper Union, Manhattan, NY 2017
Be me, for a little while, curator, 41 Cooper Gallery, Cooper Union, Manhattan, NY 2015
La Mama Galleria Family Show, La Mama Galleria, Manhattan, NY 2014
Drawing Show, Cooper Union, Manhattan, NY 2014
Cooper Union EOYS, Manhattan, NY in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
BBBS Birmingham untitled exhibition 2013
Vulcan Materials Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama, Senior group exhibition 2013
Sloss Furnaces Metal Arts Youth Apprenticeship Art Show, Birmingham, Alabama, 2012
Rojo, Birmingham, Alabama, group exhibition 2011
Vulcan Materials Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama, Student exhibitions in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
U.S. Department of Education, ART.WRITE.NOW DC group exhibition 2010