About

Michel Droge is a multi-media artist whose work engages with the environment and ideas of multi-species, non-binary, and entangled life systems. Inspired by oceanic and environmental research and collaboration, their immersive collaborations, paintings, drawings, and prints visually explore vulnerable and under-represented environmental areas to promote awareness and conservation.

An element of Michel’s practice is collaborative engagement with scientific researchers, conservation groups, and community organizations that practice social and environmental justice, including the Schmidt Ocean Institute, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences , Maine Gun Safety Coalition, Good Food Council Lewiston, Eastport Health Care, and Maine Audubon Society.

Michel is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation award, a co-recipient of a Kindling Fund grant, and three Maine Arts Commission grants. They have been awarded fellowships and residencies at Surfpoint, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Hewnoaks Residency, The Tides Institute, The Joseph Fiore Foundation, The Stephen Pace House, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Their work has been included in exhibitions, amongst which are The Field Museum,The Phillip & Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Miami Basel 2023 -Nautilus Magazine and UNESCO, The Cue Art Foundation, Bates College Art Museum, University of Maine, Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, Maine Jewish Museum, Boston University, and Brandeis University, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and Space Gallery.