Michele Guieu is an interdisciplinary environmental artist and educator whose work explores resilience in the face of our unfolding polycrisis. In her large-scale site-specific installations, she uses found and foraged materials—willow, stone, pressed blooms, recycled metal—to create sculptural narratives that balance celebration of nature’s beauty with a clear-eyed acknowledgment of ecological limits.
Her work is currently on display at Scalehouse Gallery and has been exhibited internationally at MAC Paris, the California Center for the Arts in Escondido, Oceanside Museum of Art, San Diego City College Gallery, Currents New Media Festival, ZER01 Biennial, San Diego Art Institute, De Saisset Museum, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art.
Born in Marseille, France, Michele has lived and worked in various locations, including Senegal, Paris, Santa Fe, Austin, Charlottesville, San Diego, and the Bay Area.
In early 2023, she and her husband, Kyle, relocated to Bend, Oregon, to establish Authentique Artfarm on five acres just north of town. Over three intensive growing seasons, they have built out infrastructure—culminating in a new barn studio where Michele creates—and have begun sharing their harvest of wildflowers through community workshops. As the farm takes root, she looks forward to developing deeper public-facing programs that fuse art, agriculture, and resilience.
Michele recently gave an artist’s talk at Scalehouse Gallery.
The Eleprocon Chronicles
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