About
MAGGIE MIDDLETON is an artist and printmaker. As a Tamarind trained lithographer she collaboratively prints with other artists, teaches demos and workshops, and produces her own artwork. She received her MFA in Printmaking at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław Poland. She received her bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College where she majored in Comparative Literature and Studio Art. She was raised in Reston, VA. Her own work ranges from traditional printmaking techniques to wearable art, and her artistic interests include: feminist issues in the depiction of women in art, the gendering of pattern, exotification of culture, and religious iconography. She now lives in Walla Walla, WA and works at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, and she has a studio space at Chrysalis Studios.
Links to interviews:
https://www.oberlin.edu/news/printmaking-journey-oberlin-poland
http://inhere.is/2018/10/maggie-middleton/
https://oberlinreview.org/tag/maggie-middleton/
https://vimeo.com/showcase/5008992
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Illustration as Translation: New Works by Maggie Middleton” FVC Gallery; Walla Walla, OH
2019 “Hiding Out in the Open” Galeria za Szkłem; Wrocław, Poland
2017 “An Uncanny Likeness: Applying the Gothic Portrait to Contemporary Printmaking” Hallway Gallery; Oberlin, OH
2016 “Reproducible Icons: Incorporating Icon Painting into Contemporary Print” Fischer Gallery; Oberlin, OH
SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Small Works Invitational” Pendleton Center for the Arts; Pendleton, OR
2018 “EKRANO PRESO 2: Exhibition of the Serigraphy Studio and Printmaking Expansion Studio from the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław” Wertykalna Gallery; Katowice, Poland
2017 “The Stories We Tell Ourselves” Fischer Gallery; Oberlin, OH
2017 Birenbaum Opening Exhibtion; Oberlin, OH
2015 “Summer in the Studios” Fischer Gallery; Oberlin, OH
2014 “Latin Icon and Migration” La Casa (Harvey House); Oberlin, OH
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 “47th Open Regional Exhibit” Pendleton Center for the Arts: Pendleton, OR
2018 “The Best Print of Semester Exhibition No. 12” Concrete Gallery; Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art
and Design Wrocław, Poland
2018 “The Best Print of Semester Exhibition No. 11” Concrete Gallery; Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design Wrocław, Poland
2017 “4U” Zygote Press; Cleveland, OH
2016 “NEO student exhibition” SPACES Gallery; Cleveland, OH
2015 “AND Art Show” Gelsy Verna Gallery (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Gallery 1010 (University of Tennesse, Knoxville), and the Drewelowe Gallery (University of Iowa)
2015 “4U” Zygote Press; Cleveland, OH
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:
Nov. 2022 Two-day Printmaking Class with Local High Schoolers; Pendleton, Oregon
March 2022 Lead a Relief Printmaking Workshop; Hood River and The Dalles, Oregon
April. 2020 — Artist Talk at Oberlin College; Oberlin, OH
Jan. 2020 — Artist Talk at the Bullis School, Potomac, Maryland
May 2018 — Panelist at the conference Zagrożenie/Komfort (Threat/Comfort); Wrocław, Poland
May 2018 — Guided Tour of the exhibition “Standby Painter” at ; the MWW Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław (Contemporary Museum of Wrocław) Wrocław, Poland
grants and awards
2023
Dan Dunn Memorial Grant Recipient;
Walla Walla, WA
September 2018
Fish Factory Creative Center Residency; Stöðvarfjörður Iceland
2017
SGC International's Student and Emerging Professionals Grant; Atlanta, GA
2015-2016
Oberlin College Research Fellowship (OCRF); Oberlin, OH