C.V.

EDUCATION

2023

Master of Fine Arts, University of Southern California

2020 

Bachelor of Fine Arts with High Distinction - Painting & Drawing, 

California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS/HONORS

2023

Roski Outstanding MFA Graduate 

Los Angeles Lakers: In The Paint Contributing Artist

2022

Los Angeles Lakers: In the Paint Grantee

2020 

Anderson Ranch Arts Center Scholarship

First Place, AXA Art Prize

Cronan Michael Endowed Scholarship

CCA All-College Honors

Richard K. Price Scholarship

CCA Faculty Honors Scholarship

Artist-in-Residency Scholarship, Studio L, Oakland, CA

EXHIBITION RECORD

Solo Exhibitions

2023

-All I Have To Do Is Stay Black and Die, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA

2022  

-Let's Keep This Between Us, Giovanni's Room, Los Angeles, CA

-i don't do this for just anybody, Friends Indeed, San Francisco, CA

2020  

-Hidden Wall Artist Series, Berkeley, CA

-Cafe Alma Artist Series, San Francisco, CA

-Right Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019  

-CCA Open Studio Exhibition, San Francisco CA

Group Exhibitions

2023

-Ahorita, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

-Tender Reverie, Soho Warehouse/UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA

-Blue is the only color my heart can see, Giovanni's Room, Los Angeles, CA

2021  

-The Myth Industry, Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco, CA

-Shape Of Blackness, Virtual Exhibition, Oakland, CA

2020  

-AXA Art Prize Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

-We Are More Than A Moment, Virtual Exhibition (curated by Genevieve Gaignard)

-Believe In Truth, Virtual Exhibition (curated by Linda Geary)

-Victims of Police Violence Memorials, Ongoing Public Art Exhibition, The Albany Bulb, Albany, CA

2019 

-Junior Review Exhibition, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

2018 

-Interface Show , California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

2016 

-Rainbow Logic, CounterPulse, San Francisco, CA

-Just Because, UFO Gallery, Berkeley, CA

PANELS

Visiting Artist Panel Discussion: Time Poverty, CSU Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

ART& The New Garde: Platform x NeueCollectors Club, Los Angeles, CA

PRESS

Voyage LA: Local Stories, October 20, 2021. http://voyagela.com/interview/conversations-with-michon-sanders/

Cooper, Alwa. “After the Main Event, a Communal Meal.” The New York Times. The New York Times, July 16, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/t-magazine/michon-sanders-painting-art.html.