MICHELLE BLADE is an artist and independent curator living and working in the Bay Area. She holds a BA from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, and a MFA from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. Her paintings have been shown nationally and internationally at Triple Base and Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco, The Richmond Art Center, The San Jose ICA, The Carl Berg Gallery in Los Angeles, Space 1026 in Philadelphia, Broad Art Center at UCLA, V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Germany, and the Union Gallery in London. Her work has been published in the SF Bay Guardian, the SF Weekly, Nylon magazine, Yeti Magazine, Tinyvices, Flavorpill, FADER Magazine, and XLR8TR. She was awarded the Murphy-Cadogan Fellowship and CCA's MFA All College Honors in 2007 and a finalist for the Tournesol Award in 2009. Recently Laura Sydell interviewed her for NPR's All Things Considered and this coming August her curated exhibition and publication, “Involved, Socially” opens at Triple Base Gallery in San Francisco.