Michelle Baharier

Michelle Baharier is an acclaimed multimedia & interdisciplinary fine artist based in London and exhibits internationally across UK, USA, Europe, and the Middle East. She is a recipient of the coveted Julian Sullivan award for achievement in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Fine Art.

Her oeuvre includes colourful and expressive paintings, storytelling, photography, installations, and digital media. Shaped by art movements such as Surrealism, Raw Art, and Expressionism, she is led by experiences of the human condition and how we express our emotions. As a dyslexic woman in an ableist world, she engages with Disability Social Art activism and wider art practices.

Michelle enjoys collaborating with community groups to create murals, banners, sound pieces, poetry and spoken word. She is well known for her public walks commissioned by the Department of Health, Southbank Centre for the London Olympics, and the Science Museum. Moreover, she served as the CEO, Founder, & Artistic Director of CoolTan Arts for over 25 years, an award winning arts in mental health charity run by and for adults with mental distress.

Outside of her own practice, she also teaches at Morley College.

Slade School of Fine Art
University of the Arts London
Exeter College of Art & Design
Städelschule
Watford College of Art and Design.

2023:
12 March - 1 June: How do I make you feel? Solo Exhibition, Private View, A Place For Change, The Foundry

3 - 27 March - Female Icons, SLWA Group exhibition. Curated by Michelle Baharier. Exhibiting Medusa Two

Artist in Residence at SHARP Gallery, Maudsley Hospital, Brixton

2022:
- 3-6 March: “I am Woman, Hear me Roar” with South London Women’s Artists at AMP Gallery, London
- 16-29 March: “Ballad to Reading” at Brixton Library, South London
- 22 March to 2 April: "New Faces" - Sprout Arts, Furzedown, South London
- 31 March: "Make Art not War" Live Painting Competition- Kiss My Art, Basing House, Shoreditch, East London


2021:
- “The Walkie Talkies,” digital media collages now part of the London Transport Museum collection and supported by Arts Council England.
- "Lockdown Diaries" - Solo Exhibition at Sprout Arts
- "Vigo" - COVID Exchange, Spain
- "Headfuck" - Live Art Development Agency

2020:
- "The Postcard Project"
- "WOMEN FOR ALL SEASONS" - Art Academy
- "Miss Havisham's Wedding Dress" - Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Beckenham, England


2019:
- Performance, Wellcome Collection, University of London
- "Sound Moves Archive" - Tate - first artwork commissioned by Projects UK Newcastle - Col...