"Michelle Lopez is an American sculptor and installation artist, whose works incorporates divergent industrial materials. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Michelle Lopez received her B.A. in literature and art history in 1992 at Barnard College, and she received her M.F.A in 1994 at The School of Visual Arts. She has been exhibiting since 1996 in various groups shows and has had solo exhibitions at Feature Inc., Deitch Projects and Simon Preston Gallery. Lopez was a recipient of the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts grant, among others.

Morgan Falconer describes Lopez's work as "All of these objects are marvelously poised between being one strange thing and something stranger still."

Lopez first gained critical attention with her sculpture "Boy"; a leather covered Honda that made its debut in 1999 as part of P.S.1 / MoMA’s Greater New York exhibition.

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