Michele Brody is a mixed-media environmental artist who received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1989 and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994. She has had one person shows at the Atelier-galeried’Art Contemporain: France; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo: Costa Rica; Dina4 Projekte: Germany; Temple Judea Museum: Pennsylvania; as well as chashama, Littlejohn Contemporary, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Casa Frela, Hudson Guild, and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City. Currently she is exhibiting at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Julio Valdez Studio Project Space in East Harlem.Brody has been the recipient of a grant or residency every year since 1995 from such institutions as the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Pollock/Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and New York State Council on the Arts. Her artist residency experience includes Skowhegan, the Headlands Center for the Arts, Ox-Bow, Emmanuel College and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. In 2006 she completed two permanent works of public art in The Bronx for the MTA and the Department of Education’s Public Art for Public Schools program. In 2011 she was awarded the Best 3-D Entry at the international Art Prize competition in Grand Rapids, MI by juror Glenn Harper of Sculpture Magazine for her installation “Nature Preserve” at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art. Michele Brody currently resides and works in The Bronx through the Bronx Artist Housing Initiative.