MICHAEL W. HECHT
Studio: 88 Hatch St, Studio #404, New Bedford, MA 02745
Cell: (774) 201-9482 • email: michaelwh@comcast.net • website: www.michaelhechtartist.com
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EDUCATION:
Massachusetts College of Art, MFA Painting and Printmaking, Boston, MA, 1998.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Diploma Program, Boston, MA, 1992-95.
University of South Dakota, BFA Printmaking, Vermillion, SD, 1991.
Buena Vista College, Art Program, Storm Lake, IA, 1986-89.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2014 “Michael Hecht,” Cassandra Complex Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2013 “Psychic Bloomings”, Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford, MA.
“Michael Hecht: Paintings, Drawings, Prints,” Cassandra Complex Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2011 “Michael Hecht: Paintings, Drawings, Prints,” Patty DeLuca Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
“Vespertine Monsters”, Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford, MA.
2009 “Terrors & Ecstasies”, Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford, MA.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2015 “Ethos, Pathos, Logos”, Gallery 114, Portland, OR.
2014 “All Things Fruit”, Judith Klein Gallery, New Bedford, MA.
2013 “Big Fat Scary Deal”, Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, IN
“Naughty and Nice”, Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford, MA
2012 “Contemporary Drawing with South Coast Connections”, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA.
“Doing Your Dirty Work”, Sex and Culture Center Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
“New Blood”, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA.
2011 “Artist Couples,” Judith Klein Gallery, New Bedford, MA.
“Beauty in the Beast”, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA.
2010 “New Bedford Invitational: From Swain to Today,” New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA.
“Fatal Transgressions: A Septet”, Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford, MA.
“Head”, three person exhibition, Crowell’s Fine Art Gallery, New Bedford, MA.
“Icons + Altars”, New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA.
2009 70th Anniversary Art Center Faculty Exhibition, Currier Museum of Art, Community Gallery, Manchester, N.H.
Group Show, Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford, MA.
“Icons + Altars”, New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA.
2008 “Public Hanging”, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA.
“Sex at the X”, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA.
"Icon + Altars", New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA.
2007 "Science, Religion, Art: Greater New Bedford Area Artists Responding to Johann Jacob Scheuchzer's Physica
Sacra, 1731-35", University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA.
"On the Dark Side", Gallery X, New Bedford, MA.
"Icon + Altars", New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA.
"Traces, Gestures, & Meditations", Cherry & Webb Gallery, Fall River, MA.
"New Works", Gallery X, New Bedford, MA.
2006 "Inviting Response", New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA.
"Drawing Voices", Georgia State University Galleries, Atlanta, GA.
“Icons + Altars”, New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA.
"New Works", Gallery X, New Bedford, MA.
2005 “Icons + Altars”, New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA.
“New Works”, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY.
2004 “Icons + Altars”, New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA.
2003 “Icons + Altars”, New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA.
2002 “Icons + Altars”, New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA.
“For Love of Art”, ArtWorks! at Dover Street, New Bedford, MA.
2001 “Random Channels”, Eyedrum, inc., Atlanta, GA.
MICHAEL W. HECHT
Studio: 88 Hatch St, Studio #404, New Bedford, MA 02745
Cell: (774) 201-9482 • email: michaelwh@comcast.net • website: www.michaelhechtartist.com
“Icons + Altars”, New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA.
“In Residence”, ArtWorks! at Dover Street, New Bedford, MA.
2000 “Icons + Altars”, New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA.
“Millennium Biennial 2000 National Juried Exhibition”, Wood Memorial Library, South Windsor, CT.
“Hollywood International Juried Print Exhibition”, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL.
“Ceres Fourth National Juried Exhibition”, Ceres, New York, NY.
“Face to Face II”, The Stage Gallery, Merrick, NY.
1999 “Icons + Altars”, New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA.
“Alumni Printmaking and Graphic Design Exhibition”, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD.
Southern Graphics Council, Group Show, Tempe, AZ.
1998 “Icons + Altars”, New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA.
Druecker-Simpson Gallery, Austin, TX.
Mid-America Print Council, Cincinnati, OH.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.
“2 Jacks Drawn”, Patricia Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.
1997 “Icons + Altars”, New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA.
“Heads and Tails”, Patricia Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.
“Michael Hecht - Recent Works”, The Common Space Gallery, Artists West Association, Waltham, MA.
“Informants”, Patricia Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.
“Shifting Grounds: A Dialogue in Prints”, Boston University, Boston, MA.
“Unseen”, Alumni Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.
1996 “Artists West: Downtown”, Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, Boston, MA.
“Alumni Selects”, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD.
1995 “Act II”, Hochschule Der Kunste, Berlin, Germany; Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia; San Juan Print
Biennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
SELECTED PORTFOLIOS:
National: “Parallel Synchronized Randomness”, Pullman, WA, 2011.
Frogman’s Press, Beresford, SD, 1998.
“Murder”, University of Kansas, 1998.
“Bible Stories”, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1998.
“Pornofolio”, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 1995.
“Fifteen by Fifteen”, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1993.
“Teachers and Students”, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, 1993
International: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston & Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland,
2006.
“Act II”, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1995.
“Skin Graphed”, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 1994.
Faculty/Student: “Edges”, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 2015.
“Language Barriers”, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2010.
“Time & Desire”, Montserrat College of Art, 1995
“Conspicuous Consumption”, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 1995.
Faculty/Student Portfolio, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 1994.
“Womb to Tomb”, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 1993.
Faculty: “Subtle Attack”, Montserrat College of Art, 1997.
Alumni: University of South Dakota, Vermillion, 1999.
University of South Dakota, Vermillion, 1998.
Collegiate: “Bones”, Massachusetts College of Art, 1998.
“Portals”, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, 1996.
“Portraits and Quotations”, School of the Museum of the Museum of Fine Arts, 1994.
“Kelvin Kollection”, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, with Susan Goldman, Pyramid Atlantic, 1993.
MICHAEL W. HECHT
Studio: 88 Hatch St, Studio #404, New Bedford, MA 02745
Cell: (774) 201-9482 • email: michaelwh@comcast.net • website: www.michaelhechtartist.com
AWARDS:
Third Prize, “Millennium Biennial 2000 National Juried Exhibition”, Wood Memorial Library, S Windsor, CT, 2000.
Annual Prize in Printmaking, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1993, 1994,1995.
Best of Show, “Art Buffet”, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, 1990
PUBLICATIONS:
Artscope, Quincy, MA, Volume 6, Number 4, page 26, artist spotlight: Michael Hecht, David B. Boyce, Sept./Oct. 2011.
The Standard Times, New Bedford, MA, Artist takes a brilliant look at his – and everyman's – life, David B. Boyce, July 9, 2011.
Navigator, Fairhaven, MA, The Artful Codger, Artist Profile: Michael Hecht, Don Wilkinson, issue number 107, October, 2010.
The Standard Times, New Bedford, MA, Hecht show will leave you thinking, David B. Boyce, July 4, 2009.
Southcoast247.comPrint, Volume 1, Issue V, The Makers, Michael Hecht, Liz Tomasetti, correspondent, 2008.
City Link, Hollywood, FL, July 26, 2000.
The Best of Printmaking, An International Collection, Lynn Allen & Phyllis McGibbon, Rockport Publishers, 1997.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Visiting Artist, printmaking workshop, This Red Door, Brooklyn, NY, 2014.
Visiting Artist, printmaking workshop, This Red Door/Reh Kunst Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2013.
Visiting Artist, This Red Door, Performance Space 122, New York, NY, 2011.
Visiting Artist, printmaking workshop, Currier Museum Art Center, Manchester, N.H., 2009.
Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Montserrat College of Art, Spring 2008.
Visiting Artist/Lecturer, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Printmaking, Spring 2007.
Visiting Artist, Massachusetts College of Art, Printmaking Demonstration of Photo/Computer Applications
to Screenprinting and Collagraph, Fall, 1998, Fall 2006.
Exhibition Preparator, volunteer, The New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA, 1996-2002.
Printmaking Shop Technician, Montserrat College of Art, 1996.
Assistant to Master Ukiyo-e woodblock printer, Keiji Shinohara, Cherry Wood Press, Malden, MA. Projects included: works by Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, Sean Scully, Robert Cottingham, and Balthus. 1992-94.
Assistant to Curator of Exhibitions, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA, 1989.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Continuing Education Faculty, Screenprinting, 2002-present.
Massachusetts College of Art, Visiting Lecturer, Screenprinting, 2005-2008.
Bristol Community College, Adjunct Professor, Art History 2005, 2006.
Bristol Community College, Adjunct Professor, Drawing, 2005.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Substitute Faculty, Mixed Media Printmaking, 2004.
ArtWorks! at Dover Street, Faculty, Summer Program, Screenprinting, 2001.
Massachusetts College of Art, Screenprinting Instructor, 1998.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Substitute Faculty, Screenprinting, 1998.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Drawing/Printmaking Instructor, 1998.
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, Printmaking Instructor, 1994-96.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Printmaking Instructor’s Assistant, 1992-95.