Michael Eble was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received a BFA degree in painting
from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a MFA degree in painting and drawing
from the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, Mississippi. He is currently an Associate
Professor of Studio Art and HFA Gallery Curator at the University of Minnesota at Morris.
Before relocating to Minnesota, Michael spent a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
at the University of Mississippi and also an Instructor of Art at the Memphis College of Art in
Memphis, Tennessee. Over the past years he has shown his paintings, drawings, and
prints in numerous regional and national exhibitions. Eble has been the recipient of grants
through the Mcknight Foundation, Lake Region Arts Council , Yoknapatawpha Arts
Council, Vermont Studio Center, University of Minnesota, and has received travel and
research awards, from the University of Mississippi and the University of Minnesota,
Morris.
EDUCATION
2002
Master of Fine Arts in Painting & Drawing,
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
1997
Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting & Drawing/Minor Photography,
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA
SELECTED Grants/Awards
2012
Grant-In-Aid, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus,
Graduate School, Minneapolis, MN
Career Development Artist Grant, McKnight Foundation/Lake
Region Arts Council, Fergus Falls, MN
2011
Imagine Fund Grant for Arts, Design, and Humanities faculty, University of
Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN
Faculty Research Enhancement Funds, University of Minnesota, Morris, MN
2010
Artist Residency, Artist at Pine Needles Program, Science Museum of
Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
Imagine Fund Grant for Arts, Design, and Humanities faculty, University of
Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN
Faculty Research Enhancement Funds, University of Minnesota, Morris, MN
2009
Imagine Fund Grant for Arts, Design, and Humanities faculty, University of
Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN
2008
Career Development Artist Grant, McKnight Foundation/Lake Region Arts
Council, Fergus Falls, MN
2007
Residential Fellowship - University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study,
Fall
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN
Grant-In-Aid, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Graduate School,
Minneapolis, MN
SOLO Exhibitions
2010
Terra Absentis: Louisiana’s Disappearing Coastline, Gallery 13, Minneapolis,
MN
An Aerial Perspective, Café Des Amis, Breaux Bridge, LA
An Aerial Perspective, Ridgewater College, Art Galleries, Hutchison, MN &
Wilmar, MN
2009
Environmental Aesthetics, University of Minnesota, St Paul Campus, Larson Art
Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2008
Endangered Lands, Grand Contemporary Gallery, Lafayette, LA
2006
Beats of Haiga, University of Minnesota, Morris, HFA Gallery, Morris, MN
Patterns For Buson, Northern State University, President’s Gallery, Aberdeen,
SD
2005
New Paintings and Works on paper, Grand Contemporary Gallery, Lafayette, LA
New Works on Paper, Prairie Renaissance Cultural Center Gallery, Morris, MN
2004
Homesick Narratives, East Central College, VT Gallery, Union, MO
Homesick Narratives, River Oaks Square Art Center, Bolton Davis Gallery,
Alexandria, LA
2002
Boats, Houses, and Babies, Gallery 549, Lafayette, LA
A Personal Iconography, University of Mississippi, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Bryant
Hall Gallery, Oxford, MS
SELECTED Group Exhibitions
2012
Morgan as Mentor, curated by Lee A. Gray, Paul and Lulu Hilliard, University Art
Museum, Lafayette, LA
2011
Minnesota Real, Paul Watkin Gallery, Winona State Gallery, Winona, MN
2010
Vis-à-Vis Faculty Art Exhibition, Nash Gallery, Regis Center for the Art, University
of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN
Winds of Change, Luther College Art Gallery, Decorah, IW
LRAC/McKnight Opening Show, Lake Region Arts Council Gallery, Fergus Falls,
MN
2009
Windmill/Wind Turbines, curated by Donald Myers, Director of the Hillstrom
Museum of Art,
Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN
Environs/Examined, curated by Rose Courville, Louisiana Artworks, New
Orleans, LA
Art for All Seasons, Helaine Moyse & Michael Eble, at Darnel, Sikes, Gardes &
Frederick’s CPA Firm,
Sponsored by Grand Contemporary, Lafayette, LA
2008
Abstract Art, Lake Region Arts Council Gallery, Fergus Falls, MN
Past and Present, Faculty Exhibition, University of Minnesota, Morris, Humanities
Fine Arts Gallery
2007
PETITE, Grand Contemporary’s First Annual Small Art Show, Lafayette, LA
Spring Group Exhibition, Grand Contemporary Gallery, curated by Jennifer
Grand, Lafayette, LA
2006
Wind and Water, Lake Region Arts Council, Fergus Falls, MN
2005
Spirit of place: Art from Acadiana, curated by David Rubin, Chief Curator for the
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
and Crafts,
Acadian Center for the Arts,
Lafayette, LA and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and Crafts, New Orleans, LA
2003
Dis(MISS)ed, Group Exhibition of Seven Mississippi Artists, Delta Axis Gallery at
Marshall Art, Memphis, TN
“There is life in it” Michael Eble: Paintings, Three Person Exhibition, Southside
Gallery, Oxford MS
2002
Faculty Print Exhibition, Memphis College of Art, North Tower Gallery, Memphis,
TN
2001
Annual Crafts Invitational, Bolton Davis Gallery, River Oaks Square Arts Center,
Alexandria, LA
MFA Crew Exhibit, University of Mississippi, Bryant Hall Gallery, Oxford, MS
2000
Faculty Exhibition, University of Mississippi, Bryant Hall Gallery, Oxford, MS
Do it! Collaboration piece, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2011
Places Between Species Within, Project Art for Nature, Phipps Center for the
Arts, Hudson, WI
2005
Alumni Reunion Exhibition, University of Mississippi, Curated by Tracy Bashkoff,
Associate Curator for Collections and Exhibitions,
Soloman R. Guggenheim
Museum, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.
2002
Tupelo City Hall Exhibition, Fall/Winter 2002-03, Tupelo City Hall, Tupelo, MS
4th Annual Renaissance Regional Art Exhibit, Juror: Susan W. Knowles and
Sergi Shillabar, Renaissance
Center, Visual Art Gallery, Dickson, TN
The 29th Annual Juried Competition, Juror: Mark O’Grady, Masur Museum of Art,
Monroe, LA
29th Annual Bi-State Art Competition, Juror: Michael Crespo, Meridian Museum
of Art, Meridian, MS
Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition, Juror: Jeremy Jernegan, Lauren Rogers
Museum of Art, Laurel,
2001
A Sense of Place: Continuity and Change in the New South, Juror: Norman
Wagner, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA
4th Annual Southeastern College Art Conference Members’ Exhibition, Juror:
Robin S. Waites,
South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC
Paper in Particular, Columbia College, Juror: Harvey Breverman, Columbia, MO
Mid-South Art Teachers Juried Exhibition, Juror: Bill Nelson, Memphis Brooks
Museum of Art,
Memphis, TN, 3rd Place Award
2000
On/Off Paper, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Juror: Lisa Tremper Hanover, Adams State
College, Alamosa, CO
Fresh Inspiration: Catholic Art 2000: juried exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery,
Jackson, MS
H2O Project, The 621 Gallery, Juror: Mark Messersmith, (catalogue),
Tallahassee, FL
Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition, Juror: Doyle Gertjejangen, Meridian
Museum of Art,
Selected COLLECTIONS
Whitney Bank Art Collection, New Orleans, LA
Mid-South Bank Art Collection, Lafayette, LA
Governor Kathleen Blanco and Raymond Blanco, Permanent Collection, Lafayette, LA
University Of Minnesota, Morris Permanent Collection, Morris, MN
Publications
2009
Cover Art, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Spring 2009, University of Texas El Paso
2006
Cover Art, Rare Momentum, by Athena Kildegaard. Trade paper edition.
Published by Red Dragonfly Press.
2005
The Times of Acadiana, “July 9 Artwalk,” July 6, 2005, 42
Profile: University of Minnesota Morris, Vol IX, Ed. 2, Winter
2002
The Yalobusha Review, Vol 7, Literary Journal of The University of Mississippi.
2002
Cover Art, Dean’s letter, University of Mississippi College of Liberal Arts
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
2002
Associate Professor of Studio Art, University of Minnesota, Morris, MN
Curator, Humanities Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Minnesota, Morris,
MN
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
2009-10
Gallery 13, Minneapolis, MN
2005-09
Grand Contemporary Gallery, Lafayette, LA.