Michelle Uckotter, Moviestar, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, 2025. Installation View.
Michelle Uckotter
The Musicians, 2025
Oil and pastel on panel
49 x 67 in
124.5 x 170.2 cm
Michelle Uckotter
Dream, 2025
Oil and pastel on panel
46 x 83 in
116.8 x 210.8 cm
Michelle Uckotter
The Threesome, 2025
Oil and pastel on panel
49 x 67 in
124.5 x 170.2 cm
Michelle Uckotter
Girl in studio, 2023
Oil pastel on panel
30 x 40 in
76.2 x 101.6 cm
Michelle Uckotter
Terrible place, glory hole, 2023
wood, cardboard, house paint, drywall, oil pastel,
revolver replica, wig, easel, wooden leg, wooden chair,
locket, rope, metal wire, metal, trash bags and
insulation foam
dimensions variable
Michelle Uckotter (b. 1992, Cincinnati, OH) lives and works in New York.
She received a BFA in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2015.
Solo and two-person exhibitions include Moviestar, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2025); Moviestar, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles (2025); Big Time Shopping is Here, Bernheim Gallery, Zurich, CH (2024); Trap Paintings Vol. 3, King’s Leap, New York (2023); Independent Art Fair, with King’s Leap, New York (2023); Dust Box, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles (2022); Stairwells Ephemera Etcetera, T293, Rome, IT (2021); Trap Paintings Vol. 2, King’s Leap, New York (2021); Murder Time, Springsteen Gallery, New York (2021); Trap Paintings, A.D. Gallery, New York (2020); Cornswoggle, with Ryan Nault, Mole End, Queens (2019); and Chin Up Bar, with Joe. W. Speier, curated by Macgregor Harp, Baltimore (2018).
Select group exhibitions include It Smells Like Girl, Jeffrey Deitch in collaboration with Company Gallery, Los Angeles (2025); Exquisite Corpse, King's Leap, New York (2025); FW (pt. 1), High Art, Paris, FR (2025); Recent Acquisitions, Rubell Museum, Miami (2024); Yours Truly, Nahmad Contemporary, curated by Eleanor Cayre, New York (2024); Phantom Hymn, Modern Art, London (2024); The American Baroque, Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles (2024); Inside Fibers of the Curtain, As It Stands, Los Angeles (2023); King’s Leap at Freddy, Freddy, Harris, NY (2023); Synthetic Bodies, Lyles & King, New York (2023); Eye to Eye: Works from the collection of Jonathan Travis & Wolf Hill, New York Academy of Art, New York (2023); Something or Other, curated by Isabel Yellin, Bernheim Gallery, Zurich, CH (2023); Civil Twilight, Ginny on Frederick, London (2022); Sinkhole Project is Presenting, Mickey, Chicago (2022); Under the Volcano II, Lomex, New York (2022); Home-made, Sebastian Gladstone Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); The Feeling is Mutual, Valerie Hussenot, Paris, FR (2022); and Center of the Core, Deli Gallery, New York (2021).
Uckotter won the Focus Stand Prize at Frieze London 2025 for her solo presentation with King’s Leap.
