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Born in Los Angeles, California, Michelle Alperin got her BA in Fine Art from UCLA in 1994 and her MFA in Fine Art from Art Center College of Design in 2001. Shortly after receiving her MFA, she stayed as an artist in residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. After her residency, Michelle split her time between Los Angeles and Berlin, finally settling in Berlin after receiving a DAAD Independent Study Stipend at the end of 2003. She currently works with video installation, experimental and narrative film and video, as well as with still photography. She has taught video art in the Fine Art Foundation Year at the University of the Arts, Berlin (Bildende Kunst – Grundlehre, UdK) since 2017.

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions/Screenings
2020     Video Screening as part of the exhibition series Re-imagining America, Spor Klübü, Berlin
2018     The things that bother you never bother me. I think everything’s fine, Zwitschermaschine, Berlin (with Joe Neave)
2013     Heart of Hearts, Spor Klübü, Berlin
2011     The Wondrous Kind, FischerundFischer, Berlin
2004     Films by Michelle Alperin, Forever and a Day Büro, Berlin
2001     Sub Rosa, Eiszeit Kino (in conjunction with Künstlerhaus Bethanien), Berlin
Sub Rosa, Ahmanson Auditorium, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena

Selected Group Exhibitions/Screenings
2020     ALLES III, Hochhaus, Berlin
2019     PEACE – Don’t Make Me Laugh // You A Two Minute Brother, Spor Klübü, Berlin
NAK Benefiz Auktion, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
Handlung* 3. & 4. Einlieferung, Zwitschermaschine, Berlin
ALLES II, Hochhaus, Berlin
2018     Christmas Exhibition, Perennial Art, Berlin  
ALLES, Hochhaus, Berlin
Handlung* 1. & 2. Einlieferung, Zwitschermaschine, Berlin
2017     Früher Oder Später, Zwitschermaschine, Berlin
NAK Benefiz Auktion, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
2016     Inglan is a Bitch, Spor Klübü, Berlin
NAK Benefiz Auktion, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
2015     Centre Parting, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, Switzerland
Streuflüsse / Magnetic Leakage Fluxes / Disparátní Proudy, House of the Arts, Brno, Czech Republic
We Are All Prostitutes!: Post-Identity Art, BURNRATE, Berlin
Fin du cinéma, LAGE EGAL, Berlin
2014     About Edith, L’oiseau presente at Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
2013     Subversion & Abgrund, Spor Klübü, Berlin
Remix – 10 years in the mix, Spor Klübü, Berlin
Das Allerletzte Prof. Winkler Stipendium, Kunstverein Weiden
2012     Books Unfolded, Studio Visits, Berlin
2010     Casting, Visite ma Tente, Berlin
2007     Niveaualarm, Kunstraum Innsbruck
Return to Forever, Forever and a day Büro, Berlin
2006     Die Coolste Show von Coolhausen, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
VC in Konzert, Lovelite, Berlin
2005     Autres regards Berlin, Galerie Rapinel, Le Village, Bazouges la Pérouse, France
Die Verstehbarkeit des Kunstwerks, Urzula aktuelle Videokunst, Galerie Pankow, Berlin
Forever, Forever and a Day Büro, Berlin
Professor Winkler Stipendium Ausstellung, Berlin
Viewing Club, Henkelstuben, Berlin, Re-Escape, Hamburg, and Uxbridge Arms Pub, Elephant and Castle, London
2004     Groundhog Day, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane, Australia
Works on Paper, Forever and a Day Büro, Berlin
2003     Stuttgarter FilmWinter Festival for Expanded Media
O-Form, Capri, Berlin
Stuff From L.A. and Other Places, Christine König Gallery, Vienna
2002     Here and Now, BüroFriedrich, Berlin
Open Weekend Kunst Mitte Nord, Capri, Berlin
DFKU, Brandts Kleaedfabrik, Odense, Denmark
2001     Peblinc Videoteque, KUNSTAKUTEN, Stockholm
2000     Shotgun!, Peblinc, Copenhagen
Bestiary, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
…and someone said “where,”…, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
One-Night Stand, Farmer’s Daughter Motel, Los Angeles
Goodbye, Roussell House, Pasadena
1999     i me mine, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles
With Out of Space, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
1997     Wight Biennial, Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles
The Big Wave, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles
Just a Minute: Eighteen One Minute Videos, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies
Afond 2, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles
White Trash Girl, Gothic Productions, and Friends: New Video Shorts and Makers, Midnight Sun, Seattle
1996     An Evening of Performance & Projection, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica
Independent Exposure: Sizzling Summer Edition, Speakeasy Café, Seattle
Transmitting/Receiving, Pilot Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Video Povera, California State University, Los Angeles
1995     Second Pasadena Community Access Video Art Festival, Cablecast and Screening
1994     Free Range: Video LACE Annuale, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
1993     Living Room Art, NCJW Art and Action Project, Los Angeles

Bibliography
2020     Mayer, Matthias, u.a.  Re-imagining America (exhibition catalogue). Spor Klübü, Berlin.
2015     Carl, Bettina and Bierstedt, Ina. Streuflüsse / Magnetic Leakage Fluxes / Disparátní Proudy (exhibition catalogue). House of the Arts, Brno, Czech Republic.
2008     Wulff, Ulrich. Niveaualarm Katalog. Kunstraum Innsbruck und Verlag H & K Events, Berlin, 2008.
2005     Gab. Heller u.a. Urzula – Aktuelle Videokunst in der Galerie Pankow. Galerie Pankow, Berlin, 2005.
Thomas Winkler. Professor Winkler Stipendium Ausstellung. Verlag Heckler und Koch, Berlin.
2002     Löser, Claus. “Michelle in Wonderland.” BE Magazin, Spring 2002:38-40 & 96-97.
2001     Alperin, Michelle. Sub Rosa. Künstlerhaus Bethanien/Philip Morris Kunstförderung, Berlin, 2001.
Ise, Claudine. “The Young and the Restless.” RES, March/April 2001 Vol 4 #2:48 – 53.
2000     DiMichele, David. “…and someone said…” Artweek, March 2000:18.
Frank, Peter. “Gallery Picks of the Week.” LA Weekly, March 24-30, 2000:136.
Frank, Peter. “Gallery Picks of the Week.” LA Weekly, August 17-23, 2000:124.
Ise, Claudine and Lombino, Mary Kay. Bestiary (exhibition catalogue). Armory Center for the Arts, July 2000.
Los Angeles Times Weekend, “Best Bets.” Los Angeles Times, June 29, 2000:F-1.
Newhouse, Kristina and Roth, Charlene. …and someone said… (exhibition catalogue). Municipal Art Gallery, January 2000.
Ollman, Leah. “The Animals and Us.” Los Angeles Times, August 11, 2000:F-26.
1999     Roussell, Noellie. “Go West.” Cote Ouest Forum, November 1999.
1998     Cooper, Jacqueline. “After the Hangover: Graduate Schools in Los Angeles at the End of the Millennium.” The New Art Examiner, February 1998:34-38.
1997     Schlossberg, Jennifer. The Wight Biennial (exhibition catalogue). UCLA, October 1997.

Awards
2003-2004     DAAD (Deutscher Akademisher Austauch Dienst): Independent Study Stipend, UdK, Berlin.
2001-2002      Philip Morris Kunstförderung: six-month residency in the International Studio Program of Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
2001                Eastman Kodak Target of Opportunity Grant: gift of 16mm film for Sub Rosa.