About the Artist

MICHELLE OCONIS,   Baltimore, MD

I have Progressive Multiple Sclerosis that causes me severe physical and cognitive symptoms. Some of my symptoms are chronic pain, tremors, inability to walk, frequent falls, and not being able to remember common words. Each mixed media piece takes a significant time to complete because I have to take frequent breaks. As a woman of Native American descent, I tend to reference nature and the spirit world. I work in mixed media with a primary focus on ink.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Fragments: Reflection on Memory 2025, Solomons, Maryland, 2025 Medford Arts Gallery, 2025 Wild Things, Medford, New Jersey, 2025 Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, 12th Annual Abstract Sanctuary, Portland, Oregon, 2025 NOMA Gallery, Abstract, Ocala, Florida, 2025 The New York Boyer Foundation, The Future and The Past, New York, New York, 2025 Camelback Gallery, My Best Work 2024, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2025 Towson Arts Collective, Light and Shadow, Towson, Maryand, 2025 Maryland Federation of Art, Winter Member Show, Annapolis, Maryland, 2025 Medford Arts Gallery, Small Works, Medford, New Jersey, 2024 Towson Arts Collective, Holiday Show, Towson, Maryland, 2024 Girls Who Paint Gallery, Small But Mighty, Kensington, Maryland, 2024 Creative York Gallery, Small Works, York, Pennsylvania, 2024 St. Louis Artists’ Guild, Constructed Visions IV, St. Louis, Missouri, 2024 Blue Cat Gallery, 100 X 100, Wayne, Nebraska, 2024 Healdsburg Studio & Gallery, Small Wonders, Healdsburg, California, 2024 NOLA Nacular Gallery, Miniature, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2024 Medford Arts Gallery, 2024 Indigenous American Art Exhibition, Medford, New Jersey, 2024 Zo Gallery, Chiaro/Oscuro, Baltimore, Maryland, 2024 Towson Arts Collective, Influences, Towson, Maryland, 2024 Martino Gallery, Be Square, Annapolis, Maryland, 2024 Earl Gallery, Imprint, Annapolis, Maryland, 2024 Circle Gallery, Food for Thought, Annapolis, Maryland, 2024 Towson Arts Collective, Big & Small, Towson, Maryland, 2024 Overlea Arts Festival, Kaleidoscope, Overlea, Maryland, 2024 Creative Alliance, The Big Show, Baltimore, Maryland, 2024 Creative Alliance, The Big Show, Baltimore, Maryland, 2023

AWARDS: 2024, Third Place, 2024 Indigenous American Art Exhibition, Medford, New Jersey 2024, Second Place – 2D Abstract, Kaleidoscope, Overlea, Maryland

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