Since 2000, Independent artist, showing and selling my work at festivals, in galleries and online.
1990-1996 Management consultant at Price Waterhouse, London, and Deloitte & Touche, Moscow
Exhibitions
1997 Dockyard Arts Center, Bermuda
“Home” Group show
2002 Meridian International Center, DC
“Neighbors” Group show
2005 Gallery Frame Avenue, Bethesda
Solo show
2006 Wilson Building, DC
Heart of DC (Inauguration of City Hall Art Collection)
2007 Capital Arts Network, Bethesda
Mini-Matic (group show)
2007 William W. Parker Gallery, DC
Washington Project for the Arts Group Show
2008 Gallery Frame Avenue, Bethesda
Three Artists
2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009 Artomatic
Group Show
2009 Georgetown Arts 2009
Group Show
2010 Children’s National Medical Center, DC
Four Artist show
2010 Maker Faire, New York Hall of Science, NY
Solo
2011 Georgetown Arts 2011
Group Show
2011 Artomatic Takes Flight, VA
Group Show at National Airport
2011 National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Clinical Center Galleries
“Love and Death” Solo show
2011 Johns Hopkins University, Rockville
Medical Science Building
“Science!” Three artist show
2012 Montgomery College, Silver Spring
Cafritz Art Center
“Our Small Rooms” Two artist show
2013 “Life Up Close: Art Inspired By Science” Group Show
Orange Regional Medical Center, New Jersey
2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science, DC
“Voyage of Discovery” Three artist show
2014 “Voyage of Discovery” at the McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2014 The Art of Neuroscience, at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
Washington, DC
2015 “Microscopic” National Institutes of Health
Clinical Center Galleries, solo show
2015 “Art of the Eye” Group Show
Moran Eye Center, Salt Lake City
2015 “Personal Patterns” Group Show
Cafritz Art Center, Silver Spring, MD
2015 The Art of Neuroscience, at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
Chicago, IL
2016 “Microbe” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Boston, MA
2016 “Cell 2016” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, San Francisco, CA
2016 “Hidden Worlds” solo show, Park View Gallery, Glen Echo, MD
2017 “The Arctic Bride: A Climate Change Story” Artomatic, Arlington, VA
2017 “Who’s Looking Back”, group show at Gallery O on H, DC
2017 “Art of Neuroscience” online show, honorable mention, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
2017 “One House” group show at Touchstone Gallery, DC
2017 “Hidden Universe” solo show at Johns Hopkins Montgomery County, Rockville, MD
2018 “Methods of Inquiry: Fields of Discovery” Group show at McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2018 The Art of Neuroscience at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA
2018 Exhibition at the European Neuroscience Federation Meeting (FENS), Berlin, Germany
2018 Solo Show, Artists and Makers Gallery, Rockville MD
2019 Solo Show, New Work in Ink on Yupo, NIH, Clinical Center Galleries, Bethesda, MD
2019 "Art of Evolution" Group Show, Takoma Park Community Center Gallery
2019 The Art of Neuroscience at the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL
2020 "Unsustainable - A planet in Crisis" Group Show, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville TN
Residency
2015 Artist-in-Residence at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Finland, October-November
2018 Institut Jacques Monod, Paris
Festivals
Bethesda Fine Arts Festival
Artscape, Baltimore
McLean Project for the Arts ArtFest
ArtFest at Annmarie Garden, MD
A-RTS Rockville, MD
Mt. Gretna Art Show, PA
Shadyside Arts Festival, PA
Arts on Foot, DC
Frederick Festival of the Arts, MD
Maker Faire, NY
(and many more)
Exhibitions Curated
Georgetown Arts 2009 and 2011
Arts Management
Arts on Belmont Festival 2001-2004
Artomatic Steering Committee 2008 and 2009 - Co-chair of Visual Arts Committee
Artomatic Board of Directors 2010
Publications
“Love and Death at the NIH” Bourgeon Magazine, January 5, 2011
Reprinted in the Science Creative Quarterly January 28, 2011
“Painting Biology” Guru Magazine Issue 1, July 25, 2011
“Not Your Normal Knitting” Guru Magazine Issue 2, September 27, 2011
“Alberto Gaitan’s Remembrancer: A Machine for Understanding” and
“Those Daring Young Men and their Art Making Machines”, Guru Magazine, Issue 3, upcoming December 2011
Weekly “Art of Science” posts at The Finch and Pea, a Group Blog, since February 2012
Book and Journal Covers
“Blue Mitosis” featured on the cover of the Journal of European Molecular Biology Organization, May 2012
“Malaria in Red Blood Cells” featured on the cover of the novel “The Heart Broke In” by James Meek, Farrar, Straus, October 2012.
“Love and Death: Viruses” featured on the cover of Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics by Odo Diekmann, Hans Heesterbeek & Tom Britton, 2013
“Gold Mitochondria” featured on the cover of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Biology, July 2014.
“Pink Lotus Brain” featured on “Happinez” magazine, Germany, September 2014
“Orange Electrophoresis” Cover of Genetics Journal, August 2016
Public Speaking
2013 ScienceOnline Conference, North Carolina, Moderator of Session on the use of metaphor in science writing
2013 ScioClimate Conference, Washington, DC Moderator of Session on Using Art to Communicate Climate Change
2014 National Academies of Science, Washington, DC Talk on Art vs. Science as Ways of Knowing
2016 Panel speaker on Art and Microbiology at ASM Microbe 2016, Boston
Video
Talk on Art and Science as Ways of Knowing at NAS, February 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1il3AUjaKk&list=UUVWN-tuPaeElYgA-HBhvQTw
Blogging
A sample of my many “Art of Science” and other posts for The Finch and Pea http://thefinchandpea.com/author/michelebanks1/
Education
BA, The George Washington University, 1987
Summa cum Laude
MA, Harvard University, 1989
Languages
Russian and French