ARTOLOGICA
Michele Banks Art of Science
Michele Banks
1077 30th Street NW #411
Washington, DC 20007
Awards and Grants
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 DC Arts and Humanities Commission
Arts and Humanities Fellowship Grants
2022 Comcast RISE Grant
2018 DCCAH Sister Cities Grant, Paris
2017 Art of Neuroscience, Honorable Mention, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 “Inspired by Science” at NIH Clinical Center Galleries, Bethesda, MD
2023 “Micromajesty: Intersections of Art and Science” with Ivan Amato at Artists and Makers Gallery, Rockville, MD
2022 “Microbiome” – Exhibition at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC
2019 “Neuroscience in Ink” NIH, Clinical Center Galleries, Bethesda, MD
2019 The Art of Neuroscience at the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL
2018 “Variations” solo show, Artists and Makers Gallery, Rockville MD
2018 “Under the Microscope” at the American Society for Microbiology, Atlanta, GA
2018 “Beauty and The Brain” FENS Forum of Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany
2017 “Art of Neuroscience” online show, honorable mention, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
2017 “Hidden Universe” solo show at Johns Hopkins Montgomery County, Rockville, MD
2017 “The Arctic Bride: A Climate Change Story” Artomatic, Arlington, VA
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
2015 “Microscopic” NIH Clinical Center Galleries, Bethesda, MD
2014 “Voyage of Discovery” three artist show American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington DC
2014 “Voyage of Discovery” at the McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2014 The Art of Neuroscience, the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC
2012 “Our Small Rooms” Two artist show, Cafritz Art Center, Montgomery College, Silver Spring
2011 “Love and Death” Solo show, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
2010 Children’s National Medical Center, DC, Four Artist show
2005 Gallery Frame Avenue, Bethesda, Solo show
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024: "Salon D'Illusion": Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
2024: SHE: DC at La Cosecha, Washington, DC
2021 “DC Art Now” – Group show, Washington, DC
2020 "Unsustainable - A Planet in Crisis" Group Show, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville TN
2019 "Art of Evolution" Group Show, Takoma Park Community Center Gallery
2018 “Methods of Inquiry: Fields of Discovery” Group show, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean VA
2017 “One House” group show at Touchstone Gallery, DC
2017 “Who’s Looking Back”, group show at Gallery O on H, DC
2015 “Art of the Eye” Group Show, Moran Eye Center, Salt Lake City
2015 “Personal Patterns” Group Show, Cafritz Art Center, Silver Spring, MD
2013 “Life Up Close: Art Inspired by Science” Group Show, Orange Regional Medical Center, NJ
2011 “SCIENCE!” Group Show, Johns Hopkins University, Rockville, Medical Science Building
2007 William W. Parker Gallery, DC, Washington Project for the Arts Group Show
2006 Wilson Building, DC, Heart of DC (Inauguration of City Hall Art Collection)
2002 Meridian International Center, DC, “Neighbors” Group show
Residencies
2022 Artists in Action, Annmarie Garden Arts Center, Solomons, MD
2018 Artist-in-Residence at the Institut Jacques Monod, Paris
Funded by a Sister Cities Grant from the DCCAH
2015 Artist-in-Residence at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Finland
Selected Collections
DCCAH Art Bank, Wilson Building Collection
National Academy of Sciences
Children’s National Medical Center
Pennsylvania State University
Westchester Hospital
Yale University
The University of Michigan
The American Society for Virology
Public Speaking
2023 “Juxtapositions: Art & Science” Panel at the REACH, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
2022 This Week in Virology live from the American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC
2018 Art of Evolution/Evolution of Art workshop for DC artists Supported by a Sister Cities Grant from the DCCAH
2018 “The Art of Evolution” Talk at Institut Jacques Monod, Paris
2016 “Art and Microbiology” Panel speaker at ASM Microbe 2016, Boston, MA
2014 National Academies of Science, Washington, DC “Art and Science as Ways of Knowing “
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
Education
BA, The George Washington University
Summa cum Laude
MA, Harvard University