About
Lives & works in New York City
As part of her socially engaged practice, Michi is the President of BAXTER ST at The Camera Club of New York, an artist run non-profit organization, which operates to create platforms of community engagement and progress for emerging lens based artists. She brought the organization to its current location and lead its revitalization.
She is co-founder of New Draft Collective and Secretary Press. She serves on the board of Art Production Fund, National YoungArts, and Beat the Street Philadelphia.
Her site-specific installation work has been commission by the Maritime Foundation. Her books include Writing as Practice, How We Do Both: Art and Motherhood and the three volume series Mold. Jigarjian’s work has been exhibited internationally and she is a 2013 recipient of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space Residency.
She is currently on faculty at ICP-Bard MFA Program.
President of Baxter St @ CCNY
Partner The Rockaway Hotel, Art and Community
Co-Founder Secretary Press / New Draft Collective
Education
ICP-Bard M.F.A 2012
International Center of Photography GS Program 2009
Lehigh University BFA 2002
Recent Exhibitions
Spoken Word, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY 2018
Sherman Swicker, Pier 24, New York, NY 2014
Re-Current, Building 100 Governors Island, New York, NY 2013
From Ours To Yours, 20-24 Jackson Ave Gallery, MFA Thesis Show February 2012
Selected Group Shows
Present Memory, Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, NY 2013
MFA Thesis Show, The Rita K. Hillman Education Gallery, May 2012
CCS Museum Bard College: Book Exhibition Withering White Book Exhibited Summer 2011
Photography in the Expanding Technologies Limner Gallery: Hudson, New York April 2010
Takes 2010 Upstream Gallery: Dobbs Ferry, NY February 2010
Arte Latino Mills Pond Gallery: Hudson, New York February 2010
Glimpse of Time Joyce Gordon Gallery: Los Angeles, CA
False Idols: Prespectives on Latina Women Casa Frela Gallery: New York, NY: July 2009
Pluperfect International Center of Photography: July 2009
Visualizing Ulysses KGB: New York, NY
Publications/ Books
Mold Issue 2, Edited and Published by Secretary Press 2014
Mold Issue 1, Edited and Published by Secretary Press 2013
How We Do Both Motherhood and Art: Edited Published by Secretary Press 2012
Writing as Practice: Perpheral Continuity: Edited Published by Secretary Press 2012
Alone Together: Self Published Book: Edition of 5, 2012
New Works: Thesis Group Catalog, 2012
New Works: Slidefest Zine April 2011
PRESS:
WSJ: Sherman Swicker Review
Art Info: Sherman Swicker Review
BlindSpot Fall 2011
2010 PDN Pulse Variations On a Theme: My Family, My Self
Artlog.net Spotlight Artist
Shift Vol. 4. International Center of Photography
Residency / Awards
LMCC Swing Space Residency
Directors Fellowship ICP-Bard