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©2026 

Michel Darling is a Ukrainian-American artist working with sculpture and anthropological research.

Currently interested in:
The ancient fantasy of Homo Faber: technology as an alchemical movement of the West to conquer death and fate, to accelerate nature and ‘perfect’ it.  









2025-2028

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2022-2024

2021-2022





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EDUCATION & SCHOOLING

BFA (In Progress), The Cooper Union, NY, NY

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Fellow

BFA, SMFA Tufts University, Boston, MA  

Undeclared, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME


RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Self employed fine metal & obj design, Bronze Wax SP, Brooklyn, NY

Jeweler, Ringram, New York, NY 

Blacksmith apprentice, Tutto Metalwork -Raymond Mathis, Thomaston, ME 

Gallery Assistant, Blue Raven Gallery, Rockland, ME

Mural Intern, Ryan Adams & Rachel Gloria Adams, Portland, ME



GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Exquisite Corpse, Not That Deep, Brooklyn, NY 

Never Seen Before,  Apt 6 , Boston, MA

The Self Imagined, Monserratt College of Art, Beverly, MA 

Visions of Excess, The Raven Gallery, Toronto, Canada

My Personality, Currents Magazine, Boston, MA

Losing My Religion, Bromfeild Gallery, Boston, MA

Sculpture + Fibers Area Show, SMFA Tufts University,  Boston, MA  

Ameriqa, Andres F. Arevalo Zea, Bogotá, Colombia

Taken as Read, 82Parris, Portland, ME

Metals Dept. Group Show, SMFA Tufts University, Boston, MA

ARTPM2021, BUOY GALLERY,  Kittery, ME