Michel Darling is a Ukrainian-American artist working with sculpture and anthropological research to reactivate 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, to arrange reality as to not experience it. Through a secular worldview of matter, resources are always in flux, taking the form of toaster ovens, wheels, machinery, computer chips: metallurgy becomes a shifting chimera that holds all human history in its molecular memory. Darling is interested only in the transmutation of matter that occur in the daily life we perform.

2025-2028

2024

2022-2024

2021-2022

2025-Current

2024

2023

2022

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

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

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