Michelle Burdine
Assistant Professor of Art
Offices & Programs
Education
MFA: studio art, The Ohio State University
MA: humanities, Wright State University
BA: humanities, Antioch University Midwest
BIOGRAPHY
Michelle Burdine is a photographic artist whose work expands to mixed media installations. Her work examines how large-scale systems and social conventions—such as pronatalism, healthcare, taxation, and family—inscribe themselves on individual bodies and lives while shaping structures of care and belonging. Grounded in feminist theory and practice, her work considers how gendered expectations and biomedical
logics mark certain bodies as problems to be managed rather than as humans with agency, desire, and complex inner lives. Through strategies of collaboration, repetition, and abstraction, Burdine uses images, text, and organic materials to trouble the boundaries between public and private, care and control, purity and contamination. Her practice treats menstruation, grief, and everyday embodiment as sites of knowledge production, insisting that lived experience in a gendered body is both a critical lens on power and a generative force for imagining
more just, inclusive structures of social life.
Burdine holds an MFA in Studio Art from The Ohio State University; a Master of Humanities (interdisciplinary studies of philosophy, history, and fine art) from Wright State University; and a BA in humanities from Antioch University Midwest. Burdine has led photography and new media programs at the post-secondary level since 2007 including appointments with Murray State University, The Ohio State University, and The Ohio Institute of Photography. Burdine joined Centre College in 2021.
AWARDS/GRANTS
- 2021 Artist Residency Grant from the Great Meadows Foundation
- 2020 Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women
PUBLICATIONS
Hyperallergic, “Why is No one Talking about the Artist Daughters,” by Hall Rockefeller, January, 2023
Burdine's work has been exhibited nationally including solo exhibitions at:
- The Project Space at the Robert & Elaine Stein Galleries in Dayton, Ohio,
- Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College of Shreveport, Louisiana,
- University Art Gallery, in Terre Haute, Indiana