Michelle Kasprzak was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and currently lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands She completed her BFA in New Media at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario in 2000, and in 2006 completed her MA in Visual and Media Arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal, earning several scholarships over the course of her academic career.

Michelle has exhibited and lectured across North America and Europe. She has appeared in publications such as Wired UK and on radio and television broadcasts on the BBC and CBC. Most recently she has delivered talks at PICNIC (Amsterdam), transmediale festival (Berlin), and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh).

Following a decade of practice as a visual artist, her current focus is primarily on writing and curating. In 2006, she was awarded a curatorial research residency at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, and in 2010 she attended the Summer Seminars for Art Curators in Yerevan, Armenia. In 2006, Michelle founded a leading blog on the subject of curating contemporary art, Curating.info, which was featured in Cultural Bloggers Interviewed, a LabforCulture publication. She has written critical essays for magazines such as Spacing, CV Photo, Public, Mute, as well as several online journals. Her writing has appeared in anthologies and exhibition catalogues in both Canada and Europe.

The results of her curatorial work have appeared in venues worldwide, across Toronto as part of a collaboration between Wireless Toronto and Year Zero One, at Canada House (London, UK), Holden Gallery (Manchester, UK) Urban Screens Manchester (Manchester, UK), Federation Square (Melbourne, Australia), and the Virtual Museums
of Canada/Gallery TPW (Toronto, Canada). She is a member of IKT, the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, and a member of the Year Zero One artist collective.

Michelle is currently Project Director at McLuhan in Europe 2011, a cultural network project that will celebrate Marshall McLuhan’s impact on European art and culture through a series of manifestations to occur across Europe in 2011, the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Artist Code: 635