Michele Landel creates beautifully eerie patchwork paintings using photographs, fabric, paper, and thread. Whether draped or flattened, her embroidered paintings are about engaging the need and desire to look and the inherent power struggle between the one looking and the one being looked at.

She stitches over figures, cut flowers, and domesticated spaces to evoke symbols of power, loss, and memory. Mirroring and shadows are also often repeated to show self-awareness and internal worlds. Drawing on the intimacy associated with stained and mended secondhand bedsheets and the machine embroidery connected with craft, her artwork references the domestic while also deliberately distancing itself from traditional fiber arts. In her recent series, Michele has drawn upon Virginia Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness novels as a common thread. Both explore the politics of power, wedging the female perspective into a world seemingly only validated by men.

Michele is an American artist who lives and works in Sèvres, France. She holds degrees in Fine Arts and Art History. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout Europe, the UK, and the US and appears in The Collage Ideas Book (Ilex Press, 2018). She was awarded the 2018 Innovative Technique Award by the Surface Design Association and was a finalist for the Prix Carré-Sur-Seine in 2020.

Solo and two-person exhibitions include presentations with Galerie Amélie du Chalard, New York (2026) and Paris (2024); Le Salon Vert Gallery, Geneva (2025, 2023, 2022); Muriel Guépin Gallery, New York (2024, 2022, 2021); Ségolène Brossette Galerie, Paris (2022); The Fibery Gallery, Paris (2019); Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia (2021); and Galerie Belle Beau, Arles (2022).

Group exhibitions and fair presentations include Art Market San Francisco (2026); Art Paris (2025); Studio Ashby, London (2025); The 1818 Collective, Hamptons (2025); Art on Paper, New York (2024); Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn (2023); KAOS Festival of International Collage, Kranj (2022, 2019); Galerie Zone, Leiden (2021); O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley (2020); Miniartextile in Como, Montrouge, and Busto Arsizio (2020); Jen Tough Gallery, San Francisco (2019); Musée de la Carte à Jouer, Issy-les-Moulineaux (2019); the Lucca Biennale, Lucca (2018); and 198 Contemporary Arts Gallery, London (2017).

Landel has also participated in a number of international residencies and received recognition for her work in textile and collage practices. She was named a Laureate of the Prix MEREA (2026), was a finalist for the Prix Carré-Sur-Seine (2020), and received the Innovation in Technique Award from the Surface Design Association (2018). Residencies include Mas Molière with Galerie Amélie du Chalard in Paradou (2026), Joya: AiR in Almería (2023), NG Creative Art Residency in Maussane (2022), and the Centre Pompadour Neofeminist Laboratory in Ercourt (2019).