ARTIST STATEMENT
Exploring trauma, gender, body, womanhood, and sexuality, my paintings take place inside my cunt–meaty and humid and mad; sensitive and punch-lined. The narratives in my worlds, equally nauseated and celebratory–hovering an endless ocean inside or nary a finite nose from the gash of my grief. The cytoplasmic caverns of my insides, housing a cast of characters, liminal in gender–lonely and tender together. Where the self-portrait reigns–non-binary in surrogacy. Their breasts, queer and heavy, despite my attempts to pray them away. And in these fluid, fleshy spaces, gender (tasseled and wombed) is exchanged between figures as if jewelry or a neighborly fruit pie–bestowed back and forth like a cooling potato. Here, the redhead has the edge at her own earnest expense. And the ambassadors invite your laughter–your pity and your pitchforks. The scenes, suggesting the suppleness of violence scratching from the outside; answered only ever when the ache has broken skin. My figures, hackled in urgent defense of softness–the sort that sounds with simultaneous specificity and seismicity.
BIOGRAPHY
Miranda Reichhardt (she/they) is a figurative artist, has red hair, and has certainly eaten a plate of roasted brussel sprouts sometime within the last 48 hours. Miranda’s painting and drawing practice focuses on the body through the self-portrait, contextualized in narrative by the dual contradictions of punch-lines and wailing. Here, Miranda explores non-binary gender, the nauseating treat of corporeality, w(oh man!)hood, grief, and sexuality—the stuttered passing of agency or genitalia like hot-potatoes (amongst self or with sweethearts).
In 2019, Miranda received her MFA in Fine Arts from UNC-Greensboro and has since been exhibiting paintings nationally—holding the position of Regional Emerging Artist in Residence at Artspace (Raleigh, NC) in 2020.
Miranda lives (and teaches) in Richmond, Virginia with her weird little cat named Mustard (née Orlando).
EDUCATION
UNC-Greensboro Master of Fine Arts — 2019
The College of William & Mary Bachelor of Arts — 2015
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Squelch, Greensboro Project Space July, 2022, Greensboro, NC
Bedroom Banners, Artspace February 2021, Raleigh, NC
Wants, Palms, and Pits, Greensboro Project Space April 2019, Greensboro, NC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
University of Mary Washington Faculty Exhibition, Dupont Gallery September 2023, Fredericksburg, VA
ROE 2.0, Woman Made Gallery, Virtual Exhibition January 2023
Women’s Work 34th Anniversary Show, Old Courthouse Arts Center, June 2021, Woodstock, IL
2021 Regional Erotic Arts Show, Digital Display, March 2021, Rochester, NY
2020 Regional Erotic Arts Show, Digital Display, March 2020, Rochester, NY
2020 ALL Women Artists, Contemporary Art Gallery Online February 2020
Guilford Art Faculty Biennial, Hege Library Gallery January 2020, Greensboro, NC
Reclaiming My Time, National Humanities Center September - December 2019, Raleigh, NC
UNCG MFA Thesis Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum May 2019, Greensboro, NC
Recurrent Elements, Greensboro Project Space September 2018, Greensboro, NC
Drawing Marathon Exhibition, Greensboro Project Space September 2017, Greensboro, NC
Small Exhibitions Juried Show, LibertyTown Arts Gallery (Honorable Mention Winner) November 2016, VA
Chalk and Cheese… Senior Art Exhibition, Andrews Gallery May 2015, Williamsburg, VA
RESIDENCIES
Regional Emerging Artist Residency, Artspace July 2019 - January 2020, Raleigh, NC
AWARDS/GRANTS
Howard Scholarship August 2018 - May 2019
Helen A. Thrust Scholarship August 2017 - May 2019
Holderness Fellowship August 2017 - May 2018
Minerva Grant August 2017 - May 2018
Joseph Palin Thorley Scholarship May 2014 - May 2015
TALKS/SYMPOSIA
Artist Talks with Annah February 2021
UNC-G MFA Artist Gallery Talk May 2019
UNC-G MFA Thesis Exhibition Artist Talk April 2019
Recurrent Elements Exhibition Artist Talk September 2018
William & Mary Undergraduate Medieval and Renaissance Studies Symposium Speaker March 2013
TEACHING/WORK EXPERIENCE
University of Mary Washington — ARTS 105: Design Principles Instructor
August 2023 - PRESENT, Fredericksburg, VA
Germanna Community College: ART Foundations of Drawing and Life Drawing Instructor
January 2023 - PRESENT, Fredericksburg, VA
Virginia Peninsula Community College: ART Foundations of Drawing and Design Principles Instructor
September 2023 - PRESENT, Hampton, VA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts — Gallery Associate
2023, Richmond, VA
UNC-Greensboro — ART 221: Adjunct Life Drawing Instructor, ART 201: Adjunct Foundations of Drawing Instructor, ART 221: Adjunct Intermediate Drawing Instructor
August 2018 - May 2023, Greensboro, NC
Guilford College — ART 201: Adjunct Foundations of Drawing Instructor and Drawing Explorations Instructor
September 2019 - May 2023, Greensboro, NC
Guilford Technical Community College — ART 120: Adjunct Foundations of Drawing Instructor
August 2021 - December 2021, Greensboro, NC
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College — ART 201: Adjunct Drawing I & II Instructor
January 2020 - May 2021, Salisbury, NC
Surry Community College — ART 111: Adjunct Art Appreciation Instructor
January 2020 - PRESENT, Yadkinville, NC
UNCG-Greensboro — Art 220: Intermediate Drawing Assistant
January 2018 - May 2018, Greensboro, NC
UNC-Greensboro — Art 110: Survey Art History Graduate Assistant
January 2018 - May 2018, Greensboro, NC
UNC-Greensboro — Art 100: Introduction to Art Graduate Assistant
August 2017 - December 2017, Greensboro, NC
Private Painting Instructor
2019 - PRESENT
LibertyTown Arts Workshop — Summer Camp Drawing & Painting Instructor
August 2016 - July 2018 Fredericksburg, VA
LibertyTown Arts Workshop — Gallery Assistant
August 2016 - August 2018, Fredericksburg, VA