Michael Eble

Michael Eble is a painter and curator. His work focuses on abstraction through mapping and place. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he served as an Associate Professor of Studio Art and Curator of the Edward J. & Helen Jean Morrison Gallery at the University of Minnesota, Morris for thirteen years. He is currently Curator of Exhibitions, Events, and Engagement for the College of the Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He also serves as Project Manager for the art subscription service BARE WALLS in Lafayette La. Eble is a practicing artist who has shown his paintings and works on paper in numerous regional and national solo and group exhibitions, most recently in Louisiana, Minnesota, North Dakota, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. Eble was awarded an Artspark Grant from the Acadiana Center for the Arts in 2016, he has also been a recipient of several Imagine Fund awards and Grant in Aid awards from the University of Minnesota, along with a Residential Fellowship in 2008 from the Institute for Advance Study, along with additional grants and research funding from the McKnight Foundation, Lake Region Arts Council, Vermont Studio Center, Science Museum of Minnesota, and the New York Mills regional cultural center. His work resides in collections at the University of Minnesota, Minnesota Science Museum. Hilliard University Art Museum, Ochsner Hospital, New Orleans Children's Hospital, Whitney Bank Art Collection, and many private collections Michael is currently represented by Cole Pratt Gallery in New Orleans, LA.

M.F.A. in painting and drawing, 2002
University of Mississippi, in Oxford, Mississippi.

B.F.A. in painting, minor photography, 1997
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

• Curating
• Contemporary Art
• Abstract Painting
• The History of Sneakers

Opportunities for Student Research/Collaboration: 

• Annual Department of Visual Arts Juried Student Art Exhibition
• Annual Department of Visual Arts Senior BFA Exhibitions
• School of Architecture and Design Spring Exhibitions
• MA in Architecture Graduate Fall Exhibition

Solo Exhibitions

• 2021 New Paintings and Works on Paper, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
• 2021 New Paintings and Works on Paper, Gallery R Downtown, Lafayette, LA
• 2017 Striations, City Cub, Lafayette, LA
• 2017 New Painting and Summer Work, Lounge Gallery, Lafayette, LA
• 2016 Finding Flow, Lounge Gallery, Lafayette, LA

Group Exhibitions

• 2022 Bare Walls: %roup Exhibition, Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA
• 2021 Twenty Years of Marais Press: Imprinting a campus and collection, Hilliard Art Museum, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
• 2021 Bare Walls: A Group Exhibition, Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA
• 2020 Allan Jones, Painter – Mentor Exhibition, Fletcher Hall Gallery, UL Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
• 2020 The Healthy Artist, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
• 2016 LA Visions: Works by Michael Eble, Frances Rodriguez & Ashley Rouen, Claire Elizabeth Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Juried Exhibitions

• 2022 Harding Art Fair, Harding Academy, Nashville, TN
• 2021 Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Juror René Morales, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Chief Curator at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), New Orleans, LA
• 2020 Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Juror Hallie Ringle, Hugh Kaul Curator of Contemporary Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
• 2018 Department of Visual Arts Alumni Exhibition, Juror Chris Bennet, UL Assistant Prof. of Art History, Fletcher Hall Gallery, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA
• 2017 Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Juror Shantrelle P. Lewis, New Orleans, LA
• 2017 The 52nd Annual National Summer Show, St. Juror: William Fagaly, Curator Emeritus for the New Orleans
• Museum of Art, St. Tammany Art Association, Miriam Barranger Gallery, Covington, LA
• 2016 The 47th Annual River Road Show, Juror: Bill Farnsworth, Louisiana State Archives Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
• The 51st Annual National Summer Show, Juror: Mark Biletnikoff, St. Tammany Art Association, Miriam Barranger Gallery, Covington, LA

• 2021 Acadiana Center for the Arts, Artist Relief Grant, Lafayette, LA
• 2020 Friends of Humanities Grant, Lafayette, LA
• 2020 Best in Show Acrylics, Big Easel Art Festival, Lafayette, LA
• 2020 Sustainability Fellowship, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA
• 2019 Friends of Humanities Grant, Lafayette, LA
• 2019 STEP Grant, Fletcher Hall Gallery, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
• 2016 ArtSpark Grant, Acadiana Center for the Arts/ Lafayette Economic Development Assoc., Lafayette, LA