Midge (b. 1990) is an artist based in New York and Palermo. She has a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Her work in photography and sculpture explores the elements of light, time, and surface as both material and subject. In 2019, she had her first solo exhibition, Passages, with Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea, Palermo. Group exhibitions include Miart, Milan (2019), Paese Mediterraneo, Il Museo Civico di Castelbuono (2017), Due South, Delaware Contemporary Arts Museum (2017). She was awarded a Peter S. Reed Foundation grant (2015) and a Fulbright grant in Sicily (2016-17). She is represented by Francesco Pantaleone Gallery in Palermo and Milan.

Education:
The Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Photography, 2008-2012
RISD’s European Honors Program, Rome, 2011

Solo Exhibitions:
Il Consolato Generale d’Italia
690 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Jan 2020 *upcoming

Passages curated by Agata Polizzi
Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea
Palermo, Italy
Dec. 2018-March 2019

Group Exhibitions:
Living Image curated by Kris Graves
The Halide Project, Philadelphia
Dec 2019

Art Trekking curated by Glorianda Cipolla
Monte Bianco Montagna Sacra, Courmayeur, Aosta, Italy
July 2019

Miart Milan
Booth D20, FPAC Gallery, Palermo, Milano
2019

Castelbuono Paese Mediterraneo curated by Costanza Carzo
Il Museo Civico di Castelbuono, Castelbuono, Sicily
2017

Due South curated by Marianne Bernstein
Delaware Contemporary Arts Museum, Wilmington, DE
2017

Haunted Objects, Q07 curated by Laura Greig
Peridot Green, New York, NY
2016

Offertorio curated by Francesco Pantaleone
Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea, Palermo, Italy
2015

RISD In Rome: European Honors Program
Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2014

At This Point / a group show curated by Wen-You Cai
If and Wen Space, New York, NY
2014

Facades and Replicas
Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI
2012

A Family Portrait
Palazzo Cenci, Rome, Italy
2011

Awards & Residencies:
89books Residency & Catalogue
89books publishing house, Palermo, Sicily, IT
October 2018

American Cyborg Artist Residency
Aspen, Colorado, USA
January 2018

Fulbright & Vinciguerra Award
U.S. Foreign Scholarship to Italy, Fine Arts/Photography
Palermo, Sicily, IT
2016-2017

Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant
Award for achievements in the field of Photography
New York, NY
2015

Publications:

FORMEUNICHE. Il rigore e l’eleganza nelle fotografie di Midge Wattles in mostra alla Galleria Francesco Pantaleone di Palermo by Sasha Taormina
2019

89books Folio:
Passages & Oxalis by Midge Wattles
2018

Aint Bad Magazine: An Independent Publisher of New Photographic Art. Staff Picks: Midge Wattles published by Anna Brody.
2015

Lenscratch. Young and Emerging Artist Series, Midge Wattles: Lineage by Grant Gill.
2014

The Shin Bijutsu Shinbun Review. From New York, At This Point by Dr. Tomii Reiko.
2014

Lint-roller. 5×5: Classicism and the Uncanny by Olivia Gilmore.
2013