Portrait by David Heald

Midge (b. 1990) is an artist based in Brooklyn. Her work in photography and sculpture explores the elements of light, time, and surface as both material and subject. She has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. In early 2020, she had a solo exhibition titled Scirocco at the Italian Consulate in New York following her first solo exhibition, Passages, with Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea in Palermo (2019). Group exhibitions include Focal Points: Women Advancing the Aperture, Delaware Contemporary Arts Museum (2020), Living Image at The Halide Project, Philadelphia (2020), Miart, Milan (2019), Paese Mediterraneo, Il Museo Civico di Castelbuono (2017), among others. She was awarded a Fulbright grant in Sicily (2016-17) and a Peter S. Reed Foundation grant in New York (2015). She is represented in Europe by Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea in Milan and Palermo.

Solo Exhibitions:

In the Painting Room
The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
87 Eldridge Street
May 2021* upcoming

Scirocco
Il Consolato Generale d’Italia
690 Park Avenue, New York
2020

Passages curated by Agata Polizzi
Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea
Palermo, Italy
2019

Group Exhibitions:

Fittile
Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea, Palermo, Italy
2020

Focal Points: Women Advancing the Aperture
The Delaware Contemporary Arts Museum, Wilmington
2020

Living Image curated by Kris Graves
The Halide Project, Philadelphia
2020

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

Miart Milan
Booth D20, FPAC Gallery, Milan
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

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 & articles:
Artribune. La Sicilia di Midge Wattles in mostra al Consolato Generale di Italia a New York by Francesca Magnani
2020

Balarm. Lo “Scirocco” arriva a New York: le bellezza della Sicilia in mostra al Consolato Italiano by Giuliana Imburgia
2020

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