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Esther Kirshenbaum is a multimedia artist with a degree in biology and pre-medicine from the University of Michigan. Despite her love for the sciences, she found that her passion for life was best expressed through her art.
Before her full time shift to art, she had been teaching biology in Australia. That positioned her to travel throughout the Philippines, China, and Indonesia where she observed all manner of art making. Her first encounter with encaustic painting, her current medium, was through batik lessions in a backyard in Jogyakarta, Indonesia. Later she would learn papermaking in Spain and metalworking from a local blacksmith.
She has exhibited works in all these media locally and nationally. She curated The Michigan Guild Gallery for several years and was the Director of Installation Art for the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
From 2010 to 2016, she lived and maintained a studio in New York CIty where she was part of Brooklyn Museum’s Go Brooklyn Artists, The Ground Floor Gallery, The 18th Street Studios, the Third Ward, and The Candy Factory. She was commissioned to do a sculptural trellis for the 2015 Obama White House.
Upon her return from NYC, she has continued working as an artist in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has exhibited locally and nationally, including the Taubman/Forbes Art.
Recent local exhibitions include solo shows at the Kerrytown Concert House, group shows at Gutman Gallery, 22 N. Huron Gallery, DAM, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). She was awarded a residency in New Mexico by Some Serious Business.
Her work remains in collections including The University of Michigan, Beaumont Hospital, the Mayo Clinic and others.
If you have any questions or would like to purchase or commission work, just let me know. I'll get back to you right away. I look forward to hearing from you.