Michelle Segre (b. 1965; lives and works in New York City) works with a wide range of materials including plaster, wire, mesh, yarn, and organic matter to create sculptures that evolve through accumulation and transformation. Her process is improvisational and materially driven, allowing forms to develop through layering, binding, and reworking. Segre often combines fragile and dense elements, building structures that appear at once tangled, web-like, and bodily. Her sculptures frequently suggest organic or biomorphic forms, hovering between abstraction and figuration. Materials are pushed to shift, degrade, or recombine over time, embedding cycles of growth and decay directly into the work. Through this process, Segre produces unstable, hybrid forms that feel both constructed and in flux, as if caught mid-transformation.
She holds a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art, New York. Segre is a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow and a 2016 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow.
Segre has been exhibiting at the Gallery since 2003. She has had solo exhibitions at the Al Held Foundation, Boiceville (2024); 56 Henry, New York (2022), and the lumber room, Portland (2021), among others. She has also been included in group exhibitions at the Watermill Center, Watermill, Long Island (2025-26); The Pit, Los Angeles (2025); the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn (2024); the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (2022); and CANADA, New York (2022). Segre’s work is in public collections at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder; Chazen Museum of Art, Madison; Katonah Museum of Art, New York; The New Museum, New York; and The Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs.