Michelle Hungerford

Michelle Hungerford divides her time between the New England and the Blue Mountains regions of NSW, Australia.

She studied Fine Arts at Tamworth TAFE and graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the University of Newcastle, where she was awarded the University Medal. In 2002, she won the Watt space Student Acquisitive Prize and the prestigious National Tertiary Prize, judged by David Boyd, and represented Newcastle University in Hatched, the National Graduate show at PICA in Perth, WA.

In 2006, Hungerford held her first international solo exhibition at New Hall, Cambridge University, followed by her second solo exhibition at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK in 2009. Her work was acquired for the New Hall Women’s Collection. In 2015, after extensive painting and travel throughout Germany and Europe, Hungerford participated in a two-person exhibition in Berlin and was subsequently invited to exhibit at the Australian Embassy in Berlin in 2016.

Hungerford has exhibited widely in Australian regional and commercial galleries and has been a finalist in numerous prizes, including Paddington Art Prize, Mosman Art Prize, Kedumba Drawing Award and the Parliamentary Plein Air Prize. In 2018, she won the Defiance Gallery Award at the Paddington Art Prize.

Hungerford’s work is held in numerous private and public collections across Australia, UK, Europe and the US.