Michael Kroetch
Select Solo Exhibitions / Installations
2019 Alex Gallery, Dupont Circle, Washington, DC (neo-fresco)
2018 Arches Gallery, The Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA (neo-fresco)
2017 Momentum Worldwide Gallery [Kunstquartier Bethanien], Berlin, Germany (photo)
2011 Anne Pincus Gallery, Munich, Germany (photo / performance art)
2011 The Readery, Munich, Germany (performance art)
2010 Westend Gallery, Munich, Germany (neo-fresco)
2007 Opus6ix Gallery, Eugene, OR (neo-fresco)
1993 Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR (video / performance art / poetry)
1993 New Zone Gallery, Eugene, OR
(video / performance art / poetry)
1992 Alphabet Gallery, New York, NY
(video)
1989 New Zone Gallery, Eugene, OR (performance art / poetry)
1988 Aperture Gallery, Univ. Oregon, Eugene, OR (photo-collage)
1987 Warehouse Gallery, Eugene, OR (sculpture installation /performance art / poetry)
1986 Gallery 141, Univ. Oregon, Eugene, OR (photo / performance art)
Select Group Exhibitions / Installations
2018 Arches Gallery, The Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA (neo-fresco)
2018 One Love Exhibition, Manassas, VA (neo-fresco)
2015 Kreuzberg Attic & Atelier, Berlin,
Germany (photo / performance art)
2013 The Underneath Space, Berlin, Germany (photo / performance art)
2006 Pike Gallery, Camus WA (neo-fresco)
2006 Hope Abbey, Eugene, OR (neo-fresco)
2003 Tsunami Gallery, Eugene, OR (neo-fresco / performance art / poetry)
1996 Clearwaters, Eugene, OR (neo-fresco / photo / performance art)
1994 American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA (video)
1993 American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA (video)
1992 American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA (video)
1992 Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, WA (video)
1992 Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR (video)
1991 Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, WA (video)
1991 Director’s Guild, Los Angeles, CA (video)
1991 American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA (video)
1991 Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA (video)
1990 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (video)
Awards / Grants
2020 Washington Awards Program: Alex Gallery named DC’s Best Gallery of 2019
2018 Arches Gallery, The Workhouse Art Center: 1st Place People’s Choice Award:
May (Alte)
Oct (Fynshav)
Nov (Everything Is Illuminated)
Dec (Everything Is Illuminated)
1994 Sony Corporation: Best Short Video (Terminator Dog)
1993 Sony Corporation: Best Short Video (The Car Dreams, Part 2)
1992 Sony Corporation: Best Short Video (The Car Dreams, Part 1)
1991 Sony Corporation: Best Short Video (This is Not a Condom)
1991 Oregon Arts Commission: Film/Video Fellowship (Is it Love if it has no Eyes?)
1991 Lane Art Council: City of Eugene Art Grant (Is it Love if it has no Eyes?)
1990 American Film Insitute: World’s Top 20 Art Videos (This is Not a Condom)
1989 Nat Horne Theatre, NY: Year’s Best Short Plays (Rudolf)
1989 Red Octopus Theatre, Newport, OR: National Best Play Contest (Postman)
Select Art Publications
2020 Lance Olsen’s newest novel My Red Heaven (Dzanc Press) 8 images from Kroetch’s The Lost Worlds of Berlin
2019 “Ceremony” featured in Washington Post review of Kroetch’s Alex Gallery Solo Exhibition
2019 Art Historian Florie Gilbard’s Essay, There’s A Crack In Everything,
Featured in Alex Gallery’s full-color 34-page Catalog, Michael Kroetch
1992 “This is Not a Condom” video still image featured on cover of Oregon Art
Commission’s Annual Bulletin
Select Literary Publications
2007 2Grlz “The Big Wave” (illustrated
online prose / fiction)
2006 Northwest Edge Fiction, Book 3 “Science Fiction” (excerpt from The Cousin Stories)
2003 Northwest Edge Fiction, Book 2 “The End” (short fiction)
2002 Northwest Review “The Bodguard” (novel excerpt)
2001 Northwest Edge Fiction, Book 1 “Misery” (illustrated fiction)
2001 University of Oregon Campus: Then & Now, 125 Years
2000 Eugene 1945-2000: Decisions That Made A Community
“Making the Arts Matter,” (historical article)
1997 Two Girls Review “The End of All That” (story)
1996 Stringtown “The String People” (story)
1992 Two Girls Review “The Car Dreams” (100 short fictions)
1988 Timberline “Confirmation” (short story)
Select Theatrical Productions
1996 The Shadow Zone, Eugene, OR (Wild Kingdom)
1993 KQGN Public Access Television, Eugene, OR (Stage Fright)
1993 Portland Mercury Stage, Portland, OR
(Mr. Toad Goes to War)
1992 5th Street Public Market, Eugene, OR (The Car Dreams)
1989 Nat Horne Theatre, NY, NY (Rudolf)
1989 Blackbox Theater, Eugene, OR (Sometimes The Postman Don’t Ring At All)
Residencies
2021 Pushkinskaya 10 Art Residency:
Saint Petersburg, Russia
2013 Davidovich Art Residency:
Prague, Czech Republic
1989 Sylvia Beech Playwright Residency: Newport, Oregon