Education

B.F.A. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 1994

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 A Movement of Women, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Bad Words and Good Snacks, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Generaciones, Galería Trinta, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2018 Generaciones, CiBus Building, University de Santiago de Compostela, SCD, Spain 
2016 Generations, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Backcross The Empire, Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY
2012 100 Tweets, DUMBO Art Center, Brooklyn, New York
2009 Sea Warriors: A Public Art Project South Street Seaport, New York, New York
2006 FLIES 193c Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 Deep States, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY
2017 MUST/HAVE, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Dallas Art Fair, Lennon Weinberg, Dallas, TX
2015 Hijinks/Editions and Small Works, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Sluice Art Fair, London, U.K.
2015 Group print exhibit, Lennon Weinberg, NY, NY
2014 I Know Things..., Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Works on paper, Lennon Weingberg, Inc., New York, NY
2014 More Than This, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Lilliput, MyMicroGallery, Milan, IT
2014 Sargent's Daughters, Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY
2013 Project No. 8, New York, NY
2013 End Times, HKJB at The Sphinx, New York, NY
2013 Momenta Art Benefit, Brooklyn, NY
2012 NADA Art Fair, Hudson, NY
2012 Photoville, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Elle Décor's Modern Life Concept House, New York, NY
2010 Jen Bekman's 20x200, New York, NY
2008 PS 122 Spring Benefit, Angel Orensanz Center, New York, NY
2007 Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, New York
2006 Greato Tomato, 193c Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2003 Kiss Me Quick Before I Change My Mind, The House/Miami Basel, Miami, Florida

PUBLIC ART

2014 Backcross The Empire, Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY
2009 Sea Warriors: A Public Art Project, South Street Seaport, New York

PRESS/INTERVIEWS/MENTIONS

2020 The Conversation Art Podcast with Michael Shaw (interview)
2020 Artnet News: A New Gallery Show Scrutinizes the Legacies of Anti-Feminist Women, From Ayn Rand to Kellyanne Conway
2020 Blake Gopnik on Art: At Theodore Art, Michelle Vaughan’s Pastels Put Conservative Culture Behind Us
2020 Two Coats of Paint: Michelle Vaughan Presents Forty Conservative Women
2019 Full Blede: The Continuant (artwork from “Generations” featured) January, 2019
2018 Vanity Fair: Baño de Arte en Asturias y Galicia, Ianko López, July 16, 2018
2017 La Voz de Galicia: De los genes de Carlos I a los de Felipe VI, Susana Luaña, June 26, 2017
2018 Vanity Fair: Baño de Arte en Asturias y Galicia, Ianko López, July 16, 2018
2016 Kill Screen: Degraded Portraits of Royals…, Amber Knox, April 5, 2016 
2016 New Criterion: Gallery Chronicle, James Panero, April 1, 2016
2016 Artbean: New York Artist Turns the Habsburgs…, Lisa Lo Paro, March 30, 2016 
2016 Hyperallergic: The Catastrophic Inbreeding..., Allison Meyer, March 25, 2016 
2016 Two Coats of Paint: A Quick Study, Sharon Butler, March 25, 2016
2016 Artnet news: Michelle Vaughan marries a King…, Blake Gopnik, March, 16, 2016
2016 Gallery Travels: Michelle Vaughan at Theodore:Art, Anne Russinof, March 13, 2016 
2015 The Toast: It Is One Thing To Date Your Father But…, January 15, 2015
2014 Roger Smith Hotel (interview): Introduction Series, November 15, 2014
2013 Bloomberg TV (interview): The Gift That Keeps Giving, December 11, 2013
2013 The Guardian: Rupert Murdoch Cards turn Twitter gems into festive greetings, Dec. 10, 2013
2013 Mediate: You Can Now Send Loved Ones..., December 9, 2013
2012 Hyperallergic: Twitter Portraits of Rupert Murdoch, March 13, 2012
2012 Hyperallergic: Weekly Art Rx, January 6, 2012
2012 WNYC: Gallerina, January 4, 2012
2012 ArtCat: PICKS, week of January 2nd, 2012
2011 Reuters (interview): Twitter through the Eye of an Artist, August 22, 2011
2011 Hyperallergic Labs, June 23, 2011
2011 Grant Gibson Blog: Elle Décor New York Concept House, June 13, 2011
2011 Domestikated Life: Salty Prints, May 24, 2011
2011 Hyperallergic: Are Movies the Art of our Time? The Verdict, April 20, 2011
2010 Huffington Post: Eat, Drink & Buy Affordable Art: May 12, 2010
2009 AOL: Arrg! Pirates seize a Wall near you!, September 24, 2009
2009 NY Post: Booty Call, September 19, 2009

TALKS

2021 Hulu’s Green Juice: in conversation with Sherri Solinger and Scott Donaton, March 30, 2021
2018 Gallery Talk with Dr. Miriam Basilio, Galeria Trinta, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 29, 2018
2016 Gallery Talk with Dr. Miriam Basilio, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY, March 26, 2016
2016 Genes & History with Dr. Francisco Ceballos, New York, NY, March 16, 2016
2014 Blair Brooks/Michelle Vaughan discuss Backcross The Empire, Roger Smith Hotel, Oct. 14, 2014
2014 Reproducing Spanish Royalty, PechaKucha 20x20, June 5, 2014

AWARDS

2009 New York Foundation of the Arts, Fiscal Sponsorship Program