Michela Griffo (b. 1949, Rochester, NY) exhibited widely in the 1970s and 1980s, and has been included in several important queer art shows, such as the seminal traveling group exhibition Art After Stonewall: 1969-1989 (Leslie-Lohman Museum, Columbus Museum, Frost Museum; 2019-2020) and Queer Forms (Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 2019). Historical exhibitions include those at The Alternative Museum, New York, NY; Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York, NY; The “HomoMuseum Show” at Exit Art, New York, NY; Josef Gallery, New York, NY; Alexander Milliken, New York, NY; Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI; and, Aldrich Museum for Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Stellarhighway, Brooklyn, NY; SPOKE Gallery, Boston, MA; Pen + Brush Gallery, New York, NY; and group shows at Amant Foundation, Brooklyn, NY; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY; Plaxell Gallery, Long Island City, NY; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, CT; Artist SpaceNH, New Haven, CT, “The Studio Visit”, Exit Art, New York, NY;. Griffo has been interviewed by Steve Dansky (The LGBT Pioneers Oral History Project), Mason Funk (Outwords Archive), Mike Balaban (stories from the LGBTQ Community), Andrew Rimby (Ivory Tower Boiler Room), August Bernadicou (LGBTQ History Project) and Mark Lynch (NPR/Boston Public Radio), as well as the Arthur Dong Documentary for PBS and WGBH Boston “A Question of Equality: Outrage ‘69” (1995); and has been featured in ArtNews, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe. Collections include Treadwell Corporation, Chemical Bank, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum. The artist is currently based in New York, NY and Black Rock, CT.