BIOGRAPHY

Michelle Hinebrook received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art & Design from the College for Creative Studies.

Her work has been featured in 18 solo exhibitions and over 50 group exhibitions internationally and is included in several public and corporate collections. Notable exhibitions include 101 Exhibit Gallery (FL), Hallway Gallery (WA), David Klein Gallery (MI), Foley Gallery (NYC), Helene Nyborg Contemporary (Denmark), FORMah Gallery (NYC), McKenzie Fine Art (NYC), Islip Art Museum (NY), Pratt Manhattan Gallery (NYC), Cranbrook Art Museum (MI), Museum of New Art (MI),  Marlborough Gallery (NYC) and others.

Hinebrook is currently a resident artist at XO Projects in Brooklyn. In addition to her studio practice, she has contributed to the art world as a curator, visiting artist, critic, and professor at institutions internationally. Her teaching and professional engagements include the College Art Association, Parsons School of Design, Western Carolina University, College for Creative Studies, Pratt Institute, University of Michigan, BGS University, Urban Glass, Snowfarm, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Artist Space, The Center for New England Crafts, Studio in a School, PS20, Marquis Studios, Young Audiences New York,  Berkley Carroll School and others.

Michelle Hinebrook creates luminous abstractions that channel spiritual and emotional experiences beyond the physical plane. Her visionary paintings often depict feminine archetypes—goddesses, deities, and elemental forces—emerging within surreal, fluid environments where boundaries dissolve and forms vibrate with light.

Her process blends oil, watercolor, and pastel, often infused with herbs and flower essences to embed each work with magical, energetic resonance. She places the canvas on the floor and begins by letting the paint move freely across it—pouring, guiding, and observing as color flows into translucent veils. Her process begins with ritual, opening to divine connection and intuitive collaboration with creative guides and art ancestors. Without a fixed image, she allows figures and forms to emerge organically from puddles, drips, stains, and negative spaces. This intuitive approach is a form of visual scrying: she watches the painting unfold before her as flowing colors begin to dry into luminous forms and contours, subconscious imagery—symbols, flowers, and figures—gradually appearing, as the channeled intention of what the painting should become is revealed. Her work attempts to capture these visions, fleeting like fragments of memory or a face recalled from a dream.

Rooted in mysticism, nature-based beliefs, and esoteric traditions, Hinebrook’s art functions as both spiritual practice and transformative tool. Circular forms and flowing lines serve as portals into visionary realms, mapping the resonance between body, nature, and spirit.