About The Artist

Michelle Bond 1268 45th avenue San Francisco California EMAIL: thumbellinag@comcast.net MOBILE: 415-350-8829 ARTIST RESUME/ CV Michelle Bond was born and raised till the age of 17 in Manila Philippines. She immigrated to San Francisco in 1980. Growing up in a musically inclined family, her art work began at the early age of 7 in the 1970’s. Her early influences were works of Picasso, Kandinsky, Miro, and Dali. Her early musical and artistic background is defined in the lyrical, playful and colorful works, depicted both in her paintings and printmaking. She writes poetry, plays music, and sketches during her free time. She began painting at the age of 7 and continued all the way thru college where she finished and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree from San Francisco State University with an emphasis on Printmaking and Painting in 1996. She has 2 juried exhibitions during her college years. After graduation, she started a landscape construction and gardening business which took 20 years for her to establish. She also began in 2000 a Certificate Degree in Landscape Architecture from UC Berkeley which she earned in 2010. She has designed over 5000 gardens ranging from 400 square ft roof top gardens to 3 acres in Montara, California including a 1acre garden in Sweden. Her gardens have been featured in books, blogs, websites and magazines. Her garden business name is Thumbellina Gardens Inc. Recently in the past 6 years, with a desire to paint, she joined an artist group, OBA, Ocean Beach Artists in the Outer Sunset in 2013. She started slowly and went back to painting, producing a new series of watercolor paintings inspired by her landscape contracting work from 2000-2010 EXHIBITIONS: FDR BREWERY, San Francisco California; Juried Exhibition, February - May 8,2017 WAKE, SLEEP. REPEAT, Repetition in the Everyday ADOBE ART GALLERY, Castro Valley CA May-July 2017 IMPRESSIONS from the West Side, Group Exhibition, STREAMLINE SALON, June 2017 NEW WORKS, Juried Exhibition, SAN FRANCISCO WOMENS GALLERY, SF CA, Sept 2017 3rd Abstractions Online Exhibit, FUSIONARTPS.com November 2017 PATTERNS, Online Juried Exhibition, December 2017 IMPULSES, A Solo Exhibition, DANIELLE, UNION STREET, San Francisco CA January-March 2018 PURELY ABSTRACT, Juried Exhibition, CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Healdsburg CA March 2018 WORLD OF ABSTRACTIONS Juried Exhibition SFWA GALLERY, California CA April 2018 PONT OF VIEW, Juried Exhibition, SFWA GALLERY, CA May 2018 INTRIGUE, Juried Exhibition “JUROR’S CHOICE’, Juried Exhibition SFWA GALLERY, SF CA June2018 WHAT BRINGS US JOY, Juried Exhibition, SFWA GALLERY, SF CA July 2018 WORLD OF ABSTRACTION, Juried Exhibition, SFWA GALLERY, SF CA January 2019 WHAT I LIKE, Juried Exhibition, SFWA GALLERY, SF CA February 2019 CELEBRATING WOMEN, Juried Exhibition, SFWA Gallery, SF CA March 2019 TEXTURES AND PATTERNS, Juried Exhibition, JUROR’S CHOICE, SFWA Gallery SF CA April 2019 OPPOSITES, Juried Exhibition, SFWA Gallery SF CA May 2019 CELEBRATING BAY AREA CULTURE, SFWA Gallery, SF CA June 2019 WORKS ON PAPER, Curated Show by Irene Yesley, SFWA Gallery SF CA July 2019 LINES, SHAPES AND OBJECTS ,Juried Online Exhibition FUSIONARTPS.com July 2019 MEMORIES, Juried Exhibition, SFWA Gallery SF CA August 2019 SUMMER ART SALON ,Group Exhibition, Van der PLAS Gallery , New York ,NY August 2019 HOT COLOR , Juried Group Exhibition , SFWA Gallery SF CA , September 2019 LETTERS and LANGUAGES , Juried Group Exhibition SFWA Gallery , SF CA ,September 2019 PERTENECEMOS , WE BELONG , Curated Group Exhibition by Joseph Abbati, Senator Wieners Office , October-November 2019 ARTISTS CHOICE , Juried Exhibition, SFWA Gallery SF CA , October 2019 CURVES AND SHAPES, Juried Exhibition, SFWA Gallery , November 2019 INFINITY TOWERS ART EXHIBIT, INFINITY TOWERS , San Francisco, December 2019 SPIRIT OF SAN FRANCISCO , Juried Exhibition, SFWA Gallery, December 2019 They are expressions of her everyday landscape contracting life in San Francisco California. Today, she divides her time between designing and installing gardens and landscapes and continues her artwork in her design/art studio in the Outer Sunset of San Francisco.