Bio
Michael Webster is an artist who addresses the social organization of space through site-specific projects, sculpture, and installation. Materially attuned and context-driven, his work investigates the effects of power on social geography with a focus on long-term participatory projects rooted in the southern US. In addition, he has completed projects in Chicago, Illinois, Moorestown, New Jersey, and Talca, Chile, and has participated in residencies at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Elsewhere Living Museum, and Penland School of Craft. Exhibitions include 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Locust Projects, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville, and Western Carolina University. He received a BFA from East Carolina University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he participated in the GFRY interdisciplinary design studio. He is an assistant professor at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC.