WORK & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2013 Head Designer, Tiguere Corp. San Juan, Puerto Rico 2011- to present Founder Espacio Comn & Empanadillas Geomtricas Nonprofit, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2011 Dirrector of Design Ceneter, Schooll of Fine Arts, San Juan, Puerto Rico Freelance Designer, Wireless Idea, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2010 Design Research, Fundraising, Pitirre Projects, San Juan, Puerto Rico Design Research for Carolina Caycedo, La Stargate, Intermedia Matadero, Madrid, Spain Art Recidensy at The Conickt Kitchen, Pittsburgh, PA, US 2009 Corporate Image Designer, Garaje Miranda Body Shop, Bayamn, Puerto Rico Asistant, Galeria Luisa Strina, Performance by Laura Lima, Art Basel Miami, USA Design Research, Hermes de Paris, Stockholm, Sweden 2008 Practical Politics -Art and Welfare, workshop with curator Stella dAilly and designer Jenny Bergstrm, Stockholm, Sweden Play Work Shop with Daniel Eatock, Stockholm, Sweden Design Research, Brio, Stockholm, Sweden

M I C H E L L E G R A T A C S-ARILL CV
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1984 Lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

E DUCATI O N
2012-2013 Postgraduate, La Prctica, Beta Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2009 MFA, Experience Design, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden. 2005 BFA, Image & Design, Schooll of Fine Arts, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

TEACHI NG E X PE R IE NCE
2011to present Course: Basic Design, Publication Design, John Dewey Collage, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2005 Course: Experimental Drawing, Taller Fotoperiodismo 2004 Course: Installation, Drawing and Painting, El coco de oro 2003 Course: Drawing, Rosalina Martnez, Public School
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WORK & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2013 Head Designer, Tiguere Corp. San Juan, Puerto Rico 2011- to present Founder Espacio Comn & Empanadillas Geomtricas Nonprofit, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2011 Dirrector of Design Ceneter, Schooll of Fine Arts, San Juan, Puerto Rico Freelance Designer, Wireless Idea, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2010 Design Research, Fundraising, Pitirre Projects, San Juan, Puerto Rico Design Research for Carolina Caycedo, La Stargate, Intermedia Matadero, Madrid, Spain Art Recidensy at The Conickt Kitchen, Pittsburgh, PA, US 2009 Corporate Image Designer, Garaje Miranda Body Shop, Bayamn, Puerto Rico Asistant, Galeria Luisa Strina, Performance by Laura Lima, Art Basel Miami, USA Design Research, Hermes de Paris, Stockholm, Sweden 2008 Practical Politics -Art and Welfare, workshop with curator Stella dAilly and designer Jenny Bergstrm, Stockholm, Sweden Play Work Shop with Daniel Eatock, Stockholm, Sweden Design Research, Brio, Stockholm, Sweden

M I C H E L L E G R A T A C S-ARILL CV
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1984 Lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

E DUCATI O N
2012-2013 Postgraduate, La Prctica, Beta Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2009 MFA, Experience Design, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden. 2005 BFA, Image & Design, Schooll of Fine Arts, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

TEACHI NG E X PE R IE NCE
2011to present Course: Basic Design, Publication Design, John Dewey Collage, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2005 Course: Experimental Drawing, Taller Fotoperiodismo 2004 Course: Installation, Drawing and Painting, El coco de oro 2003 Course: Drawing, Rosalina Martnez, Public School
787 667 1842 Telephone

200 Ave. jesus t piero Apt. 22-E San juan, P. R. 00918 Address www.michellegratacosarill.com

2007 Staff, Contemporary Magazine, CIRCA, Puerto Rico 2006 VIP Personal Assistant, CIRCA, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2005 Artist Assistant, Public Art Project, Ada Bubonis, Puerto Rico 2004 Artist Assistant, Public Art Project 2112 by Jos Jorge Romn, Puerto Rico

2010 Construcciones, instalaciones y ensamblajes, rea, Caguas, Puerto Rico Fools Gold, Unsmoke Art Space, Pittsburgh, US Serie Regional Jugadores Pampers, Insti tute of Culture Museum, San Jaun, Puerto Rico 2009 Puertorriqueos en el extanjero, Galeria 356 San Juan, Puerto Rico Konstfack Spring Exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden 1 Potato/Tomato/ The Cover Project, Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, US 2008 Cyber Community for Cultural Coexistence, Hglagret, Stockholm, Sweden Physical Computing, Kosntfack, Stockholm, Sweden 2007 Angora, CIRCA, Caguas, Puerto Rico ReMapping The CARIBBEAN, Museo de Las Casas Reales, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 3 People Show, AREA, Caguas, Puerto Rico Not So Fresh, AREA, Caguas, Puerto Rico 2006 Museo las Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico Almost Nothing, Tag Rom, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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SELECCTED EXHIBITIONS
2013 El Rastro: Empanadillas Geomtricas, La Verbena Calle Cerra, San Juan, Puerto Rico Imago Mundi, 55th International Venice Biennale, Italy Design in Puerto Rico, Wanted Design Fair New York, US FAD I-II-III (Fair of Art and Design), Galera Nacional, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2012 7 Propuestas-una infinidad de objetos, Galera Espacio 304, San Juan, Puerto Rico Dolphine Bay, Ultravioleta, San Juan, Puerto Rico El Panal, Trienal Poligrfica de San Juan America Latina y el Caribe, Puerto Rico 2011 Certamn de Fotografa UBS, Galera Sagrado Corazn, San Juan, Puerto Rico Colecctivo Pocket, CaRT Watch, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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BI B LI OGR APH Y
2013 Art Cities of the Future: 21st-Century Avant-Gardes Young Artists, Phaidom Press, Book El Falnsterio; Interview by Pablo Len de la Barra, Aquine, Design and Architecture Magazine, Mexico Color al Flansterio, El nuevo Da, Newspapper 2010 FRESCOS: 50 Puerto Rican Contemporary Young Artists, MUA, Book Caras, Fashion Magazine 2007 Wet #3, Charo Oquet, Book 2006 Oricos, Art Magazine 2005 Arte Facto, Escuela de Artes Plsticas, Newspaper

L I NK S
http://analizapiensacrea.tumblr.com/ http://interdisciplinary.studies.se/ www.tii.se www.practicalpoliticsartandwelfare. blogspot.com http://lopublico.betalocal.org/MichelleGratacos/solo http://www.elpuntoes.com/disenandoun-espacio-comun http://blog.matte-mag.com/2013/10/ fad-iii-2013-pt2.html http://www.elnuevodia.com/coloralfalan sterio-1611085.html www.espacio-comun.com www.espaciocomun.tumblr.com www.michellegratacosarill.com

GR A NTS
2012 La Prctica, Beta Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2009 Konstfack Student Grant, Stockholm, Sweden 2006 1st prize Video exhibition EAP, Puerto Rico 2005 ARCO TRIP, Studies Travel Grant, Spain 2002 Lisa Thons grant, fashion trip, New York, EU
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