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Michelle Farro is a painter and printmaker based in New Jersey. She received her BFA from Laguna College of Art & Design and also studied at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy. Her work functions as a visual diary, shaped by an interest in everyday moments, old photographs, and the natural world.

Recent projects include paintings for HBO, Chairish, Bergdorf Goodman, and Anthropologie, and her work is held in private collections worldwide. Michelle Farro received a 2026 Finalist award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My paintings begin with looking and remembering. I’m drawn to small, everyday moments: light shifting across a landscape, a passing figure, familiar places and objects. I work intuitively between oil, gouache, and printmaking, allowing the medium to shift with each idea.

In this collection, the smaller works on paper come from a series where I painted the moon each day as a year-long practice. Each painting marks a moment in the lunar cycle, a gesture of noticing. The larger paintings on canvas carry that same motif into my broader body of work, where the moon becomes part of a wider visual language. Together, the works reflect an interest in time, repetition, and the experience of looking closely at our surroundings.