Michelle Schapiro (b. 1984, Portland, ME) is a photographic artist whose work focuses primarily on the LGBTQ+ experience, community, and intersecting identities. A central concern of her photographic process is the framing of narratives about the beauty and necessity of queer life and community. Family, both given and chosen, are strong themes, as well as the importance of queer and trans visibility—both artist and subjects are able to see and be seen. This is the most basic goal of queer liberation—to lift up LGBTQ voices and acknowledge that we exist in individual, collective, and vital ways.
Michelle’s photographs have been exhibited in solo shows at Boston City Hall, Charlotte and William Bloomberg Medford Public Library (Medford, MA), and as featured visual artist for New Gallery Concert Series, and in group shows in New York, California, and Massachusetts, as well as online.
She lives and makes work in Boston, Massachusetts.