Michelle Burdine

Michelle Burdine is a photographic artist whose work expands to mixed media installations. Her work examines how large-scale systems and social conventions—such as pronatalism, healthcare, taxation, and family—inscribe themselves on individual bodies and lives while shaping structures of care and belonging. Grounded in feminist theory and practice, her work considers how gendered expectations and biomedical logics mark certain bodies as problems to be managed rather than as humans with agency, desire, and complex inner lives.

Through strategies of collaboration, repetition, and abstraction, Burdine uses images, text, and organic materials to trouble the boundaries between public and private, care and control, purity and contamination. Her practice treats menstruation, grief, and everyday embodiment as sites of knowledge production, insisting that lived experience in a gendered body is both a critical lens on power and a generative force for imagining more just, inclusive structures of social life.

Michelle Burdine holds a Master of Fine Arts from The Ohio State University and a Master of Humanities from Wright State University. Burdine is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Centre College in Danville, KY leading the Photography & Digital Media concentration.