Mychaelyn Michalec is a textile artist who studied Painting and Drawing and Art History at The Ohio State University. She received her Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Southern Mississippi. She has mounted recent solo exhibitions at K Contemporary Denver, CO, The Weston Gallery in Cincinnati OH, The Contemporary Dayton, OH; and Roy G. Biv in Columbus, OH. Michalec has been included in group exhibitions at The Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, OH, The Bunker Art Space in West Palm Beach, FL ; Marquee Projects in Bellport, New York; The Longwood Museum of Art in Longwood VA; and Untitled Space Gallery in New York, NY, among others. Her work is held in the Collections of Beth Rudin DeWoody / The Bunker, The Collection of Sarah and Michelle Vance Waddell, Cincinnati, OH, Carla Shen, Brooklyn, NY and other private collections.
She was awarded residencies at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska and The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts in New York and The Vermont Studio Center among others. Michalec was recently selected as a Ohio Woman to watch by the Ohio Advisory Group for the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. And is a recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award winner in Craft