monique michelle verdin
2011:
My Louisiana Love – a documentary film • writer/producer/videographer/subject
An hour long personal narrative, exposing a young Native American woman’s return to her family in Southeast Louisiana to find an environmental crisis threatening their way of life.
My Louisiana Love is currently in post-production. www.mylouisianalove.com
Disappearing Landscapes: The American Delta in Distress Verdin’s photographs of her Native American family and cartographic illustrations produced by Anthony Fontenot and Jakob Rosenzweig investigate the complex relationships between the geological, infrastructural, and ecological layers in the Mississippi River Delta. • Mesa College, San Diego, California
2010:
US Pavilion, 12th International Architecture Exhibition
A large collection of Verdin’s photographs from the Louisiana wetlands were used in a research project titled “Mississippi Delta: Constructing with Water”. The work was published in the U.S. Pavilion catalog, titled Workbook, Princeton Architectural Press.
La Biennale Di Venezia, Italy • collaborative project/exhibition
“Pointe aux Chenes LA-Post BP,“
Lake: A Journal of Art & Environment, Dept. of Creative Studies,
University of British Columbia Okanagan, October 2010 • photo essay
2009:
Parish Pictures: A Decade of Reflection
Big Top 3 Ring Circus, New Orleans, Louisiana • solo exhibition
“Heavy Metal,” Mollie Day, Gambit Weekly, June 30, 2008 • photographer
2008:
The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous
Ken Wells, Yale University Press, 2008 • contributing photographer
“Where’s the Catch?,” Mollie Day, Gambit Weekly, June 30, 2008 • photographer
“Uncharted Waters,” Mollie Day, Gambit Weekly, January 29, 2008 • photographer
2007:
Louisiana Left Behind
Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, Georgia • solo exhibition
2005:
Sauvage Mélange
Social Public Art & Research Center, Los Angeles, California • solo exhibition
Mesa College, San Diego, California • solo exhibition
“Our New Orleans”
NoneSuch Records, a Habitat for Humanity benefit album, December 2005.
contributing photographer
Southeast Louisiana Guide for Academic Field Studies
Commissioned to guide researchers through Orleans and St. Bernard parishes.
2008-10: The New School, Teachers College Columbia University
2009: Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, Germany
2006: City College of New York, University of Michigan
Princeton University & University of California
Artist Residency
2007 : A Studio in the Woods
Tulane University’s Center for Bioenvironmental Research
Post-Katrina, Restoration Residency
Experience
2009-2011 : Shawn M. Donnelley Center for Non-Profit Communications
Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Education
Bachelors of Arts, Mass Communication, Loyola University New Orleans