Michelle Forsyth is a Canadian artist living and working in Pullman, WA. Her work examines traumatic cultural events and incidents of human suffering depicted in the media. She works in watercolor, gouache, screenprint and cut-paper to create intimate paintings and elaborate installations.

Forsyth holds an MFA from Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ) and a BFA from the University of Victoria (Victoria, BC). She has exhibited widely at venues including: The Hogar Collection (Brooklyn, NY); Zaum Projects (Lisbon, Portugal); The Hunterdon Museum of Art (Clinton, NJ); The Charleston Heights Arts Center (Las Vegas, NV); Deluge Contemporary Art (Victoria, BC); Mercer Union (Toronto, ON); Third Avenue Gallery (Vancouver, BC); Truck Contemporary Art (Calgary, AB); The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (Spokane, WA); and The Kirkland Art Center (Seattle, WA). She has been the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Artist Trust, and was recently awarded second prize in the William and Dorothy Yeck young painters competition (Oxford, OH). Forsyth’s work is featured in books including: The Anthology of Art: in Theory and Dialogue, edited by Jochen Gerz, and Carte Blanche, Vol. 2 - Painting. She has taught courses at Pratt Institute (New York, NY), Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, NY) and is currently head of painting at Washington State University (Pullman, WA).