Micah McCoy is a photographer and poet based in Northwest Arkansas. He received his MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago (2022) and has been featured in exhibitions at Belong Gallery Chicago, IL, Millepiani Exhibition Space Rome, Italy, Southeast Center for Photography Greenville, SC and others.  Micah’s work explores issues of religiosity, anxiety, and social detachment. 

photographer@micahmccoy.com

Education

2022 MFA Photography; Columbia College Chicago.

2017 BA Sociology; University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana


Solo Exhibitions

2022 Minor Prophet. C33 Gallery. Chicago, IL.

2021 Like Job, I’m Waiting. Belong Gallery. Chicago, IL.



Group Exhibitions

2024 Co-Curator. Distant Dialogues. Float Magazine.

2024 Empty Shapes. The Plan Gallery. Chicago, IL.

2023 Homecoming Biennial. City Art Space. Rochester, NY.

2022 Co-Relations on Diptychs. Loosenart. 
Millepiani Exhibition Space. Rome, Italy.

2022 Long Live Langston. Manifest. Columbia College Chicago Student Center. Chicago, IL.

2022 Immaterial Gallery Showcase at Boneyard Arts Festival. Prairie Glass House. Champaign, IL. 

2022 Black, White, and Monochrome. Southeast Center for Photography. Greenville, SC.

2021 The Poetry of the Ordinary. PhotoPlace Gallery. Middlebury, VT.

2020 Love in All Forms. Analog Forever Magazine. Online.

2020 Lost In Isolation. Void Collective. Online.

2020 Poetic Art. Her Creative Collective Gallery. Mahomet, IL.

2020 The Road; JKC Gallery. Trenton, NJ. Honorable Mention Slideshow.

2020 CAA Conference Exhibition. Columbia College Chicago Student Center. Chicago, IL.

2019 Urbanizing the Undiscovered Country; Analog Gallery. Urbana, IL.

2017 Shiver Art Show; Independent Media Center Urbana, IL.

2017 All Things Considered, Leica and Film; Urbana Museum of Photography Urbana, IL.

2017 Resist Art Show. Independent Media Center. Urbana, IL.



Publications

2020 Confluence Magazine Issue 5 Curation | Theme: Place as Subject

2019 The Collective Magazine Issue 005

2019 Float Magazine Portfolio Feature

2019 Smile Politely

2019 ATX in 3; Elective Reportage Press.

2018 Window Washer; LFI Master Shots (Online).

2018 Shiver Mag Issues 1 & 2.

2014 Memphis in March; Freedom Flashing Press.



Lectures

2023 Artist Talk. Stop Down Club. Fayetteville, AR

2022 Artist Talk. History of Photography. Columbia College Chicago.

2020 Guest Lecturer. Sociology 100, University of Illinois.

2020-Artist Talk; Lost and Found Gallery

Interviews

2023 DEPS ARTIST PROFILE SERIES

2022 enigmazine. 


Other

2020-2022 Henry Nias Business in the Arts Fellow; Museum of Contemporary Photography.

2019-Artist In Residence; Lost and Found-Chicago, IL.

2017-Present Editor at Large; Shiver Mag.

2016-Present Member; Elective Reportage.