Michele Bonds is a sculptural paper artist whose work investigates accumulation, memory, and the emotional residue held inside material. Working in layered relief, she builds surfaces that function as both structure and record, balancing control and disruption to reveal how pressure shapes form over time. Before her studio practice, Bonds spent 13 years as Chief of Staff to H. Rodgin Cohen, Senior Chair of Sullivan & Cromwell. That experience now informs the discipline, systems thinking, and irreversibility embedded in her making process. Her practice bridges intuitive making and rigorous structural logic, resulting in work that feels at once visceral and architected.

Bonds has exhibited in New York and beyond, and has spoken at Harvard Divinity School’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality, where her work entered conversations at the intersection of material practice, psychology, and lived experience.