Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Education
2000
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1999
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, MFA Painting and Printmaking
1996
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, BFA Printmaking
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Project Room: Two Pair, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Windows and Bars, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2022
West Coast Paintings, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL
2020
NYNY2020, Derek Eller, New York, NY
2019
Fountain, Melissa Brown and Jamie Bull, curated by Katie Geha at the Lamar Dodd Galleries, University of Georgia
2018
Between States, Derek Eller, New York, NY
Going AWOL, Patrick Brennan and Melissa Brown, Biggins Gallery at Auburn University, Auburn, AL
2017
The Journal, Tennis Elbow, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Money Shots, Roberto Paradise, San Juan, PR
Past Present Future, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
Future Past, Big Medium for Print Austin, Austin, TX
2015
Eye in The Sky Hold 'Em, NADA Special Project, Basketball City, New York, NY
Four Play, Essex Flowers, New York, NY
2013
Gertrude’s Nose, Fred Giampietro, New Haven, CT
2012
Kings Park, Roberto Paradise, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Palisades, Kansas Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Paper Fortune, Canada, New York, NY
Select Group Exhibitions
2023
Mirror Milk, Satchel Projects, New York, NY
Adventure in My Dream, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL
The Ways of Magic, Troost Gardens, Kansas City, MO
2022
Metafiguration, Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN
Nothing is to be Done for William T. Wiley, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lichtung, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2021
The Interior, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
Friends and Family, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
This is Water, Workplace, London, England
our constellations: astral embraces and tactual consciousness, Curated by Terri C. Smith, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
Balloons Dropping from a Ceiling Fan, curated by Morgan Blair
Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA
Potent, curated by Nicasio Fernandez
Harpers, East Hampton, NY
2020
All of them Witches, curated by Dan Nadel and Laurie Simmons, Deitch Projects, Los Angeles
E-Motionø Support Group, curated by Lauren Powell, Art of this World, IGTV
2019
Garden, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, New York
Layer Mask, curated by Lydia McCarthy, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Still Life, curated by Jonathan Champlain, Artual Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
The Pictionary Individual, Real Pain Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Bed Show, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Flesh and Fantasy, Marvin Gardens, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Face Off, curated by Caroline Larson, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Hedonist, curated by Irena Jurek, Asya Geidberg Gallery, New York, NY
Spring Break Art Show, Black Room, curated by Emily Davidson and Samantha Strand
Show Your Hand, Small Editions, Brooklyn, New York
2017
Genesis Belanger, Melissa Brown, Roy DeForest, Mimi Gross, Curated by Dan Nadel
Derek Eller, New York, NY
pls reply: a conversation between sculpture and movement, curated by Emily Sussman and Jane Korn, New York, NY
Drawing Island, the Journal, Brooklyn, New York
2016
Goulding The Lolly, curated by Brian Belott, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
Booby Trap, The Hole, New York, NY
Summer Flats, Shrine, New York, NY
So Much, So Little, All at Once Regina Rex, New York, NY
Liquid Pictures: Lea Beeferman, Melissa Brown, Erica Magrey, Adam Shecter, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
2015
Providence, Fracas psychédélique en Nouvelle-Angleterre, Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète, France
Anderson's Hidden Game, Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
Mons Dew, Mass Gallery, Austin, TX
2014
Its a Force not a Curvature curated by Ryan Schneider, Novella Gallery, New York, NY
Heart's Gymnastics curated by Yevgenia Baras, Outpost Artist Resources, Brooklyn, NY
Freak Furniture Fan Club, Bright Lyons, Brooklyn NY
2013
Draw Gym curated by Brian Belott, 247365, Brooklyn, NY
Morphology of the Print, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Home Screen, Petrella’s Imports at Suzanne Geiss Co. New York, NY
Bathers, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Strange Natures, Institute Library, New Haven, CT
Land Ho! Curated by Ridley Howard and Holly Coulis, VCU Art Gallery, Richmond, VA
Value Added: Artist’s Perspectives on the Meaning of Worth, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
Terra Incognita, A.D. Gallery at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke
2012
Pig Party curated by Gina Beavers, New York City Gallery, New York, NY
B-Out curated by Scott Hug, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
Centaurs and Satyrs, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
Ctrl+P curated by Kristina Bilonick and Julie Chae, Arlington Arts Center, VA
Chromochosm, Fred Giampetto, New Haven, CT
2009
Melissa Brown and Mat Brinkman curated by Picturebox Inc., M + B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Wild Feature curated by Brian Belott, Zurcher Studio, New York, NY
2008
LOTTO 6/49, The Other Gallery, The Banff Center, Banff, Canada
Badlands curated by Denise Markonish, Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA
Awards / Residencies
2019
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Residency, New Orleans, LA
2018
The Fountainhead, Miami, Florida
2012
Awarded Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painting
Selected Bibliography
2022
Searle Jones, Anna. The Enchanted Afterlives of Thrift Store Finds. Hyperallergic Magazine. July 2022.
2020
NYNY2020, Arts Magazine, December 2020 Author: Rob Colvin
2019
Garden, Sargent’s Daughters, Time Out New York, October 24, 2019 Author: Howard Halle
2018
Melissa Brown, Between States, Reviews, Art in America, September 1, 2018 Author: Eric Sutphin
Melissa Brown, Between States, Art Observed, June 30, 2018 Author: Valentina Di Liscia
Best Free Art Exhibitions in New York, Time Out, June 23, 2018 Author: Howard Halle
“What to See in New York Art Galleries this Week”June 27, 2018
The New York Times Author: Martha Schwedender
“Five Shows in New York” June 4, 2018
Art in America Author: Dan Nadel
“Melissa Brown, Rules of the Game” by Sarah Hanely, Art in Print
“These artists travel the world to Paint en Plein Air” by Tess Thackara, Artsy.net
2016
“Going Behind Time: Melissa Brown at Magenta Plains” Review SFAQ/NYAQ/AQ International Arts and Culture July 20, 2016 by Nicole Kaack
“Goulding the Lolly at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise” Art in America, July 2016 by Julia Wolkoff
“Animations that Show Their Material Roots” Hyperallergic.com February 16, 2016 Rob Colvin
“Melissa Brown at Big Medium” Glasstire.com February 10, 2016 Author: Brandon Zech
“Melissa Brown: Future Past” at Big Medium the Austin Chronical February 5, 2016 Author: Seth Orion Schwaiger
2015
“Whitehot New Painting: Melissa Brown” WhiteHot Magazine.com Glasstire.com November 2015 by Irena Jurek
“Mons Dew at MASS Gallery, Austin” Glasstire.com October 16 2015 by Brandon Zech
“NADA Art Fair Opens Audience Access, Not Floodgates, Through Digital” May 14, 2015 Forbes by Katheryn Thayer
“The Stakes are High at Nada” May 15, 2015 The Art Newspaper
“Nada New York Announces Special Projects and Programming, From a Canine Performance to a Poker Tournament” May 1, 2015 Art News by Andrew Russeth
“Nada New York Opens with Gambling, Canine Artists, and at Least One Slurpee” May 15, 2015 Art News by John Chiaverina and Hannah Ghorashi
“Emerging Artists Hang with Top Collectors at Nada’s Best Edition Yet” May 15, 2015 Artsy Editorial by Molly Gottschalk
2012
“Palisades”, Art In America, Author: David Greenberg, May 2012 pg 172-73
“Reviews” Modern Painters, Melissa Brown, May 2012 pg 75
“Palisades”, Critical Mob.com, March 2012 Author: Ryan Steadman
“Getting Down with Melissa Brown”, Artnet.com, March 2012, Author: Charlie Finch
“Interview with Melissa Brown”, Beautiful Decay.com, March 2012, Author: Bill Donovan
2009
“Melissa Brown, Paper Fortune” Time Out New York, June 25-July 1 2009 Author: Michael Wilson
Public Collections
The Whitney Museum of American Art
New York City Department of Education
Fidelity Corporate Collection
Melissa Brown is a tenured Associate Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York