Bio

Melissa Dickenson

B.1980 Cuba New Mexico

Lives and works in San Francisco, CA

     Melissa Dickenson received her BFA form Maryland Institute College of Art and is currently a 2012 MFA canidate at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. Dickenson has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally.

 Past exhibitions include, ‘Exploration’ at Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo Japan, “Hammarby!” curated by Jens Hoffman, at the Wattis institute for Contemporary Art, in San Francisco, and ‘Hybrids of Tutela‘  at the McClean Project for the Arts, in Virgina.

Dickenson’s work is part of the permanent collection of the Embassy of Sudan, Khartoum. Melissa was also a recipient of Maryland State Artist Awards in both 2006 and 2008, as well as a finalist for the Walter and Janet Sondheim Prize for 2008.

 Most recently, Dickenson was invited to be an artist in residence at  Moscickcie Centrum Kultury, in Tarnow Poland. Her work their was featrured in the exhibition  Tarnów: 1000 years of Modernity, in Moscice, Poland in 2011.