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Melissa Dickenson

Born: 1980   Lives and works in San Francisco, CA

EDUCATION

2012 California College of the Art, MFA

2002 Maryland Institute College of Art, Bachelor of Fine Art, Cum Laude

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009

Hybrids of Tutela, Atrium Gallery, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean VA 

The Protectors, G-spot Audio Visual Playground, Baltimore, MD

2008

Impossible Forest, Salt, Baltimore, MD

Art to Dine for, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD

Fauna, Greenbelt Art Gallery, Greenbelt, MD

Imaginary Oceans, Shine Collective, Baltimore, MD

New Paintings, Blue Sky Factory, Baltimore, MD

2007

Exploration, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan

Flora +Fauna, Gallery Imperato, Baltimore, MD

2006

Menagerie, NASA Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD

Growth, Vespa, Baltimore, MD

2005

Don’t Think of Pink Bunnies, Metropolitan, Baltimore, MD

2004

Ladies and Plants, Red Star, Baltimore, MD

The Most Dangerous Game, Idle Hour, Baltimore, MD

2003

Space is Safe, Idle Hour, Baltimore, MD

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012

California College of the Arts MFA Thesis Show, CCA, San Francisco, CA

John Baldessari: Class Assignments curated by Jens Hoffmen, The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA

2011

Dissemination,  Alter Space, Curated by Joyce Grimm, San Francisco, CA

Tarnów: 1000 years of modernity, Moscickcie Centrum Kultury, Tarnow, Poland

Odds Are (13:1) Curated by Jens Hoffmann, The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA

The Magnificent Seven: Hammarby, Curated by Kris Martin, The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA

2010

Sesum fo Llab, Curated by Paulina Olowska Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA

7th Transformer Annual, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC

Baltimore Counts Exhibtion, Joseph Myerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD

ATHICA Emerges IV:Uncertainty, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA

Sondheim Prize Honoree Exhibition, Casewerks Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Cupcakes for Claudia, Columbia Association Art Center, Columbia, MD

Fresh Start, Lendrum Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

Marquee Ball, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD

2009

Hickok Cole, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

6th Transformer Annual, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC

Year’s End, Gallery Plan B, Washington, DC

No Soul for Sale, X-initiative, New York, NY

Landscape Biology, Hemphill Fine Art, Washington, DC

Trawick Prize and Bethesda Painting Award Honoree Exhibition, Myerhoff Gallery,

MICA, Baltimore, MD

Je’ ne Sais Quoi, Sub Basement Art Studios, Baltimore, MD

Washington Project for the Arts, Katzen Center, American University, Washington, DC

2008

The Flat Files Exhibition, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC

Seven Deadly Sins, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

Bestiarum Vocabulum, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College Baltimore, MD

Personal Vocabulary, James Backas Gallery, MD State Arts Council, Baltimore, MD

New Artists, Gallery Plan B, Washington D.C.

Sondheim Exhibition, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

Marquee Ball, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD

Out of Order, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

Papercut, NANA Project, Baltimore, MD

2007

Quintessential, Paperwork Gallery, Baltimore, MD

4th Annual Transformer Group Show, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC

Beaux Arts Fair, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD

National/International, Towson Arts Collective, Towson, MD

Art and Architecture, Alter Urban, Baltimore, MD

Illuminate, the Zenith, Baltimore MD

Remission, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006

Small Works, Rodger Lapelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

Fresh Produce, Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose, CA

Third Annual Transformer Show, Transformer Gallery, WashingtonDC

Beaux Arts Fair, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Baltimore, MD

C’est Le Vie, Load of Fun Studios, Baltimore, MD

Here and Now, The Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Illuminate, Baltimore Symphony Center, Baltimore, MD

Janus, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

Femme Effect: Part Deux, Gallery Imperato, Baltimore, MD

Lots: Art by the Foot, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2005

Fresh Produce, Anno Domini, San Jose, CA

Under Construction, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Battles, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Free Space, The Fast Spot, Baltimore, MD

Current Invitational, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2004

Wrong War, Right Protest, Schiavone Fine Art Gallery,Baltimore, MD

 Candy Coated Sinister, H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore, MD

 

PUBLICATIONS

Baltimore Counts, Twenty Five Cents, Wayne Arnold, Holland-Brown Publishing, 2010

The Baltimore Examiner, Ten Best Baltimore Artists of 2008, Cara Ober, Dec. 20, 2008

The Baltimore Examiner, Beastarium Vocabulum, Jessica Novak, October 3, 2008

The Baltimore Sun, Sondheim Finalists’ Work Reflect Changing World, Edward Gunts, June 29, 2008

The Baltimore Examiner, Artscape: the $25,000 Question, Jessica Novak, June 21, 2008

The Baltimore Sun, Natural Works of Art, Jennifer Choi, June 19, 2008

City Paper of Baltimore, Imaginary Oceans, Jen Marsh, March 5, 2008

CMYK Magazine Issue #39, Sterling Hundley, December 2007

Gallery Guide, TOKYO!, Tokyo, Japan, May 2007

Space Telescope Science Institute Annual, 2007

The Urbanite, May 2007

The Baltimore Sun, May 2007

The Baltimore Examiner, Abstract with a Touch of Whimsy, Emily Campbell, May 2007

The Urbanite Magazine, State of the Art, J.W. Mahoney, May 2006

City Paper of Baltimore, What’s in a Name, Bret McCabe, April 2006

City Paper of Baltimore, Great Effects, J. Bowers, April 2006

Baltimore Magazine, It List, Elizabeth Ecker, April 2006

City Paper of Baltimore, Critic’s Choice: Art, Mike Giulano, March 2006

CMYK Magazine Issue #27, Portfolio, Tim Bower, September 2004

 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

Bethesda Trawick Prize, Semi-Finalist, 2009

Bethesda Painting Award, Semi-Finalist, 2009

Artist Grant Masia Can Serrat,  Barcelona, Spain, 2009

Bethesda Arts and Entertainment District Trawick Prize, Semi-Finalist, 2008

Walter and Janet Sondheim Prize, Finalist, 2008

Artist Grant Vermont Studio Center, June 2008

Maryland State Arts Council, Individual Artist Award, Works on Paper, 2008

Maryland State Arts Council, Individual Artist Award, Visual Arts: Painting, 2006

 

RESIDENCIES

Tarnow Nitrogen Festival Residency 2011

Masia Can Serrat, Barcelona Spain, 2009

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2008

Youkobo Arts Space, Suginami-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 2007

Awagami Papermaking Factory, Tokushima, Japan, 2007

 

PROFESSIONAL

Embassy of Sudan,  Khartoum Sudan, commission for permanent collection 2010

Guest Lecturer, Piedmont College, Athens, GA 2009

Guest Lecturer, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD, 2009

Artist Talk, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, 2008

Guest Lecturer, Awa-Yamakawa Elders Group, Tokushima, Japan, 2007

Artist Talk, Maryland Art Place, Janus Exhibition, Baltimore, MD, 2006