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Melissa Dickenson

Born: 1980 Cuba, New Mexico

Lives and works in San Francisco, CA

EDUCATION

2012 California College of the Art, San Francisco, CA, MFA

2002 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, BFA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2012

Point of No Return, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA curated by Hesse McGraw

Limbo  WAAS Gallery, Dallas, TX  curated by Aja Martin

Barclay Simpson Award Exhibition, Oliver Arts Center, Oakland, CA

Drawing Realness,  Will Brown Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

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

2011

Dissemination,  Alter Space, San Francisco, CA

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

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

Hammarby!, Curated by Kris Martin, The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA

2010

Sesum fo Llab, Curated by Paulina Olowska, The Potrero Hill House, 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

Fresh Start, Lendrum Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

Marquee Ball, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD

2009

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

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

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

Papercut, NANA Project, 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

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

AWARDS AND GRANTS

Jurors Prize, Limbo, WAAS Gallery, Dallas, TX 2012

Toby Lewis Award Finalist, San Francisco, CA 2012

Barclay Simpson Award, Sand Francisco, CA 2012

Travel Grant, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2011

Artist Grant Masia Can Serrat,  Barcelona, Spain, 2009

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

The Jail Cell Residency, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA 2013

Tarnow Nitrogen Festival Artist in Residence, Mocisce, Poland 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

Guest Lecturer, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, 2008

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

Guest Lecturer,, Maryland Art Place, Janus Exhibition, Baltimore, MD, 2006