Melissa Anderson
www.melissaandersonart.com
mandersonart@aol.com
EDUCATION
2001-2005 Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna
Beach, CA BFA
2005-2007 New York
Academy of Art, New York, NY MFA
EXHIBITIONS
2011 Sloan Gallery, Swipe again,
New York, NY
Forbes Gallery, I've
got a secret curated by Mr. Forbes & Peter Drake, New York, NY
793 Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2010 Allan
Nederpelt Gallery, Team Work, Brooklyn, NY
Vaudville
Park Gallery, Group Show, Brooklyn, NY
Fuse Gallery, Remnants,
New York, NY
Fuse Gallery, Draw, Museo de la Cuidad de Mexico,
Mexico City, Mexico
Work Gallery, Art Market, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Sotheby’s, Take home a nude art auction, New York, NY
Fuse Gallery, NYC touring drawing exhibition, Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Artspace Gallery, Invitational Think Small Exhibition, Richmond, VA
Washington
Sq East Gallery, Small Works, Honorable mention, New York, NY
2008 Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY
CMPS Gallery, Woman!, New York, NY
Gallery440,
Small Works Exhibition, Curated by David Humphrey, Brooklyn, NY
Philips de Pury & Company, Take
Home a Nude Art Auction, NewYork, NY
Altered Esthetics
Gallery, Bitter Fruits; women as object, Minneapolis, MN
2007 Artspace Gallery, Invitational Think Small Exhibition, Richmond, VA
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, International Women’s Exhibition, New York, NY
Tribeca Ball, NYAA, New York,
NY
NYAA Alumni Juried Exhibition at Merge360 Gallery, New York, NY
LCAD Alumni Juried Exhibition
at Fairhaven Mausoleum, Santa Ana, CA
Attleboro Art Museum, Small Works, Attleboro, MA
CAA Regional MFA Exhibition, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, NY, NY
Hyatt Hotel, Exhibition for Launch
of Canvas Wine, New York, NY
HONORS AND AWARDS
2007 Scholarship for summer study at Tuscan Stoneworks, Tuscany, Italy
2007 Vassari Award, Best in Show, NYAA, New York,
NY
2006-2007 NYAA
merit scholarship
2006 Jenny Saville
painting tutorial scholarship
2006 Dedalaus
Foundation nominee
RESIDENCIES
2007 Vermont
Studio Center, received visual artist grant
2006 Châteaux
de Balleroy, Prince of Wales Fellowship, Normandy, France
PUBLICATIONS
2009 New York
Observer, Sotheby's big naked auction night
2007 Buro East Magazine, Premiere Issue
2005 Albion College National Undergraduate Journal
COLLECTIONS
The Seavest Collection
The Prince of Wales
Kip Forbes