EDUCATION
1992
Master of Fine Arts, Painting, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1987
Bachelor of Arts, Honors, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
EXHIBITIONS, RESIDENCIES, COLLABORATIONS
2019
Dirt & Debt Residency, Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY
Esparto: New Ground (touring), Fundación Pedro Cano, Blanca, Murcia, Spain
2018
Esparto: New Ground, Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades, Barcelona, Spain
2017/2018
Volitia Returns, solo exhibition, Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY
Volitia Turns Around, solo exhibition, The Carol Shen Gallery at Packer Collegiate Institute, New York, NY
2017
Volitia Returns, solo exhibition, Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY
Volitia Turns Around, solo exhibition, The Carol Shen Gallery at Packer Collegiate Institute, New York, NY
Prayer Flags, Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY
Victory Garden, Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Overflow, Paul Mellon Arts Center Gallery, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT
Double Self Split, Joya: arte + ecología, Castillo de Vélez Blanco & Iglesia de San Luis, Vélez Blanco, Almería, Spain
Start Fresh, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ
Exquisite Corpse, Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY
2015
Artist in residence, Joya: arte + ecología, Cortijada Los Gázquez, Vélez Blanco, Almería, Spain
2014
Overflow, Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA
2013
Permanent installation - Adventures of Volitia: SUNBURST, Joya: arte + ecología, Cortijada los Gázquez, Vélez Blanco, Spain
2011
Permanent installation - Adventures of Volitia: SUNTRAP, Joya: arte + ecología, Cortijada los Gázquez, Vélez Blanco, Spain
Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA
Scrawl, ArtSPACE, New Haven, CT
2010
Solo exhibition – Adventures of Volitia: Paradise, Again, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Artist in residence, Joya: arte + ecología, Cortijada los Gázquez, Vélez Blanco, Spain
Curated registry, White Columns, New York, NY
Curated registry, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Flat file, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Solo exhibition - Comma 11: Adventures of Volitia: Expulsion from Paradise, Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK
2008
Traveling Flat File, Pierogi 2000 (Brooklyn, NY) Leipzig, Germany
Solo exhibition - Spring Festival: Ice Bridge with Blossoms, First Run Gallery at Emergency Arts, New York, NY
2005/2006
His Life Is Full of Miracles, Animation Videotheque, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2003/2004
Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
University Art Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Art House, Austin, TX
Animations, Kunst Werke Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Thinking in Line: A Survey of Contemporary Drawing, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Zilkha Gallery 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
2002
Art Position, Vienna, Austria
Group Show, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Animations, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Serial Number, Emerging Curators Series, Gale Gates et al., Brooklyn, NY
Contemporary Narratives, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2002
The Armory Show 2000, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Florida Atlanic University, Boca Raton, FLA
Contemporary Art Museum, University of Florida, Tampa, FL
NeverNeverland (travelling exhibition), Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
1999
Solo exhibition - The Adventures of Volitia: What is My Charisma?, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
100 Drawings, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Drawings, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Visual Artists Salute, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
Linea Nigra, Star 67 Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
1998
Solo exhibition - The Adventures of Volitia: Heroic Burlesque, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1997
The Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery - Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, CA
Scratching The Surface, Art In General, New York, NY
The Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT
Art Moving at Four Walls, Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY
1996
Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series: Melissa Marks & Portia Munson, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Ripe, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York, NY
Women Artists Series 25 Year Retrospective, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1995
The Adventures of Volitia, Beauty, Humor and The Body, Babel, Web Site, New York, NY
Resisting Categories, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
1994
Animated, Art in General, New York, NY
1993
The Drawing Center, New York, NY
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, American Center, Paris, France
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“La conexión de Nueva York y Vélez Blanco a través de un patio renacentista”, El País, August 2016
“Nueva York y Vélez Blanco se acercan”, Ideal, August 2016
“Se acaba el verano y el arte performance”, Tasararte, August 2016
“Nueva York y Vélez Blanco, una nueva conexión a través del Patio de Honor”, La Voz de Almería,
August 2016
“Inaugurada en Vélez Blanco la obra 'Double Self Split' de Melissa Marks”, Diario de Almería, August 2016
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“Double Self Split, Patio de Honor del Castillo de Los Fajardo desde Nueva York”, Los Vélez Hoy,
August 2016
"Marks makes mark on Palmer Gallery walls with abstract art," Shruti Manian, Miscellany News, Vassar College, September 30, 2010.
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"Interview: Melissa Marks," Freedom Magazine, Volume 2, Taiwan, September 2006.
"Comic Release - Negotiating Identity for a New Generation," Vicky Clark, published by D.A.P. in association with Carnegie Mellon University and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 2003.
"Gäste aus New York," Katharina Holderegger, Almanach zur Jungen Kunst in Wien, 2002.
"When Art Comes to Life," Amy Porter, MoMA Magazine, October 2001.
"Plus Ça Change," John Canemaker, Animations, exhibition newspaper, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, October 2001.
"Fence," cover and insert project, Melissa Marks, Fence Magazine Inc., Spring/Summer, 2001.
"Art In Review," Holland Cotter, The New York Times, February 16, 2001.
"Review," Sarah Valdez, Time Out New York, February 8-15, 2001.
"Contemporary Narratives," exhibition catalogue, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, March, 2001.
"New American Paintings," The Open Studios Press, Wellesley, MA, Number 32, March, 2001.
"Art Review," Gary Schwan, The Palm Beach Post, November 19, 2000.
"That Dizzy Disney Line," Dick Hebdige, Cal Arts, Never Neverland catalog, 2000.
"Art on the Page: Melissa Marks," Betsy Sussler, Bomb, Fall, 1999.
"Goings On About Town," The New Yorker, October 18 & 25, 1999.