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| Melissa Day: Hummed, whistled, or sung, Day's recent work has become increasingly preoccupied with the idea that two different states can exist simultaneously. Something is there and not there, is known and not known. Faith and doubt exist at the same time. This radical ambivalence brings with it deepening mystery and unlikely hope. Day received her Masters in Fine Art from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Queen's University, Canada and Glasgow School of Art, Scotland in 1992. Her work has been exhibited recently at the New Langton Arts (San Francisco), Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Berkeley Art Museum, Peak Gallery (Toronto), Roam Contemporary (New York), and the Cologne Online Film Festival and Photo Miami. Recent awards include the 2005-6 UC Berkeley MFA Studio Award at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the San Francisco Foundation’s Murphy Fellowship in the Fine Arts and the Eisner Prize in the Creative Arts. She recently taught in Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley and in the Art and Art History Program of Sheridan College and the University of Toronto, Mississauga. |
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| education
05 MFA University of California, Berkeley 92 Bachelor of Fine Arts,Hons.,Queen's University ,Kingston, Ontario. Minor in Art History. 90-91 Exchange Scholarship to Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow
University, Glasgow Scotland.
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solo exhibitions 08 The Berlin Office, Berlin, Germany | A collaboration with Miriam Dym: “Collision #1 07 Certain Insecurity, Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario | review 06 “New Work” Headlands Center for the Arts, Project Space, Sausalito, CA 04 Early Flemish Paintings, Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario | review 02 Everyday Green (and other devotional works),
Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario. 01 Boy Girl Melissa Day & Andrew Wright (two person exhibition), Ballroom Studio Kitchener, Ontario. 00 From the Medieval Convent to Martha Stewart: Concepts of Interior Life. Union Gallery Queen 's University, Kingston, Ontario. 95 Seascapes. Dalhousie University Art Gallery Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
selected group exhibitions 09 YBCA presents - "Through Future Eyes: The Endurance of Humanity" San Francisco, USA. 08 Traveling internationally (venues TBA), 88 artists representing 30 countries | “The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama” http://gallery.tmpp.org/gallery/en/index.jsp 07 Superbien! Berlin, Germany, curated by Heidi Hove Pederson (DK), Jonn Herschend (US), David Keating (DE/AU) | “Deadpan Exchange” Two Things at the Same Time, Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario | review 05 www.invisiblevenue.com, screenings in London, New York &
San Francisco, curated by Christian Frock | 04 Lyn Carter | Kathryn Dain | Melissa Day, Roam Contemporary & Peak Gallery, New York 03 Atelier Mod. Los Angeles, California 02 Toronto International Art Fair ,Metro Toronto Convention Centre,Oct 17-21. 01 Commute, ARC Gallery,
Chicago,Illinois. 00 Thirteenth Annual Miniature Exhibition Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario.
99 Southwest Triennial. Curated by Andrew Hunter, exhibition catalogue. Museum
London, Ontario.
98 Responses : Wilma Needham Women 's Collaborative CD Rom Cover Project. AGNS,
Halifax, Nova Scotia. 96-97 Contemporary Nova Scotia Prints: Nova Scotia Printmakers
Association. Juried and circulated to the Seagate Gallery, Dundee Scotland; and
Bristol, England. 96 Multiple Choices: Nova Scotia Printmakers Association. Circulated the Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.; and Enrgramme Gallery, Quebec, Quebec. 95-96 Multi-media exhibition: Sable Offshore Energy Project: Energy Beneath the Sea Computer Kiosk. Collaborated with multi- media company, on line communications to create an interactive computer kiosk incorporating core sample prints. Exhibit toured the Maritimes. 95 Visual Arts of Nova Scotia
Members Exhibition. 92 Images of
the Halifax Explosion Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
90 Drawings And Monoprints. Glasgow University, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
Scotland. |
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awards
04Dedalus Foundation nominee, Master of Fine Arts Fellowship, New York 03 UC Berkeley Departmental Fellowship 02 Canada Council Visual Arts Creation & Production Grant: Emerging Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts Grant: Emerging01-02 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council 99 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council 95 Canada Council Explorations Grant Exhibition Assistance Grant, Nova Scotia Department of Education & Culture 90-91 Queen's University Exchange Scholarship Glasgow
School of Art & Glasgow University |
| artist talks & residencies
04 Conference panelist: When Is Art Research? Arts Research Center Annual Conference, 03 Artist Talk, Art 8 Foundation Course, UC Berkeley 02 Public Lecture. City of Kitchener's Artist in Residence 00 Public Lecture. Union Gallery, Queen's University, May 23 95 Public Lecture. Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD); Nova Scotia Society of Contemporary Art, Maritime Museum. 93 Artist in Residence. CSS Hudson, Halifax Nova Scotia. Participated as an artist in residence on an offshore expedition to the Eastern Canadian Arctic with scientists from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. Experiences resulted in the seascapes a series of underwater seascape mixed media prints based on remote sensing imagery and grab sampling methods. |
| bibliography
03 Suspended Spaces, Catalogue with essay by Maria Z.
Brendel, Bishop's University Art Gallery 2001-2002. The Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Entertainment. Hunter, Colin. Artist's work influenced by Martha Stewart, medieval art, August 13. Globe and Mail. Dault, Gary Michael. Melissa Day at Redhead Gallery, June 29 Globe and Mail. Dault, Gary Michael. Melissa Day at Peak Gallery, June 1. CBC Radio One Interview: Arttalks with Katherine Gombay, March 20. CBC Radio One Interview: Breakway with Jackie Czernin, March 12. CFLX Radio Interview: Aulis, Jessie. March 16, March 22. CFLX Radio Interview: Longpre, Catherine, Le bon, le brute et le critique. March 16, Tþlþ Quþbec: Culture €clair. Plugged In Interview: Marissa Tessier with Allyson Adley: Melissa Day at Bishop's University Gallery, Canal Vox, April 9. The Sherbrooke Record. Davidson, Tricia. The dawning of a new day at BU art gallery, March 12, p.11. The Campus, Bishop's University. Murdoch, Jaime. Interview with an Artist: Melissa Day, March 21, p.17. Bergeron, Steve. Rþflection sur les femmes et la peinture: Melissa Day enrobe la Galerie d'art de Bishops de bleu etang (et autres ouvrages de dþvotion), 6 avril, p.H5. The Stanstead Journal. Mahoney, Patrick. Martha Stewart, Andy Warhol and nuns collide at Bishop's gallery, Thursday, March 14, 2002, p.7. 01 North York Mirror. Raymond, Andrea. Artists Draw on Spiritual Side, June 8. Echo Magazine. Bergel, Joseph. Boy+Girl=BoyGirl, May 3-9 issue. 00 Documentary Film: Melissa Day. McBurney, Kate, Queen's University Film
Department. 99 Third Biennial Exhibition catalogue: Far & Wide, Art Gallery of Nova
Scotia. Seascapes: Melissa Day, Fall issue. Arts Atlantic Magazine. Bolton, Liz. Seascapes: Melissa Day, Fall issue. 95 Dalhousie Art Gallery Calendar. Susan Gibson Garvey. Melissa Day: Seascapes. 93 The Bermuda Royal Gazette News Review. Umum-sim-getting rid of cottage painting, Bermuda, August 24. Nova Scotia Printmakers Association catalogue. Third Edition Juried Print Show, Acadia University Art Gallery, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
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