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Melissa Zarem: American, b. 1966

​MELISSA ZAREM grew up in New York City where she logged many hours scouring museums. After earning her BFA at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, Melissa returned to Brooklyn where she started a career as an artist in residence with the Henry Street Settlement House’s Abrons Arts Center. Between 1992 and 1998 her art was featured in a number of shows at the Abrons Arts Center as well as in galleries in Brooklyn, including: Cold Fish (1995), The Montauk House (1996), and Henry 125 (1997).

After a hiatus to raise young children, Melissa returned to Ithaca, New York with her family. Relocating provided her with the necessary space and time to redouble her artistic productivity. She was awarded a position in the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Mark ’11 professional development program and since then has had solo exhibitions at Ithaca venues such as The Corners Gallery and Community Arts Partnership’s ArtSpace. After her inclusion in ‘Here+Now’ at Exhibit A in Corning, New York she was invited to join the gallery as a represented artist. Zarem’s first solo exhibition at Exhibit A, ‘Mind Under Matter’ took place in 2014. She was one of the gallery’s featured artists during Miami Art Week at Aqua Art Miami in December of 2014 and most recently is honored to be one of only eleven artists in ‘Locally Sourced’ a 2015 exhibition at Cornell’s Johnson Art Museum. 

Born 1966 in Baltimore, Maryland
Lives and works in Ithaca, New York


EDUCATION       

1990   BFA, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014
Mind Under Matter, Exhibit A, Corning NY

2011
Close to the Skin (Solo exhibition), Community Arts Partnership ArtSpace, Ithaca, NY
States of Matter (Solo exhibition) Corners Gallery, Ithaca, NY


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015
scheduled two-person exhibition with Elise Nicol, Corners Gallery, Ithaca NY
ARRAY, Exhibit A, Corning NY
Locally Sourced, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca NY

2014
Aqua Art Miami, featured by Exhibit A, Miami FL
Online / Offline, show, Gallery 4040, Syracuse NY
Made in New York, (awarded 2nd Prize) Schweinfurth Memorial Art Gallery, Auburn NY

2013
Marked & Manifest, Exhibit A, Corning NY                    
First Person, Twice Removed, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
Here + Now, Exhibit A, Corning, NY

2012                       
Three Artists, Windsor Whip Works Gallery and Art Center, Windsor, NY

2009
Art Invitational, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY

1998
Partial to Paper, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY

1997
Tiny Multiples,  Gallery 121 Henry, New York, NY

1996
Two in Brooklyn, Montauk House, Brooklyn, NY

1995
Artists in Residence, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY

1992
More Art, Cold Fish, Brooklyn NY

 
TEACHING RESIDENCIES

1992-1999            
Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement House, New York,     

1994-1998             
P.S. 63, New York, NY

1997-1998            
The Touchstone Center, New York, NY

1994-1996           
P.S. 321, Brooklyn, NY   

1993-1994            
Harvey Milk High School, New York, NY 

1991-1992            
Children’s Museum of Manhattan, New York, NY
                                

AWARDS

2011                       
MARK ’11 Artist, awarded by New York Foundation for the Arts


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