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Melissa Day b. 1970, London, Canada. Currently lives in Palo Alto, California 510.861.5742
www.mmd.ca melissa@mmd.ca
Represented by Peak Gallery, Toronto and Spur Projects, Portola Valley
Education
05 Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Berkeley
92 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Hons., Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
90-91 Queen’s Exchange Scholarship to Glasgow School of Art & Glasgow University, Glasgow,
Scotland
Awards & Grants
05 Headlands Center for the Arts Residency, UC Berkeley MFA Studio Award (2005-2006),
Sausalito, CA
Eisner Prize in the Creative Arts, UC Berkeley, CA
The Sam Francis Distinguished Alumni Award, UC Berkeley, CA
04 Murphy Fellowship in the Fine Arts, The San Francisco Foundation, CA
University of California Institute for Research in the Arts Grant
Materials Grant, Department of Art, UC Berkeley
Graduate Student Instructor Course Improvement Grant, UC Berkeley, CA
03-05 Department of Art MFA Fellowship, UC Berkeley, CA
02 Canada Council Visual Arts Creation & Production Grant to Professional Artists
Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts Grant to Professional Artists
01-02 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
99 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
95 Canada Council Explorations Grant | Bedford Institute of Oceanography (Halifax, Canada)
Artist Residency on CSS
Hudson to Eastern Canadian Arctic
Solo Exhibitions
07 Peak Gallery, Toronto, Canada | “Certain Insecurity”
06 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA | Project Space: “New Work”
04 Peak Gallery, Toronto, Canada | “Early Flemish Painting”
02 Peak Gallery, Toronto, Canada | “Everyday Green (and other devotional works)”
The Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada | “New Painting”
Bishop’s University Art Gallery, Lennoxville, Quebec | “Lily Pond Blue (and other
devotional works)”
Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener City Hall, Canada | “Drop of Green”
01 Ballroom Studios, Kitchener, Canada | “boygirl”
00 Union Gallery, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada | “From the Medieval Convent to
Martha Stewart: Concepts of
Interior Life”
95 Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada | “Seascapes”
Sedco-471 Drill Ship; CSS Matthew (Research Vessel) | “Core Samples”
Selected Group Exhibitions & Screenings
07 The Lab, San Francisco, CA | “Deadpan III”
Parkway Theatre, Oakland, CA, curated by Jonn Herschend | “Guilt by Association”
Peak Gallery, Toronto, Work by Eight San Francisco Bay Area artists (Sarah Cain, Alex
Clausen, Melissa Day, Miriam
Dym, Jim Gaylord, Jonn Herschend, Desiree Holman, and Will Rogan) | “Two things at
the same time”
Superbien! Berlin, Germany, curated by Heidi Hove Pederson (DK), Jonn Herschend (US),
David Keating (DE/AU) |
“Deadpan Exchange”
Koh-i-noor Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, curated by Jonn Herschend | “Deadpan II”
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Scotland, curated by Alex Hetherington and Janie Nicoll |
“The Consequence”
Bridge Art Fair London, Trafalgar Hotel, London, UK, Spur Projects, CA | Recent Video
work
CafkaTV: Featured Artist, Kitchner, Canada: Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area
(cafkatv.com) | “How Great
Thou Art” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BDNa7-cVjU)
06 New Langton Arts, San Francisco, curated by Craig Goodman | “The There There”
El Pobre Diablo, Ecuador, curated by María del Carmen Carrión | “A la Carta”
Photo MIAMI (featured artist), Peak Gallery
Spur Projects, Portola Valley, CA | “Contemporary Takes on Land & Sky”
05 Invisible Venue, screenings in London, New York & San Francisco, curated by Christian
Frock | “You Don’t
Know San Francisco: New Video Art from Bay Area Artists” (invisiblevenue.com)
Pacific Film Archive, UC Berkeley | “Eisner Awards in Film & Video 2005”
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA , curated by Heidi Zuckerman-Jacobson |
“Irreconcilable”
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA & Aritst Television Access, San Francisco, CA |
“Free Fest Film Shorts”
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada, Peak Gallery
04 The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA | “Murphy Fellowships
Award Exhibition”
Roam Contemporary & Peak Gallery, New York, NY | “Lyn Carter, Kathryn Dain, Melissa
Day”
Timbrespace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | “The Antics Roadshow”
03 Worth-Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, CA | “MFA 1”
Peak Gallery, Toronto, Canada | “Cluster III”
Haymarket Theatre, Palo Alto, CA | “Good Friday Reconfigured”
02 Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Canada | “Toronto International Art Fair”
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Canada | “Studio Alert”
01 ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL | “Commute”
Tyndale College & Seminary, Toronto, Canada | “Evidence of Things Unseen”
99 Museum London, Canada, curated by Andrew Hunter, exhibition catalogue | “Southwest
Triennial”
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada; University College of Cape Breton Art
Gallery, Sydney, Canada;
Western Branch of the AGNS, Yarmouth, Canada, exhibition catalogue | “Far & Wide Third
Biennial Exhibition”
Selected Bibliography
06 Globe and Mail, Gary Michael Dault, Jan. 9, 2007 | “Melissa Day at Peak Gallery”
05 Berkeley Art Museum MFA catalogue, curated by Heidi Zuckerman-Jacobson |
“Irreconcilable”
Art Post Canada Toronto Premiere Edition, E-Magazine, Jan. 15 | “Featuring Ken Lum,
Alan Paiement, Melissa Day”
04 Globe and Mail, Gary Michael Dault. Dec. 24 | “Unsung oil pioneer gets her due”
Toronto Star, Peter Goddard, Dec. 23 | “The perils of painting”
03 Bishop’s University Art Gallery 2001-2002 Artists Catalogue, essay by Maria Z. Brendel
| “Melissa Day”
02 Redhead Gallery, Canada, Brochure with essay by Andrew Wright | “Proto Painting”
Globe and Mail. Gary Michael Dault, June 29 | “Melissa Day at Redhead Gallery”
Globe and Mail. Gary Michael Dault, June 1 | “Melissa Day at Peak Gallery”
CBC Radio One Interview, March. 20 | “Art talks with Katherine Gombay”
CBC Radio One Interview, March. 12 | “Breakway with Jackie Czernin”
CFLX Radio Interview, Jessie Aulis, March. !6 & 22
CFLX Radio Interview: Catherine Longpre, March. 16 | “Le bon, le brute et le critique”
Télé Québec, March. 17 | “Culture Éclai”
01 Echo Magazine, Joseph Bergel, May 3-9 issue | “Boy+Girl=BoyGirl”
00 Queen’s University Film Department, Kingston, Canada, Kate McBurney | ”Documentary:
Melissa Day”
COGECO TV interview, Kingston, Canada, May 19 | “Melissa Day at Bishop’s University Art
Gallery”
00 Southwest Triennial catalogue, Museum London, Canada | “Welcome to Mitchell”
99 Third Biennial Exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia | “Far & Wide”
London Free Press, Sandra Coulson, Nov. 29 | “Mitchell? No One Here From There: New
Exhibit at LRAHM Features
Playful, Humorous, Experimental Work”
Teaching
05 UC Berkeley (UCB), CA, Department of Art Practice: Instructor & Lecturer |
“Introduction to Visual Thinking”
04-05 UCB, Department of Art Practice: Graduate Student Instructor of Record | “Introduction
to Visual Thinking”
UCB, CA, Department of Art Practice: Teacher’s Assistant | “Intermediate Painting”
01-02 Sheridan College & University of Toronto Mississauga, Art & Art History Program:
Instructor | “Design 2”
Sheridan College, Professional Development Certificate | “Fundamentals of Teaching &
Learning”
99-01 Waterloo Region School Board, Canada: Instructor | “Introduction to Art History”
96 Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Canada: Continuing Education Instructor |
“Introduction to Printmaking”
Selected Artist Talks & Panels
06 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito CA
05 Berkeley Art Museum, CA
04 Consortium of the Arts, UC Berkeley | Conference panelist: “When Is Art Research?”
03 Intermediate Painting & Introduction to Visual Thinking: Art 8 | UC Berkeley
02 Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Canada, Studio Alert series curated by Allan MacKay,
July 13 | Panelist
City Hall, Kitchener, Canada | Artist in Residence Lecture Series,
Bishop’s University Art Gallery, Art & Art History students, Lennoxville, QC
00 Union Gallery, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
