ARTIST STATEMENT
Mela M’s sculptures are her interpretation of the seamless interconnectedness of light and material form and reference the pronounced uncertainty and unpredictability of our rapidly changing world. In her work, she seeks to both describe and inform the journey we are on.
The ominously aggressive sharp and angled forms are in stark contrast to the radiance of the shockingly brilliant colors. And yet these irregular and uncommon shapes and colors create a balance in their chaotic asymmetry. There is an order and visual harmony that transcends the seemingly incongruous pairings.
Simultaneously referencing the physical (some unknowable form) and an intangible (light), the sculptures are exuberant and playful. Their absolutely impeccable execution belies the human hand behind their creation and yet these forms could only be the product of an artist’s boundless imagination.
Mela M’s work is a guide, or perhaps an edict, to cultivate a more enlightened relationship between art, science, the planet, and the universe. There is a sense that within the chaos is order and within order, chaos. And that in this balance is the true stuff of life.
Mela M’s sculptures are her interpretation of the seamless interconnectedness of light and material form and reference the pronounced uncertainty and unpredictability of our rapidly changing world. In her work, she seeks to both describe and inform the journey we are on.
The ominously aggressive sharp and angled forms are in stark contrast to the radiance of the shockingly brilliant colors. And yet these irregular and uncommon shapes and colors create a balance in their chaotic asymmetry. There is an order and visual harmony that transcends the seemingly incongruous pairings.
Simultaneously referencing the physical (some unknowable form) and an intangible (light), the sculptures are exuberant and playful. Their absolutely impeccable execution belies the human hand behind their creation and yet these forms could only be the product of an artist’s boundless imagination.
Mela M’s work is a guide, or perhaps an edict, to cultivate a more enlightened relationship between art, science, the planet, and the universe. There is a sense that within the chaos is order and within order, chaos. And that in this balance is the true stuff of life.
BIOGRAPHY
Mela M’s work has earned national and international recognition with over 23 solo exhibitions, 33 museum group shows and over 160 select group exhibitions in galleries and universities including the National Art Center and Museum in Tokyo, Japan, the Cultural Association of Rome in Italy, the Mark Chagall Museum in Belarus, and the Hudson Valley MOCA in New York. Among her residencies, she had the experience of living in Japan where she made and exhibited new works during a three-month placement in Yokohama. M’s work is in several permanent collections including the Long Beach Museum of Art in California, the SW Oregon College at Coos Bay and in MOCA Minsk. She has two MFA degrees including one from Claremont Graduate University in California. Besides being honored with numerous prizes and awards she has also been a college professor and a curator. Her work was published in New American Paintings, ArtScene, Crocker Art Museum catalog, New York Times The Long Islander edition and many more. Mela M has been working on wood shaped panels for more than two decades.
Mela M’s work has earned national and international recognition with over 23 solo exhibitions, 33 museum group shows and over 160 select group exhibitions in galleries and universities including the National Art Center and Museum in Tokyo, Japan, the Cultural Association of Rome in Italy, the Mark Chagall Museum in Belarus, and the Hudson Valley MOCA in New York. Among her residencies, she had the experience of living in Japan where she made and exhibited new works during a three-month placement in Yokohama. M’s work is in several permanent collections including the Long Beach Museum of Art in California, the SW Oregon College at Coos Bay and in MOCA Minsk. She has two MFA degrees including one from Claremont Graduate University in California. Besides being honored with numerous prizes and awards she has also been a college professor and a curator. Her work was published in New American Paintings, ArtScene, Crocker Art Museum catalog, New York Times The Long Islander edition and many more. Mela M has been working on wood shaped panels for more than two decades.
RESUME
EDUCATION
2002 M.F.A., Painting & Multiple Media, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, May
1992 MFA, Textile Design, Technological Institute of Art Textile Design, Vitebsk, Belarus, June
ADDITIONAL STUDIES
“Painting’s Edge”, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA
Kipaipai Professional Development Workshop, Carey Institute for Global Good, New York
Kipaipai Professional Development Workshop, Joshua Tree, CA
Crimson on Volga Arts College, Kostroma, Russia
Moscow Technological University, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Billis Williams Gallery, Arks Of Angles: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going? Solo Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Billis Williams Gallery, The Cityscape Show XIII: Close to Home, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 22nd Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, Japan
2022 Billis Williams Gallery, The Cityscape Show XII, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Melissa Morgan Fine Art Gallery, Kipaipai Group Exhibit, curated by Andi Campognone, Palm Desert, CA
2022 Hollywood Sculpture Garden, Mela M Sculpture Installation
2022 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 21st Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, Japan
2021 George Billis Gallery, The Authority of Color at the Speed of Light, Solo Exhibit
2021 Museum of Art and History, MOAH, Manifest Structures from the Imaginal: the Omegatropolis, the Rising Wall, the Temple
and the Moon Castle, Solo Exhibit, Lancaster, CA
2021 Chiba City Museum of Art, 19th Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, Japan
2021 LAUNCH LA, A Journey Through Abstract Reciprocal Perspectives: From the Terrestrial to the Architectonic Orbital, two persons show
2021 NOMAD Art Spectacular, presented by Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2020 Carnegie Art Museum's Studio Gallery, Retrograde. The Authority of Color at the Speed of Light, Solo Exhibit,
curated by Zara Monet Feeney, Oxnard CA
2020 Giada Ferri Press Office, The Eviction, curated by Gabi Minedi. Patrizio Maria, Sandro Bongiani, Joe Gabriel Walsh, Tortoreto Lido Te, Italy
2020 Tufenkian Fine Arts, That Layered Look: Theme and Variations, curated by Peter Frank, Glendale, CA
2019 Hudson Valley MOCA, 1st Annual Exhibition, Juried by Legacy Russell, Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum, Peekskill, NY
2019 The National Art Museum of Tokyo, 19th Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, curated by Katsu Shimmin, Japan
2019 OC McNish Gallery, Zeitgeist Architectonia at the Event Horizon, Group Exhibition, Oxnard College, Oxnard CA
2019 Durden and Ray Gallery, Repeating Fragments Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA
2019 OC McNish Gallery, Losing Gravity in the Orbiting Megatropolis, Solo Exhibition, Oxnard College, Oxnard CA
2018 Long Beach Museum of Art, “Time and Space”, Group Exhibit, Long Beach, CA
2017 Makii Masaru Fine Arts, “481 Degrees of Archaeological Genesis In The Primordial Oceans of Yanoguni”, Solo Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Makii Masaru Fine Arts, “A City of Architectonic Metamorphosis for The Common Era by Mela M”, Solo Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Citrus College, Citrus Art Gallery, “The Only Way Out Is In”, Group Exhibit, Glendora, CA
2017 Long Beach Museum of Art, "Abundant Bountiful & Beautiful" Group Exhibit, Long Beach, CA
2016 Long Beach Museum of Art, "Abundant Bountiful & Beautiful" Group Exhibit, Long Beach, CA
2016 TAM, Torrance Art Museum, CSUDH, Mas Attack, Torrance, CA
2016 Kobe Design University ESPAS Gallery-1, LA x KOBE Exchange Exhibit, “My Life”, Curated by Kaoru Hironaka, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, Japan
2016 Kobe Design University Art + Design, Art Department Gallery-2, LA x KOBE Exchange Exhibit, “My Life”,
Curated by Kaoru Hironaka, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, Japan
2016 San Diego Art Institute, Mas Attack, San Diego, CA
2015 Masur Museum of Art, 52nd Annual Competition Curated by Benjamin M. Hickey & Sandra Firmin, Monroe, LA
2013-2014 Alexandria Museum of Art, 26th September Competition Curated by Stewart Nahmias, Alexandria, LA
2013-2014 SMMoA, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
2011-2012 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, "Chain Letter", Santa Monica, CA
2011-2012 SMarc Chagall Museum, “Constructed Horizon”, Vitebsk, Belarus (Solo Exhibition)
2011-2012 SMarc Chagall Museum, “Obese Animals”, Vitebsk, Belarus (Solo Exhibition)
2011-2012 SSanta Monica Museum of Art, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
2010 Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Cult Films Show
2010 Bunny Gunner Gallery, "For Roland", Pomona, CA
2010 643 Project Space "Spatial Conditions", Ventura, CA
2010 SMMoA, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
2009 Los Angeles; I-5 Gallery, “Small Paintings” Los Angeles, CA
2009 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
2008 The 809 Gallery, “Constructed Shapes”, Solo Exhibition, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, Canada,
(This exhibition was sponsored by Alberta College of Art + Design)
2008 SMMoA, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Riverside Art Museum, “Keeping it Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern California Art”,
Curated by Peter Frank, (This exhibition was sponsored by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation) Riverside, CA
2007 Riverside Art Museum, “Painting’s Edge”, Curated by Peter Frank, Riverside, CA
2007 University of Redlands, Faculty 2007, Redlands, CA
2007 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA
2007 The Brewery Project, “Houseguests”, Los Angeles, CA www.SaveDarfur.org, www.hausgallery.com
2006 Riverside Community College District, Landis Art Center Gallery, Faculty 2006, CA
2006 MOCA Minsk, Museum of Contemporary Art, “View” Solo Exhibition,
(This exhibition was partially sponsored by the Durfee Foundation, Los Angeles, CA), Minsk, Belarus
2006 MOCA Minsk, Museum of Contemporary Art, “From America”,
This exhibition of 55 American artists from 26 cities, curated by Los Angeles based artist Mela M., Minsk, Belarus
2006 I-5 Gallery, “Small Paintings” Los Angeles, CA
2006 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Crocker Art Museum, Crocker–Kingsley Exhibition, Juried by a painter Mel Ramos, Sacramento
2005 Colony Gallery, Curated by Mona Casey and Paul McAree, Birmingham, UK
2005 Santa Monica Museum of Art, “Incognito” Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Lawrence Asher Gallery, “Perspective: Linear, Spatial and Otherwise”, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Tangent Contemporary Art at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, “Double Take”, San Francisco, CA,
Urban Institute / Museum for Contemporary Art, Portal Spaces, Solo Exhibition, Grand Rapids, MI
(This exhibition was supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and National Endowment for the Arts)
2005 Stellar Somerset Gallery, “Spatial Dimensions” Palo Alto, CA Solo Exhibition
2004 Patricia Faure Gallery “Summer Camp”, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Patricia Faure Gallery “White on White” Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Sacred Voice Gallery “2nd Annual Exhibit” Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2004 Duke University, Bryan University Center, Louise Jones Brown Gallery, “Spatial Space and Architecture”.
(This exhibition was sponsored by Duke University), Durham NC Solo Exhibition
2004 CAM, Coos Art Museum “Expressions West 2004”, First Prize Winner, Juried by James Mattingly Professor of Art, Emeritus,
Western Oregon University, Monmouth, Coos Bay, OR
2004 Santa Barbara City College, Atkinson Gallery, Small Images 2004, Juror: Bennett Roberts of Roberts & Tilton Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA and Santa Barbara, CA
2004 COCA, Center on Contemporary Art, Northwest Annual Exhibit, Juried by Ken Lum Professor of Art History, Visual Art and Theory,
University of British Columbia, Seattle, WA
2004 Santa Monica Museum of Art, “Incognito” Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2004 LA Artcore, Wallworks, Juried by Alma Ruiz, associate Curator of MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, LA
2004 Tangent Contemporary Art at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, “Double Take”, San Francisco, CA. (March-May)
2004 Viridian Artist @ Chelsea, Slide Exhibition, 15th Annual Juried Exhibition, Juried by Charlotte Kotick, Curator of Contemporary Painting
and Sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, New York, NY
2004 The 10th Annual Los Angeles Art Show benefiting the Art Museum Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
LACMA, Santa Monica, CA; Los Angeles Art Association
2003 Phoenix Gallery “National Juried Competition”, juried by assistant curator Lilian Tone, New York Museum of Modern Art,
Department of Painting and Sculpture, New York, (June-July)
2003 Tangent Contemporary Art, San Francisco, Solo Exhibition, CA
2003 Whittier Art Gallery & Association, “Space & Architecture”, Whittier CA
2003 Solo Exhibition Bluebird Art House “New Drawings and Paintings”, Whittier, CA
2003 Andrewshire Gallery Solo Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA (December)
2003 Market Gallery, Three-person show, Los Angeles, CA (December)
2003 Wurdemann Gallery, “Transformations”, Los Angeles, CA (October)
2003 Clarion Gallery, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA (September)
2003 The Second City Council, “Why Art?”, juried by assistant curator Dr Rachel Teagle,
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MOCASD), Long Beach, CA
2003 The Office-An Art Space, “Brush”, Huntington Beach, CA
2003 LA Artcore/Brewery Annex, “Wallworks” 20th annual juried competition (Third place winner)
by critic, collector & art consultant Neil Menzies, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Off Rose Secret Gallery, “Outside In”, Two-person show, Venice. CA, (May)
2003 Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, “Make Yourself at Home”, juried by Perry Tassel, Artbrokering .com, L.A. CA
2003 I-5 Gallery, The Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA, (April)
2003 B.J. Spoke Gallery, “EXPO XXII” National Juried Five Person Show, Selected by Susan Cross,
assistant curator of New York Guggenheim Museum, Huntington, New York
2003 Tangent Contemporary Art, “Cities and Memory”, San Francisco, CA
2003 Los Angeles Art Association, “100% Natural” L.A., CA, (February / March), juried by Barbara Drucker of UCLA Department of Art.
“White Planes”, Juried by Michelle Isenberg, LA, CA Selah Artistic Giving Center, Story of Homelessness, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Tangent Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA, (December)
2002 Crazy Space, “De Con Struct”, Installation / Performance, Three Person Show, Santa Monica, CA (October)
2002 Peggy Phelps Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2002 Solo Atrium Installation, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont Ca Solo Exhibition Bergamot Station Arts Center,
bgh Main Gallery, “Memory & Metonymy” Santa Monica, CA (Aug.) {Catalog}
2002 Solo Exhibition Off Rose Secret Gallery, “City Popp’s”, Three-person show, Venice. CA (October)
2002 Hollywood Digital (LAAA), “An Exhibition of Twelve Artists” Hollywood, CA (Sept.-Nov.)
2002 LA Art Association, “Location, Location, Location” Los Angeles, CA (July)
2002 Hollywood Digital (LAAA), Hollywood, CA (June-Aug)
2002 Claremont Graduate University, Peggy Phelps Gallery Solo Show (May)
2002 Claremont Community Foundation, Claremont, CA (April)
2002 Claremont Graduate University, Back Office Space, Claremont CA (Mar)
2002 Claremont Graduate University, Front Office Space, Claremont CA (Jan.)
2001 CGU Art Gallery “Insite Incite” Installation, Claremont CA, (Dec)
2001 Claremont Graduate University, Solo Atrium Installation, Claremont, CA (Nov)
2001 Artist's Contemporary Art Gallery "Introductions", Sacramento, CA, (July)
2001 Claremont Graduate University Art Gallery, Claremont, CA (May)
2001 Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, Open Studios, (May)
2001 Artist's Contemporary Gallery, “New Drawings” Sacramento, CA
2001 S. Bay Area Arts Alliance Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Gardena, CA
2001 Harmony Works Gallery, Redondo Beach, CA Santa Ana Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA (May)
2001 "How Original" Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, (Apr. -June)
2000 Artist's Contemporary Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, (Dec)
2000 Claremont Graduate University East Gallery "Fresh Meat", Claremont, CA, (Oct)
2000 Harmony Works Gallery, “Space Continuum” Redondo Beach, CA, Solo Exhibition
2000 Harmony Works Gallery, Redondo Beach, Ca South Bay Area Arts Alliance Gallery, Gardena, CA
2000 Guggenheim Museum, Chapman University, Orange CA (Honorable Mention-7th Orange Open)
2000 Santa Ana Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
1999 South Bay Area Arts Alliance Gallery, Gardena, CA
1999 Articulture Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA (Dec)
1999 Long Beach Art Gallery "Wheels Show", Long Beach, CA
1999 South Bay Area Arts Alliance Gallery, Selected Paintings, Gardena, CA
1999 Solo Exhibition Harmony Works Gallery Redondo Beach, CA
1999 Articulture Gallery “Coming to Los Angeles”, Hermosa Beach, CA (Oct/Nov)
1998 Diane McKinney Gallery, Venice, CA South Bay Area Arts Alliance Gallery, Gardena, CA
1997 Diane McKinney Gallery, Venice, CA
1996 Technological Design & Fashion College Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1996 Teahouse Gallery, Summer Garden, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1996 Teahouse Gallery, Summer Garden, Small Paintings, Saint Petersburg, Russia,
1996 Solo Exhibition Nefski Prospect Art Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1995 Technological Design & Fashion College Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1995 Technological Fashion College Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1995 Nefski Prospect Art Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1995 Baltiysky Dom Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1994 Nefski Prospect Art Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1994 Catherine’s Palace in Pushkin, near Saint Petersburg, Russia
1994 Nefski Prospect Art Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1994 Nevski Prospekt Art Gallery, Batik, Solo Exhibition, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1994 Technological Fashion College Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Solo Exhibition
1993 Nevski Prospect Art Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1993 Catherine’s Palace in Pushkin, near Saint Petersburg, Russia
1993 State Art Gallery, Vitebsk, Belarus
1993 State Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
1991-1992 State Art Gallery, Vitebsk, Belarus (Catalog)
1991-1992 State Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
1991-1992 Moskovsky Prospect Theatre, Vitebsk, Belarus
1991-1992 Technological & Design Institute Space, Vitebsk, Belarus
1991-1992 VTILP Institute Space, Vitebsk, Belarus, Solo (Final) Exhibition
1990 State Art Gallery, Vitebsk, Belarus
1990 State Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus (Catalog)
1990 Technological & Design University Space, Vitebsk, Belarus
1988-1989 Technological & Design University Space, Vitebsk, Belarus
1988-1989 Korovin Artist House, Open Studios, Gurzuf, Crimea, Russia
1988-1989 Crimson on Volga Arts College Space, Kostroma, Russia
1985-1986 Crimson on Volga Arts College Space, Kostroma, Russia
1985-1986 Moscow Technological University Moscow, Russia
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Long Beach Museum of Art, (LBMOA)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Minsk,
BelarusSouthwestern Oregon Community College, Coos Bay, OR
Off Rose Secret Gallery, Venice Beach, CA
Tangent Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
South Bay Area Arts Alliance, Gardena CA
Technological Institute of Art Textile & Design, Vitebsk, Belarus
Crimson on Volga Arts College, Kostroma, Russia
AWARDS
2023 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 22nd Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition awards, Japan (May)
2022 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 22nd Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition awards, Japan (May)
2021 Chiba City Museum of Art, 19th Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, Japan (Sept,)
2014 Alexandria Museum of Art, 26th September Competition Curated by Stewart Nahmias, Alexandria, LA
(Sept.-Nov.) Honorable Mention Prize Winner
2009 New American Painting, Pacific Coast Competition Winner, January 2009
2006 Durfee Foundation Individual Artist Grant, Santa Monica, CA
2005 UICA Portal Spaces Solo Show Winner, Grand Rapids, Michigan (December - March.)
This exhibition was supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and National Endowment for the Arts Crocker Art Museum,
Crocker–Kingsley Exhibition Award, Competition Winner, Juried by a painter Mel Ramos, Sacramento
2004 First Award Prize Winner, CAM, Coos Art Museum, Juried by James Mattingly, Professor of Art Emeritus, Western Oregon University, Coos Bay, OR
2003 New American Painting, 2004 Pacific Coast Competition, Juried by Michael Klein, Curator of the Microsoft Art Collection, December
2003 EXPRO XXII National Juried Competition 5-person Show Winner, B. J. Spoke Gallery, selected by Susan Cross,
assistant curator of New York Guggenheim Museum, Huntington, NY (March) National Juried Competition, 2-person Gallery II Show Winner,
Phoenix Gallery, juried by assistant curator Lilian Tone, New York Museum of Modern Art, Department of Painting and Sculpture, NY, NY
2003 LA Artcore / Brewery Annex, 20th Annual Competition Third Place Winner, juried by critic, collector & art consultant Neil Menzies, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Teaching Assistantship Fellowship, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2001 Tuition Discount Grant, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA
2000 7th Orange Open, Honorable Mention, Guggenheim Museum, Chapman University, Orange,
First Award Winner, Riviera Village Festival, Redondo Beach, CA
1995 Fashion Design Education Grant, Technological Design and Fashion College, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1987–1992 Student Fellowship Stipend, Technological Institute of Art Textile Design, Vitebsk, Belarus
1986-1987 Student Fellowship Stipend, Crimson on Volga Arts College, Kostroma, Russia.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Artillery magazine, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 22nd Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, Japan
2023 ARTFORUM, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 22nd Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, Japan
2022 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 21st Japan International Art Exchange Exhibit, Catalog
2022 Art in America magazine
2022 NHK: World Strollers – Hollywood & Silverlake (California. U.S.A.), Japan, ( April 5th)
2022 MELA M MASHUPS by Writer, Art Critic and Curator Mat Gleason, 2022
2022 Mela M: MANIFEST STRUCTURES FROM THE IMAGINAL: the OMEGATROPOLIS , the RISING WALL, the TEMPLE
and the MOON CASTLE at MOAH Lancaster, Video by Eric Swenson
2022 The Association of Hysteric Curators, AHC, Review: Mela M The Authority of Color at the Speed of Light by Mary Anna Pomonis
2022 Museum of Art and History, MOAH, Mela M: Manifest Structures from the Imaginal: the Omegatropolis, the Rising Wall,
the Temple and the Moon Castle, Solo Exhibit, Lancaster, Film by Eric Minh Swenson, (October-January)
2021 Milestones and Maybe, Shana Nys Dambrot, Shana, (March 19)
2021 Los Angeles Daily News, Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, (March 19)
2020 Juliet Magazine, Oxygen Exhibition, Temporary Art Magazine since 1980, Italy
2020 IOARTE, Oxygen, Associazione Culturale IoArte, Via Aldo Moro, 47, 31030 CASIER (TV), Italy
2020 Associazione Culturale Gurubu OXYGEN organized by Roma Curatori: Sandro Bongiani-Patrizio Maria-Gabi Minedi-Joe Adam Gabriel, Italy
2020 ARCHIVIO OPHEN VIRTUAL ART DOCUMENTAZIONE DI CULTURA, ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA, Art Made During Quarantine, Italy
2020 That Layered Look II: Curated by Peter Frank. Film by Eric Minh Swenson (#1238)
2020 That Layered Look II: Curated by Peter Frank. Film by Eric Minh Swenson (#1252)
2020 Mela M: Carnegie Museum Studio Gallery, 2.1-5.2, Film by Eric Minh Swenson (#1289)
2020 Retrograde: Curated by Zara Monet Feeney, 2.1-5.2, Film by Eric Minh Swenson (#1299)
2020 Reaching for the Stars: A Cosmic Vision of Hope, Patricia Watts, (May)
2020 Carnegie Art Museum Studio Gallery, Mela M- Light Benders and Altered Absorptions by Suzanne Bybee
on Retrograde Exhibition, Oxnard, CA (Feb.-June)
2019 The National Art Museum of Tokyo, 19th Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, curated by Katsu Shimmin, Catalog, Japan (Nov.)
2019 Mela M: Losing Gravity in the Orbiting Megatropolis: geometric waves, vibrant fields and optic frequencies, Film by Eric Minh Swenson, (Mar. 8)
2018 Losing Gravity in the Orbiting Megatropolis geometric waves, vibrant fields and optic frequencies, Overture by Mela M, 2018
2018 Voyage LA, Meet Mela M. aka Mela Marsh, November 19th
2018 PROPOSAL FOR INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION-METROPOLIS BY Mela M, Dr. Jeanne Willette, (Nov. 8)
2018 MAKING THE METROPOLIS: THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT OF MELA M, Dr. Jeanne Willette, (October 29)
2017 Makii Masaru Fine Arts, “481 Degrees of Archaeological Genesis In The Primordial Oceans of Yonaguni”.
1階で個展開催中のメラさんが在廊しています。4月末に初来日されてから、約2ヶ月が経とうとしています。
帰国の前に直接話せる残り少ないチャンスです Invitation -catalog
2017 Far under the deep blue oceans of distant times, cities underneath the waters of Japan’s Yonaguni Island
release the multiple memory dream shapes of archaeological dystopia to remind us. June 24-July 26
2017 Makii Masaru Fine Arts, 展示会のタイトルは「A CITY OF ARCHITECTONIC METAMORPHOSIS FOR THE COMMON ERA by Mela M」。
構築された地平線の上下に手描きの都市が拡がります。新しい時代のさらなる高い意識が都市の心と精神とともに振動し、響き渡ります。Mela M.の新しい建築観は、
世界の連結性をより完全な心理社会的統合の状態にもたらします Tokyo, Japan May-June 20 Invitation
2017 Citrus College, Citrus Art Gallery, “The Only Way Out Is In”, Group Exhibit, Catalog, Glendora, CA (March -May)
2016 Kobe Design University Art + Design, LA x KOBE Exchange, “My Life”, Curated by Kaoru Hironaka, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, Japan
2016 Art and Cake, A Contemporary Art Magazine With a Focus on the Los Angeles Art Scene,
Now Be Here: Women Artists Make a Stand, and a Photo by Dani Dodge, August 29, 2016
2014 Alexandria Museum of Art, 26th September Competition Curated by Stewart Nahmias, Alexandria, Catalog, LA (Sept.-Nov.)
2010 Bunny Gunner Gallery, "For Roland", Pomona, Catalog, CA (Sept)
2009 New American Painting, Catalog, 2008 Pacific Coast Competition. January 2009
2008 The 809 Gallery Publication, "Constructed Shapes", Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, Canada (February)
2007 RAM, “Keeping it Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern California Art”, by Peter Frank, Riverside, CA (Nov)
2007 ArtScene, “Keeping it Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern California Art”, by Peter Frank, Riverside, CA (Nov)
2007 RAM, Director’s Statement, “Keeping it Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern California Art”, by Daniel Foster,
Riverside, CA (Nov.)
2007 CLARE Affairs, The Newsletter of the CLARE Foundation, “Art for Clare”, Santa Monica, CA (Summer 2007 )
2006 Radio Interview (7/4/06) on the Program “Two in the City” on the Radio Station “Culture” (FM 102.9) Mela M.
interviewed by Uri Evanoski, Minsk, Belarus
2006 Central National TV station ANT on the show “Good Morning Belarus” Friday and Saturday June 16 & 17, 2006, Minsk, Belarus
2006 ArtScene “A Journey through The Flat World: The Virtual Architecture of Mela M.” (June 2006)
2006 News from Belarus & Eastern Europe, The Being Times, "View" by Mela M. at MOCA Minsk, (June 6)
2006 Coagula Art Journal, “From America”, The exhibition of 55 American artists from 26 cities, curated by Los Angeles based artist Mela M.,
Minsk Belarus (June 2006, #80, page 41)
2006 A Journey through The Flat World: The Virtual Architecture of Mela M. (Catalog)
2005 RTHK, Radio/Television Hong Kong, China General Programs Section, TV Interview, Producer Tim Cheung, (July 17)
2005 Kingsley Art Club and the Crocker Art Museum, “74th Crocker Kingsley Exhibition”, A Juried Competition for Ca Artists, (January 29-March 13)
2005 Crocker Art Museum, Catalog, (January)
2005 Artweek, Editor Debra Koopman, Stellar Somerset Gallery, Previews, “Mela M. Spatial Dimensions” Palo Alto, CA, June 2005 Scott Shields,
"Crocker-Kingsley 74th Exhibition” Crocker Art Museum, catalog, (Jan.)
2005 Coagula, Lawrence Asher Gallery, “Perspective: Linear, Spatial & Otherwise”, Los Angeles, (March)
2005 Selah Artistic Giving Center, Story of Homelessness, Catalog, Los Angeles, Ca (December- January)
2005 Azusanianesr Breadcrumbs,” A wannabe Artist Personally Blogging a Life’s Happening in the Land of the Angels”, Mela M.,
Moto Okawa, www.motookawa.com, Tuesday, (May 17)
2004 Los Angeles Times, Christopher Knight, LA Times staff writer, “The Many Colors of White, Explored, Los Angeles, CA, (March 19, 2004)
2004 New American Painting, Catalog, 2004
2004 Pacific Coast Competition, juried by Michael Klein, Curator of the Microsoft Art Collection, (Dec.)
2004 Los Angeles Times, Jess Holl, “Signed up for ‘Summer Camp”, Galleries, Calendar Weekend, Los Angeles, CA, (July 22, 2004)
2004 Coos Art Museum, “The World”, “Expressions West 2004” Coos Bay Oregon, Friday, July 9, 2004,
2004 Out and About, “Museum Offers Talk, Workshop”, Coos Bay, OR, May 10, 2004
2004 Presented by Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA), Benefiting the Art Museum Council of LACMA, Catalog,
Los Angeles Art Show, Santa Monica, CA, October 14-17
2003 Zucman, Glenn, “Strange Angels” Radio Interview, KBEACH.org., CSU Long Beach, CA, (April 13)
2003 Harrison, Helen A., “Whose Paradise Is It anyway?”, Expo XXII, New York Times, Arts and Entertainment, Long Island Edition, (March 16)
2003 Wallace, George, “Guggenheim Curator Picks Spoke Expo Artists”, The Long Islander, (March 6)Sokolovskaya, Aleksandra, “People in America”, LA 2003 Panorama, January, Valerie Marrs, “Local artist exhibits in Whittier”, Whittier Daily News, Whittier, CA, (December 31)
2002 Dr. Jeanne S. Willette, “Memory and Metonymy: Mela M. and Postmodern Painting”, Catalog, (June)
2002 Richard Smith, “Mela M.’s New Paintings”, Catalog (May)
2002 Mela M. Memory and Metonymy, Catalog, June 2002
2001 Master of Fine Arts-2002, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, May
2000 Frith, Stephanie, “Riviera Village Festival Reinvents Itself,” LA Times South Bay Weekly, April 2000 Easy Reader, (April 27)
1999 International Woman Magazine, LA Woman’s Show, (June)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Marc Chagall Museum Curatorial Project 20011 “Wonder Ship”: This slide exhibition of 26 artists.
MOCA Curatorial Project 2006 "From America": This exhibition of 55 American artists from 26 cities.
OC McNish Gallery, Zeitgeist Architectonia at the Event Horizon, Oxnard College, Oxnard, CA
This slide exhibition of 10 artists.
TEACHING / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011 Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2011 Adjunct Professor, Beginning Drawing (Spring/Fall)
2010 Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2010 Adjunct Professor, Beginning Drawing (Spring/Fall)
2010 Adjunct Professor, Special Topics Lab: Studio Art (Spring)
2009 Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2009 Adjunct Professor, Figure Drawing (Spring)
2009 Adjunct Professor, Beginning Drawing (Fall)
2008 Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA Adjunct Professor, Figure Drawing (Spring)Adjunct Professor, Beginning & Intermediate Drawing (Fall)
2008 University of Redlands Adjunct Professor, Beginning & Intermediate Painting (Spring)
2007 University of Redlands Adjunct Professor, Beginning & Advanced Painting (Fall)
2007 Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, Adjunct Professor, Figure Drawing (Spring),
Adjunct Professor, Beginning & Intermediate Drawing (Fall)
2006 Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga CA, Adjunct Professor, Beginning & Intermediate Drawing (Spring / Fall),
Adjunct Professor, Museums & Galleries (Fall)
2006 Riverside Community College District, Norco College, Norco, CA. Adjunct Professor, Art Appreciation (Spring / Fall)
2005 Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, Adjunct Professor, Beginning & Intermediate Drawing (Spring / Fall)
Adjunct Professor, Museums & Galleries (Spring) Adjunct Professor, Beginning Painting & Beginning Drawing (Summer)
2005 Riverside Community College District, Norco College, Norco, CA, Adjunct Professor, Beginning Drawing (Spring/ Fall)
Adjunct Professor, Art Appreciation (Fall)
2004 Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA Adjunct Professor, Two-Dimensional Design (Spring / Fall) Adjunct Professor, Museums & Galleries (Fall)
2003 Public Art Pre-Qualified Artist Pool, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department (Public Works Department / Bridge Improvements)
Public Art Pre-Qualified Artist Pool, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department (Parks & Recreation / Children’s Playground Improvements)
2000-2002 Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA Teaching Assistant (drawing & painting).
1993-1996 Technological Design and Fashion College, St. Petersburg, Russia. Full-time Professor, figure drawing, painting,
2D design and fashion art history. Organized and managed a “Figure Drawing Club”.
1995-1996 Cherkezovska Area Library, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Instructor: drawing and painting
1993-1996 Central District, St. Petersburg Kindergarten #155, St. Petersburg, Russia. Instructor, painting, drawing, plastics,
and decorative/applied arts for children ages 3 to 7 years in age. Managed exhibitions of children’s work.
1992-1994 “Kvint” LTD., Saint Petersburg, Russia. Designer, Artist Designer for private company specializing in jewelry.
1990-1992 Vitebsk Youth Center, Vitebsk, Belarus.Instructor, painting and drawing. Managed exhibitions of students' work.
1987-1992 Technological Institute of Art Textile Design, Vitebsk, Belarus Textile Design & Multiple Media Student.
1985-1986 Cherkizorviskya Library, Moscow, Russia Instructor, painting. Managed exhibition of children’s artwork.
CHARITY SHOWS
2005-2013 SMMoA, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, “Incognito” Santa Monica CA
2008 Redlands Rotary Club, the University of Redlands Quarter for Kenya, Redlands, CA (March 20)
2007 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, “Incognito”, Santa Monica, CA (April)
2007 Art for CLARE Foundation, Santa Monica, CA (June)
2007 The Brewery Project, “Hausguests”, Los Angeles, CA (Feb.-May) www.SaveDarfur.org, www.hausgallery.com
2006 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Selah Artistic Giving Center, “Story of Homelessness”, Los Angeles, CA
2005 SMMoA, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
2005 All the Art for the Kids Foundation, Fullerton, CA
2004 All the Art for the Kids Foundation, Philip Benizi Parish Hall, Fullerton, CA (Oct.)
2003 Beverly Hills Hotel, “House of Hope”, Charity Auction, Beverly Hills, CA (Oct)
2003 SHG, “Corazones De Aztlan – 4th annual show”, Los Angeles (March)
2003 All the Art for the Kids Foundation, Philip Benizi Parish Hall, Fullerton, CA (Nov.)
2003 DCA Gallery “House of Hope”, Charity Auction Exhibition, Venice, CA (Oct.)
2002 All the Art for the Kids Foundation, Philip Benizi Parish Hall, Fullerton, CA (Oct.)
1999 Assistance League of Bakersfield Charity Art Show, Bakersfield, CA
2002 M.F.A., Painting & Multiple Media, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, May
1992 MFA, Textile Design, Technological Institute of Art Textile Design, Vitebsk, Belarus, June
ADDITIONAL STUDIES
“Painting’s Edge”, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA
Kipaipai Professional Development Workshop, Carey Institute for Global Good, New York
Kipaipai Professional Development Workshop, Joshua Tree, CA
Crimson on Volga Arts College, Kostroma, Russia
Moscow Technological University, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Billis Williams Gallery, Arks Of Angles: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going? Solo Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Billis Williams Gallery, The Cityscape Show XIII: Close to Home, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 22nd Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, Japan
2022 Billis Williams Gallery, The Cityscape Show XII, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Melissa Morgan Fine Art Gallery, Kipaipai Group Exhibit, curated by Andi Campognone, Palm Desert, CA
2022 Hollywood Sculpture Garden, Mela M Sculpture Installation
2022 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 21st Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, Japan
2021 George Billis Gallery, The Authority of Color at the Speed of Light, Solo Exhibit
2021 Museum of Art and History, MOAH, Manifest Structures from the Imaginal: the Omegatropolis, the Rising Wall, the Temple
and the Moon Castle, Solo Exhibit, Lancaster, CA
2021 Chiba City Museum of Art, 19th Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, Japan
2021 LAUNCH LA, A Journey Through Abstract Reciprocal Perspectives: From the Terrestrial to the Architectonic Orbital, two persons show
2021 NOMAD Art Spectacular, presented by Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2020 Carnegie Art Museum's Studio Gallery, Retrograde. The Authority of Color at the Speed of Light, Solo Exhibit,
curated by Zara Monet Feeney, Oxnard CA
2020 Giada Ferri Press Office, The Eviction, curated by Gabi Minedi. Patrizio Maria, Sandro Bongiani, Joe Gabriel Walsh, Tortoreto Lido Te, Italy
2020 Tufenkian Fine Arts, That Layered Look: Theme and Variations, curated by Peter Frank, Glendale, CA
2019 Hudson Valley MOCA, 1st Annual Exhibition, Juried by Legacy Russell, Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum, Peekskill, NY
2019 The National Art Museum of Tokyo, 19th Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, curated by Katsu Shimmin, Japan
2019 OC McNish Gallery, Zeitgeist Architectonia at the Event Horizon, Group Exhibition, Oxnard College, Oxnard CA
2019 Durden and Ray Gallery, Repeating Fragments Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA
2019 OC McNish Gallery, Losing Gravity in the Orbiting Megatropolis, Solo Exhibition, Oxnard College, Oxnard CA
2018 Long Beach Museum of Art, “Time and Space”, Group Exhibit, Long Beach, CA
2017 Makii Masaru Fine Arts, “481 Degrees of Archaeological Genesis In The Primordial Oceans of Yanoguni”, Solo Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Makii Masaru Fine Arts, “A City of Architectonic Metamorphosis for The Common Era by Mela M”, Solo Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Citrus College, Citrus Art Gallery, “The Only Way Out Is In”, Group Exhibit, Glendora, CA
2017 Long Beach Museum of Art, "Abundant Bountiful & Beautiful" Group Exhibit, Long Beach, CA
2016 Long Beach Museum of Art, "Abundant Bountiful & Beautiful" Group Exhibit, Long Beach, CA
2016 TAM, Torrance Art Museum, CSUDH, Mas Attack, Torrance, CA
2016 Kobe Design University ESPAS Gallery-1, LA x KOBE Exchange Exhibit, “My Life”, Curated by Kaoru Hironaka, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, Japan
2016 Kobe Design University Art + Design, Art Department Gallery-2, LA x KOBE Exchange Exhibit, “My Life”,
Curated by Kaoru Hironaka, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, Japan
2016 San Diego Art Institute, Mas Attack, San Diego, CA
2015 Masur Museum of Art, 52nd Annual Competition Curated by Benjamin M. Hickey & Sandra Firmin, Monroe, LA
2013-2014 Alexandria Museum of Art, 26th September Competition Curated by Stewart Nahmias, Alexandria, LA
2013-2014 SMMoA, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
2011-2012 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, "Chain Letter", Santa Monica, CA
2011-2012 SMarc Chagall Museum, “Constructed Horizon”, Vitebsk, Belarus (Solo Exhibition)
2011-2012 SMarc Chagall Museum, “Obese Animals”, Vitebsk, Belarus (Solo Exhibition)
2011-2012 SSanta Monica Museum of Art, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
2010 Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Cult Films Show
2010 Bunny Gunner Gallery, "For Roland", Pomona, CA
2010 643 Project Space "Spatial Conditions", Ventura, CA
2010 SMMoA, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
2009 Los Angeles; I-5 Gallery, “Small Paintings” Los Angeles, CA
2009 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
2008 The 809 Gallery, “Constructed Shapes”, Solo Exhibition, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, Canada,
(This exhibition was sponsored by Alberta College of Art + Design)
2008 SMMoA, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Riverside Art Museum, “Keeping it Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern California Art”,
Curated by Peter Frank, (This exhibition was sponsored by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation) Riverside, CA
2007 Riverside Art Museum, “Painting’s Edge”, Curated by Peter Frank, Riverside, CA
2007 University of Redlands, Faculty 2007, Redlands, CA
2007 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA
2007 The Brewery Project, “Houseguests”, Los Angeles, CA www.SaveDarfur.org, www.hausgallery.com
2006 Riverside Community College District, Landis Art Center Gallery, Faculty 2006, CA
2006 MOCA Minsk, Museum of Contemporary Art, “View” Solo Exhibition,
(This exhibition was partially sponsored by the Durfee Foundation, Los Angeles, CA), Minsk, Belarus
2006 MOCA Minsk, Museum of Contemporary Art, “From America”,
This exhibition of 55 American artists from 26 cities, curated by Los Angeles based artist Mela M., Minsk, Belarus
2006 I-5 Gallery, “Small Paintings” Los Angeles, CA
2006 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Crocker Art Museum, Crocker–Kingsley Exhibition, Juried by a painter Mel Ramos, Sacramento
2005 Colony Gallery, Curated by Mona Casey and Paul McAree, Birmingham, UK
2005 Santa Monica Museum of Art, “Incognito” Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Lawrence Asher Gallery, “Perspective: Linear, Spatial and Otherwise”, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Tangent Contemporary Art at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, “Double Take”, San Francisco, CA,
Urban Institute / Museum for Contemporary Art, Portal Spaces, Solo Exhibition, Grand Rapids, MI
(This exhibition was supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and National Endowment for the Arts)
2005 Stellar Somerset Gallery, “Spatial Dimensions” Palo Alto, CA Solo Exhibition
2004 Patricia Faure Gallery “Summer Camp”, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Patricia Faure Gallery “White on White” Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Sacred Voice Gallery “2nd Annual Exhibit” Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2004 Duke University, Bryan University Center, Louise Jones Brown Gallery, “Spatial Space and Architecture”.
(This exhibition was sponsored by Duke University), Durham NC Solo Exhibition
2004 CAM, Coos Art Museum “Expressions West 2004”, First Prize Winner, Juried by James Mattingly Professor of Art, Emeritus,
Western Oregon University, Monmouth, Coos Bay, OR
2004 Santa Barbara City College, Atkinson Gallery, Small Images 2004, Juror: Bennett Roberts of Roberts & Tilton Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA and Santa Barbara, CA
2004 COCA, Center on Contemporary Art, Northwest Annual Exhibit, Juried by Ken Lum Professor of Art History, Visual Art and Theory,
University of British Columbia, Seattle, WA
2004 Santa Monica Museum of Art, “Incognito” Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2004 LA Artcore, Wallworks, Juried by Alma Ruiz, associate Curator of MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, LA
2004 Tangent Contemporary Art at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, “Double Take”, San Francisco, CA. (March-May)
2004 Viridian Artist @ Chelsea, Slide Exhibition, 15th Annual Juried Exhibition, Juried by Charlotte Kotick, Curator of Contemporary Painting
and Sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, New York, NY
2004 The 10th Annual Los Angeles Art Show benefiting the Art Museum Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
LACMA, Santa Monica, CA; Los Angeles Art Association
2003 Phoenix Gallery “National Juried Competition”, juried by assistant curator Lilian Tone, New York Museum of Modern Art,
Department of Painting and Sculpture, New York, (June-July)
2003 Tangent Contemporary Art, San Francisco, Solo Exhibition, CA
2003 Whittier Art Gallery & Association, “Space & Architecture”, Whittier CA
2003 Solo Exhibition Bluebird Art House “New Drawings and Paintings”, Whittier, CA
2003 Andrewshire Gallery Solo Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA (December)
2003 Market Gallery, Three-person show, Los Angeles, CA (December)
2003 Wurdemann Gallery, “Transformations”, Los Angeles, CA (October)
2003 Clarion Gallery, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA (September)
2003 The Second City Council, “Why Art?”, juried by assistant curator Dr Rachel Teagle,
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MOCASD), Long Beach, CA
2003 The Office-An Art Space, “Brush”, Huntington Beach, CA
2003 LA Artcore/Brewery Annex, “Wallworks” 20th annual juried competition (Third place winner)
by critic, collector & art consultant Neil Menzies, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Off Rose Secret Gallery, “Outside In”, Two-person show, Venice. CA, (May)
2003 Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, “Make Yourself at Home”, juried by Perry Tassel, Artbrokering .com, L.A. CA
2003 I-5 Gallery, The Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA, (April)
2003 B.J. Spoke Gallery, “EXPO XXII” National Juried Five Person Show, Selected by Susan Cross,
assistant curator of New York Guggenheim Museum, Huntington, New York
2003 Tangent Contemporary Art, “Cities and Memory”, San Francisco, CA
2003 Los Angeles Art Association, “100% Natural” L.A., CA, (February / March), juried by Barbara Drucker of UCLA Department of Art.
“White Planes”, Juried by Michelle Isenberg, LA, CA Selah Artistic Giving Center, Story of Homelessness, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Tangent Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA, (December)
2002 Crazy Space, “De Con Struct”, Installation / Performance, Three Person Show, Santa Monica, CA (October)
2002 Peggy Phelps Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2002 Solo Atrium Installation, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont Ca Solo Exhibition Bergamot Station Arts Center,
bgh Main Gallery, “Memory & Metonymy” Santa Monica, CA (Aug.) {Catalog}
2002 Solo Exhibition Off Rose Secret Gallery, “City Popp’s”, Three-person show, Venice. CA (October)
2002 Hollywood Digital (LAAA), “An Exhibition of Twelve Artists” Hollywood, CA (Sept.-Nov.)
2002 LA Art Association, “Location, Location, Location” Los Angeles, CA (July)
2002 Hollywood Digital (LAAA), Hollywood, CA (June-Aug)
2002 Claremont Graduate University, Peggy Phelps Gallery Solo Show (May)
2002 Claremont Community Foundation, Claremont, CA (April)
2002 Claremont Graduate University, Back Office Space, Claremont CA (Mar)
2002 Claremont Graduate University, Front Office Space, Claremont CA (Jan.)
2001 CGU Art Gallery “Insite Incite” Installation, Claremont CA, (Dec)
2001 Claremont Graduate University, Solo Atrium Installation, Claremont, CA (Nov)
2001 Artist's Contemporary Art Gallery "Introductions", Sacramento, CA, (July)
2001 Claremont Graduate University Art Gallery, Claremont, CA (May)
2001 Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, Open Studios, (May)
2001 Artist's Contemporary Gallery, “New Drawings” Sacramento, CA
2001 S. Bay Area Arts Alliance Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Gardena, CA
2001 Harmony Works Gallery, Redondo Beach, CA Santa Ana Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA (May)
2001 "How Original" Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, (Apr. -June)
2000 Artist's Contemporary Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, (Dec)
2000 Claremont Graduate University East Gallery "Fresh Meat", Claremont, CA, (Oct)
2000 Harmony Works Gallery, “Space Continuum” Redondo Beach, CA, Solo Exhibition
2000 Harmony Works Gallery, Redondo Beach, Ca South Bay Area Arts Alliance Gallery, Gardena, CA
2000 Guggenheim Museum, Chapman University, Orange CA (Honorable Mention-7th Orange Open)
2000 Santa Ana Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
1999 South Bay Area Arts Alliance Gallery, Gardena, CA
1999 Articulture Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA (Dec)
1999 Long Beach Art Gallery "Wheels Show", Long Beach, CA
1999 South Bay Area Arts Alliance Gallery, Selected Paintings, Gardena, CA
1999 Solo Exhibition Harmony Works Gallery Redondo Beach, CA
1999 Articulture Gallery “Coming to Los Angeles”, Hermosa Beach, CA (Oct/Nov)
1998 Diane McKinney Gallery, Venice, CA South Bay Area Arts Alliance Gallery, Gardena, CA
1997 Diane McKinney Gallery, Venice, CA
1996 Technological Design & Fashion College Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1996 Teahouse Gallery, Summer Garden, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1996 Teahouse Gallery, Summer Garden, Small Paintings, Saint Petersburg, Russia,
1996 Solo Exhibition Nefski Prospect Art Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1995 Technological Design & Fashion College Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1995 Technological Fashion College Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1995 Nefski Prospect Art Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1995 Baltiysky Dom Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1994 Nefski Prospect Art Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1994 Catherine’s Palace in Pushkin, near Saint Petersburg, Russia
1994 Nefski Prospect Art Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1994 Nevski Prospekt Art Gallery, Batik, Solo Exhibition, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1994 Technological Fashion College Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Solo Exhibition
1993 Nevski Prospect Art Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1993 Catherine’s Palace in Pushkin, near Saint Petersburg, Russia
1993 State Art Gallery, Vitebsk, Belarus
1993 State Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
1991-1992 State Art Gallery, Vitebsk, Belarus (Catalog)
1991-1992 State Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus
1991-1992 Moskovsky Prospect Theatre, Vitebsk, Belarus
1991-1992 Technological & Design Institute Space, Vitebsk, Belarus
1991-1992 VTILP Institute Space, Vitebsk, Belarus, Solo (Final) Exhibition
1990 State Art Gallery, Vitebsk, Belarus
1990 State Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus (Catalog)
1990 Technological & Design University Space, Vitebsk, Belarus
1988-1989 Technological & Design University Space, Vitebsk, Belarus
1988-1989 Korovin Artist House, Open Studios, Gurzuf, Crimea, Russia
1988-1989 Crimson on Volga Arts College Space, Kostroma, Russia
1985-1986 Crimson on Volga Arts College Space, Kostroma, Russia
1985-1986 Moscow Technological University Moscow, Russia
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Long Beach Museum of Art, (LBMOA)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Minsk,
BelarusSouthwestern Oregon Community College, Coos Bay, OR
Off Rose Secret Gallery, Venice Beach, CA
Tangent Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
South Bay Area Arts Alliance, Gardena CA
Technological Institute of Art Textile & Design, Vitebsk, Belarus
Crimson on Volga Arts College, Kostroma, Russia
AWARDS
2023 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 22nd Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition awards, Japan (May)
2022 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 22nd Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition awards, Japan (May)
2021 Chiba City Museum of Art, 19th Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, Japan (Sept,)
2014 Alexandria Museum of Art, 26th September Competition Curated by Stewart Nahmias, Alexandria, LA
(Sept.-Nov.) Honorable Mention Prize Winner
2009 New American Painting, Pacific Coast Competition Winner, January 2009
2006 Durfee Foundation Individual Artist Grant, Santa Monica, CA
2005 UICA Portal Spaces Solo Show Winner, Grand Rapids, Michigan (December - March.)
This exhibition was supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and National Endowment for the Arts Crocker Art Museum,
Crocker–Kingsley Exhibition Award, Competition Winner, Juried by a painter Mel Ramos, Sacramento
2004 First Award Prize Winner, CAM, Coos Art Museum, Juried by James Mattingly, Professor of Art Emeritus, Western Oregon University, Coos Bay, OR
2003 New American Painting, 2004 Pacific Coast Competition, Juried by Michael Klein, Curator of the Microsoft Art Collection, December
2003 EXPRO XXII National Juried Competition 5-person Show Winner, B. J. Spoke Gallery, selected by Susan Cross,
assistant curator of New York Guggenheim Museum, Huntington, NY (March) National Juried Competition, 2-person Gallery II Show Winner,
Phoenix Gallery, juried by assistant curator Lilian Tone, New York Museum of Modern Art, Department of Painting and Sculpture, NY, NY
2003 LA Artcore / Brewery Annex, 20th Annual Competition Third Place Winner, juried by critic, collector & art consultant Neil Menzies, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Teaching Assistantship Fellowship, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2001 Tuition Discount Grant, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA
2000 7th Orange Open, Honorable Mention, Guggenheim Museum, Chapman University, Orange,
First Award Winner, Riviera Village Festival, Redondo Beach, CA
1995 Fashion Design Education Grant, Technological Design and Fashion College, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1987–1992 Student Fellowship Stipend, Technological Institute of Art Textile Design, Vitebsk, Belarus
1986-1987 Student Fellowship Stipend, Crimson on Volga Arts College, Kostroma, Russia.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Artillery magazine, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 22nd Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, Japan
2023 ARTFORUM, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 22nd Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, Japan
2022 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 21st Japan International Art Exchange Exhibit, Catalog
2022 Art in America magazine
2022 NHK: World Strollers – Hollywood & Silverlake (California. U.S.A.), Japan, ( April 5th)
2022 MELA M MASHUPS by Writer, Art Critic and Curator Mat Gleason, 2022
2022 Mela M: MANIFEST STRUCTURES FROM THE IMAGINAL: the OMEGATROPOLIS , the RISING WALL, the TEMPLE
and the MOON CASTLE at MOAH Lancaster, Video by Eric Swenson
2022 The Association of Hysteric Curators, AHC, Review: Mela M The Authority of Color at the Speed of Light by Mary Anna Pomonis
2022 Museum of Art and History, MOAH, Mela M: Manifest Structures from the Imaginal: the Omegatropolis, the Rising Wall,
the Temple and the Moon Castle, Solo Exhibit, Lancaster, Film by Eric Minh Swenson, (October-January)
2021 Milestones and Maybe, Shana Nys Dambrot, Shana, (March 19)
2021 Los Angeles Daily News, Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, (March 19)
2020 Juliet Magazine, Oxygen Exhibition, Temporary Art Magazine since 1980, Italy
2020 IOARTE, Oxygen, Associazione Culturale IoArte, Via Aldo Moro, 47, 31030 CASIER (TV), Italy
2020 Associazione Culturale Gurubu OXYGEN organized by Roma Curatori: Sandro Bongiani-Patrizio Maria-Gabi Minedi-Joe Adam Gabriel, Italy
2020 ARCHIVIO OPHEN VIRTUAL ART DOCUMENTAZIONE DI CULTURA, ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA, Art Made During Quarantine, Italy
2020 That Layered Look II: Curated by Peter Frank. Film by Eric Minh Swenson (#1238)
2020 That Layered Look II: Curated by Peter Frank. Film by Eric Minh Swenson (#1252)
2020 Mela M: Carnegie Museum Studio Gallery, 2.1-5.2, Film by Eric Minh Swenson (#1289)
2020 Retrograde: Curated by Zara Monet Feeney, 2.1-5.2, Film by Eric Minh Swenson (#1299)
2020 Reaching for the Stars: A Cosmic Vision of Hope, Patricia Watts, (May)
2020 Carnegie Art Museum Studio Gallery, Mela M- Light Benders and Altered Absorptions by Suzanne Bybee
on Retrograde Exhibition, Oxnard, CA (Feb.-June)
2019 The National Art Museum of Tokyo, 19th Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, curated by Katsu Shimmin, Catalog, Japan (Nov.)
2019 Mela M: Losing Gravity in the Orbiting Megatropolis: geometric waves, vibrant fields and optic frequencies, Film by Eric Minh Swenson, (Mar. 8)
2018 Losing Gravity in the Orbiting Megatropolis geometric waves, vibrant fields and optic frequencies, Overture by Mela M, 2018
2018 Voyage LA, Meet Mela M. aka Mela Marsh, November 19th
2018 PROPOSAL FOR INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION-METROPOLIS BY Mela M, Dr. Jeanne Willette, (Nov. 8)
2018 MAKING THE METROPOLIS: THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT OF MELA M, Dr. Jeanne Willette, (October 29)
2017 Makii Masaru Fine Arts, “481 Degrees of Archaeological Genesis In The Primordial Oceans of Yonaguni”.
1階で個展開催中のメラさんが在廊しています。4月末に初来日されてから、約2ヶ月が経とうとしています。
帰国の前に直接話せる残り少ないチャンスです Invitation -catalog
2017 Far under the deep blue oceans of distant times, cities underneath the waters of Japan’s Yonaguni Island
release the multiple memory dream shapes of archaeological dystopia to remind us. June 24-July 26
2017 Makii Masaru Fine Arts, 展示会のタイトルは「A CITY OF ARCHITECTONIC METAMORPHOSIS FOR THE COMMON ERA by Mela M」。
構築された地平線の上下に手描きの都市が拡がります。新しい時代のさらなる高い意識が都市の心と精神とともに振動し、響き渡ります。Mela M.の新しい建築観は、
世界の連結性をより完全な心理社会的統合の状態にもたらします Tokyo, Japan May-June 20 Invitation
2017 Citrus College, Citrus Art Gallery, “The Only Way Out Is In”, Group Exhibit, Catalog, Glendora, CA (March -May)
2016 Kobe Design University Art + Design, LA x KOBE Exchange, “My Life”, Curated by Kaoru Hironaka, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, Japan
2016 Art and Cake, A Contemporary Art Magazine With a Focus on the Los Angeles Art Scene,
Now Be Here: Women Artists Make a Stand, and a Photo by Dani Dodge, August 29, 2016
2014 Alexandria Museum of Art, 26th September Competition Curated by Stewart Nahmias, Alexandria, Catalog, LA (Sept.-Nov.)
2010 Bunny Gunner Gallery, "For Roland", Pomona, Catalog, CA (Sept)
2009 New American Painting, Catalog, 2008 Pacific Coast Competition. January 2009
2008 The 809 Gallery Publication, "Constructed Shapes", Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, Canada (February)
2007 RAM, “Keeping it Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern California Art”, by Peter Frank, Riverside, CA (Nov)
2007 ArtScene, “Keeping it Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern California Art”, by Peter Frank, Riverside, CA (Nov)
2007 RAM, Director’s Statement, “Keeping it Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern California Art”, by Daniel Foster,
Riverside, CA (Nov.)
2007 CLARE Affairs, The Newsletter of the CLARE Foundation, “Art for Clare”, Santa Monica, CA (Summer 2007 )
2006 Radio Interview (7/4/06) on the Program “Two in the City” on the Radio Station “Culture” (FM 102.9) Mela M.
interviewed by Uri Evanoski, Minsk, Belarus
2006 Central National TV station ANT on the show “Good Morning Belarus” Friday and Saturday June 16 & 17, 2006, Minsk, Belarus
2006 ArtScene “A Journey through The Flat World: The Virtual Architecture of Mela M.” (June 2006)
2006 News from Belarus & Eastern Europe, The Being Times, "View" by Mela M. at MOCA Minsk, (June 6)
2006 Coagula Art Journal, “From America”, The exhibition of 55 American artists from 26 cities, curated by Los Angeles based artist Mela M.,
Minsk Belarus (June 2006, #80, page 41)
2006 A Journey through The Flat World: The Virtual Architecture of Mela M. (Catalog)
2005 RTHK, Radio/Television Hong Kong, China General Programs Section, TV Interview, Producer Tim Cheung, (July 17)
2005 Kingsley Art Club and the Crocker Art Museum, “74th Crocker Kingsley Exhibition”, A Juried Competition for Ca Artists, (January 29-March 13)
2005 Crocker Art Museum, Catalog, (January)
2005 Artweek, Editor Debra Koopman, Stellar Somerset Gallery, Previews, “Mela M. Spatial Dimensions” Palo Alto, CA, June 2005 Scott Shields,
"Crocker-Kingsley 74th Exhibition” Crocker Art Museum, catalog, (Jan.)
2005 Coagula, Lawrence Asher Gallery, “Perspective: Linear, Spatial & Otherwise”, Los Angeles, (March)
2005 Selah Artistic Giving Center, Story of Homelessness, Catalog, Los Angeles, Ca (December- January)
2005 Azusanianesr Breadcrumbs,” A wannabe Artist Personally Blogging a Life’s Happening in the Land of the Angels”, Mela M.,
Moto Okawa, www.motookawa.com, Tuesday, (May 17)
2004 Los Angeles Times, Christopher Knight, LA Times staff writer, “The Many Colors of White, Explored, Los Angeles, CA, (March 19, 2004)
2004 New American Painting, Catalog, 2004
2004 Pacific Coast Competition, juried by Michael Klein, Curator of the Microsoft Art Collection, (Dec.)
2004 Los Angeles Times, Jess Holl, “Signed up for ‘Summer Camp”, Galleries, Calendar Weekend, Los Angeles, CA, (July 22, 2004)
2004 Coos Art Museum, “The World”, “Expressions West 2004” Coos Bay Oregon, Friday, July 9, 2004,
2004 Out and About, “Museum Offers Talk, Workshop”, Coos Bay, OR, May 10, 2004
2004 Presented by Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA), Benefiting the Art Museum Council of LACMA, Catalog,
Los Angeles Art Show, Santa Monica, CA, October 14-17
2003 Zucman, Glenn, “Strange Angels” Radio Interview, KBEACH.org., CSU Long Beach, CA, (April 13)
2003 Harrison, Helen A., “Whose Paradise Is It anyway?”, Expo XXII, New York Times, Arts and Entertainment, Long Island Edition, (March 16)
2003 Wallace, George, “Guggenheim Curator Picks Spoke Expo Artists”, The Long Islander, (March 6)Sokolovskaya, Aleksandra, “People in America”, LA 2003 Panorama, January, Valerie Marrs, “Local artist exhibits in Whittier”, Whittier Daily News, Whittier, CA, (December 31)
2002 Dr. Jeanne S. Willette, “Memory and Metonymy: Mela M. and Postmodern Painting”, Catalog, (June)
2002 Richard Smith, “Mela M.’s New Paintings”, Catalog (May)
2002 Mela M. Memory and Metonymy, Catalog, June 2002
2001 Master of Fine Arts-2002, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, May
2000 Frith, Stephanie, “Riviera Village Festival Reinvents Itself,” LA Times South Bay Weekly, April 2000 Easy Reader, (April 27)
1999 International Woman Magazine, LA Woman’s Show, (June)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Marc Chagall Museum Curatorial Project 20011 “Wonder Ship”: This slide exhibition of 26 artists.
MOCA Curatorial Project 2006 "From America": This exhibition of 55 American artists from 26 cities.
OC McNish Gallery, Zeitgeist Architectonia at the Event Horizon, Oxnard College, Oxnard, CA
This slide exhibition of 10 artists.
TEACHING / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011 Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2011 Adjunct Professor, Beginning Drawing (Spring/Fall)
2010 Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2010 Adjunct Professor, Beginning Drawing (Spring/Fall)
2010 Adjunct Professor, Special Topics Lab: Studio Art (Spring)
2009 Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2009 Adjunct Professor, Figure Drawing (Spring)
2009 Adjunct Professor, Beginning Drawing (Fall)
2008 Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA Adjunct Professor, Figure Drawing (Spring)Adjunct Professor, Beginning & Intermediate Drawing (Fall)
2008 University of Redlands Adjunct Professor, Beginning & Intermediate Painting (Spring)
2007 University of Redlands Adjunct Professor, Beginning & Advanced Painting (Fall)
2007 Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, Adjunct Professor, Figure Drawing (Spring),
Adjunct Professor, Beginning & Intermediate Drawing (Fall)
2006 Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga CA, Adjunct Professor, Beginning & Intermediate Drawing (Spring / Fall),
Adjunct Professor, Museums & Galleries (Fall)
2006 Riverside Community College District, Norco College, Norco, CA. Adjunct Professor, Art Appreciation (Spring / Fall)
2005 Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, Adjunct Professor, Beginning & Intermediate Drawing (Spring / Fall)
Adjunct Professor, Museums & Galleries (Spring) Adjunct Professor, Beginning Painting & Beginning Drawing (Summer)
2005 Riverside Community College District, Norco College, Norco, CA, Adjunct Professor, Beginning Drawing (Spring/ Fall)
Adjunct Professor, Art Appreciation (Fall)
2004 Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA Adjunct Professor, Two-Dimensional Design (Spring / Fall) Adjunct Professor, Museums & Galleries (Fall)
2003 Public Art Pre-Qualified Artist Pool, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department (Public Works Department / Bridge Improvements)
Public Art Pre-Qualified Artist Pool, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department (Parks & Recreation / Children’s Playground Improvements)
2000-2002 Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA Teaching Assistant (drawing & painting).
1993-1996 Technological Design and Fashion College, St. Petersburg, Russia. Full-time Professor, figure drawing, painting,
2D design and fashion art history. Organized and managed a “Figure Drawing Club”.
1995-1996 Cherkezovska Area Library, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Instructor: drawing and painting
1993-1996 Central District, St. Petersburg Kindergarten #155, St. Petersburg, Russia. Instructor, painting, drawing, plastics,
and decorative/applied arts for children ages 3 to 7 years in age. Managed exhibitions of children’s work.
1992-1994 “Kvint” LTD., Saint Petersburg, Russia. Designer, Artist Designer for private company specializing in jewelry.
1990-1992 Vitebsk Youth Center, Vitebsk, Belarus.Instructor, painting and drawing. Managed exhibitions of students' work.
1987-1992 Technological Institute of Art Textile Design, Vitebsk, Belarus Textile Design & Multiple Media Student.
1985-1986 Cherkizorviskya Library, Moscow, Russia Instructor, painting. Managed exhibition of children’s artwork.
CHARITY SHOWS
2005-2013 SMMoA, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, “Incognito” Santa Monica CA
2008 Redlands Rotary Club, the University of Redlands Quarter for Kenya, Redlands, CA (March 20)
2007 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, “Incognito”, Santa Monica, CA (April)
2007 Art for CLARE Foundation, Santa Monica, CA (June)
2007 The Brewery Project, “Hausguests”, Los Angeles, CA (Feb.-May) www.SaveDarfur.org, www.hausgallery.com
2006 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Selah Artistic Giving Center, “Story of Homelessness”, Los Angeles, CA
2005 SMMoA, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
2005 All the Art for the Kids Foundation, Fullerton, CA
2004 All the Art for the Kids Foundation, Philip Benizi Parish Hall, Fullerton, CA (Oct.)
2003 Beverly Hills Hotel, “House of Hope”, Charity Auction, Beverly Hills, CA (Oct)
2003 SHG, “Corazones De Aztlan – 4th annual show”, Los Angeles (March)
2003 All the Art for the Kids Foundation, Philip Benizi Parish Hall, Fullerton, CA (Nov.)
2003 DCA Gallery “House of Hope”, Charity Auction Exhibition, Venice, CA (Oct.)
2002 All the Art for the Kids Foundation, Philip Benizi Parish Hall, Fullerton, CA (Oct.)
1999 Assistance League of Bakersfield Charity Art Show, Bakersfield, CA