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Education
2021 MFA, Drawing and Painting, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2014 BFA summa cum laude, Fine Arts Studio, Honors Program, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2013 Study Abroad, Florence University of the Arts (spring semester)
2016 Certificate in Appraisal Studies, NYU School of Professional Studies
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Another Day Another Girl, solo exhibition, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
I’m Your Perfect Girl, thesis exhibition, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2018
Cavern, Makers Gallery, solo exhibition, Rochester, NY
2017
Inner Beauty, 540 West Main, solo exhibition, Rochester, NY
2016
Hidden Gem, Cat Clay Studio, solo exhibition, Rochester, NY
2015
New Work by Melissa Huang, Meddlesome Lab, solo exhibition, Rochester, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
Glitch is the Soul in the Machine, International Digital Media & Arts Association, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Winona State University, Winona, MA
In Pieces, Good News Arts, Melissa Huang and Alexis Childress, High Springs, FL
Drawn Together +, Ongoing Conversation, invitational, National Center for Contemporary Arts, curated by Soude Dadras, Minsk, Belarus
COVEN, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN
Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Contemporary and University Galleries, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Before, Behind, Below, Beneath, Beside, Between, Beyond, By, Atlanta International Airport, curated by Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Out Loud, a virtual exhibition of Asian American women artists benefitting Advancing Justice Atlanta, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, curated by Jiha Moon, virtual exhibition, Atlanta, GA
Relics: Stories from the Past, Ongoing Conversation, Roswell Visual Art Center, curated by Soude Dadras, Roswell, GA
Heart of the Arts, Midtown ATL, Temporary window installation/mural project commissioned to activate empty storefronts, curated by Neda Abghari, Atlanta, GA
22nd Annual Art Papers Auction, Small Works Sale, April 17, 2021, Atlanta, GA
Home Body, Illges Gallery, Columbus State University, curated by Hannah Israel and Isaac Sabelhaus, Columbus, GA
2020
ASYAAF (Asian Students and Young Artists Art Festival), Hongik Museum of Art, invitational Overseas Artists Section curated by Gallery LVS, Seoul, Korea (catalogue)
Little Things, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Parallel, Whitespace Gallery, curated by Teresa Bramlette Reeves, Atlanta, GA
Making A Way, (Juror: Mark Rospenda, Curator), virtual exhibition South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
Winfisky Gallery at Salem State University, Salem, MA
Third LaGrange Southeast Regional, Lamar Dodd Art Center and LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA (Juror: Curlee Raven Holton, artist) (catalogue) &yet, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA, Juror’s Choice (Jurors: Veronica Kessenich, Director of the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; Yu-Kai Lin, Owner and Director of Kai Lin Art; Joseph Peragine, artist and Director of the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design) (digital catalogue)
Altered Ego, MACAA, Mid-America College Art Association, Student Award (Juror: Liz Roberts, artist) Juried Exhibition in Social Distance, New American Paintings (Juror: Steven Zevitas, New American Paintings Editor in Chief), virtual exhibition From the Artist’s Collection, summer invitational, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA
I’m looking forward to tomorrow, group exhibition, Good News Arts, High Springs, FL
Everything is Different Now, group exhibition, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN
Soften, Stay Home Gallery, virtual exhibition, curated by Pam Marlene Taylor Flesh Spaces, Header/Footer Gallery, New Media Caucus, virtual exhibition, curated by Constanza Salazar, Ph.D. Candidate at Cornel Contributed video clip for College Art Association panel discussion
Detour, Emery Community Arts Center at the University of Maine at Farmington, virtual exhibition
Beauty in the eyes of machines, Niio x AI Art Prizes 2019/20, Runner Up Juried Student Exhibition, Neely Purchase Prize, Georgia State University School of Art & Design Gallery, Atlanta, GA (Juror: Shannon Morris, curator and gallery director at the Mary S. Byrd Gallery at Augusta University)
2019
Body Double, Melissa Huang and Hanna Newman, The Bakery, Atlanta, GA
HOME AIR: Melissa Huang and Drew Tetz, Spillway Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Ongoing Conversation: Recall, Recollect, and Reconstruct, Invitational Exhibition, Kyoto International Community House (kokoka), curated by Soude Dadras, Kyoto, Japan Ongoing
Conversation: Impression, Kyoto Shibori Museum, Kyoto, Japan (Juror: Junco Sato Pollack, artist)
More Upstairs, Temporary Art Center, curated by Scott Ingram, Atlanta, GA
Juried Student Exhibition, Honorable Mention, Georgia State University School of Art & Design Gallery, Atlanta, GA (Juror: Hope Cohn, curator)
Back to School Special, Graduate Artist Forum, Gallery 650, Atlanta, GA
The Black Baby Project, Gallery 650, curated by Jamaal Barber, Atlanta, GA
2018
Germinate, Loud Cow Art Space, Spencerport, NY
Creating our Legacy, Link Gallery, curated by APAA
(Asian/Pacific Islander/American Association of Greater Rochester), Rochester, NY
2017
Nasty Women, The Yards, Rochester, NY
Nevertheless, She Persisted, Gallery Q, Rochester, NY
2016
Rochester Brainery Presents: ROC Girl Gang Gallery, Rochester, NY
Art House Press, Barnes and Noble, Rochester, NY
Connections and Entanglements, The Yards, Rochester, NY
Dream or Nightmare, SCENE Metrospace, East Lansing, MI
(Juror: Judy Jashinsky, artist, Chicago, IL) (catalogue) Midsummer Night’s Dream, Luna Gallery, Rochester, NY
New Works Show, Rochester Brainery, Rochester, NY
2015
Women Artists of the Finger Lakes, Best in Show, First Congregational Church, Canandaigua, NY (Jurors: Luvon Sheppard, Professor of Art, Rochester Institute of Technology; Melissa Newcomb, Associate Professor of Art, Keuka College) Winning pieces displayed at the National Women’s’s Hall of Fame, Seneca, NY
Love from the Earth: Minerals, Mushrooms, & Plants, Zeitgeist Gallery, Beverly, MA
30 under 30, The Memorial Art Gallery, Gallery Store, Rochester, NY
Solid Gold, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
No Big Heads: 30th Annual Self-Portrait Competition, UAA Student Union Gallery (Juror: Kiel Johnson, artist, Los Angeles, CA)
2014
Self: An International Juried Exhibit of Women’s Self Portraiture, Martha Gault Art
Gallery, Slippery Rock, PA (Juror: Leona Shanks, artist, Philadelphia, PA) (catalogue)
Matter+Form, Phelps Art Center, Phelps, NY
Emanation – Group Portrait Exhibition, Dacia Gallery, New York, NY
FLORA: A Juried Exhibition of Botanical Art, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
(Juror: Alan Singer, Professor of Art, Rochester Institute of Technology) Minute Musings, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL
2013
The Art of Play, Lazarus Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
Student Showcase, Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, Rochester, NY
Between Two Worlds, Florence University of the Arts, Florence, Italy (catalogue)
2012
Wanna Play?, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL, 2nd place (Juror: David Van Alphen, Curator, Rotofugi Gallery, Chicago, IL)
Awards
2021
Graduate Art Office Award, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2020
Kathleen Williams Award (Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking Graduate Award, $2,000), Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Neely Purchase Prize, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Anderson Ranch Scholarship in partnership with Georgia State University Full tuition & board for summer workshop
2019
Graduate Supplemental Funding Award ($1,500), Georgia State University
Nancy Goyer Endowed Scholarship, Georgia State University
International Education Fee Scholarship for study abroad program in China
2014
Wiltsie Watercolor Prize, Award of Merit, Rochester Institute of Technology
Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar Award, Rochester Institute of Technology
2011
Akyuz-Ozmen Award for Excellence in Feminist Scholarship
2010
Presidential Scholarship, Rochester Institute of Technology
Reviews and Press
2021
Okla Jones, “Review: Melissa Huang’s Another Day Another Girl @ The Marietta Cobb Museum of Art”, Number:Inc, April 7, 2021
http://www.numberinc.org/review-another-day-another-girl-the-marietta-cobb-museum-of-art
Felicia Feaster, “Virtual art exhibit aims to counter anti-Asian hate”,
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 11, 2021
https://www.ajc.com/life/arts-culture/virtual-art-exhibit-aims-to-counter-anti-asian-hate/O2BG726NZJDZ7C4WBX5W42WMNI
City Lights with Lois Reitzes, WABE 90.1 FM, NPR’s Local Atlanta Radio Station
https://www.wabe.org/episode/may-the-fourth-be-with-you
Aaron Garland, “Alumni spotlight: Melissa Huang ‘14 (Graduate’s latest career feat is
a solo exhibition at an Atlanta museum”, Rochester Institute of Technology, News, January 25, 2021 https://www.rit.edu/artdesign/news/alumni-spotlight-melissa-huang-14
2020
Neda Abghari, “Heart of the Arts: Bringing Vacant Storefronts to Life in Midtown”, Saporta Report, December 14, 2020
https://saportareport.com/heart-of-the-arts-bringing-vacant-storefronts-to-life-in-midtown
Jerry Cullum, “Review: Alternate realities of Covid-19, protests prompt “Parallel” at
Whitespace”, ARTS ATL, July 27, 2020
https://www.artsatl.org/review-alternate-realities-of-covid-19-protests-prompt-parallel-at-whitespace
Jac Kuntz, “Melissa Huang (M.F.A. ‘21) and Drew Tetz (M.F.A. ‘21): Married Master of
Fine Arts Candidates, Collaborative Artists and Instructors”, Georgia State University Magazine, summer 2020 print and online issue
https://news.gsu.edu/magazine/summer2020/melissa-huang-and-drew-tetz
Mollie Barnes, She Curates, interview, www.mollieebarnes.com/melissahuang
“No Gallery No Problem”, Georgia Commute Options, April 7, 2020 (blog)
https://gacommuteoptions.com/about-us/media-center/no-gallery-no-problem-me-irl/
Under The Bridge, Painting issue, Winter 2020
2019
Keisha Lancelin, Interview, CW69, Focus Atlanta, November 17, 2019
Jerry Cullum, “Cullum’s Notebook”, ARTS ATL, monthly survey highlighting art
events in Metro Atlanta, previewing Body Double at The Bakery,
November 7, 2019
www.artsatl.org/cullums-notebook-on-nature-and-culture-via-sally-manns-lens-at-jackson-fine-art
2018
Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, Issue Number 12
(Visual Arts Editor: Rebecca Murtaugh, artist, Queens, NY)
Rebecca Rafferty, “Melissa Huang: Cavern (choice event)”, Rochester City Newspaper
2016
Rebecca Rafferty, “Generating Beauty from Busy Lives”, Rochester City Newspaper
https://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/generating-beauty-from-busy-lives/Content?oid=2899547
“Politits Art Coalition Fights Censorship with Solidarity”, The NewsHouse
“Painting Crystals with Melissa Huang”, Roc Girl Gang (blog)
Sabra Wood, Interview, WAYO 104.3 FM, The Graphic Ear
2015
Art House Press, Rochester Art Magazine, Issue One
Fresh Paint Magazine, Issue Six, (Juror: Alicia Puig, Gallery Operations Coordinator,
Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA)
Dialogist, Volume 2, Issue 3