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Melissa Day
b.1970, London, Canada.
Lives and works in Northern California
Represented by Peak Gallery, Toronto
Mel Day is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, designer, and experimental contemplative working across a range of media including video, sound, drawing, photography, and social practice. In recent work, she continues to investigate the instability of belief systems of all kinds through a constellation of multi-sensory, multi-media, and multi-faith effects, most recently focused in a speculative series of “Study Guides for Experimental Contemplatives.â€
Currently an artist in residence at The Lab with Pieces-of-You-Topia, Day’s work has recently been selected for Frequencies, a new online genealogy of spirituality organized by the Immanent Frame at the Social Science Research Council and Killing the Buddha. Day was recently a Visiting Artist at the Experimental Media Arts Lab at Stanford University and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Film Society and Southern Exposure Art Gallery, in San Francisco, a two-person show in Berlin, the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, and Peak Gallery, Toronto. Awards include the John D. and Susan P. Diekman Fellowship, the San Francisco Foundation’s Murphy Fellowship in the Fine Arts, the Eisner Prize in the Creative Arts from UC Berkeley, the Sam Francis Distinguished Alumni Award and an MFA Fellowship to the Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA). Day has been a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, the Art & Art History Program at Sheridan College and University of Toronto as well as in the Digital Media Art Program at Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California. She received a Masters in Fine Art from the University of California, Berkeley. Day is represented by Peak Gallery, Toronto.
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