Melissa Day
http://www.stanford.edu/~fham/mmd/Melissa%20Day.html
www.mmd.ca
b. 1970, London, Canada. Lives and works in San Francisco
Represented by Peak Gallery, Toronto.
Radically ambivalent, Melissa Day’s painting and video works grapple with simultaneous states of faith and doubt, permanence and impermanence, knowing and not knowing. Melissa Day received her Masters in Fine Art from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Queen’s University, Canada and Glasgow School of Art, Scotland in 1992. Her work has been exhibited recently at the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Berkeley Art Museum, New Langton Arts (San Francisco), Peak Gallery (Toronto), Roam Contemporary (New York), El Pobre Diablo (Ecuador), and can currently be seen in the online show curated by Christian Frock www.invisiblevenue.com with screenings in London, New York and San Francisco. She was recently the 2005-6 UC Berkeley MFA Studio Awardee at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Other recent awards include the San Francisco Foundation’s Murphy Fellowship in the Fine Arts, the Eisner Prize in the Creative Arts, the Sam Francis Distinguished Alumni from UC Berkeley and grants from the University of California Research in the Arts, as well as the Canada and Ontario Arts Councils. She recently taught in Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley and in the Art and Art History Program of Sheridan College and the University of Toronto, Mississauga. Day is represented by Peak Gallery, Toronto.
Melissa Day is participating in
Title: Whistle (Great is Thy Faithfulness), video, 2006, 1 minute