Melanie Daniel

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MELANIE DANIEL

Melanie Daniel (b. 1972 in Victoria, British Columbia) is an internationally renowned Canadian artist. Her work combines ethereal color schemes with intricately rendered landscapes with bold and varied textures. Melanie Daniel has exhibited at galleries and museums around the world in cities like New York (US), LA (US), Miami (US), London (UK), Lyon (FR), Montreal (CA) Christchurch (NZ), Stockholm (SE) and Copenhagen (DK). She holds a BA in science, literature and philosophy and a BFA and MFA and is the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, the Creative Capital Grant, and the NARS Foundation Residency in New York City. Her art is represented in private and public collections around the world, including the Harvard Business School collection, and the Brandes Family Art Collection, and has been featured on CBC/Radio Canada, in Frieze Magazine, and in Newsweek.

EDUCATION

2004-2006 MFA, Bezalel, Tel Aviv / Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
1995-1999 BFA, Fine Arts Department, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem,
1994-1995 Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
1992-1993 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
1991 External Studies in Italy via Langara College, Vancouver, British Columbia
1989-1991 Okanagan University College, Kelowna, British Columbia.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 A Faint Earthly Breath, Christoffer Egelund Gallery, Copenhagen
2021 No Man’s Land, Asya Geisberg Gallery, NY
2020 Goin’ Where the Climate Suits My Clothes, Kelowna Art Gallery, BC
2020 That Shape is my Shade, Grand Valley State University, Michigan
2020 After the Flood, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami
2019 Only Four Degrees, GRAM Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan
2018 Untitled Miami solo booth, Chelouche Gallery, Miami
2018 Late Bloomers, Asya Geisberg Gallery, NY
2016 Cabin Fever, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2015 Piecemaker, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, LA
2014 Lotus Eaters, Asya Geisberg Gallery, NY
2014 Raven and the Leftover Men, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012 Echo Shield, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York
2012 Busted, Kelowna Art Gallery, British Columbia
2011 Captivity Tales, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York
2010 Evergreen, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2009 After, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2007 New Works, Angelika Knapper Gallery, Stockholm
2007 Second Shift, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
2005 Dove Song, Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
2003 A.W.O.L., Artists House, Tel Aviv
2003 Pleasantvale, Grandforks Art Gallery, British Columbia
2003 Pleasantvale, OUC North Campus Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia
2003 Pleasantvale, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Israel
2002 Migration of a Bad Conscience, Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
2002 Blind Spot, Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios, Israel

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 (forthcoming) A Window Scrubbed for the Moon, Asya Geisberg Gallery, NY
2022 paper, Beers Gallery, London
2022 Kamloops Art Gallery
2021 New Works, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal
2021 You Might Believe You’re There, Girls’ Club, Ft Lauderdale
2021 Ocean Gleaning, Baker Museum, Naples, Florida
2021 Future Fair, NY
2021 Fairyland, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami
2021 Extra! Extra!, Asya Geisberg Gallery, NY
2020 Group Show, Chelouche Gallery
2020 No Land, Beit Hankin Museum, Israel
2019 Your Very Own Paradise, Oakland University Gallery
2019 Summertime ’19 Galleri Chrisoffer Egelund, Copenhagen
2019 Vortex, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2019 Offering, Padnos Art Gallery, GVSU, Allendale (curated by Melanie Daniel)
2018 Christoffer Egelund Gallery, Copenhagen
2018 “70/70/70 Bronfman Centre, Santa Barbara
2017 Recent Acquisitions for Permanent Collection – Ashdod Museum of Contemporary Art
2017 Tel Aviv Museum of Art (March)
2016 Untitled, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv.
2016 Exquisite Corpse, Morean Arts Center, St Petersburg, Florida.
2015 Art Brussels Fair, Represented by Chelouche Gallery.
2014 The Moment. The Backdrop. The Persona. Girls’ Club, Ft Lauderdale.
2013 TOTEM, Asya Geisberg Gallery, NY
2013 Mythographies, Yaffo Twenty Three, Jerusalem
2012 Untitled Art Fair, Miami Beach
2012 Terra Icognita, NARS Foundation for the International Artist Residency, NY
2011 NADA Art Fair, Miami Beach
2011 GLAAD Auction, The Metropolitan Pavilion, NY
2011 Art Los Angeles Contemporary Fair, Asya Geisberg Gallery, Los Angeles, 

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES AND OTHERS

2020 Guest Curator and Juror for the Young Contemporaries Exhibition at the Halsey Institute of Art Charleston, SC
2017 to 2020 Painting, Drawing, Paper Making, GVSU, Michigan.
2017 to 2020 Padnos Distinguished Visiting Artist, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2012 NARS – New York Art Residency and Studio Foundation, NY
2012 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant recipient
2102 New York Foundation for the Arts grant recipient
2010 Creative Capital, NYC
2009 Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2006-2007 The Sharett Scholarship, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
2006 The Smith Academic Excellence Scholarship, History of Art Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2001-2003 The Sharett Scholarship, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
2020 Guest Curator and Juror for the Young Contemporaries Exhibition at the Halsey Institute of Art Charleston, SC
2017 to 2020 Painting, Drawing, Paper Making, GVSU, Michigan.
2008-2011 Painting, Printing and Drawing, Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.
2008 Series of Lectures, Art History Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

COLLECTIONS

CICA Vancouver Centre of International Art Society
Art Partners
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Ashdod Museum of Contemporary Art
Harvard Business School
Girls Club, Ft Lauderdale
Poalim Bank (NY)
Poalim Bank (Tel Aviv)
Discount Bank (Tel Aviv)
Doron Sebbag Collection
Angel Art Collection
Jonathan Kolber Family Collection
Grand Valley State University
Brandes Family Collection
Select Private Collections