MELANIE WILLHIDE | BIOGRAPHY

MELANIE
WILLHIDE                   

Born 1975, Manchester, Connecticut


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

TO ADRIAN RODRIGUEZ WITH LOVE
VON LINTEL GALLERY
New York, New York 2012

SLEEPING BEAUTIES (THE BOX UNDER THE BED)
YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY
New York, New York, 2011

TO ADRIAN RODRIGUEZ WITH LOVE
KAYCEE OLSEN GALLERY
Los Angeles, California, 2011

THE BELT OF VENUS
BELLWETHER GALLERY
New York, New York, 2007

SLEEPING BEAUTIES (THE BOX UNDER THE BED)
REAL ART WAYS
Hartford, Connecticut, 2007

THE AUGMENTED SIXTH
AOV GALLERY
San Francisco, California, 2000

Q.H.Q.D (EACH HOUR, EVERY DAY)
THE RED EYE GALLERY
Providence, Rhode Island, 1999


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

A About Bauhaus Ham Neu Tues
CARDWELL JIMMERSON
Los Angeles, California, 2010

MYSTERIUM
KINKEAD CONTEMPORARY
Los Angeles, California, 2009

SLEEPING BEAUTIES (THE BOX UNDER THE BED)
SF CAMERAWORK
San Francisco, California, 2008

DICE THROWN (WILL NEVER ANNUL CHANCE)
BELLWETHER GALLERY
New York, New York, 2006

CONTROL, EDIT, DELETE
KANSAS CITY SOCIETY OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Kansas City, Missouri, 2003

HOMEWORK
WALLSPACE GALLERY
New York, New York, 2002

CRUSH
THE BERNARD TOALE GALLERY
Boston, Massachusetts, 2002

YALE MFA THESIS SHOW
YALE SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY
New Haven, Connecticut, 2002

TWEAKED
ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION CENTER FOR THE ARTS
New York, New York, 2001

YALE PHOTGRAPHY MFA 2004
YALE SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY
New Haven, Connecticut, 2002

MIMIC
AOV GALLERY
San Francisco, California, 2001

UNTITLED: (CONJECTURE)
SF CAMERAWORK
San Francisco, California, 2000

YALE MFA 2002
YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY
New Haven, Connecticut, 2000

Q.H.Q.D. (EACH HOUR, EVERY DAY)
AOV Gallery
San Francisco, California, 2000

THE RISD INVITATIONAL
WOODS GERRY GALLERY
Providence, Rhode Island, 1999

Q.H.Q.D. (EACH HOUR, EVERY DAY)
WOODS GERRY GALLERY
Providence, Rhode Island, 1999

MELANIE WILLHIDE: RECENT WORK
NEW SPACE GALLERY
Manchester, Connecticut,1996

MELANIE WILLHIDE: RECENT WORK
NEW SPACE GALLERY,
Manchester, Connecticut, 1995

PUBLICATIONS

THE NEW YORKER, “Bryan Graf/Melanie Willhide,” July 11 & 18, 2011, page 16.

ART LTD. MAGAZINE, “Melanie Willhide: “to Adrian Rodriguez with love” at Kaycee Olsen Gallery”, Jody Zellen,  July, 2011.

TO ADRIAN RODRIGUEZ WITH LOVE, Melanie Willhide, 2011.

LOS ANGELES TIMES/CULTURE MONSTER, “Art Review: Melanie Willhide at Kaycee Olsen Gallery,” Sharon Mizota, April 21, 2011.

FOIL_IANN MAGAZINE, “Melanie Willhide: The Belt of Venus,” Volume 3: A Silent Paper,
2009.

PHOTOWORLD MAGAZINE, “Melanie Willhide,” 2009.

DEAR PHOTOGRAPHER,  Jason Labbe, Phylum Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2009.

CAMERAWORK, “Past is an image we form in the present,” Emma Tramposch,
Volume 35, No. 2 Fall/Winter 2008, pages 4 - 7.

BLINDSPOT, “Melanie Willhide,” October 2008, Issue 38.

ART INFO, “Chelsea Shows for the Thanksgiving Table: Bellwether Gallery, Melanie
Willhide, The Belt of Venus,” Jacqulen Lewis, November 19, 2007.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Art in Review, “Dice Thrown (will Never Annul Chance),”
Roberta Smith, November 3, 2006, E34.

TIME OUT, “Dice Thrown,” Anne Doran,
November 2 - 8, 2006, Issue 579.

DRUNKEN BOAT, “Panliterary Awards,” 2006.

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 19, 2003, picture 75.

PITCH WEEKLY, “Photo Realism: Seven Photographers Capture the Moments of Our
Lives,” April 10, 2003, page 23.

REVIEW, “Control, Escape, Delete,” February/March 2003, page 27.

V MAGAZINE, "Exposure,” January/February 2002, page 46.

BOSTON GLOBE, Living Arts Section, “Using Light to Touch and Transform,”
February 9, 2002, page 1.

PHOTO METRO, April, 2000, page 4.

CAMERAWORK, September, 2000.

EDUCATION

YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ART
Master of Fine Art, Photography, 2002

RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Bachelor of Fine Art, Photography, 1999