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SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022/23 Drawing Rooms' Art Project, Dvora Art House, Jersey City, NJ
2019 Lines, Forms, Substance: Joan Mellon and Sumayyah Samaha,
Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
2017 Joan Mellon: Reflections, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
Joan Mellon: Paper, Wood, Rubber, Rope, Covello Center, NYC
2016 Wet Paint: Joan Mellon / Amy Bay, PLEAT Gallery,
bethanieirons.com/pleat, Bethany Irons, curator
2015 Joan Mellon: Recent Paintings, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
2014 Joan Mellon PAINTINGS, Hudson Gallery,
SUNY Empire State College, NY, NY, Betty Wilde-Biasiny, curator
2011 Joan Mellon/Paintings, Works on Paper &
Christina Freeman/Photographs, Aristeia Metro, NYC
2006 Joan Mellon: Contemplating Color, ParaSite Gallery, Beacon, NY
2005 Joan Mellon: Paintings / Works on Paper, Creative Center, NYC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
The Object and Beyond: Contemporary Stil Life, Art Spaces@Krasdale, White Plains, NY (through February 16, 2024)
Flora, First Street Gallery, NYC
Small Works Show, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
Drawing on Experience, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
Fair Share Art Auction: Earthquake Relief (virtual), www.instagram.com/fairshareartauctions/
2022
Marking Time, Art Spaces@Krasdale, White Plains, NY
Small Works Show, The New Art Corridor (virtual), Newton, MA
2021
Resilient & Creative, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
Looking Forward, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC, Nancy Azara, curator
Drawing Challenge XXI, Jason McCoy Gallery online archive, NYC
Full Circle, WoArt online, Chrisina Massey, curator
Group Show 3, Digital Exhibition in SHRINE's "The Empty Gallery," NYC
2020
Drawing Challenge XVI, Jason McCoy Gallery online archive, NYC
Art in the Time of Pandemic: Best Foot Forward, Part 1
https://joannematteraartblog.blogspot.com
NYAE Spring Flash, NY Artists Equity, Equity Gallery online, NYC
Shelter in Place - #3, Studio Place Arts online, Barre, VT
Dedication and Purpose: 65 Artists Over 65
http://joannematteraartblog.blogspot.com/2020/01/dedication-and
purpose-65-artists-over.html
2019
The Power of Small Things, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center,
Port Angeles, WA
O: A Circle Show, Portmanteau Project Space, Dayton, OH,
Carolyn Kay Chema, curator
Wherefore Art, Village West Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Somewhere We Landed, Benefit, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2018
Forming Identities, Sculpture Space NYC, LIC, NY, Patricia Zarate, curator
Small Works 2018 Applicant Exhibition Online, Trestle Gallery, Bklyn, NY,
coincided w/gallery exhibition, Sharon Louden, curator
A Ball of Clay, A What If Production, created by Sara Russell, NYC
Going Postal, Artists Talk on Art (ATOA) Benefit, Salmagundi Club, NYC
2017
Black Box, boeckercontemporary traveling show: Künstlerhaus Saar,
Las Grand Atelier, Faux-Mouvement, Casino Luxembourg
An Aggregate of Forces:60 Women Artists Over 60,
joannematteraartblog.blogspot.com
A Dark Wood, Noyes Arts Garage at Stockton University,
Atlantic City, NJ
2016
Seeking Space: Making the Future, Arts in Bushwick, David & Schweitzer
Contemporary, Bklyn, NY, Julie Torres/Michael David, curators,
NOMENColorATURE, Studio 10+Centotto, Bklyn, NY,
Paul D’Agostino, curator
Under the Influence, Village West Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Paint Print Paper, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
2015
Art Beyond Category: 14 Contemporary Artists, Matera, Italy,
Carol Heft/Pino Nicoletti, curators
Going Big, Central Booking, NYC, Suzan Shutan/Susan Carr, curators
The Big Small Show, Victory Hall Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
Family Ties: Brooklyn/Dallas, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Bonny Leibowitz/Julie Torres, curators
Deep Breath, Local Project, Long Island City, NY
New Work City, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY, Julie Torres, curator
2014
Forces At Play, Gallery Molly Krom, NY, NY catalog essay Susan C. Larsen
Off The Wall, 9th Terrace Annual, London, Karl Bielik, curator
21 & Counting: The Painter Center Turns 21,
Painting Center benefit, NY, NY
Second Family, 2 Rivington Street, NY, NY, Julie Torres, curator
Desert Island's pop up, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY
2013
Meta Vista, 16 Wilson, Matthew Neil Gehring, curator
hosted by Deborah Brown, Brooklyn, NY
NURTUREart Benefit, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, NYC
Jennie Lamensdorf, James Panero, Amy Smith-Stewart,
Mark Tribe, jurors
A Time in Arcadia, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ,
Raymond E. Mingst and Arthur Bruso, curators
2012
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio Membership Show, NY, NY
Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids benefit, Cheim/Read, NY
2011
Real Time, Rutgers University, NJ, Brainstormers Art Collective
Buy What You Love, Rema Hort Mann Foundation benefit, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY, NY
2010
Summeryview, OK Harris, NYC, Rick Witter, curator
Making Art Makes Sense, Citicorp, Court Square Atrium, L.I.C.
Artists-in-Residence, Johnson & Johnson Headquarters, Edison, NJ
2009
Jazz & Art, Hudson Guild Gallery, NYC, Jim Furlong, curator
Looking Back, Looking Forward, Red Eft Gallery,
Wurtsboro, NY, Phil Sigunick, curator
Your Documents Please, International Traveling Exhibition,
Daniel Georges and Rumiko Tsuda, curators
2008
No Chromophobia, OK Harris Gallery, NYC,
Rick Witter and Suzanne Kreps, curators
12x12, Todd Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN, Dave Hickey, juror
Between Worlds, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ,
Raymond E. Mingst and Arthur Bruso, curators
2007
Fine Art Adoption Network (FAAN) Online Participant,
site commissioned by Art in General, NYC
2006
100 Works by 100 Artists, Go North Gallery, Beacon, NY
2005
New Orleans Relief Benefit, Ch’i Contemporary Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2002
Summer Selections, 2/20 Gallery, NYC
1999
National Juried Exhibition of Small Works,
Montclair State University, NJ, June Kelly, curator
1998
Critic’s Choice, New York Law School, NYC, Bill Bace, juror
1995
Emerging Artists, Painting Center, NYC
Painting Today, Erector Sq Gallery, New Haven, CT William Bailey, curator
Le Petit III, Alder Gallery, Eugene, OR
1993
Personal Journeys, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
1986
Political Statements, Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN, NEA sponsored
GRANTS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES / CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2019 co-curator w/Kirsten Kucer, Patricia Zarate, Lynn Truncale,
Unlikely Materials and the Language of Art, Art Spaces @ Krasdale,
White Plains, NY
2018 emergency grant(s), The Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation;
Artists' Fellowship, Inc.
2017 artist-in-residence, Carter Burden/Leonard Covello Center, NY, NY
2015 co-curated w/Patricia Zarate, Runcible Spoon
Key Projects an Art Space, LIC, NY,
2008 1st place, 12 x 12, Middle TN State University,
National Juried Exhibition, Dave Hickey, juror
1998 artist residency, Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Woodstock, NY
1997 juror selection, Mass Media, Bill Bace, Review, NY, NY
1993 jurors' award, Personal Journeys, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
PRESS/IN PRINT and ONLINE
2024
Conversations: 23 Interviews with Still Life Artists (book with color images), organized and created by Zeuxis. Included in Kathleen Craig's converstion with Xico Greenwald, Joan Mellon, Cody Heichel. For more info: https://zeuxis.us, suzanne@thestudleypress.com
2017
The Village Voice, Joan Mellon Flies High at Carter Burden Gallery,
March 17, 2017, R.C. Baker
https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/03 /16/joan-mellon-flies-high-at
carter-burden-gallery/
2015
Art, Artists, Galleries Blog by Todd Camplain, Sunday, 4.26.15,
http://camplinart.blogspot.com/2015/04/joan-mellon-john-kesling-
jonathan-cowan.html
2014
A View from the Easel, Hyperallergic
COLLECTIONS
Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ
Franklin Furnace Archives / Museum of Modern Art, NYC
New York Public Library – Artists’ Books Collection, NYC
School of Visual Arts, NYC
Private Collections
TEACHING
2008 - 2022 Workshops in two and three-dimensional media, NYC
2003 - 2009 SUNY Empire State College, NYC
2002 - 2006 Artist-in-Residence
The Blavatnik Family-Chelsea Medical Center at Mount Sinai (formerly
St. Vincent's Cancer Center), Mount Sinai West (formerly St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital), Calvary Hospital, NYC
EDUCATION
MA, Liberal Studies, SUNY Empire State College, NY, NY
BFA, School of Visual Arts, NY, NY
SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022/23 Drawing Rooms' Art Project, Dvora Art House, Jersey City, NJ
2019 Lines, Forms, Substance: Joan Mellon and Sumayyah Samaha,
Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
2017 Joan Mellon: Reflections, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
Joan Mellon: Paper, Wood, Rubber, Rope, Covello Center, NYC
2016 Wet Paint: Joan Mellon / Amy Bay, PLEAT Gallery,
bethanieirons.com/pleat, Bethany Irons, curator
2015 Joan Mellon: Recent Paintings, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
2014 Joan Mellon PAINTINGS, Hudson Gallery,
SUNY Empire State College, NY, NY, Betty Wilde-Biasiny, curator
2011 Joan Mellon/Paintings, Works on Paper &
Christina Freeman/Photographs, Aristeia Metro, NYC
2006 Joan Mellon: Contemplating Color, ParaSite Gallery, Beacon, NY
2005 Joan Mellon: Paintings / Works on Paper, Creative Center, NYC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
The Object and Beyond: Contemporary Stil Life, Art Spaces@Krasdale, White Plains, NY (through February 16, 2024)
Flora, First Street Gallery, NYC
Small Works Show, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
Drawing on Experience, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
Fair Share Art Auction: Earthquake Relief (virtual), www.instagram.com/fairshareartauctions/
2022
Marking Time, Art Spaces@Krasdale, White Plains, NY
Small Works Show, The New Art Corridor (virtual), Newton, MA
2021
Resilient & Creative, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
Looking Forward, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC, Nancy Azara, curator
Drawing Challenge XXI, Jason McCoy Gallery online archive, NYC
Full Circle, WoArt online, Chrisina Massey, curator
Group Show 3, Digital Exhibition in SHRINE's "The Empty Gallery," NYC
2020
Drawing Challenge XVI, Jason McCoy Gallery online archive, NYC
Art in the Time of Pandemic: Best Foot Forward, Part 1
https://joannematteraartblog.blogspot.com
NYAE Spring Flash, NY Artists Equity, Equity Gallery online, NYC
Shelter in Place - #3, Studio Place Arts online, Barre, VT
Dedication and Purpose: 65 Artists Over 65
http://joannematteraartblog.blogspot.com/2020/01/dedication-and
purpose-65-artists-over.html
2019
The Power of Small Things, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center,
Port Angeles, WA
O: A Circle Show, Portmanteau Project Space, Dayton, OH,
Carolyn Kay Chema, curator
Wherefore Art, Village West Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Somewhere We Landed, Benefit, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2018
Forming Identities, Sculpture Space NYC, LIC, NY, Patricia Zarate, curator
Small Works 2018 Applicant Exhibition Online, Trestle Gallery, Bklyn, NY,
coincided w/gallery exhibition, Sharon Louden, curator
A Ball of Clay, A What If Production, created by Sara Russell, NYC
Going Postal, Artists Talk on Art (ATOA) Benefit, Salmagundi Club, NYC
2017
Black Box, boeckercontemporary traveling show: Künstlerhaus Saar,
Las Grand Atelier, Faux-Mouvement, Casino Luxembourg
An Aggregate of Forces:60 Women Artists Over 60,
joannematteraartblog.blogspot.com
A Dark Wood, Noyes Arts Garage at Stockton University,
Atlantic City, NJ
2016
Seeking Space: Making the Future, Arts in Bushwick, David & Schweitzer
Contemporary, Bklyn, NY, Julie Torres/Michael David, curators,
NOMENColorATURE, Studio 10+Centotto, Bklyn, NY,
Paul D’Agostino, curator
Under the Influence, Village West Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Paint Print Paper, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC
2015
Art Beyond Category: 14 Contemporary Artists, Matera, Italy,
Carol Heft/Pino Nicoletti, curators
Going Big, Central Booking, NYC, Suzan Shutan/Susan Carr, curators
The Big Small Show, Victory Hall Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
Family Ties: Brooklyn/Dallas, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Bonny Leibowitz/Julie Torres, curators
Deep Breath, Local Project, Long Island City, NY
New Work City, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY, Julie Torres, curator
2014
Forces At Play, Gallery Molly Krom, NY, NY catalog essay Susan C. Larsen
Off The Wall, 9th Terrace Annual, London, Karl Bielik, curator
21 & Counting: The Painter Center Turns 21,
Painting Center benefit, NY, NY
Second Family, 2 Rivington Street, NY, NY, Julie Torres, curator
Desert Island's pop up, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY
2013
Meta Vista, 16 Wilson, Matthew Neil Gehring, curator
hosted by Deborah Brown, Brooklyn, NY
NURTUREart Benefit, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, NYC
Jennie Lamensdorf, James Panero, Amy Smith-Stewart,
Mark Tribe, jurors
A Time in Arcadia, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ,
Raymond E. Mingst and Arthur Bruso, curators
2012
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio Membership Show, NY, NY
Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids benefit, Cheim/Read, NY
2011
Real Time, Rutgers University, NJ, Brainstormers Art Collective
Buy What You Love, Rema Hort Mann Foundation benefit, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY, NY
2010
Summeryview, OK Harris, NYC, Rick Witter, curator
Making Art Makes Sense, Citicorp, Court Square Atrium, L.I.C.
Artists-in-Residence, Johnson & Johnson Headquarters, Edison, NJ
2009
Jazz & Art, Hudson Guild Gallery, NYC, Jim Furlong, curator
Looking Back, Looking Forward, Red Eft Gallery,
Wurtsboro, NY, Phil Sigunick, curator
Your Documents Please, International Traveling Exhibition,
Daniel Georges and Rumiko Tsuda, curators
2008
No Chromophobia, OK Harris Gallery, NYC,
Rick Witter and Suzanne Kreps, curators
12x12, Todd Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN, Dave Hickey, juror
Between Worlds, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ,
Raymond E. Mingst and Arthur Bruso, curators
2007
Fine Art Adoption Network (FAAN) Online Participant,
site commissioned by Art in General, NYC
2006
100 Works by 100 Artists, Go North Gallery, Beacon, NY
2005
New Orleans Relief Benefit, Ch’i Contemporary Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2002
Summer Selections, 2/20 Gallery, NYC
1999
National Juried Exhibition of Small Works,
Montclair State University, NJ, June Kelly, curator
1998
Critic’s Choice, New York Law School, NYC, Bill Bace, juror
1995
Emerging Artists, Painting Center, NYC
Painting Today, Erector Sq Gallery, New Haven, CT William Bailey, curator
Le Petit III, Alder Gallery, Eugene, OR
1993
Personal Journeys, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
1986
Political Statements, Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN, NEA sponsored
GRANTS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES / CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2019 co-curator w/Kirsten Kucer, Patricia Zarate, Lynn Truncale,
Unlikely Materials and the Language of Art, Art Spaces @ Krasdale,
White Plains, NY
2018 emergency grant(s), The Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation;
Artists' Fellowship, Inc.
2017 artist-in-residence, Carter Burden/Leonard Covello Center, NY, NY
2015 co-curated w/Patricia Zarate, Runcible Spoon
Key Projects an Art Space, LIC, NY,
2008 1st place, 12 x 12, Middle TN State University,
National Juried Exhibition, Dave Hickey, juror
1998 artist residency, Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Woodstock, NY
1997 juror selection, Mass Media, Bill Bace, Review, NY, NY
1993 jurors' award, Personal Journeys, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
PRESS/IN PRINT and ONLINE
2024
Conversations: 23 Interviews with Still Life Artists (book with color images), organized and created by Zeuxis. Included in Kathleen Craig's converstion with Xico Greenwald, Joan Mellon, Cody Heichel. For more info: https://zeuxis.us, suzanne@thestudleypress.com
2017
The Village Voice, Joan Mellon Flies High at Carter Burden Gallery,
March 17, 2017, R.C. Baker
https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/03 /16/joan-mellon-flies-high-at
carter-burden-gallery/
2015
Art, Artists, Galleries Blog by Todd Camplain, Sunday, 4.26.15,
http://camplinart.blogspot.com/2015/04/joan-mellon-john-kesling-
jonathan-cowan.html
2014
A View from the Easel, Hyperallergic
COLLECTIONS
Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ
Franklin Furnace Archives / Museum of Modern Art, NYC
New York Public Library – Artists’ Books Collection, NYC
School of Visual Arts, NYC
Private Collections
TEACHING
2008 - 2022 Workshops in two and three-dimensional media, NYC
2003 - 2009 SUNY Empire State College, NYC
2002 - 2006 Artist-in-Residence
The Blavatnik Family-Chelsea Medical Center at Mount Sinai (formerly
St. Vincent's Cancer Center), Mount Sinai West (formerly St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital), Calvary Hospital, NYC
EDUCATION
MA, Liberal Studies, SUNY Empire State College, NY, NY
BFA, School of Visual Arts, NY, NY