Melissa McGill
Arts/Industry: Pottery, 2002, 2004
Melissa McGill is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist known for ambitious, collaborative, site-specific public art projects. They take the form of immersive experiences that explore nuanced conversations between land, water, sustainable traditions, and the interconnectedness of all living things.
Her work has been exhibited at The Lightbox (United Kingdom), TOTAH (NY), Garrison Institute (NY), Francesco Panteleone Arte Contemporanea (Italy), Russel Wright Center (NY), White Cube (United Kingdom), Nancy Margolis Gallery (NY), and Neuberger Museum of Art (NY), among others. She has received numerous grants and awards, including a NEA grant, the Freedman Family Fund, the Educational Foundation of America Grant, and the CAC/Guggenheim Artist Residency Grant, among others. McGill has been an artist-in-resident at Russel Wright Center (NY), Arts/Industry at Kohler Co. (WI), and Ox-Bow (MI). Her work has been reviewed in Vogue, The Brooklyn Rail, Huffington Post, The New York Times, Village Voice, and The New York Post, among others.
McGill received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She is represented in the USA by David Totah and by Mazzoleni in Europe and Asia.
