Melanie dai Medeiros is an interdisciplinary visual artist who lives and works around the East Bay of Rhode Island. Her artwork uses materials and processes that elaborate on the inconsistencies of memory both in the narrative of imagery and physicality of the material. She is passionate about raising awareness of our collective impact on our environment and its inhabitants, sustainable art practices, and leaving the world better than she finds it.
HONORS
2026 Advisory Board, NBNERR Artist in Residency Program- Prudence Island 2026 Imago Foundation for the Arts Recognition Award
2024 Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, 2nd Place- Spring Member’s Show
2024 Imago Foundation for the Arts Recognition Award
2023 recipient of the Make Art Grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
2023 Warwick Center for the Arts: Pulp Fiction, 1st Place Prize
2023 Juror, Bristol Art Museum at the Rogers Free Library, B+W Exhibition 2021- present Artist Member, the Collaborative 02885
2020 Pawtucket Foundation Prize Exhibit honorable mention
2019 Pawtucket Arts Collaborative: Textures, 1st Place Prize
EDUCATION
2020 Masters of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art and Design; Boston, MA
2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art; Boston, MA
EXHIBITIONS
2026 the Big One, Imago Foundation for the Arts, Warren, RI
2025 Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Pawtucket, RI
2025 Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Exhibitionist 2025 Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Foundation Prize Exhibition, Pawtucket, RI 2024 12th Annual One ArtsWorcester, Worcester, MA
2024. National Open Juried Exhibition Providence Art Club, Providence, RI 2024 Spring Member’s Show Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI 2024 The Space We Hold DeBlois Gallery, Middletown, RI
2024 the Big One Imago Foundation for the Arts, Warren, RI,
2023 Still Life Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI
2023 The Jury’s In Bristol Art Museum at the Rogers Free Library, Bristol, RI 2023 Constructed Prisms Warwick Center for the Arts, Warwick, RI
2023 11th Annual One Arts Worcester, Worcester, MA
2023 Contemporary Landscape- solo exhibition, Audubon Society of RI
2023 Pulp Fiction Warwick Center for the Arts, Warwick, RI 1st Place Prize 2022 Sense of Place Coggeshall Farm, Bristol, RI
2022 featured artist Market Street Studio part of the Collaborative 02885, RI 2022 RAW: Reassessment and Wonder Jamestown Arts Center, Jamestown, RI 2022 Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Foundation Prize Exhibition, Pawtucket, RI 2022 Putting the Pieces Back Together Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
2021 It Takes All Types Bristol Art Museum at the Rogers Free Library, RI 2021 unThemed Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI
2021 Much Like Real Life MASSART x SOWA, Boston, MA
2021 Guest Artist, Imago Foundation for the Arts, Warren, RI
2021 Altered Papers, Prints & Books, Warwick Center for the Arts, Warwick, RI 2021 Transformation, Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI
2021 Touch Me, Feel Me DeBlois Gallery, Middletown, RI
2021 Wish You Were Here! Imago Foundation for the Arts, Warren, RI
2021 Back to Nature Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
2021 Winter Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI
2020 Pandemonium Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI
2020 MFA SUMMER THESIS SHOW 2020 MassArt, Boston, MA
2020 Isolation Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY
2020 Terrain Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY
2020 Through the Window Warwick Center for the Arts, Warwick, RI
2020 Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Foundation
2020 Paper Trails Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY
2020 Art Speaks Out Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI
2019 MassArt Masters Scollay Square Gallery Boston City Hall, MA
2019 Home Warwick Center for the Arts, Warwick, RI
2019 Textures Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI: 1st Place Prize 2018 Extracurricular Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
2018 Parsing Sign and Image Art League of Rhode Island, Providence, RI