Melanie dai Medeiros resides in Rhode Island. She is passionate about raising awareness of our collective impact on our environment and its inhabitants and is interested in sustainable art practices. Medeiros has shown in a variety of venues throughout New England. She is an artist member of the Collaborative 02885 in Warren, RI and ArtsWorcester. In 2020, Melanie received her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston where she had obtained her BFA in 2003. A selection of her work is always available at the Collaborative 02885 at 4 Market Street in Warren RI.
Honors
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
2020 Pawtucket Foundation Prize Exhibit honorable mention
2019 Pawtucket Arts Collaborative: Textures, 1st Place Prize
E X H I B I T I O N S
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 2nd Place Prize
2024. The Space We Hold DeBlois Gallery, Middletown, RI
2024 the Big One Imago Foundation for the Arts, Warren, RI, Recognition Award
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- a solo exhibition, Audubon Society of Rhode Island, Warren, 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, Warren, 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, Bristol, 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 Prize Exhibition, Pawtucket, RI honorable mention
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
E D U C A T I O N
2020 Masters of FIne Arts, Massachusetts College of Art and Design; Boston, MA
2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art; Boston, MA