BIO

Melody Owen is a graduate of the MFA program at Alfred University (Alfred, NY) and a current PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). She is a multi-disciplinary artist whose drawings, collages, photographs and films address ecological concerns. Her work has exhibited at such locations as the Kunsthalle Krems Museum, (Krems an der Donau, Austria), the Royal College of Art (London, England), Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College (Memphis, TN), Spoonbill and Sugartown (Brooklyn, NY), Bellevue Art Museum (Bellevue, WA), the Art Gym at Marylhurst University (Marylhurst, OR) and the Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR). Owen has completed residencies at the AIR Niederösterreich Residency, (Krems, Austria) Djerassi Residency (Woodside, CA), Playa  Cité Internationale des Arts, (Paris, France), the Gil Society (Akureyri, Iceland) and the Est-Nord-Est Residency (Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Canada). In addition, to winning numerous awards, grants and fellowships, Owen’s exhibition, Under My Skin was an Artforum Critic’s Pick in 2015.