Melanie Daniel

Born 1972 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 

Solo Exhibitions

 2025 South Bend Museum of Art, Indiana

2024 Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco

2024 Galleri Christoffer Egelud, Copenhagen

2023 Shadow Weaving, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami

2023 The Way of Flowers and Ghosts, Hiro Hiro Artspace, Formosa Taiwan

2022 A Faint Earthly Breath, Christoffer Egelund Gallery, Copenhagen

2021 No Man's Land, Asya Geisberg Gallery, NY

2020 Goin' Where the Climate Suits My Clothes, Kelowna Art Gallery, BC

2020 That Shape is my Shade, Grand Valley State University, Michigan

2020 After the Flood, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami

2019 Only Four Degrees, GRAM Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan

2018 Untitled Miami solo booth, Chelouche Gallery, Miami

2018 Late Bloomers, Asya Geisberg Gallery, NY

2016 Cabin Fever, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv

2015 Piecemaker, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, LA 

2014 Lotus Eaters, Asya Geisberg Gallery, NY 

2014 Raven and the Leftover Men, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv

2012  Echo Shield, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York

2012 Busted, Kelowna Art Gallery, British Columbia       

2011 Captivity Tales, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York
2010 Evergreen, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2009 After, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2007 New Works, Angelika Knapper Gallery, Stockholm
2007 Second Shift, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
2005 Dove Song, Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
2003 A.W.O.L., Artists House, Tel Aviv
2003 Pleasantvale, Grandforks Art Gallery, British Columbia
2003 Pleasantvale, OUC North Campus Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia
2003 Pleasantvale, Jerusalem Artists' House, Israel
2002 Migration of a Bad Conscience, Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
2002 Blind Spot, Tel Aviv Artists' Studios, Israel

 Group Exhibitions

 2024 A Nomadic Exhibition Project, Otto Gallery, Bologna, Italy.

2023 Winter Show, Galerie Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen

2023 Future Fair, (Solo with Patrick Mikail Gallery and group with Asya Geisberg), NY

2023 LSpace Gallery, NY

2023 We Support, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv

2022 "A Confluence of Coastal Creativity," Albertz Benda gallery, Los Angeles

2022-23 Rinse & Repeat, works from the collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz," Girls' Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL

2022 Evocations curated Lorand Hegyi, Faur Zsofi Gallery, Budapest

2022 (Curating) A Window Scrubbed for the Moon, Asya Geisberg Gallery, NY

2022 Summer22, Galerie Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen

2022 Hospitality Suite, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami

2022 Dreampaper, Slika Gallery, Lyon

2022 Transobjectional, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal

2022 paper, Beers Gallery, London

2022 Kamloops Art Gallery, British Columbia

2021 Papier Art Fair, Montreal

2021 New Works, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal

2021 You Might Believe You're There, Girls' Club, Ft Lauderdale

2021 Ocean Gleaning, Baker Museum, Naples, Florida

2021 Future Fair, NY

2021 Fairyland, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami

2021 Extra! Extra!, Asya Geisberg Gallery, NY

2020 Group Show, Chelouche Gallery

2020  No Land, Beit Hankin Museum, Israel

2019 Your Very Own Paradise, Oakland University Gallery

2019 Summertime '19 Galleri Chrisoffer Egelund, Copenhagen

2019 Vortex, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv

2019 Offering, Padnos Art Gallery, GVSU, Allendale (curated by Melanie Daniel)

2018 Christoffer Egelund Gallery, Copenhagen

Untitled Miami, represented by Asya Geisberg

Paris Art Fair (October 2018)

2018 "70/70/70 Bronfman Centre, Santa Barbara

Exposition Collective, Galerie des Tuiliers, Lyon

2017 Recent Acquisitions for Permanent Collection - Ashdod Museum of Contemporary Art (January)

2017 Tel Aviv Museum of Art (March)

Arts Elysees, Galerie des Tuiliers, Paris

2016 Untitled, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv.

2016 Exquisite Corpse, Morean Arts Center, St Petersburg, Florida.

2015 Art Brussels Fair, Represented by Chelouche Gallery.

2014 The Moment. The Backdrop. The Persona. Girls' Club, Ft Lauderdale.

2013 TOTEM, Asya Geisberg Gallery, NY

2013 Mythographies, Yaffo Twenty Three, Jerusalem
2012 Untitled Art Fair, Miami Beach
2012 Terra Icognita, NARS Foundation for the International Artist Residency, NY

2011  NADA Art Fair, Miami Beach

2011 GLAAD Auction, The Metropolitan Pavilion, NY

2011 Art Los Angeles Contemporary Fair, Asya Geisberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA     

2011 Terror: Artists Respond, Dershowitz Gallery at Industry City, Brooklyn

2011 The Woods are Lovely, Dark and Deep, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York
2009 Painting Camp 2, Ramla - Ofakim, Stations for Contemporary Art, Ramla,
2009 Fresh Paint, The Old Station, Tel Aviv
2009 Cockeye: Male Nude in Contemporary Israeli Art, Gal-On Art Space, Tel Aviv
2008 Howling Taxidermies, Beit Shturman Museum, Ein Harod
2008 Mermaid, Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008 Layla, Inga Gallery, NY
2008 TwoSidedness, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
2008 Stop Street Violence, Stockholm City Hall
2007 Shades between Black and White, Gilit Fisher Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 Group Show, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 Cry of the Cicada, Hagra Studios, Tel Aviv
2007 Street Space, The Artists Residence, Herzliya
2007 Pornography My Love, The Artists' House, Tel Aviv
2007 Volta Show, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
2007 100 Years of Bezalel, Sotheby's House, Tel Aviv
2006 Disruptions, Petach Tikva Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
2006 Goods to Declare - MFA International Terminal 1, Tel Aviv
2006 Salame 60:06, MFA Graduate Show, Tel Aviv
2006 Uniform, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
2006 Eclipse, Julie M Gallery, Tel Aviv
2005 New Faces, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2005 For Haim, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
2004 Digitalis - New Forms Festival, Vancouver, Canada
2004 Tagteam, Tank Gallery, New York
2002 4th Happening, Salamanca Group, Old Central Prison Museum, Jerusalem
2002 Artic 4, The Genia Schreiber Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University
2002 Not Home, New Gallery, Jerusalem
2001 Biennial of Contemporary Drawing in Israel, Ticho House, Israel Museum
2001 Artic 3, The Genia Schreiber Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University

Video Screenings

 2009 Tattoo, KG45 Tel Aviv

2008 Jerome, Hazira, Jerusalem
2007 Jerome, Tungsten, Tel Aviv
2006 High Noon, Jerusalem Cinematheque
2006 High Noon, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem
2006 High Noon, Digital Art Center, Holon
2005 High Noon, 22nd Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany
2005 High Noon, Video Night without Video Art, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv
2005 Dove Song, International Film Festival, MONA, Detroit
2004 Dove Song, Rencontres Paris/Berlin International Film Festival, Halle de la Villette, Paris

 Awards and Grants

 2017 to 2020 Padnos Distinguished Visiting Artist, Grand Rapids, Michigan

2012 NARS - New York Art Residency and Studio Foundation, NY

2012 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant recipient
2102 New York Foundation for the Arts grant recipient

2010 Creative Capital, NYC
2009 Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2006-2007 The Sharett Scholarship, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
2006 The Smith Academic Excellence Scholarship, History of Art
Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2001-2003 The Sharett Scholarship, America-Israel Cultural Foundation

Teaching

 2020 Guest Curator and Juror for the Young Contemporaries Exhibition at the Halsey Institute of Art Charleston, SC

2017 to 2020  Endowed Chair - Painting, Drawing, Paper Making, GVSU, Michigan.

2008-2011 Painting, Printing and Drawing, Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.

2008  Series of Lectures, Art History Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

2009  Painting Lectures, Midrasha School of Art at Beit Berl Teachers Training College, Cfar Saba.

2010 Guest Speaker at The Center for Contemporary Art , Tel Aviv.

2000-2003 Private painting lessons.

1999 Digital Graphic Design and Typography, Ministry of Labour, Jerusalem. 

1998 Drawing Courses, Studio A, Jerusalem. 

Recent Events and Panels

 CBC Radio Interview with Sheryl MacKay West to West Coast, January 16, 2021. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-43-north-by-northwest/clip/15819140-saturday-january-16 

CBC Radio Canada (French) Live Interview, January 6, 2021. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/boulevard-du-pacifique/segments/entrevue/338232/melanie-daniel-musee-beaux-art-kelowna

YouTube Video, Artist Interview for the Kelowna Art Gallery, November 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V7lrdBWlgk&feature=em-share_video_user&fbclid=IwAR3umS99XSGVxHThoYBMa0vdBqGYGFgR9JN5KiQPqYB6Xn8iHhpubtYlEwc

Online Zoom Artist lecture at the Kelowna Art Gallery, December, 2020.

Evening with Melanie Daniel, Padnos Distinguished Artist-in-Residence on Wednesday, March 28, Richard M. DeVos Center, Rapids, Michigan.

Evening with Padnos Distinguished Visiting Artist: GVSU Pew Campus, Grand Rapids, March 2018.

Panel on Painting, February 28, 2018. Art Gallery of the Haas Center for Performing Arts, Grand Valley State University

Education

 2004-2006 MFA, Bezalel, Tel Aviv / Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 

1995-1999 BFA, Fine Arts Department, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem,
1994-1995 Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
1992-1993 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
1991 External Studies in Italy via Langara College, Vancouver, British Columbia
1989-1991 Okanagan University College, Kelowna, British Columbia

Collections

CICA Vancouver Centre of International Art Society

Art Partners

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Ashdod Museum of Contemporary Art 

Harvard Business School

Girls Club, Ft Lauderdale

Poalim Bank (NY)

Poalim Bank (Tel Aviv) 

Discount Bank (Tel Aviv)

Doron Sebbag Collection

Angel Art Collection

Jonathan Kolber Family Collection

Grand Valley State University

Brandes Family Collection

Select Private Collections

Selected Reviews and Publications

 Harper's Magazine, April 2023 Issue, Vol. 346, No. 2075, April 2023

"Melanie Daniel at Mindy Solomon, 'Shadow Weaving,'" Art Spiel, March 2, 2023

Bailey, Spencer, The Slowdown, "As Art Basel Turns 20, Miami Art Week Enters a New, Slightly Less Hyped-Up Dawn," December 2, 2022

Schneider, Tim, ARTNET, Why the Wave of Climate-Crisis Art Is More Than Just Virtue-Signaling, Even If It's Not Enough (and Other Insights), September 22, 2021

Felsberg, Kaylie, ARTSY" 5 Artists on Our Radar This June", June 1, 2021

Refael, Sagi, ART SPIEL "Melanie Daniel - No Man's Land at Asya Geisberg", June 12, 2021

Nafziger, Christina, CREATE! MAGAZINE" Melanie Daniel: "No Man's Land" At Asya Geisberg Gallery", June 18, 2021

Horne, Laura, Tussle Magazine Projects, Interview: "Melanie Daniel: No Man's Land" June 26, 2021

Laurence, Robin, Borderline Magazine, Feature Melanie Daniel, April 2021. 

Miller, Marla R., Revue Magazine, "Changing Environments: Grand Rapids Art Museum focuses on how the world around us is changing", April 24, 2019.

Strandell, Mary Ann, Delicious Line, Melanie Daniel: Late Bloomers, June 19, 2018.Burns, Emily, MAAKE Magazine, Melanie Daniel Late Bloomers, June 18, 2018.

Cascone, Sarah, ARTNET, Editors' Pick: 15 Art-World Attractions to Seek Out in New York This Week, May 14, 2018.

Makowski, Matthew, GVSU News, Interview with Melanie Daniel, March 20, 2018.

Roberts, Alison, Preview of 'Cabin Fever' in TelAvivian, Alison Roberts, April 15, 2016.

Tzur, Ouzi, Melanie Daniel - Cabin Fever, Haaretz, May 20, 2016.

Beilin, Lotte, Tel Aviv Art Spotlight: 'Cabin Fever' at Chelouche Gallery, Culture Trip June 16, 2016.

Abrahams, Megan, Piecemaker - Melanie Daniel. ArtPulse, Issue 24, November 2015.

Weinberg, Michelle.  "The Moment. The Backdrop. The Persona", Schrift & Farbe Design Group, catalogue essay.  August 2015.

Seed, John. Huffington Post - Melanie Daniel: 'Piecemaker' at Shulamit Gallery, Venice Beach, 15/31/2015.

Rhinohornartists, Must See Shows Edition,  June 10, 2015. 

Carr, Chris., LA Art Party, June 1, 2015. 

Garen, Brenton. Feature in LA's Yo Venice "Piecing Together Radically Different Cultures", May 15, 2015.

Zucker, Adam. rhinohornartists.wordpress.com "Connecting Figures: New Humanism in Recent Figurative Painting", April 24, 2015.

Shoub, Moran. Lady Globes, Melanie Daniel at Shulamit Gallery, April-May 2015. 

Maidman, Daniel. Huffington Post, The Unclenched Jaw: Melanie Daniel's "Lotus Eaters' at Asya Geisberg Gallery, September, 15, 2014.

New York Village Voice, Recommends Melanie Daniel's 'Lotus Eaters', September 2014.

Artsy, Featured Show: Melanie Daniel's Lotus Eaters', September 2014.

Artsy, Follow Friday: Emerging Practices Edition, "Five Emerging Galleries to Follow", August 2014.

Maidman, Daniel. Poets and Artists, Celebration. 56th Issue, June 2014.

Zur, Ouzi. Haaretz, January 31, 2104.

Korpel, Hana. Meeting the Raven's Spirit, Jokopost.com  Feb 1, 2014.

Perrine. Forrest. Beautiful Decay, "Melanie Daniel's Apocalyptic Landscapes, October 18, 2012.

Priegert, Portia. The Daily Courier, "Busted at KAG", April 17, 2012.

CBC/Radio-Canada, "Busted: an Art Exhibit Examining Kelowna's Drug Scene", April 13, 2012.

Hayes, Kelly. Kelowna Castanet, radio interview, "Busted: A  Look at the Kelowna Drug Subculture Through Lens of Artist Melanie Daniel", April 10, 2012.

Meyer, Ruth, The Artists Magazine, "The Hybrid Landscape of the Heart", March issue, pp. 50 2011.

Omer, Mordechai, Evergreen, "Foreword", catalog essay, 2010.

Reddy, Sammer, Newsweek, "New York's New Works", January 10, 2011.
Shapira, Sarit, Evergreen: "North of the South", catalogue essay.
Sagi Refael, Evergreen: "Horror Vacui", catalogue essay.
Matzkel, Yehudit, Disruptions: "Life in a Threatened Space", catalogue essay.
Melzer, Gilead, Hamidrasha: "Feminism and Israeli Art", catalogue essay.
Klein, Steven, Haaretz, "Weaving Memory and Environment, Canadian-Israeli Artist Turns Heads", August 2010.
Tal, Omer, At, "Ten Women who have Made Israel a Better Place", April 2010.
Scholnik Berner, Hila, Haaretz, "Melanie Daniel : Much Memory, No Nostalgia", May 9, 2010.
Armon Azoulai, Eli, Haaretz, "Daniel's Vision", June 18, 2009.
Yahav, Galia, Time Out Tel Aviv," After Effect", July 16, 2009.
Jones, Ronald, Frieze, "Melanie Daniel", November 29, 2007.
Sloor, Susanna, Omkonst, "Det Frammande I Det Bekanta", November 21, 2007.
Sheffi, Smadar, Haaretz, "Is Restraint Fashionable? " , June 1, 2006.
Tzur, Uzi, Haaretz, "Shutting One Eye", November 15, 2006.
Avudi, Lili, Melabbes - Petah Tikva News, "War's Tent", November 27, 2006.
Haoman 17, City Mouse Tel Aviv, "Melanie Daniel Talks about her Latest Show", June 2006.
Goldfine, Gil, The Jerusalem Post, "The Less You Know", June 29, 2006.
Sheffi, Smadar, Haaretz, "Painting is not Dead", August 5, 2005.
Yahav, Yehuda, Yediot Aharonot, "Missing", April 6, 2006.
Griffin, Kevin, Vancouver Sun, "Probing Everyday Facades", October 21, 2004.
Grewal, Preet, Grand Forks Gazette, "Trio Opens Exhibit at Gallery", September 10, 2003.
Ronnen, Meir, Jerusalem Post, "Back to the Past", March 21, 2003.
Glenna, Turnbull, Kelowna Capital News, "Finding Calm in Established Roots", September 10th, 2003.
Souisa, Albert, Col Ha Ir, "Bomb Shelter City", March 7, 2003.
LeSalle, Mike, Capital News, " Former OUC Student Comes Home to 'Pleasantvale' ", September 9, 2003.