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MELANIE WILLHIDE Curriculum Vitae

Solo Exhibitions 2017 The Disquieting Muses Again, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York, NY 2014 Henbane for Honey Bun, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2012 to Adrian Rodriguez with Love, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2011 Sleeping Beauties (the box under the bed), Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY to Adrian Rodriguez with Love, Kaycee Olsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2008 Sleeping Beauties (the box under the bed), SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA 2007 The Belt of Venus, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY Sleeping Beauties (the box under the bed), Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT 2000 The Augmented Sixth, AOV Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999 Q.H.Q.D (Each Hour, Every Day), The Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI Selected Group Exhibitions 2017 8, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York, NY 2016 A Matter of Memory, Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY Subject, Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA The Real Thing, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY 2015 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY 2014 Ambitious, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Lay of the Land, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2013 California Dreaming, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY 2012 Suspended Disbelief, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY 2010 A About Bauhaus Ham Neu Tues, Cardwell Jjimmerson, Los Angeles, CA 2009 Mysterium, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Dice Thrown (Will Never Annul Chance), Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Control, Edit, Delete, Kansas City Society of Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO 2002 Homework, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY Crush, The Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA Yale MFA Thesis Show, Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Yale Photography MFA 2004, Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven CT 2001 Tweaked, Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts, New York, NY Mimic, AOV Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000 Untitled (Conjecture), SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA Yale MFA 2002, Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT 1999 The RISD Invitational, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence RI Q.H.Q.D (Each Hour, Every Day), Woods Geary Gallery, Providence, RI 1996 Melanie Willhide: Recent Work, New Space Gallery, Manchester, CT 1995 Melanie Willhide: Recent Work, New Space Gallery, Manchester, CT Awards Ward Cheney Memorial Award, Yale University School of Art, 2002 Collections Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA Works held in private collections in the United States, England and France

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Bibliography 2017 Jason Labbe. “Spleen Elegy.” Cover and interior art. BlazeVOX. 2016 Zelony-Mindell. “New Photo Exhibition Pushes the Boundaries of Femininity and Gender Roles.” Feature Shoot (Febrary 12, 2016). Pauly, Adriana. “’The Real Thing’ Group Show with Juno Calypso, Natasha Caruana, Pixy Yijun Liao and Melanie Willhide at Flowers Gallery in NewYork.” Autre (February 4, 2016). Frank, Priscilla. “Female Photographers Discuss the Real Anxieties of Being Women.” The Huffington Post (February 4, 2016). Atallah, Lara. “Critics’ Picks.” Artforum (February 2016). “Constructing and Deconstructing Romance.” PDN Photo of the Day (February 1, 2016). “The Real Thing. Girl Power Exposition.” DNA Magazine (February 1, 2016). Bruney, Gabrielle. “Female Photographers Tackle Gender Roles and Relationships.” The Creators Project (January 31, 2016). “The Real Thing at Flowers Gallery.” Musée Magazine (January 30, 2016). “5 Exhibitions to See in January.” aperture (January 2016). “The 16 best exhibits we can’t wait to see in 2016.” TimeOut New York (January 2016). 2015 “pik#09.” piK photography magazine (Summer 2015). 2014 Zellen, Jody and Michael Shaw. “Continuing and Recommended.” ArtScene (October 2014). Rosenberg, David. “Hallucinatory Portraits That Rethink the Ways We Look at Women.” Slate Magazine: Behold (July 31, 2014). Twentieth Anniversary Issue - Guest Editor: Vik Muniz. Blind Spot Magazine (Spring/Summer 2014). 2013 Rosenberg, David and Jordan G. Teicher. "Catching up with the Photographers Behind Behold's Most Popular Stories of 2013." Slate Magazine: Behold (December 31, 2013). Durant, Mark Alice. "Melanie Willhide." Saint Lucy (February 2013). Rosenberg, David. "The Computer Thief Who Made an Artist's Work Better: An Unlikely Tale." Slate Magazine: Behold (January 9, 2013). 2012 Ruble, Casey. "Exhibition Review: Melanie Willhide at Von Lintel Gallery." Art in America (June/July 2012): 163-4. "Portfolio: to Adrian Rodriguez with love." Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Culture Criticism, vol. 39, no. 6 (May/June 2012). "Reviews in Brief New York: Melanie Willhide." Modern Painters (May 2012): 75. "Goings on About Town: Melanie Willhide." The New Yorker (March 19, 2012): 12. Hiemstra, Graham. "Melanie Willhide: The LA-based photographer talks about her latest show, 'To Adrian Rodriguez, with Love'." Cool Hunting (March 8, 2012). "Profile: Melanie Willhide." New York Magazine (February 2012). Pomerantz, James. "Melanie Willhide's Tribute to a Burglar." The New Yorker: Photo Booth (February 23, 2012). 2011 "Bryan Graf/Melanie Willhide." The New Yorker (July 11/18, 2011): 16. Zellen, Jody. "Melanie Willhide: to Adrian Rodriguez with Love." Art Ltd. Magazine (July 2011). Mizota, Sharon. "Art Review: Melanie Willhide at Kaycee Olsen Gallery." Los Angeles Times/Culture Monster (April 21, 2011). 2009 "Melanie Willhide: The Belt of Venus." FOIL_IANN Magazine, vol. 3: A Silent Paper (2009). "Melanie Willhide." Photoworld Magazine (2009). Labbe, Jason. Dear Photographer. New Haven: Phylum Press, 2009. 2008 Tramposch, Emma. "Past is an image we form in the present." Camerawork, vol. 35, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2008): 4-7. "Melanie Willhide." Blindspot, no. 38 (October 2008). 2007 Lewis, Jacqulen. "Chelsea Shows for the Thanksgiving Table: Bellwether Gallery, Melanie Willhide, The Belt of Venus." ArtInfo (November 19, 2007). 2006 Smith, Roberta. "Dice Thrown (will Never Annul Chance)." The New York Times (November 3, 2006): E34. Doran, Anne. "Dice Thrown." Time Out, no. 579 (November 2-8, 2006). "Panliterary Awards." Drunken Boat (2006). 2003 American Photography 19 (2003), picture 75. "Photo Realism: Seven Photographers Capture the Moments of Our Lives." Pitch Weekly (April 10, 2003): 23. "Control, Escape, Delete." Review (February/March 2003): 27. 2002 "Exposure." V Magazine (January/February 2002): 46. "Using Light to Touch and Transform." Boston Globe (February 9, 2002): 1. 2000 Photo Metro (April 2000): 4. Camerawork (September 2000).

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Education 2002 MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT 1999 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI