Education
Master of Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, Boston University, Boston, MA
Honors & Awards
Artist in Residence, Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY, 2007
Showcase Award, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, 2007
Juror Award, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ, 2007
Juror Award, Positive Focus, Brooklyn, NY, 2005
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Melissa Fleming: Sentient, San Francisco Airport Museums, San Francisco, CA
Select Group Exhibitions
2010
Urban Utopia, Pop Up Space, New York, NY
2009
Kaunas Photo Festival: Recycled, Kaunas, Lithuania
Objective Affection, BOFFO Gallery, Brooklyn Heights, NY
It's Still Life, RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
Figment Arts Festival, Governors Island, NY
Science Rocks, The Art Gallery at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve, Sleepy Hollow, NY
2008
Collectible, Wall Space Gallery, Seattle, WA
Landscape, Other: Views Outside Convention, RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
Descubrimientos PHE08, Photo España, Madrid, Spain
Science Rocks, New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY
Topography of Nature, Taste of Art Gallery at Kaufmann Arcade, NYC
Grace, Peer Gallery, NY, NY
2007
Woodstock Biennial, Kleinert-James Arts Center, Woodstock, NY
Kaunas Photo Festival 2007, Kaunas, Lithuania
Abstractions, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Photography 26, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
2006
(t)here, Peer Gallery, NY, NY
Florida Gold, Capitol Gallery, Florida State House, Tallahassee, FL
Photo NY (Art Fair), Peer Gallery Booth, NY, NY
How to Love a Ready-Made, A Temporary Space, Williamsburg, NY
Parsons MFA Thesis Exhibition, Peer Gallery, NY, NY
Experimental, Dam-Stuhltrager Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Photography 25, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
2005
Eye Witness, Lobby Gallery, Durst Corporation, NY, NY
Vernissage, Cornell Museum of Art, Delray Beach, FL
The Secret Garden, Steinhardt Gallery, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NY
The Handmade Print, Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center, NY, NY
Luxe, Owen Lawrence Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2004
De Norte a Sur, Museo de la Fotografia, Rafaela, Argentina
Point of View, Poughkeepsie Art Museum, Poughkeepsie, NY
NY in Motion, Chelsea Market Gallery, NY, NY
2003
Wax Flora, Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY (solo)
Contemporary Women Artists, The Gallery, Stamford, NY
I Love Manhattan, Lobby Gallery, Equity Building, NY, NY
All Photography Invitational, Atlantic Gallery, NY, NY
2002
Point of View, Westbeth Gallery, NY, NY
Emerging Artists, Savacou Gallery, NY, NY
Permanent Collections
University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
Museo de la Fotografia, Rafaela, Argentina
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, NY, NY
Publications
Catalogue, Objective Affection, BOFFO, September 2009
Juan Caller, "Melissa Fleming: La Visibilidad de lo Intangible”, Tertulias Fotograficas, October 2008
Jim Casper, "Beyond the Visible: Two Works with Water", Lens Culture, September 2008
Elizabeth Randolph, “Faculty Notes: Melissa Fleming”, Pratt Gateway, September 2008
Robert A. Schaefer, Jr., “Beyond the Visible in Nature: An Interview with Melissa Fleming", Double-Exposure, August 2008
Catalogue, Descubrimientos PHE, Photo Espana, June 2008
Robert A. Schaefer, Jr., “FotoFest”, Double-Exposure, May 2008
Robert Baxter, “Worth Another Look”, Courier-Post, January 2007
Catalogue, Point of View, Poughkeepsie Art Museum, March 2004
