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Douglas Melini (b. 1972) received his Bachelor of Arts from Maryland, College Park in 1994 and his Master of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts in 1997. He completed an artist residency at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Brooklyn, NY in 2012.

Melini’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Into The Woods,” SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC; “Starry Sky,”  Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY; “When the Moon Hangs on the Wall: Landscapes, Seascapes, and Abstracts,” Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; “Douglas Melini,” Phillip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO; “You Have to Peer Into the Sky to See the Stars,” 11R, New York, NY; “Douglas Melini,” Eleven Rivington, New York, NY; “A Sharing of Color and Being Part of It,” Feature Inc., New York, NY; The Suburban, Oak Park, IL; “It Flows Over Us Without Meaning,” MINUS SPACE, New York, NY; “Beyond the Dirty Light,” Ursula Werz, Tubingen, Germany; “Positively Do Not Block the Gate,” Rocket Gallery, London, United Kingdom; and “White Room,” White Columns, New York, NY.

Group exhibitions include “Twenty,” MINUS SPACE, New York, NY; “Triangles within a Square: Art and Mathematics,” Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; “Summer Drift,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Energy in All Directions,” Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; “Chroma,” Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY; “Pulled in Brooklyn” (curated by Roberta Waddell and Samantha Rippner), International Print Center, New York, NY; “The Twenty By Sixteen Biennial,” Morgan Lehman, New York, NY; “People, Place and Things…,” Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO; “Geometric Behavior,” Ikast Kunstpakhuset, Copenhagen, Denmark; “Edge,” Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO; “Confluence/Influence in Contemporary Abstraction,” (curated by Bridget Donlon and Leslie Wayne), Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, New York, NY; 11R, New York, NY; “Eat a Peach,” Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY; “Breaking Pattern,” Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; and “Colour and Line,” RaygunLab, Toowoomba, Australia.

Melini has been involved in numerous curatorial projects including “Between This Light and That and Space,” MINUS SPACE, New York, NY; “Douglas Melini/Take 5,” Progress Report; “Viewlist: I Can Read in Red, I Can Read In Blue, I Can Read in Pickle Color Too...,” MINUS SPACE, New York, NY; and “The Difficult Shapes of Possible Images,” ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY.

He is the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Fellowship in Painting, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Residency and Change Inc. Grant. His work is included in the permanent collections of Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Germany; Jill and Peter Kraus Collection, Dutchess County, NY; Neuberger Berman LLC, New York, NY; The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH;  Wellspring Capital Corporation, New York, N Y; and Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York.

The artist lives and works in New Jersey.