MELISSA GODOY NIETO
1985. Born in Tijuana, raised in Culiacan Sinaloa, Mexico.
Based in Brooklyn, NY
Education
2011 Bachelor of Industrial Design, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
2005 Painting, Accademia D’Arte, Firenze, Italia
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Pink, Purple, and Under Stress, Lilac Preservation Project, NYC (Postoponed to 2021)
2018 I Had A Flashback, Espronceda, Barcelona
2016 Ut Pictura Poesis, Platform Gallery, Baltimore MD
2014 Melissa Godoy Nieto, BRIC House, Brooklyn NY
2012 Criaturas, Galería Vértigo, Mexico City
2012 Creatures of 2012, General Public Project Space. Pictoplasma, Berlin Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Spring Break Art Show, Los Angeles
2020 Spring Break Art Show, NYC
2019 Sanctuary Cities and the Politics of the American Dream, New Haven CT
2019 BAM Gala Art Auction, NYC
2019 Fact and Fiction, Spring Break Art Show, NYC
2019 Salon ACME, Mexico City
2018 Fire Island Artist in Residence Exhibition, Fire Island NY
2018 Stranger Comes to Town, Spring Break Art Show, NYC
2017 BKLYN Immersive, Brooklyn NY
2017 Black Mirror, Spring Break Art Show, New York City
2016 Mare, Art Mora, New York City
2016 Transaction, Spring Break Art Show , New York City
2016 The Dreams That I Gave Her, NARS Foundation Gallery, Brooklyn
2014 Character Portraits, Museum for Contemporary Art MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico
2014 The Pictoplasma Portrait Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2013 Templo, New Mysticism at Spring Break Art Show, New York City
Performances
2020 Threefold, Black Mountain College Museum, North Carolina (forthcoming in April)
2019 BAND PRACTICE, Salon ACME, Mexico City
2018 Live Drawing, NeueHouse, NYC
2018 Silhouette Drawing, Signs and Symbols, NYC
2018 Live Drawing, BRIC House, Brooklyn NY
2018 BAND PRACTICE w/ musician Pedro Soler, Musée Régional d'Art Contemporain, Sérignan France
2018 BAND PRACTICE w/ musician Amedeo Pace, Signs and Symbols, NYC
2018 Silhouette Drawing, Espronceda, Barcelona
2018 BAND PRACTICE w/ musician Joakim, Spring Break Art Show, NYC
2017 BAND PRACTICE, Planeta, NYC
2016 Paraiso, Paradiso w/ musician Amedeo Pace, Spring Break Art Show, NYC
2013 20:02 w/ cellist Topu Lyo, Brooklyn NY
Residencies
2019 Almendro Residencia, Sinaloa, Mexico
2018 Waaw Residency, Guet Ndar, Saint-Louis Senegal
2018 La Sierra Artist Residency, Colombia
2018 Comuna Serigrafíca Quito, Ecuador
2018 Espronceda Center for Art & Culture, Barcelona
2017 Fire Island National Park Artist Residency, Fire Island NY
2017 Doing/Living MarketPlace Artist-in-Residence, NYC
2017 Canal Street Market Artist Incubator, NYC
2011 Pictoplasma Residency, Berlin Germany
Work in Arts Education / Community Programs
2018 Open Studios, St. Louis, Senegal
2018 Workshop "Painting Watch Hill", Fire Island National Seashore, NY
2018 Community Mural at Puerto Nuevo elementary school, La Sierra, Colombia
2013-2015 Art Educator at Artshack Brooklyn, NY
2012 Workshop "Illustration in Jewelry", Centro de las Artes, SLP, Mexico
2008-2011 Spanish Educator at America Reads Counts, Brooklyn, NY
Presentations
2018 Live Drawing, Open House/Open Studios, BRIC, NYC
2014 Artist Talk, BRIC House Gallery Talks of Art Education Program, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Artist Talk, “Borderless” at Flux Factory, Queens, NYC
2011 Artist Talk, Pictoplasma Berlin, Germany
Selected Bibliography and Press
2019
Lynch, Scott, “The Always-Bizarre Spring/Break Takes over An Office Building in UN Plaza,” Gothamist, March 6
Barrientos, Marimar, “Esta es la Semana del Arte en México y te decimos qué puedes encontrar,” El Heraldo de Mexico, Feb
Lomeli Bautista, Natalia, "Lo mejor de la Semana del Arte 2019," Cultura Colectiva, Feb 11
Fernandez, Mariana, "Smaller sales platforms spotlight artists without gallery representation during Mexico City’s fair week," The Art Newspaper, Feb 11
2018
Adduci, Kristina, "Our 21 Favorite Moments From SPRING/BREAK Art Show," Art Zealous, March 7
Lynch, Scott, "The Best of Spring/Break, the Outré Art Fair in an Abandoned Times Square Office Building," Bedford + Bowery, March 7 Dreux, Peter, “10 Things I Learned Working a Booth at SPRING/BREAK Art Fair,” Art Zealous, March 15
2017
Lynch, Scott, "Inside Spring/Break, The Best Armory Arts Week Fair Inside A Time Square Office Building," Gothamist, March 1
Eckhard, Stephanie, “Inside Bklyn Immersive, Spring/Break’s First-Ever Brooklyn Edition,” W Magazine, May 9
Voon, Claire, "Spring/Break Art Show Trades Labyrinthine Rooms for Immersive Installations," Hyperallergic, May 9
Eckhardt, Stephanie, "Scenes of Madness High Above Times Square at Spring/Break Art Fair," W Magazine
2016
Farley, Michael Anthony and Molly Rhinestones, "We Went to Baltimore Part II: Platform, Springsteen, First Continent," July 14
2013
Meier, Allison, "Back to School with the New Mysticism at SPRING/BREAK," Hyperallergic, March 5
Paper Mag, "Preview of Spring Break- An Art Fair in a Schoolhouse," Papermag March 6
Sutton, Benjamin, "Spring/Break Arrives Early in Soho for Curator-Driven Fair's Opening Night," Blouin Art info, March 7
Egan, H.P., " 'School Nite' Opens 'Wish Me,' curated by Ambre Kelly & Andrew Gori, running through May 12," Art Observed, May 7
Enriquez, Rene, "Melissa Godoy Nieto," CoolHunter Mx, July 11