MELISSA GODOY NIETO
m@melissagodoynieto.com
born 1985
Melissa Godoy Nieto is a multidisciplinary artist exploring painting, drawing, ceramics, printing, performance, installation, sculpture, and video projections. Born and raised in Mexico, based in Brooklyn, New York.
Education
2005 Painting, Accademia D’Arte, Firenze, Italia
2011 Bachelor of Industrial Design, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2018 I Had A Flashback, Espronceda, Barcelona
2016 Ut Pictura Poesis, Platform Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2014 Melissa Godoy Nieto Solo, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Criaturas, Galería Vértigo, Mexico City
2012 Creatures of 2012, General Public Project Space. Pictoplasma, Berlin, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
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 Art Salon III, Collyer’s Mansion, 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
2018 Drink & Draw, signs and symbols, NYC (August 26)
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 Drink & Draw, Espronceda, Barcelona
2018 BAND PRACTICE w/ musician Joakim, Spring Break Art Show, NYC
2017 BAND PRACTICE, Planeta, NYC
2017 BAND PRACTICE, hosted by TOMS, NYC
2016 Paraiso, Paradiso w/ musician Amedeo Pace, Spring Break Art Show, NYC
2013 20:02 w/ cellist Topu Lyo, Brooklyn NY
2011-18 The Tablets music . Head Visual Artist
Residencies
2018 Waaw Residency. Saint-Louis Senegal (December)
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
Presentations/Workshops
2018 Workshop "Painting Watch Hill", Fire Island National Seashore, NY
2014 Artist Talk, BRIC House Gallery Talks of Art Education Program, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Artist Talk, “Borderless” at Flux Factory, Queens, NYC
2012 Workshop, Centro de las Artes, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
2011 Artist Talk, Pictoplasma Berlin, Germany
Selected Bibliography and Press
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
2017
Lynch, Scott, "Inside Spring/Break, The Best Armory Arts Week Fair Inside A Time Square Office Building," Gothamist, March 1
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