1975 Born in Manchester, CT
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
2002 MFA, Photography, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1999 BFA, Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
The Disquieting Muses Again, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, NYC
Henbane for Honey Bun, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
to Adrian Rodriguez with Love, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Sleeping Beauties (The Box Under The Bed), Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
to Adrian Rodriguez with Love, Kaycee Olsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Belt Of Venus, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY
Sleeping Beauties (The Box Under The Bed), Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
The Augmented Sixth, AOV Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Q.H.Q.D (Each Hour, Every Day), The Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI
In Pictures, Photo London Digital, London
The Vision Board, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
Talk to Me (25th Anniversary Show), Von Lintel Gallery
8, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York, NY
A Matter of Memory, Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
Subject, Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA
The Real Thing, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
Ambitious, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lay of the Land, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Dreaming, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Suspended Disbelief, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
A About Bauhaus Ham Neu Tues, Cardwell Jimmerson, Los Angeles, CA
Mysterium, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Sleeping Beauties (The Box Under The Bed), SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Dice Thrown (Will Never Annul Chance), Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY
Control, Edit, Delete, Kansas City Society Of Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
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 M.F.A. 2004, Yale School Of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Tweaked, Angel Orensanz Foundation Center For The Arts, New York, NY
Mimic, AOV Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Untitled: (Conjecture), SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Yale MFA 2002, Yale University School Of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Q.H.Q.D. (Each Hour, Every Day), AOV Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The RISD Invitational, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
Q.H.Q.D. (Each Hour, Every Day), Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
Melanie Willhide: Recent Work, New Space Gallery, Manchester, CT
Melanie Willhide: Recent Work, New Space Gallery, Manchester, CT
Design Magazine, “Melanie Willhide: The Disquieting Muses Again, Fall Issue, 2021. Goodrich-Royce, Deborah.
Ruby Falls, Cover Art by Melanie Willhide, Post Hill Press. (2021).
Fidler, Matt. The Best of Photo London Digital 2020 - in pictures, The Guardian (October 15, 2020).
Photo London Magazine, Issue 23, (October 14, 2020).
Labbe, Jason. Maps for Jackie, Interior Art by Melanie Willhide, Blaze Vox. (2020).
Willhide, Melanie. The Disquieting Muses Again, (stories about grave goods, occupation and the aberrant in the Connecticut RiverValley). Self-published essay by David Rosenberg of TED Talks (2018).
Knoblauch, Loring. “Melanie Willhide: The Disquieting Muses Again @ Elizabeth Houston.” Collector Daily (November 28, 2017). https://collectordaily.com/melanie-willhide-the-disquieting-muses-again-elizabeth-houston/
Labbe, Jason. Spleen Elegy, Cover and Interior Art by Melanie Willhide, Blaze Vox. (2017).
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).
“pik#09.” piK photography magazine (Summer 2015).
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).
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).
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).
"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).
"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.
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).
Lewis, Jacqulen. "Chelsea Shows for the Thanksgiving Table: Bellwether Gallery, Melanie Willhide, The Belt of Venus."
ArtInfo (November 19,
2007).
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).
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.
"Exposure." V Magazine (January/February 2002): 46.
"Using Light to Touch and Transform." Boston Globe (February 9, 2002 ): 1.
Photo Metro (April 2000): 4.
Camerawork (September 2000).
The Getty Museum, Los Angeles
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library, New York
Rhode Island School of Design Fleet Library, Providence,
Rhode Island School of Visual Arts Library, New York
Yale Davenport Collection, New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University Art and Architecture Library, New Haven, Connecticut
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA