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        Melissa Gordon

        artist, London

      2. Melissa Gordon is an artist and Lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London. She received her BFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence and completed the two-year post-graduate studio program at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. She has participated in artist residencies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, and is the recipient of the Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpris (2010), the ABN AMRO Kunstprijs (2007), and the Dutch Royal Prize for Painting (2005). Gordon’s recent exhibitions include: Mimetic Pleasures, BOESKY EAST, New York, 2014; Confusion Condition, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf, 2014; ZOOOOOM, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, 2014; Modern Surfaces, Deweer Gallery, Belgium, 2014; Specific Collisions, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, 2013 (which she also curated); During the Exhibition, the Studio Will Be Close, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, 2014; Material Evidence, Spike Island, Bristol, 2013; HERstories, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, 2013; and Yellowing of the Lunar Consciousness, Galleria Massimodeluca, Venice, 2013. She is also founding co-editor of the publications LABOUR and PERSONA. Gordon lives and works in London.  [Last updated 2015]

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