Melanie Daniel

Overview

After studies in Canada, Melanie Daniel completed her BFA and MFA at Bezalel Academy, Israel, where she later taught. Daniel has had numerous exhibitions internationally, including the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; Ashdod Museum of Art, Israel; Kelowna Art Gallery, BC, and solo exhibitions at galleries in New York, Miami, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, among others.
Her work is included in collections such as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Harvard Business School, and the Ashdod Museum of Art. She has received press in publications such as Border Crossings Magazine, Young Space New York, Maake Magazine, Artnet, Newsweek, Frieze, Haaretz, CBC/Radio Canada, The Huffington Post, Beautiful Decay, and the Artists Magazine. Daniel is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, the 2009 Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, a Creative Capital Grant, and the NARS Foundation Residency in New York City. She recently completed a position as the Padnos Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Grand Valley State University, MI.