Melinda diSessa
Education: PhD, Philosophy, New York University
Honors: The deYoung Open Exhibition, 2020
Artist in Residence, Mendocino Arts Center, 2016-2017
Selected Juried Exhibitions:
2023 Shadow
Arts Benicia, Juror: Renny Pritikin
2023 The Art of a Story
Village Theatre Art Gallery, Danville
2022 Women Artists Making Their Mark
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Jurors: Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray
2022 I Figure: Contemporary Figurative Art
Arts Benicia, Juror: Randall Sexton
2022 Seeking Stillness
Marilyn Citron O’Rourke Gallery, Benicia Library
2021 Small Works
Art Works Downtown, San Raphael; Juror: Jack Fischer
2021 Inspired By…
Village Theatre Art Gallery, Juror: Jennifer Perlmutter
2020 The de Young Open Exhibition
2020 Flux: Wax In All Forms
Arts Benicia, Juror: Sara Post
2019 Textures & Patterns
San Francisco Women Artists Gallery
2019 Walking Together: Paintings and Photographs
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts; With photographs by Andrea A. diSessa
2017 Mygration
Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland
2016 Pacific Prints
Pacific Art League, Palo Alto (*Honorable Mention)
Juror: Andrea Voinot, Kala Art Institute
2016 Bay Area Women Artists
Jurors: Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray, Seager Gray Gallery
2016 Bold
O’Hanlon Center for the Arts; Juror: Robert Green, Robert Green Fine Art
2016 Salon at the Triton
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara; Annual Statewide 2D Competition and Exhibition
2015 Confiding to Strangers
Solo Show, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
2013 Bay Area Women Artists
O'Hanlon Center for the Arts; Jurors: Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray, Seager Gray Gallery
2012 Bay Area Women Artists
O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley; Juror: Donna Seager, Seager Gray Gallery
2012 Pressing Matters
Pacific Art League, Palo Alto; Juror: Valerie Wade, Crown Point Press