BIO

  Melissa Rubin, a practicing artist for over three decades, earned a BFA  from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and an MS Ed in Arts  Leadership from Bank Street College of Education, also in NYC. She has  been awarded grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and New York  Foundation for the Arts and received a Fulbright Fellowship to Japan. In  2017 she was a participant in the Master Abstraction Residency at MASS  MoCA, in North Adams, MA. Her art has been featured in ARTnews Magazine,  Artscope Magazine, Encaustic Arts Magazine, Wax Fusion, and on CBS This Morning. Her work  has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and has been used in  performances and movie sets. The most recent venues to show her work are  CX Silver Gallery, Brattleboro, VT; Atlantic Gallery, NYC; John Molloy Gallery, NYC; Carter Burden Gallery, NYC; Canal Street Art  Gallery, Bellows Falls, VT; ODETTA Digital on SHIM Art Network; Pelham  Art Center, Pelham, NY; Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Art on Paper  Fair at Pier 36, NYC; San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, SLO, CA; the Museum of  the City of New York; The Burgdorff Gallery of Southern Vermont College, Bennington, VT; Main Street Arts, Saxtons River, VT. Melissa taught art  to children, undergraduate and graduate students for over twenty-five years. In 2012 she left teaching to devote herself fully to her art-making  practice. Her art is in the permanent  collection of the Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe, NM and many of  her works are in private collections in the United States and Europe. You can follow her on Instagram @melissarubinart