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Melanie Manos

Lecturer II
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Curriculum Vitae
BA, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 1999
MFA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 2008
Biography
Melanie Manos is a interdisciplinary artist working in performance, video, print, sculpture and installation. Recent exhibitions include galleries and venues in Mechelen (Belgium), Los Angeles, London, Brooklyn, and Detroit. In 2013 Manos presented her work at Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan, and was Artist-in-Residence at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Taliesin, WI, where she created and exhibited video and photographic collage ad-dressing the body and the built environment. Early 2014 Manos was an interdisciplinary Fellow at The MacDowell Art Colony, where she completed four video shorts sub-titled The MacDowell Series based on her response to the environs. Recent work also includes two large-scale outdoor video projections, for Dlectricity (Detroit), and The Not Yet, Site:Lab (Grand Rapids). Manos performed in and produced the videos, which were created using green-screen sets at the Duderstadt Video Studio. Manos’ performance art career began in 1990’s Los Angeles where she performed as a founding member of the duo Too Much Girl in venues as varied as public museums, private art schools, and punk rock clubs.
Manos collaborates with Stamps alumnae Sarah Buckius as The ManosBuckius Cooperative (The MBC), exhibiting multi-channel installation, photography, and video. Since 2007, MBC videos have appeared in video and electronic art festivals throughout the United States, and globally in over twenty cities and fifteen countries, including Brazil, Greece, Italy, Slovenia, England, France, Indonesia, Spain, Sweden and Australia.
Manos is an active member of the Detroit art community, serving on the Steering and Programming Committees of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the Board of Directors for Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit and Summer in the City. She has curated and juried shows at the Detroit Institute of the Arts and the Detroit Artists’ Market. She was also co-curator of the art collection for the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospitals, with over 260 works including many by Stamps faculty and alumni.
Her work is in numerous private collections in Los Angeles and Detroit, and in the permanent collection of The Vincent Price Art Museum, East Los Angeles College. She is represented by Re:View Contemporary, Detroit.
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In the News
- Melanie Manos performs at Unraveling Racism: Seeing White Exhibition
- Melanie Manos Exhibits at Secondroom, Belgium
- Melanie Manos Exhibits New Performance and Installation in Memphis
- Bookmarks Exhibition Featured in Pulp
- Melanie Manos Performs New Work: Rumble Mambo
- Melanie Manos: “Truing” Solo Exhibition at SimoneDeSousa Gallery
- Melanie Manos: Artist-in-Residence at Brooklyn Art Collective
- David Rubello: Exhibition and Panel at Anton Art Center
- Melanie Manos Exhibits at Two Regional Art Centers
- Melanie Manos Performs at CAVE
- Melanie Manos Exhibits in Kansas City
- Melanie Manos: Naoshima My Bus at CCS
- Melanie Manos and Stamps Students Perform for Voters Not Politicians
- Melanie Manos Exhibits in U.K. for International Women’s Day
- Melanie Manos: Work Featured at Kresge HQ
- Melanie Manos Performs at Lounge of Saturn
- Student Spotlight: Cole Stabnick
- Melanie Manos Exhibits at FiLia Conference, London
- Melanie Manos Screens at Scalarama Cinema Fest, Leeds
- Melanie Manos Exhibits in Manchester
- Melanie Manos Exhibits at UCross Foundation
- Melanie Manos Discusses Maya Deren
- Melanie Manos Exhibits at The Max
- Holly Hughes: Not My President’s Day
- Manos and White Curate/Perform for Bad+Nasty Detroit
- What’s Your SuperYOUpower?
- Melanie Manos Exhibits New Work at Edition 2016, Detroit
- Melanie Manos and Kathryn Luchs: Essay’d Book Launch
- Melanie Manos & Andrew Thompson Exhibit in Re:Formation
- Melanie Manos Performs New Work