1969

Born in Rhode Island

2001

New York University, New York. Ajunct Faculty, Department of Art And Professions

1991

Rhode Island School of Design, B.F.A. with Honors

2004

•'Otherside,' Power House, Memphis, Tennessee
•'Othersiders,' Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

2003

•'Melissa McGill: Antipodes,' White Cube, London, UK
•Melissa McGill, CRG Gallery, New York, New York

2000

Melissa McGill, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan

1999

•Melissa McGill, CRG Gallery, New York
•Melissa McGill, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, California
•Melissa McGill Sculpture, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan

1997

Myths, Inflections and Innuendoes, CRG Gallery, New York

1996

Melissa McGill, Boesky & Callery Fine Art, New York

1995

Melissa McGill, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut

1993

Melissa McGill, Palazzo Capello, Venice, Italy

1990

Melissa McGill, Ox-Bow Gallery, Saugatuck, Michigan

2005

•'Otherside,' Power House, Memphis, Tennessee
•'Othersiders,' Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

2003

•'Ten Years in Columbus: Part 3,' Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus Ohio
•'Breathless,' Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, New York

2002

•' Re-Cast: Postmodern Classical, The Olympic Tower,' CUNY, New York,

New York
•CRG Gallery, New York, New York

2001

•'Reflection,' curated by Rebecca Ibel and Carl Palazzolo, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
•'Material Whirled, 'Art In General, curated by Laura Lobdell, New York, New York

2000

'Se Stacera Sono Qui…, ' Norrtalje Konsthall, Norrtalje, Sweden

1999

'The Sea / The Sea,' Murray Guy, New York, New York

1998

'Rubber,' Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York

1997

•Invited,' Helman Gallery, New York, New York
•Summer Group Show, CRG Gallery, New York, New York
•'Laying Low,' Kunstnernes Hus, Olso, Norway

1996

•'Adicere Animos, 'Cesena-Cesenatico, Bologna
•'La Toilette de Venus: Women and Mirrors,' CRG, New York, New York

1995

'Delving and Tinkering,' E. F. Vandam, New York, New York

1993

'Rendez(-)Vous,' Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

Yates, Christopher. The Columbus Dispatch, June 26, 2004, p.

Baker, Simon. 'Hands Holding the Void,' Antipodes: Inside the White Cube, Edited by Louise Neri,' 2003

Goddard, Donald. New York Art World, April, 2003 Nylon, April Issue, 2003, p. 81

Lapidus, Rachel. 'Concentrating on Air: Melissa Mcgill's Instances," Three Graces, 2002

Starker, Melissa. 'Here's looking at you,' Columbus Alive, May 10, 2001, p. 12.

Heartney, Eleanor. Melissa McGill-Review, Art in America, September 1999.

Cohen, Keri Guten. Melissa McGill-Review, Detroit Free Press, June 20, 1999.

Tysh, George. "Two Cool," MetroTimes, August 4, 1999.

Johnson, Ken. Melissa McGill-Review, New York Times, March 5, 1999.

Spaid, Sue. Melissa McGill Review, Village Voice, March 9, 1999.

Bonetti, David. "Boomerang," Gallery Watch/San Francisco Examiner, February 5, 1999.

Glueck, Grace. "The Antithesis of Minimalism's Cool Geometry:Fleshy Rubber," The New York Times, February 13, 1998.

Whitney, Scott. "Rubber", New York Post, February 7, 1998.

Kino, Carol. "Rubber," Time Out, New York, February 26, 1998.

Levin, Kim. "Rubber,"Village Voice, February 17, 1998.

Nahas, Dominique. exhibition review, "Rubber," February 1998.

Thorkildsen, Asmund. "Laying Low," Kunstnernes Hus Olso, Norway (catalogue).

Arning, Bill. exhibition review, Art in America, September 1997.

McClure, Lissa. "La Toilette de Venus:Women and Mirrors," Review Art, September 15, 1996.

Stevens, Mark. "Shining Stars," New York Magazine, September 23, 1996.

Rubbini, Alice. Adicere Animos, Bologna, Italy (exhibition catalogue).

Rosoff, Patricia. "Take the Real Art Ways Plunge," Hartford Advocate, April 6, 1995.

Zoilkowski, Thad. "The Via Via," Real Art Ways, Hartford, March 1995 (exhibition essay).

2004

Arts/Industry Residency, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Kohler, WI

2003

Residency, Fundacion Valparaiso, Almeria, Spain

2002

Arts/Industry Residency, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Kohler, WI

1999

The CAC/Guggenheim Artist Residency Grant

1996

Art Matters

1990

Ox-Bow Fellowship, The Art Institute of Chicago, Saugatuck, Michigan
Sylvie Leslie Young Herman Scholarship

2004

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

2002

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Rhode Island School of Design, RI, guest critic in the Dept. of Architecture

1999

Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Slide Lecture, Individual Critiques

1998

Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Slide Lecture, Individual Critiques

1997

The National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo
The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Slide Lecture, Individual Critiques

1995

The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Slide Lecture, Individual Critiques

Teaching Experiences

•2003 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Adjunct Faculty

•2001/02 New York University, New York. Department of Art and Art Professions,
Adjunct Faculty