Awards/Residencies
2025 MacDowell Residency, Peterborough, NH
2024 Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Residency, NY
Derwent Art Prize New Artist Award, UK
K11 Art Foundation Artist Prize Finalist, Hong Kong
2023-24 PS122 Studio Residency, New York, NY
2023 FST StudioProjects Fund Recipient
Harpo Foundation Grant for Visual Artists Recipient
Mother’s Milk Residency, Newton, KS
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Shortlist, UK
Jackson’s Painting Prize Overall Winner, UK
Exhibitions
2025 Melted City 5, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2024 Mid-Atlantic New Painting Biennial, University of Mary Washington Galleries, Fredericksburg, VA
The Saltonstall Exhibition, Cherry Gallery, Ithaca, NY
Near and Far (solo), Chinese American Arts Council/Gallery 456, New York, NY
Of Flesh & Bones, curated by Elyse Goldberg, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY
The Derwent Art Prize exhibition, gallery@oxo, London, UK
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK (traveling)
Free Expression and the Inexpressible, curated by Aliza Shvarts, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Acts of Healing and Repair, juried by Grace Kook-Anderson, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition, London, UK (traveling)
Rising Artists, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
Sublime (three-person exhibition), Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
2022 Eco/Systems, curated by Heidi Ratanavanich & Connie Yu, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
2021 Have You Eaten?, curated by Sonja John, The Yard, Brooklyn, NY
Small Works, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
National Juried Exhibition, juried by Thomas Erben, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
Afterlight, Field Projects, New York, NY
2018 Solid State, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
Melted City 4, YUI Gallery, New York, NY (traveling)
2017 Melted City 4, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines (traveling)
Melted City 4, ISB Gallery, Providence, RI (traveling)
2016 Melted City 3, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2015 Melted City 2, curated by Jordin Isip & Louie Cordero, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2013 Old Wives' Lies, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
My Generation, Mayson Gallery, New York, NY
By RE:QUEST, Clic Gallery, New York, NY
School Nite, New Museum's Ideas City Festival, Old School, New York, NY
2012 Permanent Collection, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
Press
Lucid Dreaming with Melissa Ling, Humphrey Magazine
Melissa Ling個人展 456畫廊展出, Sing Tao Daily/星島日報
華裔藝術家畫展 重構家族歷史, World Journal /世界日報
藝術家Melissa Ling個展12日華埠456畫廊開幕, US China Press/僑報
Education
2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Experience
2020-2022 Visiting Professor, Sophmore & Senior Thesis class, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2019, 2024 Judge, Society of Illustrators Student Competition
2019 Guest Critic, Senior Portfolio Review, Pratt Institute