Melissa Staiger (b.1978, Louisville, KY) earned a BFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, MD; an MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Staiger lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. The artist was nominated and attended Freight & Volume’s DNA Artist Residency in Provincetown, MA, Robert Rauschenberg Artist Residency in Captiva, Florida, and attended Wassaic Project Residency in New York. She is a member of the American Abstract Artists. Currently, teaches in the Foundation Department at Pratt Institute.
Photo Credit: Keith O. Anderson
Exhibition Catalogs/Essay Links
On Balance: New Work by American Abstract Artists, 2023
S T R E A M I N G exhibition catalog, 2021
Farrago with Marrianne Gagnier, Linnea Paskow, Melissa Staiger, written by Gina Mischianti, 2020
In the Fountain Exhibition Catalog, 2019
SEEKER Exhibition Catalog, 2019
Open the Door Exhibition Catalog, 2018
Correspondence of Imaginary Places, 2017
Modern Oracles Zine, 2016
Trestle Projects: Curator-in-Residence Exhibition Catalog, 2015 - 2016
Push with the Tide, Trestle Projects, 2015
Triangles Catalog, 2014