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 has had solo exhibitions at the Pratt Institute, SCPS Art Gallery, Kent Place Gallery in Summit, NJ, and Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

She has been included in exhibitions at Art Cake, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Cementa Festival, Cuchfritos Gallery, Equity Gallery, Ground Floor Gallery, The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Mono Practice, The Painting Center, Peep Space, Renée Riccardo of Arena, Schema Projects, Stand4 Gallery, Transmitter Gallery, Trestle Gallery, TSA, Ventana 244, Underdonk, and The Wassaic Project.

The artist was nominated and attended Freight & Volume’s DNA Artist Residency in Provincetown, MA, Robert Rauschenberg Artist Residency in Captiva, Florida, and attended The Wassaic Project Residency in New York. She is a member of the American Abstract Artists and art collective S-T-R-E-A-M-I-N-G.

Staiger lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.