CV ART
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2024 For the Love of the Game, Celine Bureau members show _ Espace Loulou, Montreal
2023 Dying/Design Toronto 2023 _ Artscape Youngplace, Toronto
2022 Youniverse, 10-year Anniversary _ Galerie Youn, Montréal
2022 Corporeal Gestures, Contemporary Collage _ Portland State University School of Architecture, Portland, Oregon
2021 Fencework Show _ PNWCC Community outdoor gallery, Portland, Oregon
2020 World Collage Atlas, Stichting KunstWerk _ Schiedam, the Netherlands
2019 Collage: Landscapes of the Interior _ Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River, British-Columbia
2019 World Collage Atlas _ Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belguium
2018 An Impeccable Bunch _ Go Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2017 Collage Club _ Scandinavian Collage Museum, Berkâk, Norway
2016 Sýning og Synga, Melanie Garcia, Pauline May, Gail Priest _ Listhús Art Space, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland
2010 Subjecting Figures/Mise à Nu, Firestone Collection, Melanie Garcia, Chantal Gervais _ Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
2007 Modèle Behaviour, Gabriel Dawe, Melanie Garcia, Kevin Ledo, Christophe Luxerau _ Galérie Pangée, Montreal
2005 Concordia Alumni Arts Exhibition _ VAV Gallery, Montreal
2005 Love and the Machine _ la Société des arts technologiques, Montréal
Art Fair
2022 Papier Art Fair, Montréal
Awards and Grants
2024 Bronze award, Commissioned collage series, Contemporary Collage Magazine, UK
2024 Concordia Faculty of Fine Arts Scholarship, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2024 Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma- “the Mercy Workers” The Marshall Project, Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, Columbia Journalism School, New York, NY
2004 Imperial Tobacco Canada Artistic Development Board Grant, Montreal, QC
Collection
The Kanyer Art Collection and Historical Archive of Collage Curator Freya Gowrley, PhD., Bristol, UK.
Conference
2024 The 22nd Annual Education Graduate Students' Society (EGSS) Conference
McGill University, Social Justice through Poetry and Collage workshop
Residency
2016 Listhús Artist Residency, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland
Service/Membership
2025-present, member, Milieux Institute, Textiles & Materiality research cluster, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2024-present, secretary, MFA Studio Arts Student Association/Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2024-present, member, Celine Bureau, artist run centre, Montreal, QC
2022-present, member, English Language Arts Network (ELAN), Montreal, QC
Art Education Workshops
2019-present, Facilitator of teaching artist workshops on digital and mixed media art
Artists Inspire Grant, various high schools
ELAN, LEARN, Department of Canadian Heritage
2013-present, Facilitator of teaching artist workshops on digital and mixed media art
Cultures in the Schools program, various high schools
Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport
2016-2023, Mikw’ Chiyam/N’we Jinan in-school creative residencies, high school and elementary
Cree School Board, Tsay Keh Dene First Nation, New Frontiers School board
2013-2016, artUnion, a collaborative live collage/drawing project with artists and high school students.
artUnion has participated at: QPAT, educational art festivals, in-school high school workshops
Commission
Illustration: Lippmann, Rachel, Lu, Jennifer, “How we reported on Homicide Investigations in St. Louis,” The Marshall Project, June 2024, link
Illustration: Lippmann, Rachel, Lu, Jennifer, Scheck, Tom, “Some St.Louis Detectives May Have Botched Homicide Investigations,” The Marshall Project, June 2024, link
Illustration: Lippmann, Rachel, Lu, Jennifer, Scheck, Tom, “As Murders Increased, St. Louis Police Struggled for Resources to Solve Cases,” The Marshall Project, June 2024, link
Illustration: Chammah, Maurice, “The Mercy Workers,” The Marshall Project, March 2023, link link
Illustration: Bennett, North, “The Green Tunnel,” Ciele Journal, Dec 22, link
Illustration: Fennario, Tom, “O[Paque] Canada,” Font Magazine, June 22, link
Illustration: O’Connor, Paul, “Émigré, What’s in a Word?” Émigré Journal, May 22, link
Illustration: Campbell, Kelty, “Through Movement and Action,” Ciele Journal, July 2021, link
Illustration: Ahmed, Shireen, “When Sports Fans Change the Game,” The Walrus, June 2021, link
Illustration: Perozo, Ricardo, “Si la tendance se maintient,” Figures de style, 2e édition, 2019
Illustration: Polaris Music Prize 2019, limited edition artist poster design, shortlist album Marie Davidson Working Class Woman, 2019, link
Publication
Featured selected works, Dovetail Magazine/The Niche, Fall 2022, link
Featured selected works, Sharp Hands Gallery, Spring 2022, link
Illustration: Baylis, Daniel, “A Submission to Love,” Sparks Publishing 2020
Featured work: Of Maier: Open/Close Doors with Portal, Papercut Magazine, winter 2018, pdf
Featured work: Andrew (Glitch), CVA Zine, Carlisle, England, issue #9, summer 2018
Featured selected works, “An Ode to Collage.” Beyond Photography, July 2018, web, archive
Featured work: Bug Bite, Dear Journal Anthology, Winnipeg, Manitoba, issue 3, summer 2017
Featured selected works, SOME Magazine, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, issue 20 winter 2015, web, archive
Bibliography
“Melanie Garcia” Revue Collé, newsletter Edition 41, April 2024, link
Knights, Clive, Corporeal Gestures: Fragmentary Explorations in the Cultivation of the Human Body, Portland: School of Architecture, Portland State University, 2022
“Melanie Garcia,” Dovetail Magazine/The Niche, 2022, link
“Three Diptychs: Institution, Headspace, Desert,” Sharp Hands Gallery, Spring 2022, link
“Meet Melanie Garcia, Collage Artist…” Shoutout Socal, 12 January, 2021, web, link.
Zeffiro, Andrea, “On Latex-Melanie Garcia.” No More Potlucks, issue 48, fall 2017, web
Gladstone, Nikki, “Exploring Nudity at the OAG,” the Charlatan 18 March, 2010: 13, archive
Mavrikakis, Nicolas, “Déesses Actuelles.” Voir 29 November, 2007
Gessel, Paul, “Art Comes Alive at La Petite Mort”, the Ottawa Citizen 10 November, 2005
La Rosa, Mercedes, “Q: Are We Not Men?” The Link vol26 iss.02, 30 August, 2005: 13.
Gessel, Paul, “Haughty and Naughty in a Sterile Environment.” the Ottawa Citizen 4 June, 2005, archive
Paré, Christopher, “Cold Cuts.” The Hour 31 March, 2005: 15.
Woodley, Matthew, “Interior Cool.” the Montreal Mirror 31 March, 2005
Education
2024-current- MFA Studio Arts, Print Media, Concordia University
2004 BFA Film Production, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University