selected exhibitions
2026
Odyssey, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK
2025
How To Learn Spanish, performance, CAGE–FLUXUS–KIRKOS–? Kirkos Ensemble, The Complex, Dublin
STOP! THOS Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
MA Degree Show, City and Guilds of London Art School
Angle of Repose, Solo Exhibition, Three Rooms Gallery, London
Beneath The Veil, THOS Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
River Goddess, Transmission Residency: Toronto, Canada & Millbank, London
I, Present, Women in the Arts 3.0, Embassy of Mexico, London
2024
BA Degree Show 2024, Goldsmiths, University of London, London
Superhuman Expedition, Group Show, Art Hub Studios, London
The Soil Beneath My Feet, Solo Exhibition, Fazenda UK, London
2023
A Space for Change, Meta Space Gallery, online/virtual exhibition
Doll, The House of Smalls, Chipping Campden, UK
The Fox and the Girl, Navigator North, Middlesbrough, UK
The NewEver Art Show, Phoenix Project Space, Brighton, UK
The Power of Colour, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
Drawing Open 2023—No Format Gallery, London, UK
Las Mujeres–North South, St James Annex, London, UK
awards and residencies
- Studio Artist in Residence, 2025-2026, Florence Trust
- Outstanding Critical Engagement, Class of 2025, MA Fine Art, City and Guilds Art School
- The Worshipful Company of Dyers Scholarship, 2024
- Goldsmiths, Equity Scholar, 2021-2024
- Goldsmiths, Warden’s Climate Award, 2022
- Leonhilde Bulgari Art Award, 2022
- Goldsmiths, Gold Award, 2022
speaking panelist
Touch & Go is a performative and participatory presentation developed from my week-long research visit to the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia. The presentation focuses on my response to the museum’s collections and display strategies, translating close observation of objects into embodied interactions. December 2025 & ongoing.
Monuments At Risk: Destruction, Preservation and Reinvention, City and Guilds of London Art School, March 2025
Bring Biodiversity Home, Newham Citizens’ Science Fair, London. 2024
Navigating Colour in today’s educational institutions. Wolverhampton Art School, Wolverhampton, UK. 2023
Where’s the Money Come From? Goldsmiths, University of London. 2021
selected publications
Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss from East London. Repeater Books. 2018
education
- PhD Fine Art (Practice-Led Research)
- Research Centre for Arts and Learning, Goldsmiths, University of London — 2025–Present
- Research focus: Drawing-based practice chronicling Mexican diasporic identity through Huasteca women in archaeology
- MA Fine Art, (Distinction), City and Guilds of London Art School, 2024-2025
- First Class BA (Hons), Fine Art, Goldsmiths, UoL, 2024
- Foundation, Fine Art (Merit), Camberwell, UAL, 2021
- Juris Doctor, Golden Gate University, SofL, CA, USA, 2001
- BSc, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, 1997
contact: melinamerlin@protonmail.com