{"id":1359,"date":"2025-12-30T10:32:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T10:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melinamerlin.com\/?page_id=1359"},"modified":"2026-08-20T09:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T09:30:27","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/melinamerlin.com\/","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a Chicana artist, born in San Francisco, based in London. The Queer brown female figure is at the centre of my work. I draw on Indigenous feminist methodologies  as accountability to the subjects I engage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My practice moves across drawing, painting, collage, film, photography, performance, sculpture and written word. What holds it together is interruption: re-entering history, revising structure, letting the body speak where words get choked back. My work to incorporate my voice as an archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My practice-led doctoral research at the Research Centre for Arts and Learning, Goldsmiths, extends my practice into the misreading of Indigenous Mexican&#8211;the Huastecan Female BallPlayer, circa 900-1100 BCE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lifelong social activist and football player, my embodied relationship to sport directly informs my research into gender, visibility and power. I hold a law degree from Golden Gate University School of Law, grounding my artistic practice in histories of advocacy, human rights and structural critique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Most Recent Exhibitions,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florence Trust, <em>Artist in Residence, End <\/em>of Year Exhibition: July 2026, 35 Britannia Row<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>FT: 1-1<\/em>, 08\/08, 08:00am &#8211; 08:00pm, August 2026, Holy Trinity, Florence Trust, N1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Rhymes with Dice<\/em>, Solo Exhibition, Holy Trinity, at Florence Trust, August, Islington, London<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Chicana artist, born in San Francisco, based in London. The Queer brown female figure is at the centre of my work. I draw on Indigenous feminist methodologies as accountability to the subjects I engage. My practice moves across drawing, painting, collage, film, photography, performance, sculpture and written word. What holds it together &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/melinamerlin.com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;about&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1359","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melinamerlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melinamerlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melinamerlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melinamerlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melinamerlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/melinamerlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/melinamerlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1359\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melinamerlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}