Melissa Stern

Melissa Stern is an artist, professor and journalist living in NYC.

She has worked in sculpture, photography and drawing for over 30 years, exhibiting throughout the U.S., as well as Europe and Asia. Starting in 2012, her multi-media installation exhibition, The Talking Cure, has traveled to nine museums around the States. Her work is featured in a number of prominent corporate and museum collections including - The Bunker, News Corporation, JP Morgan/Chase, The Arkansas Art Center, the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Racine Art Museum, International Center for Collage, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, Library of Congress: Rare Books and Special Collections, Washington, DC, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, The Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea and the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis.

With a background in anthropology, Stern’s work reflects both non-Western and outsider-art influences. Her drawings, collages, and figurative sculptures are richly drawn and deeply layered, with quirky, often dark humor.

She was the lead art critic for The New York Press and City Arts from 2006-2014 and is a contributing writer for Hyperallergic, Romanov Grave, artcritical and ArtSpiel.

She has taught and lectured throughout the New York area, including School of Visual Arts, Parsons School of Design, Brooklyn College and NYU.