Melissa Stern

Melissa Stern is an artist and journalist based in New York City. She has worked in sculpture, photography, and drawing for over twenty years, exhibiting throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her work has been showcased in numerous group and solo exhibitions and featured in various publications. The Talking Cure, her acclaimed traveling exhibition, has been presented at institutions across the U.S. since 2012, including the Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA), Kranzberg Arts Center (St. Louis, MO), and Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, MN).

Her work is part of prominent corporate and museum collections, including the Museum of Arts and Design (New York), Arkansas Art Center, American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona, CA), Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, MN), and Racine Art Museum (Racine, WI), among others.

Stern has contributed as a writer and editor to publications such as Hyperallergic, Art Critical, and ArtSpiel, covering major exhibitions worldwide. She previously served as the principal art critic for The New York Press. Beyond journalism, she has been actively involved in the arts community, serving on the boards of The Children’s Museum of the Arts in NYC and Watershed Center in Maine. From 2008 to 2015, she was also a contributing curator for the Human Rights Film Festival.

Visit Melissa Stern’s website and Instagram page.