Melissa Thorne

Areas of Expertise: Painting and Drawing

Melissa Thorne is an Associate Professor of Studio Art, the Painting and Drawing Area Head, and Undergraduate Director of Studio Art. As a painter, her practice includes multiple formats, from paintings on canvas and paper, to large-scale site-specific wall drawings in ink and watercolor. Her work has been shown widely in solo and group exhibitions at Suzanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery of Houston, Texas, Galerie Rolf Ricke of Cologne, Germany, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek of Cologne and the Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles among many others. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College and Hancock Shaker Village.

Prior to joining University at Albany, she lived and worked in Los Angeles for 15 years and taught at CalArts, University of Southern California, Otis College of Art and Design, Scripps College and University of California, Riverside. She has received artist residencies at the Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, The Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, The Glassell Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas and the Bemis Center, Nebraska. She is represented by Galerie Schmidt Maczollek in Cologne, Germany and Devin Borden Gallery in Houston, Texas.