ARTIST BIO
Michele Melcher is a dark surrealist painter from historic Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her work is heavily influenced by themes of memento mori, strange history, old master paintings and a life long delight in ghost stories and the supernatural.
An editorial illustrator-turned-fine art painter, she has shown her work in galleries nationally and internationally and has collectors in many corners of the globe.
When she is not out exploring a forgotten corner of a dusty antique shop you can usually find her in her studio within a converted circa 1861 brick schoolhouse where she lives with her husband and three cats. The schoolhouse is not haunted.
Exhibitions
2024 Exhibitions
March Asheville Museum of Art, “The New Salon”, curated exhibition.
April Mortal Machine Gallery, “Bone Machine” 3 person show.
Arch Enemy Arts, “12th Anniversary Group Show”.
May Haven Gallery, “Yokai” group exhibition.
July Haven Gallery, “The Unseelie Court”, group exhibition.
July Arch Enemy Arts, “Contact High”, group exhibition.
October Haven Gallery, “Grimoire”, group exhibition.
December Scope Art Show, Miami FL. Represented by Mortal Machine Gallery.
2023 Exhibitions
Arch Enemy Arts, “11th Anniversary Group Show”
Arch Enemy Arts, “Pause: Surreal Still Life” group show.
Dark Art Emporium, “The Villagers”, feature show.
Mortal Machine Gallery, “Abracadabra”, feature show.
Arch Enemy Arts, “Decadence and Disobedience”, Solo show.
Scope Art Show, December. Miami, FL. Represented by Mortal Machine Gallery.
2022 Exhibitions
La Luz de Jesus Gallery, “Divine Alchemy” group show.
Mortal Machine Gallery, “Return Eternal” group show.
Arch Enemy Arts, “The Darkest Hours 2”, group show.
Dark Art Emporium, “Tiny Terrors 5”, group show.
WOWxWOW Art Gallery, “Echo All the Worlds”, group show.
Arch Enemy Arts, “Ten Year Anniversary” group show.
WOWxWOW Art Gallery, “Fiends of the Dark III” group show.
La Luz de Jesus Gallery, “Art Market San Francisco”
WOWxWOW Art Gallery, “Familiar Strangers” group show.
Antler Gallery, “Untamed Splendor” 10th anniversary group show.
Mortal Machine Gallery, “Morte”, group show.
2021 Exhibitions
La Luz de Jesus Gallery, “Onward 2.0” invitational group exhibition.
WOWxWOW Art Gallery, “Monochromagic 4” group show.
BeinArt Gallery, “Dark Art 2021” group show.
Antler Gallery, “The Poison Garden” group show.
“Unnatural Histories X” group show.
WOWxWOW Art Gallery, “Outwit the Monster” group show.
Dark Art Emporium, “Aesthetha” invitational group exhibition.
2020 Exhibitions
Princeton University, Center for Collaborative History, “Dead Masters” solo exhibition.
La Luz de Jesus Gallery, “Everything But the Kitschen Sync”, group show.
Stone Sparrow NYC, “ The Unseen”, group show.
WOWxWOW Art Gallery “Fiends of the Dark”
La Luz de Jesus Gallery, “Dead Masters” Feature Online show.
WOWxWOW Gallery “Microvisions III” group show.
BeinArt Gallery , “Small Works 2020” group show
BeinArt Gallery, “Lucid” group show.
Stone Sparrow NYC, “Superhero”, group show. .
Mortal Machine Gallery, “GTFO2020”, group show.
2019 Exhibitions
Gristle Gallery “Trading Card Art Show” group show.
Crucible Gallery, “The Void” group show.
Nucleus Portland “Salut 4” group show.
Stone Sparrow NYC “False Face”, group show.
Gristle Gallery, “Cult of Meow III” group show.
Nucleus Portland “The Infinite Well II” group show.
Gristle Gallery “Phantasms” group show.
WOWxWOW Gallery “Fistfuls of Sky” group show.
Revolution Gallery “Transcendence” three artist show.
Laluzdejesus Gallery “Onward” group show.
Hudson Hughes Gallery “Flora and Fetish” .
WOWxWOW Gallery “Wonderkin” group show. .
Laluzdejesus Gallery “ Laluzapalooza #33” juried exhibition.
Gristle Gallery “After Dark” group show.
Revolution Gallery “Mini Masterpieces” group show.
2018 Exhibitions
True Love Art Gallery “Graphite” group show.
Parlor Gallery “Catsbury Park Cat Art Show” group show.
Revolution Gallery “Sonic Splendor 2” group show.
Black Moth Tattoo and Gallery “Poisons and Antidotes” group show
Gristle Gallery “Cult of Meow II” group show.
Crucible Gallery “All These Witches” group show.
Gristle Gallery “Killing Jar” group show.
Gristle Gallery “Trading Card Art Show” group show.
2017 Exhibitions
Modern Eden Gallery “Familiar” group show.
Parlor Gallery “Origins and Beyond” group show.
Gristle Gallery “Cult of Meow” group show.
Press
Create! Magazine Issue #16, Cover feature. August 2019
Ladder and Key 10 Point Interview. Fall 2019
Creative Quarterly, the Journal of Art and Design, Issue 39 2015
Creative Quarterly, the Journal of Art and Design, Issue 37,38 2014