Melanie Willhide is an artist, designer, curator, and educator. She worked for fifteen years at the university level as a Photography Department Chair building strategic partnerships, developing programs, and coordinating fundraising events. Additionally, Melanie worked as Production Manager for several world-recognized artists on high profile large scale fine-arts projects, as well as commissions for popular media and multi-national corporations including Adobe and Post-Hill Press. She is committed to creative experimentation, sustainability, equity, and diversity.

Melanie received her MFA from Yale University School of Art and a BFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design. In her artistic practice she has worked to challenge conventional notions of the photograph and has exhibited throughout the United States for nearly two decades. Her work has been reviewed and featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Blind Spot, Art in America, Modern Painters and many other publications. She is represented in Los Angeles by Von Lintel Gallery and Elizabeth Houston Gallery in New York City. Her work is included in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Yale University’s Davenport Collection, and the George Eastman Museum.