Melissa Hopson

2014  Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN

2008 Art Academy Düsseldorf, DE

Selected Exhibitions

2021 Muscle Definition, Critical Path Method Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2020 Border Crossing, Nebelhorn Art Group, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, DE

2019 The Button Show, Gallery 924, Indianapolis, IN

2019 They do what they want, Varna City Art Gallery, Varna, BULG

2019       (solo exhibition) Flight, De Pree Gallery, Hope College, Holland, MI

2018 World Holes, White Columns Online Registry, New York, New York

2018       Super Model Nein, Unisex Salon, Brooklyn, NY

2018       (solo exhibition) Homie, The Fuller Projects, Bloomington, IN

2017        A Show Yet to be Titled, Lucie Fontaine at 83 Pitt Street, New York, NY

2017       No Stress Man, Posta Portae, Duesseldorf, DE

2017       (solo exhibition) Plats Plats Plats, Unisex Salon, Brooklyn, NY

2016       Lean, Embajada, San Juan, PR

2016       In the Works, Unisex Salon, Brooklyn, NY

2014       (solo exhibition) Pause, Marsh Gallery, Indianapolis, IN

2014       Fortuna, AUTOcenter, Berlin, Germany

2014       50 Mile Marker, Fuller Projects, Bloomington, IN

2014       Hopson Russell Shopoff, Primary Gallery, Indianapolis, IN

2013       We Are City Summit, 2013, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN

2013       Etikette Exotika, The Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN

2013       Hoosier Zeitgeist,The Thompson Collection, Indianapolis, IN

2013       Wunderkammer, Indie Indy Artist Gallery, Indianapolis, IN

2013       Vacant, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN

2012       Student Invitational, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN

2012       Interiority Complex, Basile Gallery, Herron School of Art and Design,

               Indianapolis, IN

2012      Language is the house we live in, Kuenstfilmtag Malkasten, Dusseldorf,

               DE

2012     Summit, OPEKTA Ateliers, Cologne, DE

2012     Bowwow,Vintage Emde Cologne, DE

2012     The Post Card, Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY

2011      Tide Pool, Sarah Meltzer Projects, New York, NY

2011      Born to Die, Second Home Projects, Berlin, DE

2008    Gardening Society, Duesseldorf, DE

2008    46 Beard Street, Red Hook, NY

2008    Bah Humbug, Pokalladen, Duesseldorf, DE

2008    Thesis Exhibition, Art Academy Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, DE

2007    (solo exhibition) Melissa Hopson, Ornella, Cologne, DE

2004    03 04, Walcheturm, Zuerich, Switzerland

2003    03 04, Kunstpalast, Duesseldorf, DE

Residencies/Grants/Awards

2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, They do what they want, Varna City Art Gallery, BULG

2013    We Are City Summit, Jury selected art installation, Stipend Award,

            Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN

2012    Artist-in-Residence, OPEKTA Ateliers, Cologne, DE

2012    Dick Blick Art Award, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN

Outreach

2015 - Present Indianapolis - Cologne Sister City Project Member, Indianapolis

Publications

2019 Invited to an Exhibition, Varna City Art Gallery, New Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, Varna,

Bulgaria

2018 Somer, Exhibition Press Release, Unisex Salon, Brooklyn, NY

2017                    Platitude, Catalog, Unisex Salonm Brooklyn, NY

2016                    OPEKTA Artist in Residence Catalog

2014                    Fortuna, AUTOCenter, Berlin, DE

Bibliography

Jesse Greenburg, White Columns Online, World Holes, White Columns, New York June 2018, https://www.whitecolumns.org/sections/exhibition.php?id=1452

Rob Bullock,“Hopson and Shopoff conduct artistic exercise at We Are City Summit”, Herron News Bulletin, September 2013,

http://www.herron.iupui.edu/blog/09092013/hopson-and-shopoff-conduct-artistic-exercise-we-are-city-summit

Dan Grossman,“Food Con”, NUVO Magazine, July 2013, http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/foodcon-iv-bigger-broader-pasture-fed/Content?oid=2628074#.UkRH5xbWlH8

Helga Meister, “Rundgang durch die Kunstakademie: Möbel zwischen Gemütlichkeit und Satire”, Westdeutsche Zeitung, February 2007, http://www.wz-newsline.de/home/kultur/kunst/rundgang-durch-die-kunstakademie-moebel-zwischen-gemuetlichkeit-und-satire-1.457948

Anya Pantuyeva, “106 Green”, Everything in Moderation, (blog) January 21st, 2010, http://106green.blogspot.com

Curatorial Projects

2018    Super Model Nein, Unisex Salon, Brooklyn, NY

2013    Hoosier Zeitgeist, The Thompson Collection, Indianapolis, IN

2010    Everything in Moderation, 106 Green Street, Brooklyn, NY

2008   Bah Humbug, Pokalladen, Dusseldorf, DE

Lectures/Workshops

2012   Lecture/Presentation, Summit, OPEKTA Ateliers, Cologne, DE,

           June 29th 2012

Research and Interests

20th Century Sculpture

“The Curatorial”

Curating and exhibition

Art Publication