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