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The theatrical and narrative elements in the works of Melora Kuhn stem from a lifelong fascination with mythology and the stories of dreams. The settings, often resembling backdrops in a play, challenge the viewer’s sense of reality and alternately blur and delineate the individual from the surrounding world, through the suggestion of a parallel one. Children, in their natural and uninhibited state, are Kuhn’s ideal protagonists: for them, stories and dreams are as real as experience. Often, these children are accompanied by animals or toys that have come to life and serve as their guides and companions in accessing another world. The wallpaper, peeking through the landscape or backdrop, hints at the adult reality surrounding Kuhn’s characters : the patterns function as structures of thought, constant and pervasive, inherited or imposed. Kuhn’s work serves as a reminder of a universe left behind, suggesting to the viewer that it is never entirely lost.
2005
The Finland Biennial, Aboa Vertas Museum, Turku, Finland
The Torriento Troupe, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY Solo Show
2004
Back to Paint, C& M Arts, New York, NY
Rites of Passage, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA, Solo Show
2003
Florence Biennale, Florence Italy
Interior Constellations, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY, Solo Show
Bad Touch, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
New Talant, Melora Kuhn & Jessica Grace Brooks, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
Dreamy, Zieher/Smith Gallery, New York, NY
Borrowers: Evidence of Influence, New Art Center, Newton, MA
2002
Small Works, Small Works Gallery, Florence, Italy
Blackboard Exercises, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL
- Solo Show
Media to Images, Brickbottom, Somverville, MA
Open Studios Press, Selected works, Boston, MA
Bernard Toale, The Drawing project, ongoing
2001
Somerville Arts Council Grand Recipiants, Somerville
Museum, Somerville, MA
Blackboard Paintings, Peabody Theater Co-op, Somerville, M
- Solo Show
Boston Artists, Winzererstr. 47e, Munich, Germany
City Guns, Boston Artists at the CAC, Contemporary Artists Center, North
Adams, MA
Girls and Swirls, Paintings by Melora Kuhn and David Palmer, FPAC Gallery,
Boston, MA
Contemporary Artists Center, Five Artists, Curated by residents from "what's
the big idea", North Adams, MA
2000
Ten Boston Artists, MPG Gallery, Boston, MA
Group Show, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA
Paintings, Gallery M3, Boston, MA
- Solo Show
The Virtual Circus, The Revolving Museum, Boston, MA
Star Search 2000, The New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk
University, Boston, MA
Wonder Woman and the Fantastic Four, Winzererstr. 47e, Munich, Germany
The Revolving Museum at National Boston, Boston, MA
Multiplicity in time & space, Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco,
CA
1999
Manifest '99: A Biennial Survey of Contemporary Art,
The Copley Society of Boston, Boston, MA
Prints at MPG, MPG Gallery, Boston, MA
1994
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, B.F.A.,
Painting and Printmaking
1991-92
Scuola Lorenzo di Medici, Florence, Italy
2002 - FPCC Public Art Grant
2001 - Somerville Arts Council Fellowship Grant
1999 - Manifest '99: The Copley Bienniel Juror's
Choice Award
1998 - 2003 The Fort Point
Arts Community
2001 - 2003 Board Member, The Fort Point Arts
Community
The Tampa Tribune, 09/22/02
The St. Petersburg Times, 10/17/02
New American Paintings, Issue 38 02/02
The Boston Globe,
- 8/31/97
- 7/19/01
- 9/13/01
- 4/6/02
- 9/8/02
- 2/2/03
The Weekly Dig, 12/6/00
The Improper Bostonian, 6/20/01
digitalcity.com/boston, 11/11/99
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