Biography

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Melissa Melero-Moose was born in San Francisco, CA and spent most of her childhood living in Reno, Nevada.  She is a Northern Paiute enrolled with the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe with ties to Fort Bidwell Paiute, California.  Melissa holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico and a Bachelor of Science from Portland State University, Oregon. 

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Her works are in the permanent collections of the Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA; IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Nevada State Museum, Carson City, Nevada; School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Lilley Museum, University of Nevada, Reno; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; and the Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C.  

 

She exhibits her art regionally and nationally and has won numerous awards and acknowledgement for her work.  She has received artist residencies and fellowships from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York; School for Advanced Research; the Southwest Association of Indian Arts; Wheelwright Museum; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; and the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

 

Melissa currently lives with her family in Hungry Valley, Nevada working as a professional artist, curator for the Great Basin Native Artists Gallery inside of the Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum, Great Basin rep for First American Art Magazine and community advisor for the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada.

  

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