Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Lives and works in San Francisco, California

Education

1991 Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Painting

1999 Mills College, MFA Painting

Selected Recent Solo Exhibitions

Forthcoming January 2013 b.Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA

Forthcoming TBA 2012 Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010 Four Tokyo Metro Drawings, HELLO: Candystore Collective, San Francisco, CA

2009 Sky Black Ray, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009 Station to Station, b.Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA

2006 Pacific Transmissions, Branch Gallery, Durham, NC

2006 Alignments, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004 Chromatics, MH deYoung Artist Studio, San Francisco, CA

2003 Open Line, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected Recent Group Exhibitions

2012 Island of order in a sea of chaos, De Vishal, Haarlem, The Netherlands

2011 A Romance of Many Dimensions, Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY

2011 BYO, IS-PROJECTS, Leiden, NL

2011 STOP & GO RIDES AGAIN,(touring exhibiiton) Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam, NL; Fluctuating Images/ General Public, Berlin, DE; Fluctuating Images/ Interventionstraum, Stuttgart, DE

2011 An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, Massachussetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA

2011 ReTrace, Cesar Chavez Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

2010 TOUCH, Paris CONCRET, Paris, FR

2010 Factor XX, Los Gatos Museum of Art, Los Gatos, CA

2010 The Rule of Typical Things, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010 Auction 100, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

2009 The Grid, MP5, Portland, OR

2009 TRANSformal, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA

2009 TRANS,,,, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008 Calculated Color, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod, MA

2008 TOUCH, Busdori, Tokyo, Japan

2008 The Space Between, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

2007 TRANS: Abstraktion, Weltraum, Munich, Germany

2007 7-07 Hung Liu curates 7 Women Artists in the Year of the Pig, b.Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA

2007 Bay Area Currents, The Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

2007 The Unknown Quantity, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007 Visual Noise, UMC Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

2006 Suitcase, Busdori, Tokyo, Japan

2006 Summertime, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL

2005 Contemporary Perspectives, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA

2004 and now they aren't. but they are., Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004 The Lineup, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Selected Recent Bibliography

2010 Factor XX, exhibition catalogue, September 2010

2009 Selz, Peter, "Notes on TRANS",exhibition brochure, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009 Baker, Kenneth, "Abstracts comingle well at Meridian Gallery", San Francisco Chronicle, November 28, 2009

2009 TRANS, exhibition catalogue, March 2009

2008 "Mel Prest: Sky Black Ray at Gregory Lind Gallery", ArtBusiness.com

2008 Calculated Color, brochure, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod, MA

2008 Levitan, Samantha, "Geometric Rainbows", The Barnstable Patriot, September 4

2008 "Higgins Gallery opens Calculated Color", The Enterprise, September 12

2008 "Higgins Gallery features artists from East, West Coasts in Calculated Color, CapeCodToday.com , August 27

2008 "Tuesday, December 9, 2008, Aqua South Beach...", ArtFagCity.com

2008 The Space Between, brochure, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

2008 Cebulski, Frank, 'The Space Between' at the SJICA, Artweek, June

2008 New American Paintings, West Coast Edition, Volume 73

2008 Finn, Christine, "Bay Area Artist Charts Another Stairway to Heaven", Wired.com. February 20

2007 KNEEL, JüNG, self-published painting 'zine, volume 1, issue 1

2007 Systems & Transmutations, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco, CA

2007 Baker, Kenneth, "Write Your Own Headline", SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, June 9

2007 Dawson, Gay, "'Still' Standing", Critic's Choice, North Bay Bohemian, April 4

2007 Halperen, Max, "Mel Prest + Gibb Slife", Art Papers, March-April

2007 Ishmael, Amelia, "Contemplative Cachophony", Boulder Weekly, May 5

2007 Kucharski, S.R., "Bay Area Currents", Shotgun-Review.com, May 25

2007 Roth, David, "7-07 Seven Women Artists in the Year of the Pig", Artweek, July/August

2006 Still, exhibition catalogue, Napa, CA

2006 microcosm, exhibition catalogue, Richmond, CA

2006 Ashely, Chris, "Mel Prest: Alignments", ChrisAshley.net, June 28

2006 Bamburger, Alan, "Mel Prest: Alignments", ArtBusiness.com, April 6

2006 Greenberg, Blue, "Artists Gallery Show Invokes Warhol, Pollock, Led Zeppelin", The Herald Sun, December 10

2006 Lui, Diane Chin, "Birth of Ideas", Davis Enterprise, March 9

2006 Salzman, Aaron, "Memorial Union Gallery Exhibits 'Sketch'", California Aggie, February 2

2006 Vance, Kelly, "Restless Richmond", East Bay Express, July

2005 Clark, Emily, "and now they aren't. but they are", Mesh Magazine, issue 22

2004 The Lineup, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco Art Institute

2004 The Museum of Temporary Art, exhibition catalogue, Tubingen, Germany

2004 New American Talent 19, exhibition catalogue, Jerry Salz juror

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