Melisa Gerecci artist




Melisa Gerecci
megerecci@gmail.com
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Gerecci uses drawing, printmaking, and sculpture to tell stories through interventions and experimental narrative structures. Her work is held by the Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Library at UT Austin, and in the Special Collections of the Newark Public Library.





Education
NYU School of Law
JD 
2009

The University of Texas at Austin
BA Plan II
2005





Public Commissions






















Residencies
2026
City of Creators
Generations of the Catch
Newark, New Jersey

2025
Tiny Gallery, Four Corners + Treat Place
Newark, New Jersey

2024
The CookBook LookBook Calendar Project
with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts

2022
Signal Ahead
East Coast Greenway

2021
City Feast
Newark Artist Collaboration



2025 
The Goldey House Drawing Through Community, Adirondack State Park
 





Select Group Shows
2026
Think Ink (juried by Jordan Bolduc and Jailyne España) (upcoming)
The Silos Gallery 200
Houston, Texas

2026
Next: Contemporary Print Bienniale (juried by Phil Sanders)
Ellio Fine Arts Gallery
Houston, Texas

2026
Museum of Human Achievment 
Austin, Texas

2026
Faculty Show
Granville Art Center
Garland, Texas

2025
Less Is Always More
Fl!ght Gallery
San Antonio, Texas

2025
Chateau Chateau
Aldredge House
Dallas, Texas

2025
Culture in Translation
Dallas College
Mexico City, Mexico

2024
La Familia Printshop Member Show
Norman Brown Gallery
Dallas, Texas

2024
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Newark Museum of Art
Newark, New Jersey

2023
Vignette Art Fair (juried by Emily Edwards)
Market Hall
Dallas, Texas

2023
Works on Paper
Special Collections
The Newark Public Library

2023
Postcards from the Edge
Visual AIDS, Ortuzar ProjectsNew York, New York

2023
Bloom!
Gallery Aferro Annual Gala
Newark, New Jersey

2022
Artful Healing
Newark Museum of Art

2022
Now Is Right Here
Gallery Aferro Annual Gala
Newark, New Jersey

2021
Build Your Own God (and Other Ideas for a Kinder World)
ArtShack, Brooklyn, New York

2021
Welcome Back to the World
Index Art Center
Newark, New Jersey

2020
Pushing the Envelope
Pulp Gallery
Mount Holyoke, MA






Publications
How to Play
Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art
2023

Clothes Up and Personal: Portraits of Four Fashion Designers
Newarker Magazine
2021

The Streets will be Empty this Good Friday
Newark Star Ledger
2020




© Melisa Gerecci Meyler 2026 
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