About
Melissa Holmes is a visual artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. Melissa grew up drawing from an early age and graduated from Clemson University with a B.A. in major in computer science and a minor in art. After working as a software engineer for ten years, she transitioned to focus on exploring the intersection of art, code, and data and attended the School for Poetic Computation in New York City.
Recently, while working in her home studio in Atlanta, GA, she shifted focus to more personal work in charcoal and paint emphasizing an appreciation for small environmental variation and its effects on her and her muses. Her practice is observation based, and she uses her knowledge of nature and technology to explore and record the experiences of individuals with attention to care and context.
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Melissa Holmes
Lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia
Education
BA, Major in Computer Science, Minor in Fine Arts, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Group Exhibitions
2026 Spring Awakening, Grandview Avenue Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Honorable Mention
2025 Looking Forward, Grandview Avenue Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Honorable Mention
2025 Conviction X Kairos, Oglethorpe University, Brookhaven, GA
2025 Renewal, Grandview Avenue Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Honorable Mention
2024 Honey I Shrunk the Art, Gallery Chimera, Atlanta, GA
2024 Reality or Abstraction, Grandview Avenue Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Third Place Award
2023 Something Brewing is Haunting VI, Arches Brewing, Hapeville, GA
2023 HUNDO, Future Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2022 Something Brewing is Haunting V, Arches Brewing, Hapeville, GA
2022 The Drawing Show, Grandview Avenue Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2022 The Art of Beauty, MVA Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
2022 20th Annual Off the Wall Pin-Up Show, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA
2022 Annual Postcard Pin-Up Show, MINT, Atlanta, GA
2022 Being Human, Grandview Avenue Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2022 Intergalactic Open 3, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
2021 Viridian Artists 31st International Juried Exhibition, Viridian Artists, New York, NY
2021 Annual Postcard Pin-Up Show, MINT, Atlanta, GA
2021 Back to the Drawing Board, Grandview Avenue Gallery, Atlanta, GA, First Place Award
2021 PleinAirprilShowcase, Gallery Nucleus, Alhambra, CA
2020 Reality or Abstraction, Grandview Avenue Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2020 Artist in Residence, Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA
2020 Renewal, Grandview Avenue Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2020 The Grand View at W Atlanta Midtown, Atlanta Artists Center for W Atlanta-Midtown, Atlanta, GA, Honorable Mention
2019 Back to the Drawing Board, Grandview Avenue Gallery, Atlanta GA
2019 12th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT (catalogue)
2019 Student Showcase, School For Poetic Computation, New York, NY
Public Art
2022 Thrasherville: Creating a Community at the Terminus
Local Stories
Curated by EuGene V. Byrd III
Presented by ADID and Dashboard, Atlanta, GA
Dimensions: 13’ x 43’ digital billboard, Margaret Mitchell Square, Atlanta, GA
Bibliography
2019 Center for Contemporary Printmaking MiniPrint Exhibition, Norwalk, CT: Center for Contemporary Printmaking, June 10, 2019. Exhibition catalogue. https://issuu.com/ccpminiprintcatalog13/docs/2019_miniprint_catalog_final_8e838f67395bbf
2019 Celine Wong Katzman, “SFPC Spring 2019 Student Showcase,” Creative Applications, June 21, 2019. www.creativeapplications.net/maxmsp/sfpc-spring-2019-student-showcase/
Workshops and Teaching
2019 Urban Sketching Workshop, School for Poetic Computation, New York, NY, April 1.