Melanie Clemmons

Art

Claire Morris Spaht Chair, Division of Art
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Email

mclemmons@smu.edu

Phone

214-768-4139

Melanie Clemmons is a new media artist who works in video and installation, net art, digital fabrication and live visual performances. She explores internet culture, speculative futures and digital ethics. 

Clemmons has exhibited her work at, among others: HeK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel, Switzerland (via Lorna Mills' Ways of Something); Dieglan Gallery, Akureyri, Iceland; Scope BLN, Berlin, Germany; the Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan (via Lorna Mills' Ways of Something); Light Year, Brooklyn; Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles; LRLX, San Francisco; Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland; Denver Digerati's Supernova, Denver; Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin; Museum of Human Achievement, Austin; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; AURORA, Dallas; and many additional DIY spaces and venues. She is represented by Liliana Bloch Gallery and is an Associate Professor at 51做厙 in Dallas, TX.

Recent Work

Solo Exhibitions/Screenings/Performances

2022

Supernova Festival (Installation and Performance), Denver, CO (Invitation, Collaboration with Zak Loyd and Ryan Wurst)

BOREAL CRUSH PACK, SRO Photo Gallery, Texas Tech University’s Landmark Arts, Lubbock, TX (Juried)

BOREAL CRUSH PACK, Dieglan Gallery, Akureyri, Iceland (Juried)

2021

LIKES CHARGE, LIGHT TEAR, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX (Invited by Catherine Craft Phd, Curator)

LIKES CHARGE, Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, Durango, CO (Invited by Melissa Scaldani, Gallery Director)

2020

WAGON (performance), Quonset Hut Microcinema at Carpenter Hotel, Austin, TX (Invitation, Clemmons & Loyd collaboration)

LIKES CHARGE, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX (Juried, Catalog)

2019

AFTER WORLD CAM, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park SP2, Dallas, TX (Invitation, Clemmons & Loyd collaboration)

VIRTUAL HEALING, Radial Gallery at the University of Dayton, Dayton, OH (Invitation by Nicholaus Arnold, Gallery Director)

2017

Detail(s) from GRAMMATRON, Upfor.Digital Gallery, Portland, OR (Invitation, Collaboration with Mark Amerika)

Research

Internet Art, Video Art, Installation Art (Video, Laser, XR), 3D printing (SLA), Virtual and Augmented Reality, Live Visual Mixing.

Course list

Introduction to Digital/Hybrid Media ASIM 1300
Intermediate Digital/Hybrid Media ASIM 1330
Digital/Hybrid Media Workshop ASIM 3310
Special Projects in Digital/Hybrid Media ASIM 3325
Graduate Seminar
ASAG 6300
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