Biography
Biography
Melissa MacLeod was born and raised in NewYork and Los Angeles in a creative family. Since then she has spent years traveling the world creating paintings and sculpture using a wide variety of materials, a migration which has informed her evolution as a artist.
After graduating with a BFA from Montserrat College of Art she moved to Nantucket Island where she helped found The (X) Gallery, a contemporary gallery which exhibited the work of young iconoclasts from around the country. For twelve years MacLeod curated their group shows and exhibited her own work, painting, sculpture and mixed media often inspired by working trips to Europe, Central America, Mexico, Cuba and elsewhere. Her work from the (X) Gallery period are in private collections coast to coast and in Europe.
Recently MacLeod served as Director of Art on the feature film Grey Lady for which she designed key sets and was the inspiration for the female lead. The film features her painting and sculpture and is distributed internationally by Lionsgate Films.
Besides solo exhibitions on Nantucket, MacLeod has exhibited in New York and in England. She is currently represented by the Samuel Owen Gallery of Nantucket and Greenwich, Connecticut.