SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

 

SOLO:

History of House and Tree, Nest – Richmond, VA, 1.15

Architecture for AIA, Tektonics Design – Richmond, VA, 4. 14

The Nature of a Neighborhood, Nest – Richmond, VA, 12.13

Something Old is Something New, Nesbit – Richmond, VA, 4.12

You Are Here, 1212 Gallery – Richmond, VA, 11.09

The Belvidere at Broad – Richmond, VA, 8.09

Portraits, Sound of Music – Richmond, VA, 6.09

Southern Mortgage – Richmond, VA, 6.07

403 North Allen Avenue – Richmond, VA, 3.07

M. Burgess Paintings, Piano Dave’s Gallery – Cambridge, MA, 5.94

 

DUO:

Burgess/Trask, Eric Schindler Gallery – Richmond, VA, 9.02

Painting the Town: Richmond Neighborhoods, Past & Present, Valentine Museum – Richmond, VA, 10.99

Jefferson Hotel – Richmond, VA, 10.97

New Work, Art Market – Jamaica Plain, MA, 2.93

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GROUP:

Full Nest, Nest – Richmond, VA, 7.14

Small Works Invitational, Glave Kocen Gallery – Richmond, VA, 12.12

10th International Exhibition East Meets West, Daegu Culture & Arts Center – Daegu, South Korea, 4.12

East Meets West Invitational, Gallery 5800 – Richmond, VA, 3.09

East Meets West Invitational, Artspace – Richmond, VA, 2.09

Think Small 5, Artspace – Richmond, VA, 11.09

Tashkent 5th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Centre of Creative Work of Youth – Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 10.09

Radius 250, Artspace (juried) – Richmond, VA, 7.09

All Media Show, Artspace (juried-3rd Place) – Richmond, VA, 11.08

Artificium of Humanitas VII, Liang Bao Lou Gallery – Xian, China, 7.08

Untitled Invitational, Eric Schindler Gallery – Richmond, VA, 2.08

Side Streets Invitational, Glavé Kocen Gallery – Richmond, VA, 11.07

Artificium of Humanitas VI, Shang Shang Main Gallery – Beijing, China, 7.07

Artificium of Humanitas VI, Hae-Tae Gallery – Seoul, South Korea, 6.07

Nautical Show, Artworks (juried) – Richmond, VA, 8.06

Artificium of Humanitas IV, George Washington University – Arlington, VA, 4.05

Holiday Invitational, Eric Schindler Gallery – Richmond, VA, 12.04

Art and Music Expo, Artspace Gallery – Richmond, VA, 9.04

Small Works at Abattoir, Abattoir Fine Arts – Richmond, VA, 12.02

Private Spaces: An Inside Look by Nine Artists, Abattoir Fine Arts – Richmond, VA, 10.02

Artificium of Humanitas, Daegu Culture and Art Center – Daegu, South Korea, 4.02

Chop Suey – Richmond, VA, 3.02

Eggspace Holiday Show, Eggspace Gallery – Richmond, VA, 12.01

Holiday Small Works Show, Eggspace Gallery – Richmond, VA, 11.01

Counting Cards, 1708 Gallery – Richmond, VA, 10.00

Dwellings, Eric Schindler Gallery – Richmond, VA, 5.00

Got…Art Auction, 1708 Gallery – Richmond, VA, 3.99

Small Works Holiday Invitational, 1708 Gallery – Richmond, VA, 12.98

Still Life and Interiors, Eric Schindler Gallery – Richmond, VA, 11.98

15-17/A Wake!, Coincidence Gallery – Richmond, VA, 12.97

Phoenix Landing – Cambridge, MA, 2.94

Piano Dave’s Gallery – Cambridge, MA, 12.93

Art Zone – Boston, MA, 12.93

Piano Dave’s Gallery – Cambridge, MA 10.93

New Art ’93, Kingston Gallery (juried) – Boston, MA, 7.93

Figurative Art, Henry Street Gallery – Richmond, VA, 8.88

Main Street Station – Richmond, VA, 7.87

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

“Getting to Know:15 Notable Names & Faces of the Richmond Region”, Discover Richmond Annual Regional Guidebook, 10.16

“Artist Melissa Burgess Paints Richmond Kit Homes”, Richmond Magazine, 10.14

Todd Culbertson, Weeks End Wrap Up, Richmond Times Dispatch, 1.25.14

“Preserved in Paint-Artist Documents Overlooked Details of Richmond”, Richmond Times Dispatch, 1.19.14

“Melissa Burgess at Nest”, Richmond Magazine, 12.13

“Exhibit Explores Inner-City Structures”, Richmond Times Dispatch, 12.10.09

“The Artists of 1212”, Richmond Magazine, 11.09

“Side Streets”, Richmond Magazine, 11.07

“Calendar”, Richmond Magazine, 11.07

“Radar-Melissa Burgess”, Richmond Magazine, 1.07

“Commemorating the 25th Establishment of Shimsangjeon”, Federation of Artistic and Cultural Organization of Korea – The Korean and American Exchange Exhibition, 4.02

“The Old Neighborhood in Art and Word”, Journal of Urban History, Volume 27/Number 2, 1.01

“Rescuer of Time and Light-Burgess Ventures to Big, Wide Open”, Richmond Magazine, 7.00

“Used Carlotta”, Reckless Wheels, Planetary Records, 8.00 (CD cover)

“The Daily Line”, Cambridge Chronicle, 6.2.94,

“Night and Day”, Boston Sunday Globe, 5.29.94

“Invasive Hands”, Bay Windows, 7.22.93

 

AWARDS:

Style Magazine: Women in the Arts Award 2016

 

COLLECTIONS:

Private and corporate, throughout the United States

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EDUCATION:

Self-taught