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ARTIST STATEMENT
I am an interdisciplinary artist working in video, performance, social engagement, and installations exploring the unknown, uncertain, and unseen. I engage resonant contexts, rituals, and time as material—in works that unfold over years and even decades. I'm preoccupied by our tendencies to disambiguate belief and fix the image, so I often work with layers, choruses, and composites, and frequently invite participation as a way to engage questions of doubt, agency, and voice.
I co-founded Wall of Song Projects (2017–), an evolving series of video installations and participatory performances exploring the harmonies and dissonances of everyday collective singing, civic life, and women's sports. Recent experimental film work navigates questions of erasure and revelation through a fusion of painting, performance, and video.
BIO
Mel Day’s work has been exhibited and screened at film festivals and venues including Grace Cathedral, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Salesforce Tower Artist Midnight Series, Southern Exposure (San Francisco), San José Museum of Art, San José Institute of Contemporary Art (San José), Berkeley Art Museum, SF Shorts, and internationally. Honors include 2026 Best Experimental Film (Sundial Film Festival), Silicon Valley Artist Laureate Nexus Award, Headlands Center for the Arts Alumni New Works Award and UC Berkeley Fellowship, an Experimental Media Arts Residency at Stanford University, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus (Germany), a collaborative residency at The Lab (SF), Djerassi Artist Program, and a Guest Fellowship at Montalvo Arts Center. Day holds an MFA from UC Berkeley with a year’s undergraduate exchange scholarship to Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. She has held Adjunct Faculty positions at San José State University, UC Berkeley, Santa Clara University, and the University of Toronto, Mississauga.
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