Biography
Biography
Melissa MacLeod, born into a creative family that raised her in New York and Los Angeles, is the latest in a long line of visual artists. Melissa spent her formative years traveling the world and living at sea. She found inspiration in the visual language of other cultures and in the drama of natural environments, influences that still inform her evolution as an 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 art gallery which exhibited the work of young iconoclasts from around the country. For twelve years MacLeod curated their group shows and exhibited her own painting, sculpture, and mixed media in solo shows, pieces often inspired by working trips she made to Europe, Central America, Mexico, and Cuba. Her work from the (X) Gallery period can be found in private collections coast to coast and in Europe.
MacLeod served as an Art Director on the feature film Grey Lady for which she designed key sets and was the inspiration for the leading female character. The film, which features her paintings and sculpture, 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, Greenwich, Connecticut, and Palm Beach. When she isn’t traveling, she lives and works on Nantucket.