Solo Exhibitions
2021 Losing Touch, Melhop Gallery º7077, Zephyr Cove, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA
2020 in the middle of this nowhere, MFA thesis exhibition, Jot Travis Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
2019 New Crop, 2-person show, Mark Combs and Frances Melhop, Capital City Arts Initiative, Court House Gallery, Carson City, NV, USA
2018 Vanish, MFA Midway Advancement to Candidacy Exhibition, Jot Travis Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
2017 The Comstock Portrait Project 2013-2017. The series is a collection of large-scale portraits of the Comstock folk, recordings of their recollections, and photographs of homes in these isolated communities. Archival digital prints on Hahnemühle Fine Art cotton rag, Haldan Gallery, Lake Tahoe Community College, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
2016 Telling Tales, a selectrospective of past folkloric and fairytale works. Chromogenic prints on Kodak Endura metallic paper Sierra Arts Foundation Gallery, Reno, USA
2013 Down the Rabbit Hole, selected retrospective works inspired primarily by the stories of Charles Lutwidge Dodson, Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen. Images chromogenic prints on Kodak Endura metallic paper. Limited Editions of 7, St Mary’s Art Center, Virginia City, NV, USA
2012 Submerge, Duo Scorpio CD Release, digital photographic images of the Musicians in a room full of water. The DiMenna Centre for Classical Music, New York, NY, USA
2009 Times of Transformation, underwater images photographed on 35mm film, black and white digital inkjet prints on Canson Edition Etching paper. Limited Editions of 25, Arthaus66, New Mexico, USA
2006 Tall Tales, Cannes Film Festival, a selection of fairytale inspired works, chromogenic prints on Fuji Metallic photographic paper. Limited Editions of 25, Arista Gallery, Cannes, France
2005 Case Abandonnati, Castles and houses found abandoned in the Northern Italian Countryside. Photographed on monorail camera, 4x5" colour negative film, chromogenic prints on Fuji Metallic photographic paper. Limited Editions of 7, Premiata Showroom, Milan, Italy Selected Group Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 TTL Teeny Tiny Trifecta. Jury Selection Committee: Tori Cherry, Ashon Crawley, Diana Nelson, Neal Rock, Darryl Smith, and Hagan Tampellini. Second street Gallery. Charlottesville, Virginia
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AWARDS 2022, Women Seeing Women 2022, Tintype Self #16 from the Obscurations series, Barcelona, Spain
EYE want candy, summer group exhibition, Melhop Gallery º7077, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Wedge Outside the Box, Dolls and Effigies, JTB gallery, University of Nevada, Reno
FACULTY EXHIBITION, Whispers Across Time series, Haldan Gallery, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
2021 Cat Art Show LA, “A New Beginning,” “Cat Hat” image 2008-2021, curated by Susan Michals at the Golden Pagoda, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Shelter, Melhop Gallery º7077, inaugural exhibition of the gallery, Zephyr Cove, Lake Tahoe, NV, USA
2020 Obscurations, Social Distance Gallery, MFA virtual exhibition created by Benjamin Cook, USA
2019 Placed/Displaced Exhibition, Rocky Mountain Printmaking Alliance, Arizona State University, AZ, USA
Air New Zealand - Kiwis In LA, Annual juried group show, Mourning Piece, 18th St Art Center, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Home, Triangle from The Comstock Portrait Project, jurors Mia Dalglish and Lisa Woodward for the SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, USA
Between Plate and Paper, 3 images from #selfiegirl, McKinley Art Center, Reno, NV, USA
No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man, Clown Machine from the Welcome Home series 2011-2017. Cincinnati Art Museum, OH, USA
Persistence, images from Vanish, in honor of Women’s History Month, juried by Lori Pratico, founder of Girl Noticed, at The D’Art Center, Norfolk, VA, USA
Translating Silver City: Artwork from the Permanent Collection of the Resident Artist Program in Silver City, Nevada, USA
2019 The Magic Silver Show: The Elena Diane Curris Juried Photography Exhibition, images from Vanish, Juried by Bradly Dever Treadaway, Fulbright Scholar to Italy, Faculty
member and Digital Media Coordinator at The International Center of Photography in New York City. Clara M. Eagle Gallery at Murray State University, KY, USA
Contemporary Voices in Photography, images from Vanish, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Juror: Aline Smithson, founder of the online photography journal LENSCRATCH. RICPA gallery, 118 N. Main St. Providence, RI, USA
Off the Press: Tahoe/Reno Area Printmakers, images from the Keepsake series, intaglio, Haldan Gallery, Lake Tahoe Community College, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
Existence: SELF-PRESENCE, Whittemore Gallery, excerpt from Vanish exhibition, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
2018 Sum of the Parts, MFA Review Exhibition, MFA Review exhibition, Jot Travis Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
5th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, Comstock Portrait, Barcelona, Spain
Air New Zealand - Kiwis In LA, Annual juried group show, Sheep series, Santa Monica Art Studios, Santa Monica, CA, USA
The Wind Calls, The Brick Gallery, Capital City Arts Initiative, Carson City, NV, USA
City of Trembling Leaves, Jot Travis Gallery, Southdown sheep, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
2017 Annual Student Art Show, University of Nevada, Reno. Masquerade and Portrait of Lorenzo, Juried by Garth Johnson, curator of ceramics at the ASU Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona, USA
Paradoxical Existence, The Comstock Portrait Project 2013-2017 MFA Review exhibition, jot Travis Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
A Sense of Place 36th Annual National Juried Fine Art Competition Exhibition at the Gertrude Herbert Institute in Augusta, Georgia, curated by Michael Rooks of the High Museum in Atlanta, USA
Meed1 juried exhibition, at Gallery19 Chicago, IL, USA, curated and juried by Jennifer Murray, Executive Director of Filter Photo
Comstock Portrait, 9th juried Pollux Exhibition, curated by Julio Hirsch-Hardy, Managing Director and Senior Curator of the International Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography, at Valid Foto, Barcelona, Spain
45th International Art Show, Sheep paintings, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, Texas. Juried by Cesar Martinez of San Antonio, Angel Cabrales of El Paso, and Annie Moye of Atlanta, Georgia
2016 Infinity Jot Travis Gallery University of Nevada, Reno, USA. Juried by Mark Van Proyen, Art critic and Associate Professor at the San Francisco Art Institute
2015 Out on a Limb Mathewson Knowledge Center, University of Nevada, Reno
2013 Animal Fairy Tales, Fables, Fact or Fiction Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, USA
Art Nevada St Mary's Art Center, Virginia City, NV, USA
Arte Contemporanea, Abitart Gallery, Rome, Italy
Marionette, Abitart gallery, Rome, Italy
Tales selected works, ArtBlast McKinley Arts Center, Reno, USA
EdibleArt, Artspace Gallery Reno, USA
Pinhole works, Art Caffè Letterario, Rome, Italy
2012 Art on The Hill, Artown, selection from the “Ancient Olives” series, Reno, USA
2011 Bianco Nero, Vista gallery, Rome, Italy
2010 Ancient Olive Trees series, projections on the castle wall, MIRA, show hung in the Vecchio Frantoio, Pallazzo Palmieri, Martignano, Italy
Ancient Olive Tree series, MIRA Martignano International Artists Residency, Accademia di Belle Arte, Lecce, Italy
Pinhole Camera Visionaries, 4x5" Polaroid, Lagniappe Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Ghost Girl, Arthaus66, New Mexico, USA
Waterbabe, digital photography – from underwater series, Globe, Milano, Italy
Miniatures, selected fairytale works, photography with digital paint intervention. Ghost Gallery and Gossamer Collective, Seattle, USA
2009 Silence, miniature sets photographed using a pinhole camera on 4x5" Polaroid, Vista Gallery, Rome, Italy
2008 Pollicina, Canon ProFashional awards, chromogenic photographic images Dusseldorf, Germany
The Fairytale Continues, selected works inspired by Hans Christian Andersen, Arthaus66, New Mexico, USA
2007 In Teatro, selected works photographed on 8 x10" Polaroid, Paul Maurin Gallery, Paris, France
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2022 MOMI Printmaking Residency, Sebastopol, California, USA
2021 INCAHOOTS Artist Residency, relief and monotype printmaking, Petaluma, USA
2016 Silver City Artist Residency, to produce a collection of photographic portraits, recordings of the recollections of Comstock Folk, homes and the desert environment. Silver City, Nevada, USA
2014 St Mary’s Art Center Artist Residency, intaglio printmaking, Virginia City, Nevada, USA
2010 Awarded an Artists Residency with MIRA in Puglia/Salento, Italy, producing a collection of 44 traditional 4x5” black and white negatives of Olive trees circa 1000 years of age. Contact printed on Ilford Fibre Based Paper