Luam Melake (b. 1986 in San Diego, CA) received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley in Interdisciplinary Field Studies majoring in Architecture with a minor in Art History in 2008. Solo and two-person exhibitions include Furnishing Feelings at R & Company, New York (2023), Sensitive Forms at Parker Gallery, Los Angeles (2021), and Without Qualities at Addis Fine Art, New York (2018). Selected group exhibitions include Objects USA 2024 at R & Company, New York (2024), For the Birds at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York (2022), Sumegne / Ngaparou 2 at Fondation Blachère, Apt, France (2020). She has been Artist-in-Residence at prominent institutions, including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York (2017-18 and 2022), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha (2019), Fondation Blachere in Apt, France (2019) and was awarded the Female Design Council Grant in 2021. Melake is currently Senior Researcher at the Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons School of Design and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Museum of Arts and Design. She lives and works in New York.
