BIO
Melanie Kozol is a Brooklyn-based landscape painter whose work explores the
relationship between direct observation, memory, and her emotional response to the
environment. Working from plein air watercolors, photographs, and memory, she
creates interpretive paintings that reimagine the landscape through the physical process
of painting, intuition and invention. Kozol focuses on expansive terrains, water, sky, and
vegetation, balancing atmospheric beauty with psychological and environmental
tension.
Melanie Kozol received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts and her BA from
Connecticut College. Kozol is the recipient of an NEA Visual Artist Fellowship in
Painting and has attended residencies including the Arctic Circle, Skowhegan School of
Painting and Sculpture, the Clipperton Project, DNA, the Virginia Center for the Creative
Arts, and the Saltonstall Foundation. Her work has been exhibited widely and is
included in public and private collections including JetBlue at JFK Airport, Deutsche
Bank, Pfizer Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Bellagio
Hotel. Her paintings have appeared in the films Damsels in Distress (2011) and A
Birder’s Guide to Everything (2013). Kozol is a visiting professor at Pratt Institute and
teaches painting at 92NY School of the Arts.
