MELISSA WANG

Melissa Wang received her B.A. in Literature/Writing from the University of California, San Diego and her M.A. in English from the University of California, Davis. She researched science-fiction as a PhD candidate before segueing to tech. In 2019, she began a professional arts practice, and has since exhibited at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, Il; Iowa Ceramics Center in Cedar Rapids, IA; Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, CA; and the de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA with a solo exhibition at Root Division (Frank-Ratchye space) in San Francisco, CA. Her work can be found in public spaces including Brown University in Providence, RI and Facebook in Menlo Park, CA. She is the recipient of an Individual Emerging Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council in 2021. In early 2020, she founded her design studio, leveraging her experience at Facebook (Meta) and Google to serve creatives during the pandemic. She helped launch the late Rose Imai’s website and co-organized an art auction with artist Cindy Shih, raising $11,000 for voter movement projects. In 2022, she curated her first in-person exhibition titled Grow Our Souls at SOMArts Gallery in San Francisco.