Melanie Kozol
Visiting Assistant Professor
Biography
Melanie Kozol is known for her evocative paintings of the natural world. Kozol looks for archetypal formations in the environment to explore light, color and atmosphere. Working from ‘plein air’ studies, photographic documentation and memory, Kozol re-imagines the environment through the painting process. Her landscape paintings and drawings are infused with memory and the experience of being in nature.
Melanie Kozol received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BA from Connecticut College. She was awarded an NEA Visual Arts Fellowship for Painting, a Skowhegan Drawing grant at NYSS and the Bill Prize at Connecticut College. In 2022, Kozol received the Mercedes Matter Award, from Curator Yasmeen Siddiqui for the NYSS 2022 Alumni Exhibition. Kozol has been a fellow at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY; Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA; and the Clipperton Project, North Sea, Scotland.
www.melaniekozol.com
Education
The School of Visual Arts, MFA
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Connecticut College, BA
Westminster College, Oxford University