Veronica Melendez is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator based in Greenfield, MA. Her work centers the afterlives of Civil War, migration, and Mesoamerican Indigenous imaginaries. Her projects weave between original photography, archival imagery, collage, oral history, and stop motion animation. These mediums allow her to delve into the hybridity that comes with living in the diaspora. Having ancestral roots in Guatemala and El Salvador and growing up in Washington D.C. she is constantly faced with the complex ideation of home in a city that is deeply tied to her family’s history of displacement. Through her art she finds ways to process the endless questions that arrive from this complicated upbringing.
Veronica is a founder of La Horchata - an arts publication highlighting creatives with Central American roots. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography, Creative Arts and Visual Culture at Hampshire College.
Contact: VEROMELEN@GMAIL.COM