Melissa Stern is an artist and journalist living in New York City.
Stern has worked in sculpture, photography and drawing for over twenty years, exhibiting throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her exhibition, The Talking Cure has been traveling to institutions around the USA since 2012, including the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA (2022), Kranzberg Arts Center, St Louis, MO (2018), Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN (2016). Her work is featured in prominent corporate and museum collections including News Corporation, JP Morgan, Arkansas Art Center, American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona, CA), Racine Art Museum (Racine, WI), and the Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, MN).
Stern also has served as a contributing writer or editor for Hyperallergic, Art Critical, and ArtSpiel. She has covered major exhibitions on assignment throughout the world. She served earlier as the principal art critic for The New York Press. She is a past Board Director of The Children’s Museum of the Arts in NYC, Watershed Center in Maine, and contributing curator of the Human Rights Film Festival from 2008-2015.