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MELISSA DUBBIN lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Since 1998, she has worked collaboratively with artist Aaron S. Davidson. Their projects are multi-disciplinary in nature and include practices in video, sculpture, sound, performance, and works on paper.

Dubbin & Davidson have exhibited in the United States at museums, galleries, and art centers including Sculpture Center, New York; Exit Art, New York; Gigantic Art Space, New York; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe, New Mexico; The Museum of Art & Design, New York; New Sound New York Festival, The Kitchen; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY; and Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY. They have exhibited internationally at Sadler’s Wells, London; 2004 Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; E-Flux Video Rental; Espace Paul Ricard, Paris; and the New York/Québec Interlacé Festival. Dubbin & Davidson have collaborated on projects with Pierre Huyghe, Morton Subotnick, LOT/EK, Woody & Steina Vasulka and others, and as transmission artists with free103point9.

Dubbin & Davidson took part in Sculpture Center’s ‘In Practice’ project series in 2006. In 2005/2006 they participated in residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Program: 120 Broadway, New York City, and as Visiting Artists at New York University’s Advanced Media Studio. Other awards include a 2003 NYSCA Individual Artists Grant, a 2002 residency at the Experimental Television Center (Owego, NY), and a 2001 New York City Independent Radio and Sound Art Fellowship from Media Alliance/Jerome Foundation.

Dubbin was born in 1976 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She graduated with honors in Moving Image Arts from College of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1998.

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