Ari Melenciano
Visual Arts Residency

Ari Melenciano has cultivated an expansive practice within the arts, technology, design, culture, and pedagogy. Her natural ability to combine many disciplines reveals their interconnectedness and reimagines their conventions for new possibilities. Her art practice ranges from using improvisational dance to study ethnomusicology, to sound design using botanical data. Her work has been exhibited around the world from Dubai's Museum of the Future to the Studio Museum in Harlem. She occasionally designs and teaches courses at different universities including New York University, Hunter College, and Rutgers University. She is also the founder of Afrotectopia, a social institution that imagines new possibilities at the nexus of art, design, technology, and culture. Most recently, Afrotectopia has published the experimental kitchen table art book titled, Black Metal.

Melenciano is a Working Artist Fellow. The Working Artist Fellowship is part of The Rockefeller Foundation’s The Artist Impact Initiative.