Melonie Mulkey is a visual artist and photographer whose work investigates interior spaces and the layered histories within the built environment. Inspired by architecture, film, and theater, creating diorama sets for the camera has been the focus of her artistic practice. These fictitious scenes are metaphors for human psychological, emotional, and spiritual experiences, as the shifts in scale, quality of light, and play of color and pattern, provide an entry for individual interpretation. These constructed photographs aim to bring an emotional and reflective experience to the viewer. 

Melonie has exhibited in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally in places such as Filter Photo Gallery in Chicago, JanKossen Contemporary Gallery in New York, Ft. Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana, Millepiani Gallery in Rome, Italy, and the CICA Museum in South Korea. She has also received several awards and has been included in publications such as Loosen Art, Manifest, and Studio Visit Magazine. She received her MFA in 2019 from the University of Notre Dame and currently teaches at Holy Cross College in Notre Dame, Indiana.

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