Melanie Manos is an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, video, print and installation.  She earned an M.F.A. from University of Michigan and a B.A. from UCLA. Recent exhibitions include Museum London, Ontario, 2016 and the Zuckerman Museum, Atlanta, 2015.  In 2014, Manos was a MacDowell Art Colony Fellow and Visual Artist-in-Residence at the UCross Foundation.  Other recent performances/exhibitions include venues in Los Angeles, London, Brooklyn and Detroit.  In 2013, Manos presented her work at Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan, and was Artist-in-Residence at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture creating work addressing the body and the built environment.  In the late 90s, she performed in Los Angeles as a founding member of the duo Too Much Girl in venues as varied as public museums, private art schools and rock clubs.  Manos collaborates with Sarah Buckius as The ManosBuckius Cooperative.   MBC videos have appeared in video and electronic art festivals throughout the United States and globally in over twenty cities and fifteen countries.

Currently, Manos is a Lecturer at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design and Curator of the Art Collection of the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospitals, with over 260 modern and contemporary works.