ABOUT

Melissa Lang received her BFA in painting at Eastern Washington University in 1991 and her MFA in painting and drawing from the University of New Orleans in 1994. Her work has been exhibited nationally in galleries and museums and is in private and public collections throughout the United States and in Tokyo, Japan.  

Lang has been awarded a full Graduate School Fellowship, a 1998 Gap Grant and a 2000 Fellowship from Washington’s Artist Trust Organization, a Vermont Studio Center Tuition Award and an artist residency at Jentel in Wyoming. Notably,  she has completed several wall drawings and large scale murals at the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University, the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, and the Port Angeles Fine Art Center and was featured in a two-person exhibition at Gonzaga’s Jundt Museum.  

Her paintings and drawings have been represented by the Gail Severn Gallery in Sun Valley, Idaho and at Lorinda Knight Gallery in Spokane, Washington. In addition to working full-time as a professional artist, Lang has taught adjunct and served as a visiting Artist Lecturer/Reviewer at colleges and Universities in Washington and Idaho.