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ISABELLA MELLADO

Events

EVENTS

The Magician

Took this photo after @emodog98 tattooed me last week. Tattooing is making your body a comfortable home for your self. The magician represents the power of creation.

The Magician

Took this photo after @emodog98 tattooed me last week. Tattooing is making your body a comfortable home for your self. The magician represents the power of creation.

I’m thrilled to announce that I have been selected as an artist-in-residence @fountainheadarts in 2025. I’m excited to live and work in Miami from June 25 to July 23, 2025, and make critical connections with arts colleagues in the region. Thank you to the 2025 jurors @joaquinseguranet , @giardeniera , @naimajoy , and @jjjcccdiaz , and to the Fountainhead team for believing in me and my work!

📸: @d4y5on

I’m thrilled to announce that I have been selected as an artist-in-residence @fountainheadarts in 2025. I’m excited to live and work in Miami from June 25 to July 23, 2025, and make critical connections with arts colleagues in the region. Thank you to the 2025 jurors @joaquinseguranet , @giardeniera , @naimajoy , and @jjjcccdiaz , and to the Fountainhead team for believing in me and my work!

📸: @d4y5on

Chicago Exhibition Weekend 2024
Feeling insanely lucky to be surrounded by this community of creatives ✨ ily Chicago

Special thanks to @gertie.chicago @apucks @chanellerenee_ @rococoartadvisory @early.work_ @oldfriendsgallery @fawn.penn for including me in your CXW programming this year! And thanks to @txatxaclub for the delicious menu served at @manacontemporary on Thursday. Cheers to what’s to come ✨

Chicago Exhibition Weekend 2024
Feeling insanely lucky to be surrounded by this community of creatives ✨ ily Chicago

Special thanks to @gertie.chicago @apucks @chanellerenee_ @rococoartadvisory @early.work_ @oldfriendsgallery @fawn.penn for including me in your CXW programming this year! And thanks to @txatxaclub for the delicious menu served at @manacontemporary on Thursday. Cheers to what’s to come ✨

Process vid bc I’m once again excited to start a new painting ✨👼🏻🪽

Process vid bc I’m once again excited to start a new painting ✨👼🏻🪽

Temporal
Aquí me inspire de las plenas de Lorenzo Homar y Rafael Tufiño, y la personificación del viento oeste según Botticelli

Temporal
Aquí me inspire de las plenas de Lorenzo Homar y Rafael Tufiño, y la personificación del viento oeste según Botticelli

Las nueve olas de Noche de San Juan

Las nueve olas de Noche de San Juan

Las Hogueras de Noche de San Juan
Ty @emodog98 for playing in the sand w me lol 📸

Las Hogueras de Noche de San Juan
Ty @emodog98 for playing in the sand w me lol 📸

Todays progress 🥵

Todays progress 🥵

First underpainting of three in a massive triptych ❤️‍🔥 daunting but exciting

First underpainting of three in a massive triptych ❤️‍🔥 daunting but exciting

“El Tonto” for Liminal, an exhibition curated by @anaisccaro at the National Museum of Puerto Rican Art and Culture

opens June 15th! 12-2pm

Excited to be in a show that showcases queer boricua narratives, what a way to kick off Pride month 🫶🏻

“El Tonto” for Liminal, an exhibition curated by @anaisccaro at the National Museum of Puerto Rican Art and Culture

opens June 15th! 12-2pm

Excited to be in a show that showcases queer boricua narratives, what a way to kick off Pride month 🫶🏻

Tank top season ❤️‍🔥 #cyanotype

Tank top season ❤️‍🔥 #cyanotype

Baile para el Señor de la Muerte 💀❤️‍🔥
So excited (and a little scared) to paint this one, it’s gonna be massive

Baile para el Señor de la Muerte 💀❤️‍🔥
So excited (and a little scared) to paint this one, it’s gonna be massive

El Tonto / The Fool

El Tonto / The Fool

Prom Queen of Pentacles ⭐️

Prom Queen of Pentacles ⭐️

A few weeks ago, @d4y5on came by my studio and captured me as I worked (slides 1-5).These paintings make up my solo show, Te Diré Quien Eres, which is on view at @povosgallery (west town location)

So thankful for @luccart , @winston_guo , the povos team and everyone that came to the opening 🫶🏻 super super thankful for my friends (u know who u are) that showed up and celebrated me that weekend 🥰 more programming coming soon ❤️‍🔥

A few weeks ago, @d4y5on came by my studio and captured me as I worked (slides 1-5).These paintings make up my solo show, Te Diré Quien Eres, which is on view at @povosgallery (west town location)

So thankful for @luccart , @winston_guo , the povos team and everyone that came to the opening 🫶🏻 super super thankful for my friends (u know who u are) that showed up and celebrated me that weekend 🥰 more programming coming soon ❤️‍🔥

Eight of Swords, photoshoot took place at la isla de las muñecas, Xochimilco MX during CDMX art week.
📸: @emodog98 (1&2)
Collage, direction & concept by me

Inspired by St Lucy 👁️👁️

Eight of Swords, photoshoot took place at la isla de las muñecas, Xochimilco MX during CDMX art week.
📸: @emodog98 (1&2)
Collage, direction & concept by me

Inspired by St Lucy 👁️👁️

So excited to be at @mmmmmaterial with @swivelgallery 🫶🏻 if you’re in CDMX for art week come say hi! Booth A05

So excited to be at @mmmmmaterial with @swivelgallery 🫶🏻 if you’re in CDMX for art week come say hi! Booth A05

Coming sooon to CDMX! 🇲🇽 I’ll be showing at @mmmmmaterial with @swivelgallery , booth A05 ✨

Coming sooon to CDMX! 🇲🇽 I’ll be showing at @mmmmmaterial with @swivelgallery , booth A05 ✨

✨The High Priestess ✨
Mask based on the catholic seraphim, lace appliqué stiffened with corn starch.

✨The High Priestess ✨
Mask based on the catholic seraphim, lace appliqué stiffened with corn starch.

It’s a priming day 🫶🏻

It’s a priming day 🫶🏻

Gracias 2023 ✨ snapshots from some of this year’s shows 🎊

Gracias 2023 ✨ snapshots from some of this year’s shows 🎊

Cheers! 🥂
This Miami Art week I had the honor to gift a limited series of prints to guests of @cmxnr & @veuveclicquot during an event honoring the spectacular Jasmine Wahi @browngirlcurator

Proud to say I am a 2023 Commissioner Artist 🍾✨
#veuveclicquot #cmxnr @artbasel @miamiartweek
Special thank you to @carringtoner 💕
📸: Chantal Lawrie

Cheers! 🥂
This Miami Art week I had the honor to gift a limited series of prints to guests of @cmxnr & @veuveclicquot during an event honoring the spectacular Jasmine Wahi @browngirlcurator

Proud to say I am a 2023 Commissioner Artist 🍾✨
#veuveclicquot #cmxnr @artbasel @miamiartweek
Special thank you to @carringtoner 💕
📸: Chantal Lawrie

Ace of Wands

Ace of Wands

10 of Wands

10 of Wands

Two of wands | four of wands

Two of wands | four of wands

Gracias gracias gracias from the bottom of my heart to @youngarts & @luisa_munera for bringing my work to Miami this has been such an incredible experience 🥰
📸: Jason Koemer, @worldredeye

Gracias gracias gracias from the bottom of my heart to @youngarts & @luisa_munera for bringing my work to Miami this has been such an incredible experience 🥰
📸: Jason Koemer, @worldredeye

🚨 Miami folx! 🚨 my solo show, Desde el Charco at the @youngarts gallery opens November 9th at 7pm✨ I’ll be there, and so will this painting ❤️‍🔥 come say hi!

Wheel of fortune, oil on canvas, 2023
📸 (second slide): @_graham_wilson_

🚨 Miami folx! 🚨 my solo show, Desde el Charco at the @youngarts gallery opens November 9th at 7pm✨ I’ll be there, and so will this painting ❤️‍🔥 come say hi!

Wheel of fortune, oil on canvas, 2023
📸 (second slide): @_graham_wilson_

🌿BOTANY OF DESIRE🌱
Opening tomorrow at @swivelgallery 6-9 pm, New York come through!

“The Hierophant” oil on canvas with silk dupioni frame, 2023

📸: Cary Whittier (slides 2-4)

🌿BOTANY OF DESIRE🌱
Opening tomorrow at @swivelgallery 6-9 pm, New York come through!

“The Hierophant” oil on canvas with silk dupioni frame, 2023

📸: Cary Whittier (slides 2-4)

So excited to announce I’ll be a part of group exhibition Botany of Desire at @swivelgallery 🌷🥀🌸 curated by @pitterpadder

Swivel Gallery is pleased to present an alluring group exhibition, “Botany of Desire.”
Opening 10/14 from 6 - 8 PM ET at 396 Johnson Avenue, BK
“Botany of Desire” explores how certain plants have evolved to gratify human desires - specifically for sweetness, beauty, intoxication, control and healing - and, in turn, how plant species have used man to meet their own benefit. Given that plants are immobile, they have learned to be the ultimate chemist in order to further their reproduction. The exhibition draws its inspiration from a book of the same title by Michael Pollan, which questions the idea that people are the sole drivers of domestication. Weaving threads from personal histories, the artists share critical representations of flora and vegetation intertwined with vulnerable human experiences.
Featuring artists Caroline Absher, Lindsay Adams, Camilla Alberti, Hangama Amiri, Bhasha Chakrabarti, Chitra Ganesh, Shyama Golden, Alison Kudlow, Alicia Reyes McNamara, Isabella Mellado, Bianca Nemelc, Devin Osorio, Hilda Palafox, Luján Pérez Hernández, Kelly Shami, Ivana Štulić, Abhishek Tuiwala, Khari Turner, Miko Veldkamp and Letha Wilson. Curated by Sadaf Padder.

So excited to announce I’ll be a part of group exhibition Botany of Desire at @swivelgallery 🌷🥀🌸 curated by @pitterpadder

Swivel Gallery is pleased to present an alluring group exhibition, “Botany of Desire.”
Opening 10/14 from 6 - 8 PM ET at 396 Johnson Avenue, BK
“Botany of Desire” explores how certain plants have evolved to gratify human desires - specifically for sweetness, beauty, intoxication, control and healing - and, in turn, how plant species have used man to meet their own benefit. Given that plants are immobile, they have learned to be the ultimate chemist in order to further their reproduction. The exhibition draws its inspiration from a book of the same title by Michael Pollan, which questions the idea that people are the sole drivers of domestication. Weaving threads from personal histories, the artists share critical representations of flora and vegetation intertwined with vulnerable human experiences.
Featuring artists Caroline Absher, Lindsay Adams, Camilla Alberti, Hangama Amiri, Bhasha Chakrabarti, Chitra Ganesh, Shyama Golden, Alison Kudlow, Alicia Reyes McNamara, Isabella Mellado, Bianca Nemelc, Devin Osorio, Hilda Palafox, Luján Pérez Hernández, Kelly Shami, Ivana Štulić, Abhishek Tuiwala, Khari Turner, Miko Veldkamp and Letha Wilson. Curated by Sadaf Padder.

The Witch
Not a traditional tarot card, but if I ever make my own deck someday this might be one ✨

Shot in Siena

The Witch
Not a traditional tarot card, but if I ever make my own deck someday this might be one ✨

Shot in Siena

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