Melissa H. Lind
Multi-Media Artist, Taos NM
Lind is a multidisciplinary experiential artist living in Taos, NM using photography, sculpture, and land art to explore the landscape and people of northern New Mexico. She uses photos to identify place and tie that into art that celebrates the tenacity of biology to find a foothold despite challenging environments.
Her current work uses layered projections on glass, merging Taos portrait photography with brain mapping imagery and James Webb telescope photographs, creating installations that explore neural networks and cosmic structures.
By inviting participants to interact with translucent surfaces, the work transforms into a meditation on our place within these interconnected scales, creating a space where individual identity and cosmic architecture collapse into shared experience.
Lind was director of a non-profit urban gardening program in Oakland CA, designing/building gardens and community programming, she then practiced as a licensed landscape architect for a decade before founding and directing a creative agency for architects and builders, DwellingCreative.com, in Taos NM.
Her architectural photos have been published in magazines and websites nationally and she was selected as a speaker for the American Institute of Architects national symposium and again for the Boston Chapter. Her fine art photography was recently chosen by SaveArtSpace.org to represent New Mexico on a billboard in New York City in 2025.
Lind’s grandfathers were both part of the space race in the 1950s, one worked as the assistant to the director of the first NASA, The Advanced Research Projects Agency, dispersing grants to universities working in the field of astronautics. The other was a mathematician, calculating rocket equations.
Her family has always been inspired by nature, the cosmos and our connection between.
EDUCATION
2024- Associate of Fine Arts in progress, UNM Taos
2012- BLA Digital Arts Program and Flamenco, UNM Taos
1999 BLA Landscape Architecture Study Abroad, University of British Columbia, Canada
1999 Welding for Artists, Vancouver Technical, British Columbia, Canada
1996-2000 BLA Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Solar Ice Cream Bus Billboard (photography), Brooklyn NY, Save Art Space
2025 Flamenco: A Taos Love Affair (photography), Knight Gallery, Taos NM
2024 Flamenco: A Taos Love Affair (photography), The Wildflower Playhouse, Taos NM
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Millicent Rogers Miniature Show (sculpture), Taos NM
2024 See You Next Thursday (photography), Online Art Auction House
RESIDENCIES
2023 Stain Glass Silk Screening, Ghost Ranch Abiquiu
2024 Welding for Artists, Ghost Ranch Abiquiu
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2024 John Whitman: Rencent Images, The Wildflower Playhouse Gallery, Taos, NM
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2024- Chief Curator: The Wildflower Playhouse Gallery
2012- Owner: Dwelling Creative, Marketing Agency for Architects and Builders, DwellingCreative.com
2002-2012 Owner: Land Ecology, Landscape Architecture private practice, Native plants and restoration
2000-2003 Director: Oakland Bugs and Urban Gardens, non-profit community gardening organization
FACULTY
2025 Chess Instructor, Arroyos Del Norte Elementary School, Taos NM
2013 Teacher’s Assistant, Photography with Johnathan Blaustein, UNM Taos
2003-2004 Landscape Design Instructor, Building Education Center, Berkeley CA
PERFORMANCES
2012-2015 Flamenco Dance Troupe, performances at The Taos Inn, Pride Parade, Old Martina’s Hall, Northern New Mexico College, Espanola
TALKS
2023 AIA, Speaker for The Symposium for residential architecture, Salt Lake City
2020 American Institute of Architects (AIA), Marketing that Educates and Inspires, Boston Chapter
BOARDS
2022-2025 Board of Directors, Twirl: Play-based learning non-profit, Taos NM
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
2012-2025 Dozens of photos for the Taos News
2021 Mageedesignworks.com, Photography, design and development
2016 Tcataos.org, Website development
2016 Chadmanleydesign.com Website design and development
2000 Landscape Architecture Magazine and ASLA, Award for “Recycling an American Dream”
COLLECTIONS
2020 Dwellings Cassiopeia, Landscape Hotel, Photography, Taos, NM
2024 Dwellings Andromeda, Landscape Hotel, Contemporary art, Taos, NM
SELECT INSTALLATIONS
2024 Dwellings Artemis, Landscape Hotel, landscape architect
2020 Dwellings Caseopia, Interactive Zen and habitat garden for guests, landscape architect
2004 Pocket Park, Oakland Hills, small community park with all native plants and rock work, landscape architect
2001 Strawbale and clay learning bench with student made tiles, West Oakland Elementary with community support participation