Melissa Shook (1939-2020) was an American photographer, videographer, writer, and teacher based in Chelsea, Massachusetts, best known for her self- and family portraits and documentary-style photography humanizing marginalized people such as immigrants, the elderly, and the homeless, Shook's practice expanded throughout her career to include writing, bookmaking, drawing, sculpture, video art, and social practice. She was a pioneer in exploring identity, motherhood, and interracial families, channeling the spirit of creative freedom and attending the rise of feminism in the 1960s and 1970s.
Her work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and Moderna Museet Stockholm, among other institutions.
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MELISSA SHOOK | PARIS PHOTO APERTURE BOOK AWARDS
SHORTLIST 8 November 2024Melissa Shook's Daily Self Portraits 1972-73 book, published by TBW Books, was shortlisted for the First Photo Book category in the Paris Photo Aperture Photo...Read more -
MELISSA SHOOK | NELSON ATKINS MUSEUM
SOLO EXHIBITION 4 August 2024Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City is holding a solo exhibition of Melissa Shook's work entitled “To Prove that I Exist”: Melissa Shook’s Daily...Read more -
MELISSA SHOOK | HARVARD ART MUSEUMS
GROUP EXHIBITION 21 July 2024Melissa Shook is included in the group exhibition Future Minded: New Works in the Collection at the Harvard Art Museums, open from March 1 through...Read more -
MELISSA SHOOK | RENCONTRE D'ARLES PHOTO BOOK AWARDS
SHORTLIST 1 July 2024Melissa Shook's Daily Self Portraits 1972-73 book, published by TBW Books, was shortlisted for the Historical Book Award category in the Rencontre d'Arles Photo Book...Read more -
MELISSA SHOOK | VOGUE
PRESS 12 April 2024Robert Sullivan writes on Melissa Shook in Vogue magazine. The two shows crescendo in the excerpts from Melissa Shook’s long-term project “Daily Self Portraits,” for...Read more -
MELISSA SHOOK | ANOTHER MAGAZINE
PRESS 12 March 2024AnOther Magazine writer Miss Rosen interviews Kristina Shook about her mother Melissa Shook’s artistic practice. Melissa Shook’s Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973 are the subject of a...Read more -
MELISSA SHOOK | FONDATION HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
BOOK OF THE MONTH 6 March 2024The Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson has selected Melissa Shook’s Daily Self-Portraits 1973-1973 as their book of the month. In December 1972, Melissa Shook (1939–2020) began a...Read more -
MELISSA SHOOK | TBW BOOKS
MONOGRAPH 13 February 2024TBW Books has published a monograph devoted to Melissa Shook’s Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973 . It was important to let my unconscious, rather than my intellect,...Read more -
PARIS PHOTO
ART FAIR 9 - 12 November 2023For the occasion of the Paris Photo 2023 art fair, Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach, in collaboration with Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery New-York, will present the...Read more