AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2022 Mikhail Foundation Memorial Lecturer, University of Toledo
2022 Anchorage Museum Artist-In-Residence
2022 University of Hawaii Grant,
Land & People Podcast
2019 Catherine E. B. Cox Award for excellence in visual arts, Honolulu Museum of Art
2019 Finalist, Lange-Taylor Prize, Duke University Documentary Studies
2018 Recognition Award, Hawai`i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
2009 Sharjah Art Foundation Grant,
Inheritance: Reclaiming Land and Spirit
2009 RMTI University, Melbourne Australia Grant,
Moving Cultures
SELECTED PRESS
"Middle East artists examine sheltering in place amid pandemic" The Washington Post, 01-15-21
"A conservationist's palette: Interview with Melissa Chimera" Vice-Versa, The Anthropocene Epoch • 2020 Issue
Minneapolis art exhibit rejects 'Middle East' in favor of a more inclusive community" Star Tribune, 12-26-19
"Melissa Chimera celebrates Hawaii's rich ecological and anthropological diversity through art" West Hawaii Today, 11-1-19
"The year in art: 2018" Jadaliyya, 1-2-19
"Artists and poets look at homelands from a distance" Hyperallergic, 12-28-18
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Interview with Melissa Chimera, curator of The Far Shore: Navigating Homelands," The D-Brief Detroit, Nov 2018
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Chimera shines," OnMaui!, July/Aug 2018
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Valley Isle exhibit has set a high bar for artists," Honolulu Star Advertiser, 04-16-17
"Artists envision Hawaii in 1,000 years", Honolulu Star Advertiser, 04-09-17
"Two bright stars to trouble the dark" OnMaui!, March/April 2016
"The art of nature" The Maui News, 09-15-15
"Artists and workers unite" San Diego Union Tribune, 03-12-14
"Painting rare isle species is artist's way to save them" Honolulu Star Advertiser, 2011
"The Essence of Maui: artists go beyond in depth and scale" Maui Weekly, 2010
"The fabulous fifty" Maui Weekly, 2010
"Editor's diary" mixednerve.org, Vol 3 No 1, 2009
"Sharjah Biennial 9", Artico, 2009
"All eyes on the gulf" onculture.eu, 2009
"9th Sharjah Biennial on tap" Artnet.com, 2009
"The storm before the calm" Honolulu Star Bulletin, 2007
"Alchemy" Maui News, 2008
"War and Peace: the exhibit " Maui Magazine, 2008
"Best of the islands: flower power" Hana Hou!, 2006
"Music for your eyes" Maui Weekly, 2006
"A passion for plants and painting" Haleakalā Times, 2006
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Snaring New Suns, Vol 122, Bamboo Ridge Press, Honolulu, 2022
Why Are You Painting, Autumn 2020, Ki Smith Gallery, New York, NY
The Far Shore: Navigating Homelands, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI 2018
Ms. Aligned: Women Writing About Men, Vol 1 (2016) & 3 (2020)
, Manoa Books/El Leon Literary Arts, U.S.,
Inheritance: Reclaiming Land and Spirit, Adele Ne Jame, Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2009
Provisions I & II, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2009 & 2010
MEDIA (podcasts, videos and interviews)
Podcast:
Land & People
Podcast:
Drift: Immigration and Identity in America
Interview with Cody Liska, Chatter Marks podcast, Oct 2022
2022 University of Toledo
Mikhail Foundation Memorial Lecture, Oct 2022
An interview with Sonny Ganaden on "Remittance", Nov 2021
Museum from Home, Art in Isolation, 2020
The Making of Migrant, March 2018
