
Installation shot at Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS
In Process: a Collective Residency
IV Gallery @ Cortright Electric, Ithaca, NY
December 2025 – March 2026
Construct
Trade Design Build, Ithaca, NY
January – February 2026
Publication in Stone Canoe Literary Journal, issue #19
Fall 2025
Unraveled and Entwined: Ann Reichlin and Melissa Zarem
The Kitchen Theatre, Ithaca, NY
March 11–May 18, 2025
FEATURES
ArtShow with Craig Stover, November 2025 (link)
In Conversation with Exhibit A, August 2020 (link)
Out of Bounds interview with Tish Pearlman, July 19, 2015 (link)
“Closer to Color,” The Ithacan, October 5, 2011 (pdf)
REVIEWS
“Abstraction is the Norm for Artists Elise Nicol and Melissa Zarem” Ithaca Times, December 16, 2016 (pdf)
“Artist Leaves Her Marks in Gallery Show,” Tompkins Weekly, June 6, 2011 (pdf)
Critic Arthur Whitman writes, “Melissa Zarem’s abstractions … are deeply compelling … pulled together like a force of nature.”
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Corners Gallery (link)
903 Hanshaw Rd, Suite 101A
Ithaca, NY 14850