Melissa Pokorny

Melissa Pokorny creates sculptural works that question ways of knowing the world and illuminate the invisible, intangible, and knotty attachments between temporal, geographical, and material things. She earned a BFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and an MFA from University of California , Davis.

Her work has been exhibited at venues throughout the United States, including Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco; Southern Exposure, San Francisco; New Langton Arts, San Francisco; Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago; and the Richard E. Peeler Art Center, Greencastle, Indiana. Pokorny is a professor of painting and sculpture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also serves as the executive associate director of the School of Art and Design. Pokorny lives and works in Urbana, Illinois.