Elisa Bergel Melo

Elisa Bergel Melo, born in Caracas in 1989, is a visual artist who uses photography as her main medium. She studied at the New England School of Photography (United States), GrisArt (Spain) and obtained her degree with an emphasis in photography at the Veritas University of Costa Rica. Her work explores the possibilities inherent in photography, those related to the documentation of movement and time, its transformation through tautology and its direct relationship with reality but also memory as two forces found in the image. She has participated in multiple exhibitions in Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States and, most recently, in the inaugural exhibition at the Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger in Basel. She has also been part of international residency programs such as SOMA Summer in 2016 in Mexico City. She currently lives and works in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

-BA in Photography, 2015
Veritas University
San Jose, Costa Rica

-Specialized course in Project Development, 2011
GrisArt
Barcelona, Spain

-Associate Degree in Editorial Photography and Documentary, 2008
NESoP
Boston, MA, USA

2021 Group Show "El Padre es de Cristal, La Madre de Oro" Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2021 Group Show "Domestic Geographies" San Diego, USA

2020 Group show "One month after being know in that island" Basel, Switzerland

2020 Group show "Repoblar" Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2019 Solo show "Location, Location, Location" Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2019 Digital Pavillion "Isn´t the World Just a Big Pyramide Squeme" Wrong Biennale

2019 Group show "Proliferación de Especies Espontáneas" Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2019 Group show "Tierra de Gracia" Caracas, Venezuela

2018 Group show "Speak Easy" Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2018 Group show "Hermandad" Santiago, Chile

2017 Group show "Currency Exchange" Thousand Oaks, California

2017 Group show "Moviendo la Fe" Berlin, Germany

2017 Group show "De Cierta Manera" Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2016 Solo show "Foto Mala" Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2016 Group show "Currency Exchange" Claremont, California

2016 Group show “Inescapable Death” San José, Costa Rica

2016 Group show “AtlántisProject” San José, Costa Rica

2015 Individual piece "The OtherPlace" Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2015 Group ...