Melissa Fandos is an arts administrator from St. Louis, Missouri. She is the assistant curator at the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research considers how history, time, power, and people interact in the natural landscape. In 2023, she co-curated Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork: Like a Breath of Fresh Water with MacKenzie Stevens (Visual Arts Center); provided curatorial assistance to Nicole Smythe–Johnson on If we are here… and Las Nietas de Nonó: In Residence (2023–24, Visual Arts Center), and served on the project team for the 2019 public art triennial Counterpublic (St. Louis). Fandos has held administrative and curatorial support roles at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the Luminary, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She holds a BA in English from Grinnell College and an MA in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin.

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