Melonie Knight received a BFA in Studio Art from New York University. Through mixed-media and installation practices, she explores how Black women inhabit and reimagine both the body and home.
She engages with aqueous, domestic materials such as West African Black soap, hair, cotton rags, and red hair dye, tracing everyday moments in which the body sheds, regenerates, and transforms across time and geography. She examines human–nature relationships through historical and contemporary lenses, drawing on African diasporic sci-fi, folktales, queer aquatic beings, crowdsourced platforms, and personal memory. By weaving these sources into speculative works, she invites us to interrogate inequities and to imagine balanced possibilities between us and our environments
Knight has exhibited her work at group exhibitions at Caelum Gallery (2024), The Commons Gallery and Rosenberg Gallery (2022), and the IFA Curatorial Collaborative (2022). She is currently the Development Associate at The Laundromat Project.



