Melvin Toledo
United States
Melvin Toledo’s interest in art began as a teenager with drawings of characters from the popular Japanese manga series, Dragon Ball Z. Encouraged by family members, he left his small hometown of Ciudad Antigua in northern Nicaragua to attend the School of Fine Arts in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. His goal was to learn how to create the still life paintings that his uncle’s home decorating company sold across the county. At the School of Fine Arts, he focused on graphite and pastel drawing. After a year of study, he left the school to take private classes from a still life painter and soon after he began to paint for his uncle using a mixture of oil paint and lithographic ink.
In 2007 he married Lauren, a Peace Corps Volunteer working in Ciudad Antigua and soon after moved to the United States where he began to paint exclusively in oils.
Once he arrived in the States, he continued to paint still life. He took some classes and attended workshops that helped improved the quality of his work. In 2011 after moving to Atlanta, GA, he started to sell his work through galleries in the south. Lately, he has shifted his attention to portrait painting, a subject that he have always found very fascinating. He is currently working on a new series of work about immigration in the United States.”
Melvin lives in Tucker, GA.
Exhibitions
Something to Declare, Latin Exhibition at Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, GA 2022
Artfields Juried Exhibition, Lake City, SC 2022
Something to Declare, Latin Exhibition at Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA 2022
Contrapunto Group Exhibition, Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, GA 2021
Contrapunto Group Exhibition, Robert Kent Galleries, Marietta, GA 2021
Georgia artists of Hispanic Heritage at MOCA Georgia. 2020
Georgia artists exhibition at Abernathy Arts Center, 2019
Group show at Gallery 202, Franklin, TN 2018
Artist of the month exhibition at Gallery 202, Franklin, TN 2017
Artist of the month exhibition at Gallery 202, Franklin, TN 2016
Artist of the month exhibition at Gallery 202, Franklin, TN 2015
Atlanta Artists Center “All squares” juried competition. 2015
Decatur Arts Alliance fine art juried exhibition, Decatur, GA 2013
Artist of the month exhibition at Gallery 202, Franklin, TN 2012
Decatur Arts Alliance fine art juried exhibition, Decatur, GA 2011
Publications
Art Galleries & Artists of the South Magazine Cover 2017
Nashville Arts Magazine artist profile July 2016
Artist Daily online feature June 2011
* This statement has been provided directly by the artist in association to their 16th International ARC Salon entries. This content has not been edited for typos or grammatical errors and has not been vetted for accuracy.
