Melania Toma (b. 1996, Padova, Italy) is an Italian multi-disciplinary artist living and working in London. She graduated with an MA from Chelsea College of Arts in 2021. At the center of her practice lies the exploration of opposites, and how they can be broken down and merged to depict a new world of interconnectivity that challenges our age of the Anthropocene. Within these intersectional analyses, Toma's work stitches personal narratives and myths into a wider transformative dimension - one that is possible with or without the presence of humans. Her practice incorporates its own language of symbols and forms, comprising elements - both new and atavistic, prehistoric and cellular, growing and decomposing - expressed through sculpture, textile and painting.
Recent exhibitions include In Rapture, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London (2024); Embodied Selfhood, Pictorum Gallery, London ( 2024); Studio Response, Saatchi Gallery, London (2023-24); Sistema Tempo, MO.CA: Centro Per Le Nuove Culture, Brescia, IT, (2023) MATTER , Flowers Gallery, London (2023); As Soon as the Sun Sets, (Solo), Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London; Soft Monuments, Frestonian Gallery, London ( 2023); Casa Wabi. Artist in residence, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca ( 2023); Ingram Prize, UNIT 1 Gallery, London (2022).