Photo Book
“Street Views.” 2018
Collections
Throckmorton Fine Art, New York, NY
Grants
2021 - Newark Arts Emergency Fund
2020 - Newark Artist Accelerator Grant x The Andy Warhol Foundation
2020 - The City of Newark Creative Catalyst Fund
Residencies
2019 - International Society of Biourbanism Summer School, Artena, Italy
Lectures
2021 - The Nature of Urban Landscapes, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, February 18.
2020 - Art Department Fall Lecture Series, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA, October 7.
2019 - Guest Speaker, Intro to Photography, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, November 1.
Panel
2020 - Scholastic Awards National Art Juror, New York, NY, February 14.
Publications and Media
Siddhartha Mitter: “Newark Artists, Thriving Amid Crisis and Catharsis,” New York Times, 2020
”Akwaaba Gallery Presents Virtual Exhibition Of 3D Artwork,” New Jersey Stage, 2020
Order of Architects of Rome: “The form of autonomy between words, images and silence. From Carbonia to Sabaudia,” 2019
Colleen Gutwein O'Neal: “The Newark Artists Photo Documentary Project,” 2019
Hycide: “The Influx Issue,” 2018, 108-109
Sara Bissen: “Newark Withheld,” International Society of Biourbanism, 2017
Sara Bissen: “The city smells of decay,” International Society of Biourbanism, vol IV, 2015
John Foster: “Stalking Brick City: The Newark street photography of Cesar Melgar,” The Design Observer, 2015
Exhibition History
2021 - Come Together, Kean University, Union, NJ
2020 - The Ties That Bind, The Gallery Space, Rahway, NJ
2020 - Soothing Souls, Akwaaba Gallery, Newark, NJ
2020 - Monochrome, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
2019 - Brick City Litty, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
2019 - Ultra Civitatis Ruinam—Beyond Urban Destruction, Artena Archeological Museum, Artena, Italy
2019 - Dulce, EQUAL SPACE, Newark, NJ
2019 - With Shackles We Fly, Akwaaba Gallery, Newark, NJ
2018 - We Are the Ghosts of Our Future, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
2018 - Kevin Blythe Sampson: Olde Soul, The Box Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
2018 - The Ether Acre, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
2018 - The Shadows of Houses, The Box Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
2017 - The 5 Wards, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ
2016 - The 5 Wards, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2015 - Sancocho, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2015 - Emerging Ideas, Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
2013 - Newark, Can You Be Thus? A Creative Destruction, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Education
2010 - Associate in Graphic Design, The Art Institute of New York City, New York, NY