Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson

Electronic Media and Technology Staff

MELISSA DUBBIN & AARON S. DAVIDSON have worked collaboratively since 1998.  Their projects are multi-disciplinary in nature and include practices in video, sculpture, sound, performance, and works on paper. 

Dubbin & Davidson have exhibited internationally at Sadler’s Wells, London; 2004 Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; E-Flux Video Rental; Espace Paul Ricard, Paris; and the New York/Québec Interlacé Festival. They have exhibited in the United States at museums, galleries, and art centers including SculptureCenter, New York; Gigantic Art Space, New York; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe, New Mexico; The Museum of Art & Design, New York;  New Sound New York Festival, The Kitchen; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY ; and  Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY. Dubbin & Davidson have collaborated on projects with Pierre Huyghe, Morton Subotnick, LOT/EK,  Woody & Steina Vasulka, and others, and as transmission artists with free103point9.

Dubbin & Davidson took part in SculptureCenter’s ‘In Practice’ project series in 2006.  In 2005/2006 they participated in residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Program: 120 Broadway, New York City, and as visiting artists at New York University’s Advanced Media Studio. Other awards include a 2003 NYSCA Individual Artists Grant, a 2002 residency at the Experimental Television Center (Owego, NY), and a 2001 New York City Independent Radio and Sound Art Fellowship from Media Alliance/Jerome Foundation.  

Melissa Dubbin was born in 1976, in Las Cruces, New Mexico.  She graduated with honors in Moving Image Arts from College of Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

Aaron S. Davidson was born in 1971, in Madison, Wisconsin. He received his degree in Photography from University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Davidson currently teaches at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

Dubbin & Davidson live and work in Brooklyn, New York City.