Mel Davis is a Berkeley, California based visual artist. She grew up in Montréal, graduated from Concordia University in 1998, then moved to the Bay Area to complete her Masters in Fine Art at the San Francisco Art Institute, (2005). She is part of numerous private and public collections and is the recipient of The Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant,The Canada Council For The Arts Grant and the Irene Pijoan Memorial Award for Painting.