Victoria M Ahmadizadeh
Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez (she/her) creates poetic installations that merge glass, neon, imagery, and text, drawing from her Puerto Rican and Persian heritage. In 2024 she was the inaugural winner of the Adele and Leonard Leight Award from the Speed Art Museum (Louisville, KY) and over the past decade has held residencies at Blue Mountain Center, the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Tacoma Museum of Glass, and Pilchuck Glass School, among others. Her work has been widely exhibited, appearing at the Philadelphia International Airport, the Museum of Craft and Design, Traver Gallery, Fleisher Art Memorial, BWA Wrocław, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, and more. Ahmadizadeh Melendez has also been published four times in the Corning Museum’s New Glass Review (issues 33, 38, 42 and 46), an annual journal detailing that year’s most notable artworks made in glass. She holds a BFA in Glass from Tyler School of Art (Philadelphia, PA) and an MFA in Craft/Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA).