Biography

Lives and works in New York since 1983.

Attended Ecole Des Beaux Arts, Nancy, France (1980-1982). 

Established Jacques De Mélo Studio in New York, 1992.

Currently works on various advertising and editorial assignments specializing in still life and people in commercial and individual photography.

Advertising clients to date

David Webb (Jewelry), Fortunoff, Foley’s, Kirin Beer, I.W. Harper, Nomura Real Estate, Museum Company, David Linker Ebenist, Readers Digest, Guggenheim Museum (Berlin),Yokohama Museum, Dai Nippon Printing Company, Musée du Louvre, Xerox.

Editorial clients to date

The Atlantic Monthly, BT magazine (Contemporary Art magazine, Japan), Designer’s Workshop, MIZUE (Arts & Craft magazine, Japan), The Comickers, Yomiuri Newspaper

Events and Publications

1992      Italian Film Festival, France

1998      Yubari City Film Festival, Japan

Alan Shields, “Images in Paper” (CCGA; Center for Contemporary Graphic Art Japan 1998)

” My Art: Collector’s History of Modern Art”, (Tokyo: Skydoor, Inc., 1998)

James Rosenquist, “The Graphics of James Rosenquist” (CCGA, Fukushima, Japan 1997)

Roy Lichtenstein, “Entablature-Nudes” (CCGA, Fukushima, Japan 1995)

” New York Art Guide”(Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, Ltd. 1991,1998) 

“International Design Guide” (Bijitsu Shuppan-sha, Ltd., 2002)

Solo Exhibitions

1992                    “Voyage à l’italienne” Villerupt, at the Italian Film Festival in France.  Catalogue published.

1994-1995              “Profil” traveling exhibition in France: City of Longwy, Strasbourg and Musée Français de la Photographie, Iles de France.

2000                    "Face Japan: Portraits of Miners" Yubari City Museum, Japan.

Group Exhibition

2000              “Snapshot” The Contemporary Museum, Maryland

On going Projects

“True Colors: American Children of the 21st Century”

“Route National 246” Portraits of Teenagers in Tokyo

Awards

1994        Grant from FAS (Foundation of Social Action) and DRAC (Ministry of Culture, France for the “Profil” project

1995        Grant from the European Parliament

1996        Grant from the University of Human Science, Strasbourg

1996        Italian Film Festival in France for the exhibition “Voyage à l’italienne”

1996        Asian Culture Council, Affiliate of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

1999        Commended as Man of Meritorious Cultural Service by the City of Yubari, Japan

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