Solo Exhibitions
2018 After A Fashion, ChaShaMa, New York, New York
2017 Material Remains, Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, New York
2016 The Less Said, The Better, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2015 Death in the Living Room, Society for Domestic Museology, New York, New York
2015 Transpositions, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Nafas, Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, New York
2022 On Verso, Hawk & Hive, Andes, New York
2021 Extraordinary Things, Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse, Brooklyn, New York
2021 Nest, Artpoetica, Brooklyn, New York
2021 202021, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2020 Nesting, Corte dell’Arte, Venice, Italy
2019 Heirloom, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2019 Said I Meant, Artpoetica, Brooklyn, New York
2018 Unfixed, Bard Graduate Center Library, New York, New York
2017 Open Call, Truth, BRIC, Brooklyn, New York
2017 Material Process, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2017 Creative Climate Awards, Human Impacts Institute, New York, New York
2017 Duty Free, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2017 Unreliable Narrator, Art House Productions, Jersey City, New Jersey
2017 Let Them Eat Fake, Bones & Pearl Studios, London, U.K.
2017 Online Exhibition Show #42, Field Projects, New York, New York
2017 Gathering, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, California
2017 Marked Urgent, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2017 Sentimental Ornamentation, Fed Galleries, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2017 A Call to Action, Kustera Projects, Brooklyn, New York
2017 Nasty Women Exhibition, Knockdown Center, Queens, New York
2016 Unbroken, TI Art Studios, Brooklyn, New York
2016 Wonderland, Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, New York
2016 STUFF(ed), Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2016 Medium: Black, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, New York
2016 More Beyond, Brick and Mortar Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania
2016 Introductions, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2015 Divining Line, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2014 Tenth Annual Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2014 Small Works Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2014 Engaging Stepfamilies, Continental Shift Seattle, Seattle, Washington
2014 People's Choice Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Published Writing
"The Accidental Archivist," in Modern Loss, ed. Gabrielle Birkner and Rebecca Soffer. New York, Harper Wave, 2018
Modern Loss online, The 'Funeral Clothes Project,' February 5, 2016
Press
Et chaque fois, les feuilles mortes, te rappellent à mon souvenir, 2018, by Camille Waligora (ENSCI, Les Ateliers Design Textile)
Artnet News, Art Will Help Reshape How We Cope With Death in New York’s First ‘Reimagine End of Life’ Festival, October 3, 2018, by Sarah Cascone
Plain Magazine, Spencer Merolla Makes Pastries from Coal Ash…And They Taste Like Climate Change, May 23, 2018, by Kala Barba-Court
The Jealous Curator, Spencer Merolla, January 29, 2018, by Danielle Krysa
Hyperallergic, A Climate Change Bakery Serving Coal Treats Is Coming to Gowanus, September 15, 2017, by Allison Meier
The Earth Issue, Artist Highlight: Spencer Merolla, January 2, 2018, by Elena Cremona
All The Sins, Issue 6.: Digging up the Bones, January 18, 2018
Vice, An Eerie Exhibition in London Serves up a Smorgasbord of Fake Food, August 4th, 2017, by Catherine Chapman
Creative Exchange, Spencer Merolla Uses Ashes and the Visual Language of Mourning in Her Post-Election Art, May 11, 2017, by Nicole Rupersburg
Art in Brooklyn, Material Remains at Invisible Dog, April 20, 2017, by Mike Sorgatz
Delve, Delve Interview: Spencer Merolla, March 23, 2017, by Kind Aesthetic
Bedford + Bowery, Artists Defend Journalists From Trump's Terrifying Treatment of the Press, March 20, 2017, by Bryse Ciallella
Cultured.gr, “Sentimental Ornamentation” brings expressions of grief to the gallery, March 8, 2017, by Tamara Helen
Huffington Post, These Emerging Artists Are More Than Ready To Defend The First Amendment, February 24, 2017, by Katherine Brooks
Red Hook Star-Revue, Protest Art in Red Hook, March 2017, by Kimberly Gail Price
The Observer, Artists Join The Fight To Protect First Amendment Rights, February 23, 2017, by Cait Munro
Framework Magazine, 3 Things to See: Gowanus Open Studios, October 14, 2016
Arts Gowanus, Artist Spotlight: Spencer Merolla, October 6, 2016, by Lindsay Carey
Konbini, Museum Exhibit Bridges The Gap Between Collecting And Hoarding, September 2016, by Bérénice Rebufa
Artnet News, New Museum's Hit Instagram Project Shows Strange Things People Collect, September 6, 2016, by Rain Embuscado
Venison Magazine, Spencer Merolla, September 4, 2016, by Nazish Chunara
Thanatography, Moving More Beyond, April 30, 2016, by Evi Numan
Caracteres, Estas obras de arte expresan el luto y son hechos con pelo humano, April 18, 2016, by Othón Vélez O’Brien
La Boîte Verte, Ces oeuvres géométriques sont fabriquées en cheveux, April 17, 2016
The Creators Project, Works from Human Hair Explore the Art of Grief, April 16, 2016, by Alyssa Buffenstein
Visual News, Designs Made with Human Hair Pay Homage to Victorian Hairwork, April 5, 2016, by Danielle Radford
The Jealous Curator, Spencer Merolla, March 21, 2016, by Danielle Krysa
Society for Domestic Museology, Spencer Merolla: Death in the Living Room, August 26, 2015, by Heather Topcik
Residencies
2018 Bard Graduate Center Library Artist Residency, New York, New York
2018 Elsewhere, Greensboro, North Carolina
Lectures and Presentations
2019 Artist and Climate Change Incubator, New York, New York
2018 Bard Graduate Center Library, New York, New York
2017 First Person Plural, New York, New York
2016 Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, New Jersey
2016 Rush Arts Gallery, New York, New York
2015 Society for Domestic Museology, New York, New York
2015 Delve Presents: Art and Death, Morbid Anatomy Museum, Brooklyn, New York
2015 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Education
2003 BA (Religion) Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut