Mel Coleman is a Toronto/Tkaronto based artist working in collage, assemblage, paint, drawing and mixed media, often using upcycled and reclaimed materials. She examines the interconnectedness of human nature and ideas related to the body, gender, memory and trauma through lenses of beauty, transformation, chance and materiality.  She often employs her own body, creating a unique vulnerability within her work. Coleman has exhibited both nationally and internationally including exhibitions in Toronto/Tkaronto, Guelph, Kitchener and Illinois USA. She has been an artist in residence at Spark Box Studios in 2014, published in Art Katalyst Magazine in 2014 and was the recipient of the the Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation Printmaking Prize in 2011.