Melinda Hunt

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Canadian-American^[3] b. Canada^[1,2] active 1985–present

Melinda Hunt is a Canadian-born interdisciplinary artist and the founding director of The Hart Island Project in New York City. She holds an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Art (1985) and an M.S. in Digital Imaging and Design from New York University (2007). Her practice includes video, photography, installation, public art, and writing. Hunt began her work on Hart Island with photographer Joel Sternfeld in 1991, focusing on documenting the island's history as a potter's field for unclaimed bodies. She has mapped the entire island and published numerous stories of those buried there. Her collaborative book 'Hart Island' was published in 1998.^[1,4,5]

• visibility for the invisible
• memorialization
• archival art
• public history