Melissa Sutherland Moss (b. Brooklyn, NY) is a Costa Rican American interdisciplinary artist working across collage, painting, video, sound, text, performance, and installation. Her practice explores the construction of landscape, language, and the intertwined histories of the Caribbean and the United States, viewing landscape as a cultural and historical artifact shaped by memory, identity, and time. Through processes of accretion, erasure, and extraction, she uncovers hidden layers of stories and identities embedded in the land, creating a tension between what is visible and what is concealed.

Melissa is a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Her work has been recognized and exhibited at institutions including the Biggs Museum of American Art and the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center. She has participated in notable residencies such as ArtCrawl Harlem, the Chrysalis Institute for Emerging Artists, the Alliance of Artist Communities, and the Zea Mays Printmaking mentorship program, and will attend the Mass MoCA studio residency in November. Her artistic contributions have been featured in publications including Black Enterprise, Forbes, Essence, Modern Luxury, and Refinery29.

Moss divides her time between New York, NY and Baltimore, MD.