Melissa Sutherland Moss (b. Brooklyn, NY) is a Costa Rican American interdisciplinary artist working across collage, painting, video, 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 dynamic tension between what is visible and what is concealed.

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Her work has been recognized and exhibited at The Biggs Museum of American Art, and she has participated in notable residencies including ArtCrawl Harlem, Chrysalis Institute for Emerging Artists, The Alliance of Artist Communities, and Zea Mays Printmaking mentorship program. Her creative contributions have been featured in publications such as Black Enterprise, Forbes, Essence, Modern Luxury, and Refinery 29. Currently pursuing her MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Sutherland Moss divides her time between New York, and Baltimore, MD.

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