Daniel Melo Morales is a first-generation interdisciplinary artist and musician whose work moves through sound, improvisation, video, and constructed images. Recent works have begun by exploring the generative territories produced around the act of forgetting. He continues to perform improvised soundworks and experimental music. Melo Morales was a 2024-25 Elaine G. Weitzen Studio Program Fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program.

Daniel Melo Morales earned an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA in English from Kenyon College. Melo Morales is the son of Colombian immigrants, raised in a Spanish speaking household.