Daniel Melo Morales is a first-generation interdisciplinary artist and musician working across 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 Whitney Independent Study Program Studio Fellow.

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.