Daniel Melo Morales is a first-generation interdisciplinary artist and musician whose works reveal spectral and material relationships embedded among architectures, acoustic systems, and micro-histories. Attentive to phenomenology and malleability, he makes sound, constructed photographs, and installations; allowing room for frenetic processes and outcomes. His commitment to collective knowledge production through art practice and performance began as an experimental and self-taught multi-instrumentalist. He continues to perform improvised soundworks and experimental music within group settings. He is a 2024-25 Whitney Independent Study Program Studio Fellow. 

Daniel Melo Morales (b. Louisville, Kentucky) 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.