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) lives in San Francisco, California. He 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.