Melanie Pereira Alves is a Portuguese-American multidisciplinary artist based in Lisbon, Portugal. Melanie Alves is known to be an eco-artist and an “artivist”, focusing on sustainable art whilst using her art to address enviromnental and social issues.

Alves has a 5 years degree in Fine Arts at Porto university, Portugal. She also studied at ENSBA de Paris, under the guidance of the late Christian Boltanski, and studied at ENSBA de Bordeaux, France. After finishing her degree, Alves lived in London for several years and later in San Francisco. In 2019, Alves decided to return to her roots and create community driven artwork.

Over the past few years, Alves focused on social and cultural issues addressing community neglect, gender inequality, climate change, refugee crisis, immigration, gun violence and “culture of fear”.  

Alves has been largely influenced by the interaction of performance and installation art, the motion and voyeurism of video art, and the marginality of street art.
To her, the concept is Queen, therefore the idea will dictate the best medium to materialize her vision.

Since moving to San Francisco from London UK in 2011, Melanie Alves has exhibited in various solo and group exhibitions including shows at The Midway Gallery, Whitewalls and Shooting Gallery, 111 Minna Gallery and Modern Eden.

One of the exhibitions she participated was titled “Imagine peace now”, a show curated by Boris Bally and Shepherd Fairey that traveled to different locations around the United States for a year's time, bringing awareness to gun violence in the USA.