Aili Schmeltz is a Los Angeles based artist that studied at UCLA, received a MFA from the University of Arizona, holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and has exhibited internationally in cities such as Berlin, London, Zurich, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami. Schmeltz has been an artist in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Sculpture Space, Babayan Culture House (Cappadocia, Turkey), Takt Kunstprojektraum (Berlin, Germany) and Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia (Venice, Italy).