Editha Mesina was born in Quezon City, Philippines. She is a member of the faculty at the Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her photographs have been exhibited in New York City at the Center for Book Arts, Cuchifritos Gallery, Artist Space, Clocktower Gallery, Ceres Gallery, A.I.R. Gallery as well as at the West Kortright Center, East Meredith; the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton; the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown; the Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis; PIP Galleries, Pingyao China; and the Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires among others.  Mesina is an Alex G. Nason, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Photography.