MICHI MEKO | CV
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
While I’m Here: A Different South, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2022
Michi Meko: Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL
2019
Black and Blur, Clark Atlanta Museum, Atlanta ,GA
When it’s Black Outside, Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Out Here by Myself, Alan Avery Art Company Atlanta, GA
2018
KAZUKO, Cress Gallery, University of Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
Like A Weird Sweet Spot, Westobou Gallery, August GA
It doesn’t Prepare You for Arrival, MOCA GA, Atlanta , GA
2017
One Last Smile Before the Undertow, Dodd Galleries, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2016
Circle of Rivers, University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, GA
Before We Blast off: The Journey of Divine Forces, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
2015
Pursuit: Almost Drowned, Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA
2010
Navigating this American Landscape, Archetype Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2009
Fear Kills Pursuit: A Mighty Roar and the Magic Inside, Beep Beep Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2008
Comfort Kills Pursuit: Fight!!!, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
The Alchemist, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
My Presence is Present: Interpretations of Afrosurrealism from the American South, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Art + Culture, Charlotte, NC
2022
“The Burden of Wait: Paintings from the New American South,” Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse | Contemporary Arts Museum Houston | Houston, TX
2021
Realms of Refuge, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL
The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | Richmond, VA
2020
We Are More Than A Moment, Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
2019
Urban Wild, Alabama Contemporary Art Cent, Mobile Al Temporary Museum of Art, Atlanta GA
2018
This is Where you’ll find me, Kress on Dexter, Montgomery, AL
2017
Gut Feelings, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
RSVP, Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, GA
In Time of Silver Rain, Day & Night Projects, Atlanta, GA
2016
Historicode: Scarcity & Supply, Nanjing Art Fair, Nanjing, China
Abstraction Today, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
All Tomorrow's Parties, Hathaway David Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
Route to Resettlement, Mann Simmons Museum, Columbia, SC
2015
Boom City, Dashboard Co-OP, Detroit, MI
2014
The Introduction, Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA
2012
Baptism by Fire, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2011
Relics, Cobb Marietta Museum of Art, Marietta, GA
2010
Pure/Surrender, Beep Beep Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2009
Green Works, The Art Dept., Atlanta, GA
GRANTS & AWARDS
2017
Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant
Artadia Award
MOCA GA Working Artist Fellowship
2015
DashBoard Co-Op Residency Grant
2013
Flux Projects Grant
Wonderroot CSA Grant
2011
Studio Artist In Residence, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
2010
Idea Capital Grant
BeltLine Atlanta Grant
2008
Forward Arts Foundation, finalist
2005
Forward Arts Foundation, finalist
PUBLIC WORKS & PROJECTS
2023
Forthcoming: Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA presented by American Express
2013
The Job of Resurrectors is to Wake Up the Dead, Flux Projects, Atlanta, GA
Blackburn Farms White Gold, WonderRoot CSA, Atlanta, GA
2011
Waterworks: The Passing of Knowledge, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
2010
Coexist: Bio Mimicry, Atlanta Beltline, Atlanta, GA
White Gold, Idea Capital, Atlanta, GA Say it Loud, Living Walls, Atlanta, GA
PUBLICATIONS
Meko, Michi and Higgins, Sarah. “Studying the Silences: A Conversation.”
Gut Feelings. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, 2017
Meko, Michi. “Cast Iron.” Art Papers. May/June 2016
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Maa, Gerald “A Lower Deep” The Georgia Review. Winter 2019.
Cullum, Jerry. “Gut Feelings Uses Food as an Exploration of Culture and Nature’s Collisions.” ArtsATL. April 18 2017.
Lockner, Logan. “Hunger Games: Gut Feelings at the Zuckerman Museum of Art.” Burnaway. March 28, 2017.
Robinson, Shantey. “Reflection in Deep Waters.” The Third Eye. August 15, 2015
Davis, Maggie. “Michi Meko’s Nautically Themed “Pursuit” an Ambitious High Water Mark at Alan Avery.” ArtsATL. August 3, 2015
Take on Race.” Atlanta Journal Constitution. July 13, 2015
Cullum, Jerry. “Artists Question Southern Art at Georgia State’s Welch Gallery,” Burnaway, July 20, 2010
Laura Moore. “Art on the Beltline Project Explores Issues of Gentrification.” Burnaway, May 20, 2010
Abernathy, Jeremy. “Declaration(s) of Independence: Two Exhibitions Worthy of Comparison.” Burnaway, July 2, 2009
Abernathy, Jeremy. “Comfort Kills: I will.” Ghostmap. April 11, 2008
RESIDENCIES
2023
Artpace Residency, San Antonio, TX
2021
Mass MoCA Residency, North Adams, Mass
Hambidge Artist Residency, Rabun County, GA
2017
Cabin Time 8, E. Sierras, CA
2015
Studio Artist, Pony Ride, Detroit, MI
2014
Studio Artist-in-Residence, SCAD Print Department, Atlanta, GA
2011
Studio Artist, The Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
COLLECTIONS
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Virginia Museum of Fine Art
Clark Atlanta University Museum, Atlanta, GA
King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA
NCR, Atlanta, GA
McKinsey & Company, Atlanta, GA
Scion (Toyota Motor Corporation), Los Angeles, CA
Metro Park USA Inc., Atlanta, GA
CW Network, Atlanta, GA
The Jones Group, Atlanta, GA
EDUCATION
1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, University of North Alabama