Crappie Painting: To Take A Life To Sustain A Life
2022
Michi Meko
Atlanta, Georgia
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Michi Meko
Multidisciplinary artist Michi Meko (b. 1974, Florence, AL) received a BFA in Painting from the University of North Alabama. Meko has exhibited widely, with recent solo exhibitions at Susan Inglett; New York, Kavi Gupta, Chicago; Gallerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD; Richmond Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles; and MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA. He has participated in group shows at Contemporary Arts Center, Mobile, AL; Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA; and Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, GA. In 2017, Meko was awarded two prestigious grants: the Atlanta Artadia Award and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant. In addition, Meko has received an Idea Capital Grant and a Flux Projects Grant. Meko has also taught at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, CO. Michi has been invited to ArtPace Residency San Antonio, TX, and The Dirty South traveling exhibition. His work is in the permanent collection of the High Museum in Atlanta, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, and Ruby City in San Antonio, TX.
Program Participation
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2017
Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2025
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I am an explorer, a cartographer, an abstractionist. A lone Black man reporting back from the new world. Inside the studio, my work comes from memory. The work exists within the improv. Abstractions linger between nightfall and daybreak.”
