Jeffrey Meris
Photo by Brad Ogbonna
Jeffrey Meris is an artist who considers ecology, embodiment, and lived experiences while healing deeply personal and historical wounds through a multidisciplinary practice that includes sculpture, installation, performance, and drawing.
Meris asks, “What would healing centuries of anti-Blackness, xenophobia, homophobia, and other oppressions look like?” Born in Haiti and raised in the Bahamas, Meris’s work considers the impacts of naturalization, (dis)placement, and racial interpellation while aiming for transcendence. Exploring the physical and metaphorical potential of materials and processes, Meris engages complex narratives and questions of identity, race, class, gender, and sexuality. Meris has described his work as “environmental,” informed equally by the circumstances and conditions surrounding its making.
New York, NY
Born 1991, Saint Louis du Nord, Haiti. Raised Nassau, Bahamas
2019 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, ME
2019 MFA Columbia University, New York, NY
2015 BFA Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2012 AA College of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas