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Jeffrey Meris (b. 1991, Ayiti, raised in the Bahamas) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice engages with the relationship between materiality and larger cultural and social phenomenon. Meris earned an Associate of Arts in Arts and Crafts from the University of the Bahamas (2012), a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Tyler School of Art (2015, and a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2019. Meris has exhibited at François Ghebaly, New York (2026), David Kordansky, Los Angeles (2025); Prospect NOLA 6 (2024); Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts (2024); MoMA PS1, New York (2023); the Amon Carter Museum, Texas (2023); Lehmann Maupin, New York (2022), among other galleries, museums and institutions. Meris is a Vilcek Creative Promise Prize Awardee 2025; a Jerome Hill Artists Fellow 2025–2028; a NXTHVN Studio Fellow 2020-2021, and a Studio Museum in Harlem artist in residence 2022–2023. Always Jeffrey, never "Jeff."
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