photo by Will Pippin for CulturedMag Young Artist List 2024
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 Tyler School of Art (2015), and a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Columbia University (2019). Meris has exhibited at James Cohan (2021); Lehmann Maupin, New York (2022); MoMA PS1, New York (2023); Prospect NOLA 6 (2024); Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts (2024); David Kordansky, Los Angeles (2025); François Ghebaly, New York (2026), among other galleries, museums, and institutions. Meris was a NXTHVN Studio Fellow 2020-2021; a Studio Museum in Harlem artist in residence 2022–2023; Vilcek Creative Promise Prize Awardee 2025, and a Jerome Hill Artists Fellow 2025–2028. Always Jeffrey, never "Jeff."
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