Jeffrey Meris (b. 1991, Haiti, raised in the Bahamas) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice engages with the relationship between materiality and larger cultural and social phenomenon. Working across sculpture, installation, performance, and drawing, Meris’s work considers ecology, embodiment, and various lived experiences, while healing deeply personal and historical wounds. Meris earned an AA in Arts and Crafts from the University of the Bahamas (2012), a BFA in Sculpture from the Temple University (2015), and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University (2019). Meris has exhibited at François Ghebaly, 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); James Cohan Gallery, New York (2021); White Columns, New York (2021); the Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco (2020); Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany (2017); and the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, and Mestre Projects, both in Nassau, Bahamas (2012, 2021). Meris is a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alum (2019); a NXTHVN Studio Fellow, New Haven (2020); a Studio Museum in Harlem artist in residence 2022-2023; and a Jerome Hill Artists Fellow 2025- 2028. Always Jeffrey never "Jeff."
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