Jeffrey Meris 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 in 2012, a BFA in sculpture from the Tyler School of Art in 2015, and an MFA in visual arts from Columbia University in 2019. He has exhibited at Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (2024); MoMA PS1, Queens, NY (2023); Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX (2023); Lehmann Maupin, NY (2022); James Cohan Gallery, NY (2021); White Columns, NY (2021); Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2020); Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany (2017); and the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas Nassau, Bahamas (2012). Meris is a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alum, 2019; a 2020 NXTHVN Studio Fellow; a 2021 artist in residence at Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program; a 2022-23 Studio Museum in Harlem artist in residence; and a 2023 Pollock-Krasner Foundation awardee. Always Jeffrey never "Jeff."