Studio News
Experimental Media and Performing Art Center (EMPAC) / Troy, NY
To Resist is to Become a Conductive Thread
Sept 2024 (Film Premiere) + Jan 2025 (Exhibition/Symposium)
Co-Produced with Daniel Giles (Observing Power Collective)
Featuring the words of: Fred Moten, Simone Browne, Benjamin Krusling, Michelle Wright, Neta Bomani, Harmony Holiday, Krista Franklin and Tina Campt
Music Composition by: Ben Lamar Gay, JJJJJerome Ellis, and Douglas R. Ewart
Foam Fotografiemuseum / Amsterdam, NL
Missing Mirror: Photography Through the Lens of A.I.
Exhibition May 31 - Sept 5, 2024
Hessel Museum of Art / Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Boundary Monuments Dissolve
April 1 – May 28, 2023
Curated by Katherine C. M. Adams
With work from: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Jia-Jen Lin, Christopher Meerdo, Naomi Nakazato, and Amina Ross
Aurora - Video Art Nights / Dallas, TX
VAN (Video Art Nights)
April 21, 2023
Artists include: Kristin Lucas, Christopher Meerdo, Diana Rojas, Zak Loyd, Nick Bontrager, Chris Wicker, Ella and Cedric Steed, Eduardo Garcia
Platform Centre / Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Shorts! Screening
27 February at 7PM
With work from: Scott Fitzpatrick, Sarah Fuller, Delf Gravert, Madelyn Gowler, Ashley Gillanders, Marc Kuegle, Shelley McCafferty, Christopher Meerdo, Karen Remoto, Niki Saghri and Nicole Shimonek.
State of Interim • Positions on forms of prospective AI / Hamburg, DE
Superimposition - Essay
The Renaissance Society / Chicago, US
Fear of Property
September 10 - November 6, 2022
Curated by Karsten Lund
With work from: Isshaq Albarbary, Joi T. Arcand, Kevin Beasley, Marissa Lee Benedict, Cassandra Press, Daniel de Paula, Niloufar Emamifar, Matias Faldbakken, Ghislaine Leung, Christopher Meerdo, Yukultji Napangati, Pedro Neves Marques, David Rueter, Rose Salane, Christopher Williams, Andrew Norman Wilson
Cité Internationale des Arts / Paris, FR
2-12 / 2022 Residency
July-August, 2022
Recipient: 2022 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Chicago Underground Film Festival / Chicago, US
CUFF 29
July 27-31, 2022
Kaeur Studio / Hamburg, DE
HFBK (University of Fine Arts Hamburg) and the Universität Hamburg
May 27-29, 2022
State of Interim, AI conference
Musée Ecole de la Perrine / Laval, FR
Recollecting Futures
July, 2021
Exhibition included as part of Recto Verso
Synthesis Gallery / Berlin/VR
Recollecting Futures
March 27 - June 25, 2021
curated by Miriam Arbus (synthesis gallery) and Julia Schmelzer (PYLON), with work from Carla Gannis, Mohsen Hazrati and Christopher Meerdo
Flat Earth Film Festival / Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Program 2021
Feb 12-14, 2021
Dis.art
Metadata
streaming film as part of Diaries: Era of Good Feelings curated by Mark Pieterson
47 Canal / NY, NY
Diaries: Era of Good Feelings
November 13 - December 20, 2020
group exhibition (online) with: Antoine Catala, Julien Creuzet, Tishan Hsu, Heesoo Kwon, Christopher Meerdo, Philipp Timischl. curated by Mark Pieterson with an essay by Rizvana Bradley
Diaphanes Magazine / Zürich, Switzerland
Issue 8 / Authenticity and Feedback
cover story, essay, with scattered inserts
DOCUMENT Gallery / Chicago, USA
Bundle Umbra
Jan 10 - Feb 22, 2020
solo exhibition
Exgirlfriend Gallery / Berlin, Germany
Positions Art Fair
Sept 11-15, 2019
solo presentation
Stadsfestival Damme / Damme, Belgium
het nest tussen waarheid & herinnering (the nest between truth & memory)
Sept 14 - Dec 8, 2019
Atlanta Contemporary / Atlanta, Georgia
COCO HUNDAY Presents
Aug 6 - Dec 22, 2019
With work from: Bahareh Khooshooee, Ben Fain, Benjamin Zellmer Bellas, Christopher Meerdo, Gina Osterloh, Jake Troyli, Libbi Ponce, Pat Blocher , Sanaz Sohrabi, Sue Havens, Thad Kellstadt, Thomas Kong/Dan Miller
Weinberg Newton Gallery / Chicago, Illinois
The Way the Mystic Sees
Sept 6 - Dec 14, 2019
Presented in collaboration with Human Rights Watch of Illinois
With work from: Nadav Assor, Mary Helena Clark, Max Guy, Asa Mendelsohn, Christopher Meerdo, Catherine Sullivan, Maryam Taghavi, and Marilyn Volkman.
Forum Triangulare / Aspremont-Lynden Castle, Lanaken, Belgium
Come Closer
July 13 - Sept 29, 2019
With work from: TYNA ADEBOWALE | LYNDON BARROIS | AMANI BODO | PERSIJN BROERSEN & MARGIT LUKACS | MALTE BRUNS | CHERI CHERIN | PII DAENEN | HANANE EL FARISSI | HADASSAH EMMERICH | MOKE FILS | VERA GULIKERS | LIEN HILLEN | CHRISTOPHER MEERDO | ANA NAVAS | STEFAN PETERS | STEVEN PETERS | CARABALLO | SHULA | VINCENT SPAAS | DIEGO TONUS | RICARDO VAN EYK | HAN VAN WETERING | SARAH JOY ZWARTS
Kunstenfestival Watou / Poperinge, Belgium
Saudade
June 30 - Sept 2, 2019
Exgirlfriend Gallery / Berlin, Germany
Grand Opening Party & Retrospective Show
July 6, 2019
With work from: Mit Borras, Jason Lazarus, Erin Mitchell, Olivia Lennon, Fiona Valentine Thomann, Amir Chasson, Vera Kox, Daniel Hundsdörfer, Christopher Meerdo
Wilfried Lentz / Rotterdam, Netherlands
Parallax
April 6 - May 11, 2019
With work from: Karel Martens, Doug Ashford, Anne Huijnen, Lyndon Barrois Jr, Renata de Bonis, Emily Hunt, Sean Ervan Kuhnke, Christopher Meerdo and Joke Robaard. Curated by Artun Alaska Arasli.
Bureau Europa / Maastricht, Netherlands
A State of Exception
March 27 - April 3, 2019
With work from: Christopher Meerdo (USA), documentary makers Alina Schmuch and Franca Scholz (D), reaercher/designer Thomas Stratmann (D) and architect Joram Raaijmakers (NL). Curated by Saskia van Stein and Huib Haye van der Werf.
Jan van Eyck Academie / Maastricht, Netherlands
2018-2019 Program with: Ana Guedes (PT), Andrea Canepa (PE/IT), Anne Huijnen (NL), Anna Ihle (NO), Aram Lee (KR), Artun Arasli (TR), Ben Weir (UK), Christopher Meerdo (US), Daniel de Paula (BR), Daria Tsapenko (UA), Elisa Strinna (IT), Elnaz Salehi (IR), Emma van Roey (BE), Gabriella Marcella (UK), Georges Senga (CG), Giulio Squillacciotti (IT), Hasabie Kidanu (ET/US), Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov (RU), Jhen Chen (TW), Kalinka Gieseler (DE), Karoline Swiezynski (DE), Katja Verheul (NL), Lietje Bauwens (NL), Lyndon Barrois Jr. (US), Maria Rodriguez Jimenez (CU), Marissa Benedict (US), Marwan Moujaes (LB), Maya Rochat (CH/DE), Quenton Miller (AU/UK), Rain Wu (TW), Riksa Afiaty (ID), Sepideh Zamani (IR), Sooji Lee (KR), Tatiana Istomina (RU)
NADA / Miami, Florida
Document Gallery
Dec 7 - Dec 30
with: Christopher Meerdo & Sara Greenberger Rafferty
National Gallery of Kosovo / Pristina, Kosovo
Hyperimaging! Images in and out our screens
curated by: Alfredo Cramerotti
Oct 10 - Nov 10, 2017
with: Erica Scourti, Clare Strand, HAVE IT, Brilant Pireva, Eva and Franco Mattes, Claudia Sola, Dardan Zhegrova, Jeff Guess, Thomson & Craighead, Jordan Tate, Margo Wolowiec, Christopher Meerdo, Oskar Schmidt, Kurshtrim Asllani, Thomas Galler, Anne de Vries, TADI / Sadie Suhodolli, Eliza Hoxha and Alice Pedroletti.
Exgirlfriend / Berlin, Germany
The Fantasy of Opting Out
Sept 8 - Sept 30
solo exhibition
LVL3 / Chicago, Illinois
Displaced Desire
Sept 16 - Oct 22, 2017
2 Person Exhibition with Cecilia Salama
Gallery 400 / Chicago , Illinois
Let Me Be an Object that Screams
Oct 5 screening: Thinging Bodies
screening curated by: Danny Giles
with: Amina Ross, Hannah Black, Zachary Fabri, Zachary Hutchinson, Camille Henrot, Ibid (Robert Heishman and Megan Frank), eliza myrie, Sanaz Sohrabi, Sondra Perry, Jefferson Pinder, Cauleen Smith.
In conjunction with the exhibition curated by Matt Morris
Floating Museum / Chicago, Illinois
Aug 7 - Aug 30, 2017
organized by: Faheem Majeed, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, Andrew Schachman and Avery R. Young
participating artists : Mon Aerie, Miguel Aguilar, Marcus Alleyne, Tiaybe Bledsoe, Hebru Brantley, Kris Casey, Ayana Contreras, Allegra Delores, Louis DeMarco, Bill Douglas, Assaf Evron, Krista Franklin, Maria Gaspar, Adam Hines, Gabriela Ibarra, Yashua Klos, Pope.L, Mary Mattingly, Cecil McDonald Jr., Jesse McLean, Christopher Meerdo, Derek Moore, Dan Peterman, Cheryl Pope, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Fernando Ramirez, Vershawn Sanders-Ward, Cauleen Smith, Sheila Smith, Edra Soto, Lan Tuazon, TNAHPELE, JGV/WAR, Maria Villarreal, Roman Villarreal, Amanda Williams, Bernard Williams, and avery r. young and de deacon board
Vivid Projects / Birmingham, UK
No Copyright Infringement Intended
Sept 1 - Sept 23, 2017
curated by: Antonio Roberts
with: Nick Briz, Emilie Gervais, Nicolas Maigret, Christopher Meerdo, Nikolai Nelles & Nora Al-Badri, Duncan Poulton, Fernando Sosa, and Andrea Wallace & Ronan Deazley.
Document Gallery / Chicago, Illinois
July 14 - Aug 26, 2017
with: Elizabeth Atterbury, Jude Broughan, Mary Helena Clark, James Collins, Scott Fortino, Owen Kydd, Sterling Lawrence, Laura Letinsky, Jaclyn Mednicov, Christopher Meerdo, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Victoria Fu and Matt Rich, Alison Ruttan, Sean Snyder, Greg Stimac, Andrew Norman Wilson, Scott Wolniak
Pilot Projects / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
New Adventures in Metaphysical Arbitrage: 100 Years of the Readymade
Opens Sept 1
organized by: Brandon Alvendia