Bio

Christopher Meerdo is an artist, researcher, and educator who grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Šiauliai, Lithuania. Meerdo’s sculptural, image, and film work engages with data archives, computational processes, and digital forensics, often incorporating encrypted imagery, leaked documents, synthetic media, and machine-learning techniques.

He has exhibited widely at institutions such as the Renaissance Society, the Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the National Gallery of Kosovo, and FOAM Fotographiemuseum Amsterdam. His time-based work has been screened at the Nightingale Cinema (Chicago), the Flat Earth Film Festival (Seyðisfjörður, Iceland), nodoCARACAS (Venezuela), the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Platform Centre (Winnipeg), and on DIS.art.

Meerdo has participated in residencies at SÍM (Reykjavik), Skowhegan School Of Painting & Sculpture, the Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht), and the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris). He is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award, The Hopper Prize, and the Silver Eye Fellowship 15 International Photography Award. His scholarship on artificial intelligence has appeared in DIAPHANES Magazine, Para-Educational Papers (University of Hamburg), and Techniques Journal. He previously taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Photography and New Media at the University of North Texas. Meerdo is represented by DOCUMENT Gallery in Chicago.

Meerdo is part of Observing Power Collective, a collaboration with artist Daniel Giles