Alumnus Jeffrey Meris ’19 in Three Exhibits this Winter

By
Brittany Nguyen
January 27, 2021

Alumnus Jeffrey Meris ’19 is in three Exhibitions this winter: Still StandingStatues Also Die, and Unmastered

White Columns in New York presents Meris’ solo exhibition Still Standing. The exhibition features works from Meris’ Now You See Me: Now You Don’t works. Still Standing is available for view from January 12 to March 6, 2021 Tuesday through Saturday at the East Gallery. 

Curated by Sarah Fritchey, the group exhibition Statues Also Die features 14 artists at Real Arts Ways in Hartford, Connecticut. The exhibition “considers the roles artists play in monument removal and making–as storytellers who unearth the histories and meanings of existing monuments, activists who participate in direct actions that lead to monument removal, and civic designers who work with government officials to envision new processes for including everyday people in monument-making. As a whole, the featured artworks and projects reject a top-down approach, consider who and what we remember, and what places, events, and movements matter,” according to Real Art Ways. Statues Also Die is currently available for view now through January 24, 2021. 

Meris is featured in the new exhibit Unmastered at Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas. Curated by Tavares Strachan at Mestre Projects, the exhibition features 7 artists including Meris. Mestre Projects features projects that exhibit the best and most challenging contemporary, post war, and modern art. Unmastered is currently installed at Mestre Projects until February 28th, 2021.

Jeffrey Meris is an artist born in Haiti in 1991 and raised in the Bahamas who works across sculpture, installation, performance and drawing to consider the impacts of naturalization, (dis)placement and racial interpellation. Through a lens that is both personal and collective, Meris' work positions the immigrant as a space of identity flux.