Michi Meko

Biography
Michi Meko, RAYMOND, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim.
Michi Meko, RAYMOND, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim.
Michi Meko's (b. 1974 in Florence, Alabama; lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia) work spans painting, sculpture, and installation, activating spray paint and found objects to create layered compositions. His gestures reflect an interplay between beauty and violence, rebellion and reflection, and past and future. Meko’s art interrogates themes of identity and resilience by offering an exploration of light, texture, and form. The American landscape, with its layered histories of fugitivity and survival, serves as both a backdrop and a starting point for his examination of race, place, and memory. 

 

Through the use of repurposed and hand-built tools, Meko’s compositions invite viewers to engage with multifaceted narratives that speak to emotional, psychological and ecological histories. 

 

Meko is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and the Atlanta Artadia Award. Recent exhibitions of Meko’s work include: So Black and So Blue, SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah, GA), The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Virginia Museum of Fine Art (Richmond, VA), Michi Meko: Black and Blur, Clark Atlanta University Art Museum (Atlanta GA), Michi Meko: It Doesn’t Prepare You for Arrival, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, (Atlanta, GA), Michi Meko: Before We Blast off: The Journey of Divine Forces, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta, GA), and Abstraction Today, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia (Atlanta, GA).  

 

His work is held in the collections of the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA), Virginia Museum of Fine Art (Richmond, VA), King & Spalding (Atlanta, GA), Ruby City (San Antonio, TX), Scion Toyota Motor Corporation (Los Angeles, CA) and CW Network (Atlanta, GA), among others. 

 

The artist’s forthcoming solo exhibition will open at our Paris space in September 2026.

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A Historical Smudging: Nattaway in Hell, 2025
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