Christopher Meerdo

Christopher Meerdo (b.1981) is a Chicago based artist who grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Lithuania. Meerdo’s work was recently currently featured in a year-long solo exhibition at the Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art. He is the Fellowship 15 International Award winner for his projects Iceland and Cataphote, was an artist in residence at the SIM Program in Reykjavik, Iceland and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2013. Meerdo received his MFA in Photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago and currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include The National Gallery of Kosovo, Exgirlfriend (Berlin); The Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL); CocoHunday (Tampa, FL); Floating Museum (Chicago, IL), Cabinet Magazine (Brooklyn, NY); LVL3 Gallery (Chicago, IL); Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA); SIM Gallery (Reykjavik, Iceland) and a traveling exhibition in Birmingham and Leicester, UK. More information can be found at http://0-0.ooo

Works

Impact Tools (Escort Only)

Dispersal Order

Riot Control Agents

Christopher Meerdo, As Sahab/The Cloud, 2019, extruded polystyrene, plaster, paint, water transfer print, tinted mirror, 1.5 x 2 meter

Svartsengi, Iceland, archival digital prints, 12x18 each, 2013

integrated simulation and synthesis, Raspberry pi, micro sd card, power adapter, Snoop Dogg BUSH G Slim Liquid Vaporizer, USB powered fan, flexible USB LED Lamp 12x8x5 in, 2016

Christopher Meerdo, The Search, 2019, P1150067

Channeling, 2019, LED screen, controller, media player, 2.5 x 2.5 meter 30 minute excerpt of 1000 hour loop

Underground Nuclear Fallout Home Las Vegas NV, south wall, dawn, Archival Digital Print, 20 x 30 in, 2016

Erythrocyte Ghosts Filled with Quantum Dots Improve Cryogenics with Microarea Custom Freeze Thaw @ Document

Erythrocyte Ghosts Filled with Quantum Dots Improve Cryogenics with Microarea Custom Freeze Thaw @Document

Lightbody_astral.jpg//white_matter_of_left_cerebral_hemisphere-2.x3d, Extruded polystyrene, hydrocal, plaster, hydroprint, acrylic gloss glaze 36x 24x 20 in, 2016

hplusmagazine-2008-fall.pdf//EMDB-6003-surf-radial.x3d, Extruded polystyrene, hydrocal, plaster, hydroprint, acrylic gloss glaze 44x 36x 14 in, 2016

Collective Human Mind System Reality, Custom display monitor, usb flash drive, LED strobe light, 1’23” loop, 2016

Underground Nuclear Fallout Home Las Vegas NV west wall detail dusk, 2016, Archival pigment prints, 20 x 30 in. each

HD Protech Cite M1G2, 2016 hydroprint on retroreflective fabric, cnc extruded polystyrene, hydrocal, mixed media

Active Denial System, Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art installation view, 2016

Metadata, 2016 HD video, 11:01 min custom display monitors, raspberry pis, network switch, sound system

Brute Force xtxp8.jpg (cop selfie), Archival Pigment Print, 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in, 2014

IMG67_1.jpg, Archival Digital Print, 10 x 9 in, 2007-2015

Cataphote, 2014 welded steel, retroreflective fabric, zippers, vacuum 16x18x9 ft collaboration with May Wilson