Michi Meko is a multidisciplinary artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. Meko is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and the Atlanta Artadia Award.
“I’m mapping out my Black male experience, and for me, that’s kind of finding my way from a youth, now into an adult, and then into an older man, and even further than that. How will this Black life contribute to future Black lives from the afterlife?”
- Michi Meko interviewed in Tennessee Valley Art Association, 2021
Meko was a 2023 Artpace resident in San Antonio, TX and mounted an exhibtion “While I’m Here...A Different South”. Meko has held recent exhibitions at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; Kavi Gupta. Chicago, IL; and Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and MOCA GA in Atlanta, GA. His work is held in the collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA; Scion (Toyota Motor Corporation), Los Angeles, CA; MetroPark USA Inc., Atlanta, GA; and CW Network, Atlanta, GA, among others.
Meko’s first solo exhitbition with DIMIN will take place October 2024.