meejey03@gmail.com

St. Louis, Missouri

@mee_jey

EDUCATION

MFA, Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School of Arts, St Louis, USA. 2019

MPhil, Ambedkar University, Delhi, Department of Liberal Arts, Delhi, INDIA 2014

MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of social Studies, New Delhi, INDIA 2010

BA, Jesus and Mary College, Department of History, Delhi University, New Delhi, INDIA 2008

Oral History Documentation training, Jawaharlal Nehru University & Ambedkar University Delhi, 2012

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AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS

• 2^nd Prize in juried exhibition ‘Between the Lines’, St. Louis Artist Guild. 2025
• Creative Impact Lab Fellowship, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis 2023-24
• Inaugural Art and Culture Ambassador- 21c Museum Hotel, St. Louis. 2023
• Missouri Featured Artist                                                             2023
• Mothers Art Prize 2022, London, UK 2023
• CERF Artist Grant                                                             2023
• Louis Visionary Emerging Artist Award 2022
• ASAP Fund, Pulitzer Arts Foundation + Sam Fox School of Arts             2020
• Future Fund, The Luminary                                                             2020
• Community Arts Training Fellowship, Regional Arts Commission             2019-2020
• McDonnell International Scholars Academy Fellowship, USA 2017-2019
• Sam Fox Dean Travel Grants for Community Arts, WUSTL             2018 & 2019
• The Professional Fellows for Governance and Society Program (USA) 2017
• Rajasthan State Acknowledgement Award, INDIA                         2016

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCE AND RESIDENCIES

Solo /Major & University shows:

• COUTERPUBLIC International Triennial 2026
• ‘Ahistoric Walks Make History’, Auburn University, Alabama. 2026
• ‘Onward Forward’, Lambert Airport, St. Louis. 2026
• ‘Ancestors That We Are’, visiting Artist solo exhibition on invitation at Chapman Gallery, Kansas State University, Kansas. 2025
• Ancestors That We Are, A-I-R solo exhibition at Kranzberg Arts Gallery. 2025
• Solo performance: ‘Cape of Continuity’ at Pulitzer Arts Foundation. 2024
• Permanent Public Sculptural Installation- ‘US: United Sapiens’. Commissioned by Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 2024 US: United Sapiens
• ‘Excellence in Fiber’ show at San Jose Museum of Quilt and Textiles, California. USA. 2023-24’
• Mother’s Art Prize group show, Zabludowicz Collection, London. 2023
• Solo performance JANTAR-MANTAR, 21c Museum Hotel. St. Louis. 2023
• Solo performance- HEAR ME NOW at Middlesex University, LONDON. May 2023
• ‘where to begin when to end’, two-person show, Craft Alliance, St. Louis. 2023
• ‘In Search of Home’, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis. USA April 2023
• Animation Project- ‘A Home Town Folk Tale and Other Stories’, St. Louis, 2022-23
• ‘Sourvenir’(immersive installation), Laumeier Sculpture Park. St Louis. USA. June 2022
• Solo performance- MY BABY at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, (Hostile Terrain–94), USA, September 2021.
• Shakespeare Christmas Carol Festival, St. Louis, USA. November- December 2020
• DADI, Erica Popp Gallery, St. Louis, USA. August – September 2019
• ‘I’ in Togetherness, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, INDIA, July 2018
• Artologue: Art for All, at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, INDIA, October 2015
• Myths Reinterpreted, Lokayata Mulk Raj Anand Gallery, New Delhi, April, INDIA, 2012

Residencies:

• Kranzberg Arts Foundation Visual Arts Residency Fellowship January 24’- June 2025’
• Resident Teaching Artist, St. Louis Art Museum. Sprint Session 24’
• Mother Art Prize International Residency, London (UK) May 2023
• Craft Alliance, St. Louis. USA. 2022-23
• Resident Teaching Artist at Contemporary Art Museum St, Louis. 2022-23
• Laumeier Sculpture Park Community Artist Residency, St. Louis, USA, 2022
• Fine Art Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA, 2018
• NIV Art Gallery, FRAU, February- INDIA, 2016
• Shop Art/ Art Shop, Himachal Pradesh, INDIA, 2016
• NIV Art Centre, INDIA, July 23^rd – August 12^th 2019

Group Shows

• Luner New Year Exhibition, MICDS, St. Louis. 2026
• Ann Metzger Biennial Memorial Exhibition, St. Louis Artist Guild, 2025.
• Between the Lines, St. Louis Artist Guild. 2025
• Atra, Hunt Gallery, Webster University, MO. 2025
• Luner New Year Art Exhibition, MICDS Messing Gallery, 2025
• Change Time/ Time Change, Vol ii. Auburn University, Al. October 2024’
• The Let Down, London, UK. July -October 2024
• Creativity in the Time of Covid-19: Art as a Tool for Combating Inequality and Injustice, Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan, 2023
• Group show: Social Justice in visual arts for the SHIM Art Network at Aqua Art Miami, Miami Art Week 2022.
• SHIM Aqua Art Miami, Miami Art Week & Art Basel, Florida. 2022.
• Tell Me A Story. St. Louis Artist Guild, St. Louis. 2022
• Remixing Realities. THE EVAC, New York, NYC. 2022
• Video Art, Art Number 23 Gallery, Athens, Greece, 2022
• 8x8x8 at Faundry, St. Charles, MO December 2021
• RISE at Jacoby Art Center, Alton, Illinois, March 2021
• MFA Thesis Show at The Luminary, St. Louis, May – July 2019
• Pop-Up at Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. March 2018
• MFA 1^st year Show at Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, April 2018

ARTIST TALKS/ PANEL/ GUEST LECTURE/ JURY

• Kranzberg Foundation Gallery, St. Louis. MO. 2025
• Just Narrative Fashion Exhibition, Hilton, St. Louis. 2025
• Fashion Design Week, Speaker/ Presenter, 2025
• Jury- MAPS Grant Review Panel, St. Louis. 2025.
• Artist Panel -Luner New Year Exhibition, MICDS Messing Gallery, St. Louis, 2025
• Workshop- Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis. 23^rd March 24’
• Panel presentation: K-Pop Music, Saint Louis Art Museum, 2023
• Artist talk & workshop- Zabludowicz Collection, London (UK), May 2023
• Artist talk & workshop- Mother House Studio, London (UK) May 2023
• Jury- Annual Webster Art Fair, St. Louis. 2023
• Jury- Annual Laumeier Art Fair, St. Louis, 2022.
• Jury- National Juried Exhibition at Webster Arts, St. Louis, MO. 2021-22
• Artist Speaker Panel- Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, ‘Hostile Terrain – 94’, September 2, 2021
• Artist talk & panel discussion- Washington University in St. Louis, ‘Hostile Terrain 94: A Global Remembrance and Reflection’, October 23, 2020.
• Artist talk- Missouri History Museum, ‘The Bridge: Women, Art, and Power’. August 6 2020

RELEVANT WORK/ TEACHING EXPERIENCES

COCA- Center of Contemporary Arts, St. Louis               September 2024- May 2026

Gallery and Art & Design Manager

Art Instructor

Sam Fox school at Washington University in St. Louis  2017-2019

Assistant Instructor

Google Cultural Institute, India                                           August 2016- March 2017

Curator/ Researcher

 MEDIA COVERAGE

• Mee Jey: StL Public Radio. Atra Exhibition, 2025
• The Let Down/ Metalore show- Mee Jey, London, UK
• Social Justice Art of the Twenties, Vol. 1. Mee Jey- chapt- 37, 2023
• Animation Project: A Home Town Folk Tale and Other Stories, St. Louis, 2022
• Craft Alliance announces Artist in Residence 2022-23, September 2-8, 2022
• My Dadi: My Muse, Outlook India, February 8, 2022.
• Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Hostile Terrain-94, artist performance, September 2, 2021
• Oui Gallery, Hongkong, MANNAT: A Special Prayer, September 2021
• Travel + Leisure India, Meet Mee and Jey of Artologue: A Travelling Duo that Paints Homes, 2021
• VoyageSTL, Check out Mee Jey’s Story, October 15, 2021
• Jacoby Arts Center, Illinois, RISE: Artist Talk, February 6, 2021
• Hostile Terrain 94@ WUSTL, Washington University in St. Louis, 2021
• Louis, Shakespeare Festival, A Walking Xmas Carol, 2020
• Hamdan, Lara, ‘A walking Xmas Carol’ Brings A HipHop Dickens to life in the Central West End, St. Louis Public Radio, December 4, 2020
• Roberts, Jen. See this now: Mee Jey’s art as part of ‘Walking Xmas Carol’, Dec 1, 2020
• Wu Jenny, I want to carry all of it, an interview with Mee Jey, REMAKE, August 2020
• The Bridge: Women, Art, and Power. Missouri History Museum, August 6 2020
• Jeremy Goodwin, podcast with Mee Jey, Cut-Paste, St. Louis Public Radio, April 10, 2020.
• Interview by StoryTel: Creative survival technique in Pandemic by Mee Jey and Jey Sushil, March 25, 2020
• Seanna Tucker, Lauren Harms Milford, Creating Through Crisis: Mee Jey, an immigrant artist from India, tells community stories through her art in St. Louis and abroad, STL.COM, March 16, 2020
• Beal, Dickson, Threading Our Way into The World: Innovating Textiles making the cut in a modern age, The West End Word, September 2, 2019
• Lahs-Gonzales, Olivia, Layered Histories: Two Fall Exhibits, All The Art, Fall 2019
• Quotes from conference in edited book- Cultural Governance in a Global Context, 2015
• Book Chapter- Super Couple, by Prachi Garg, 2017.
• The Hindu (National Daily, India) Art for People’s Sake, March 2, 2014

 PUBLICATIONS

• Mother Art Prize 2023. Book Publication, First Edition 2024, London.
• Artist Diary: How an Indian artist is Preserving Her Childhood Memories Through her Craft, Mee Jey, Outlook India , February 4^th, 2022.
• ‘DIALOGICAL PRACTICE, MFA Thesis, Sam Fox School of Arts, Washington University Open Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis, 2019
• Mee Jey, Multi-Tasker Artist Mother, All the Art , Fall 2019