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 Documentational training, Jawaharlal Nehru University & Ambedkar University Delhi, 2012

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCE AND RESIDENCIES

• Solo performance JANTAR-MANTAR participatory performance, 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
• ‘Activism Through Art’- Special viewing at Designing Block, St. Louis, September 2022
• Sourvenir, 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 Residency January 2024- June 2025
  • 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
• Group Shows
  • Mother’s Art Prize show, Zabludowicz Collection, London. 2023
  • Creativity in the Time of Covid-19: Art as a Tool for Combating Inequality and Injustice, Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan, 2023
  • 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
  • Open Studio at Lewis Centre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, October 2017
  • ‘Art meets Book’ at Gallery Art Centric, New Delhi, INDIA, 2016
  • Emerging Art(ist) at Gallery NIV. New Delhi, INDIA, 2013
  • Gendered Experience’ at Ambedkar University, Delhi. INDIA, 2014

 

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS

• Missouri Featured Artist, October 2023
• Mothers Art Prize 2022. UK 2023
• Creative Impact Lab Fellow, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis 2023
• CERF Artist Grant                                                             2023
• Artist-in-Residence at Craft Alliance, St. Louis 2022-23
• Louis Visionary Emerging Artist Award 2022
• Artist in Residence at Laumeier Sculpture Park 2022
• ASAP Fund, Pulitzer Arts Foundation + Sam Fox School of Arts             2020
• Future Fund, The Luminary                                                             2020
• Artist Relief Fund, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis             2020
• Community Arts Training Fellowship, Regional Arts Commission             2019-2020
• McDonnell International Scholars Academy, USA             2017-2019
• Dubinsky Art Grant, USA                                     2018
• 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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Artologue: Art for All                                                                       2013- Present

Co-Founder and Artist                                                                        www.artologue.in

ARTIST TALKS/ PANEL/ GUEST LECTURE/ JURY

• Artist talk & workshop- Zabludowicz Collection, LONDON (UK), May 2023
• Artist talk & workshop- Mother House Studio, LONDON (UK) May 2023
• Jury- Webster Art Fair, St. Louis. 2023
• Jury- 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
• Guest lecture- School of Design and Communication, Washington University in St. Louis, September 8, 2021
• Artist talk- Venture Café St. Louis, ‘MANNAT: A Special Prayer for children victims of violence, July 29, 2021

 

MEDIA COVERAGE

• 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

• 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