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 AND RESIDENCIES

• St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, St. Louis, November 28^th- December 26^th2020
• Solo Show at Erica Popp Gallery, St. Louis, August – September 2019
• Solo show at India Habitat Centre, ‘I’ in Togetherness, New Delhi, INDIA, July 2018
• Solo Show at India Habitat Centre, Artologue: Art for All. New Delhi, INDIA, October 2015
• Solo Show at Artist Art Abode, Artologue: Art for All. Haryana, INDIA, November 2015
• Solo Show at Lokayata Gallery, New Delhi, April, INDIA, 2012
• Group Show at The Luminary, St. Louis, May – July 2019
• Group show at Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. March 2018
• Group show at Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, April 2018
• Group Show at Lewis Centre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, October 2017
• Workshop at Fine Art Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA, 2018
• Residency at NIV Art Gallery, FRAU, February- INDIA, 2016
• International Residency at Shop Art/ Art Shop, Himachal Pradesh, INDIA, 2016
• Residency at NIV Art Centre, INDIA, July 23^rd– August 12^th
• Group show ‘Art meets Book’ at Gallery Art Centric, New Delhi, INDIA, 2016
• Group show at Gallery NIV. New Delhi, INDIA, 2013
• Group Show ‘Gendered Experience’ at Ambedkar University, Delhi. INDIA, 2014

 

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS

• ASAP Fund, Pulitzer Arts Foundation + Sam Fox School of Arts 2020
• Future Fund Grant, The Luminary 2020
• Artist Relief Fund, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis 2020
• Community Arts Training, Regional Arts Commission 2019-2020
• Sam Fox Dean Travel Grants for Community Arts, WashU 2018 & 2019
• McDonnell International Scholarship, USA 2017-2019
• Legislative Fellowship (LFP) USA 2017
• Dubinsky Art Grant, USA 2018
• Rajasthan State Acknowledgement Award, India 2016

 

Artologue: Art for All                                                                       2013- Present

Co-Founder and Artist                                                                        www.artologue.in

 

PUBLICATIONS

Hostile Terrain 94@ WUSTL, Washington University in St. Louis, 2021

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

‘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

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