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5 Questions- Mee Jey
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`Welcome listeners to 5 Questions: A Critical Mass for the Visual Arts Podcast in which we ask 5 questions of our interviewees aimed at positioning and contextualizing their respective bodies of work within the St. Louis artworld.This episode we’re talking with Mee Jey.
Mee Jey is a multidisciplinary Indian artist concerned with the lived experience. Through large scale installations, durational live, video or photo performances, illustrations and collage works, she digs into her challenges and aspirations as an immigrant. With research degrees in History and Field Archaeology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, she went on to receive an MFA degree in visual arts from Washington University in St. Louis, USA. With solo shows and performances at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Bruno David Gallery (St. Louis), Middlesex University ( London, UK), Craft Alliance, India Habitat Center (New Delhi), her works have been shown in group shows in Athens (Greece, Europe), New York (MA), London (UK), San Jose’ Museum of Quilt and Textiles ( CA), Michigan, Miami (FL), St. Louis (MO), Alton (IL) and New Delhi (India). She was Artist-in-Residence at the Laumeier Sculpture Park (MO, 2022), Procreate Project (London, 2023), Craft Alliance (2022-23) and Resident-Teaching Artist at Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2022-23). Currently Mee is Creative Lab Fellow at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2023). She was recently awarded the St. Louis Visionary Emerging Artist Award (2022) and Mother Art Prize in London (UK, 2023).
5 Questions is a program by Critical Mass for the Visual Arts – a nonprofit, self-formed visual arts collaborative dedicated to promoting, enhancing and initiating contemporary visual art in the St. Louis region.
Mee Jay’s latest show with Marina Peng entitled Where to Begin Where to End was at Craft Alliance and more info is available here- https://craftalliance.org/exhibitions/where-begin-when-end-marina-peng-and-mee-jey
With Mee Jey and Joe Kohlburn
Edited by Sarah Hammond
Produced by Brett Williams
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