Meka Jean
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  • 2023, Laissez Le Bon Temps Rouler, Galerie PJ, Metz, France
  • 2021, Second Line, University Galleries of Illinois State University, (narrated walkthrough)
  • 2021, Part I: Second Line, University Galleries of Illinois State University
  • 2021, Part II: Second Line, University Galleries of Illinois State University
  • 2020-2021, Figge Museum (solo exhibition)
  • 2021, a eulogy | By(e), Tameka!
  • 2021, Wikipedia, Institutional Critique, Tameka Norris
  • 2021, Meka Jean, Still (a) Life, a visual long play
  • 2020, A Mother's Day Performance, May 10, 2020
  • 2020, Performance in Place, Rubin Foundation
  • 2020, Gay Guerrilla
  • 2019, Monkey's Uncle, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemperanea
  • 2016-2017, Grant Wood Fellowship
  • 2016, Cut From the Same Cloth, Ronchini Gallery, London
  • 2016, you go to my head, group show
  • 2014-2016, MEKA JEAN PROJECT EXHIBITIONS
    • 2014- now, The Meka Jean Project
    • 2016,MEKA JEAN:IVY LEAGUE RATCHET, EP >
      • Ivy League Ratchet, SVA, The Beat Goes On
      • Meka Jean: Ivy League Ratchet, at SVA, NYC
    • MEKA JEAN:NOT ACQUIESCING, 1708 GALLERY, RICHMOND VA
    • MEKA JEAN: RECOVERY,EMERSON DORSCH GALLERY, Miami
    • MEKA JEAN: SOLE RIGHTS, DAVID SHELTON GALLERY, HOUSTON
    • MEKA JEAN: PROSPECT.3, NEW ORLEANS
  • 2012-2015, Radical Presence:Black Performance in contemporary art
  • 2009-2015, Performance and video
    • 2015, become someone else,The art assignment, PBS
    • 2010- now, Yale School of Art (Semesters 1-4)
    • 2010-2012 The Canon Studies at Yale Univ
    • 2009, at skowhegan
    • 2008-2010, the infamous Licker music video at UCLA
  • 2005-2015, Paintings
    • 2005-2015, Paintings
    • 2014-2015, Paintings in the Round
    • 2014, Almost Acquaintances, Ronchini Gallery, London, UK
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  • 2023, Laissez Le Bon Temps Rouler, Galerie PJ, Metz, France
  • 2021, Second Line, University Galleries of Illinois State University, (narrated walkthrough)
  • 2021, Part I: Second Line, University Galleries of Illinois State University
  • 2021, Part II: Second Line, University Galleries of Illinois State University
  • 2020-2021, Figge Museum (solo exhibition)
  • 2021, a eulogy | By(e), Tameka!
  • 2021, Wikipedia, Institutional Critique, Tameka Norris
  • 2021, Meka Jean, Still (a) Life, a visual long play
  • 2020, A Mother's Day Performance, May 10, 2020
  • 2020, Performance in Place, Rubin Foundation
  • 2020, Gay Guerrilla
  • 2019, Monkey's Uncle, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemperanea
  • 2016-2017, Grant Wood Fellowship
  • 2016, Cut From the Same Cloth, Ronchini Gallery, London
  • 2016, you go to my head, group show
  • 2014-2016, MEKA JEAN PROJECT EXHIBITIONS
    • 2014- now, The Meka Jean Project
    • 2016,MEKA JEAN:IVY LEAGUE RATCHET, EP >
      • Ivy League Ratchet, SVA, The Beat Goes On
      • Meka Jean: Ivy League Ratchet, at SVA, NYC
    • MEKA JEAN:NOT ACQUIESCING, 1708 GALLERY, RICHMOND VA
    • MEKA JEAN: RECOVERY,EMERSON DORSCH GALLERY, Miami
    • MEKA JEAN: SOLE RIGHTS, DAVID SHELTON GALLERY, HOUSTON
    • MEKA JEAN: PROSPECT.3, NEW ORLEANS
  • 2012-2015, Radical Presence:Black Performance in contemporary art
  • 2009-2015, Performance and video
    • 2015, become someone else,The art assignment, PBS
    • 2010- now, Yale School of Art (Semesters 1-4)
    • 2010-2012 The Canon Studies at Yale Univ
    • 2009, at skowhegan
    • 2008-2010, the infamous Licker music video at UCLA
  • 2005-2015, Paintings
    • 2005-2015, Paintings
    • 2014-2015, Paintings in the Round
    • 2014, Almost Acquaintances, Ronchini Gallery, London, UK
  • about me
  • News+Press
  • Contact
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T.J. Dedeaux-Norris is a mixed-media artist who employs painting, fiber, performance, video, and music to explore the somatic impacts of racial, gender, and class socialization. In form and content, their work poses a philosophical inquiry into the distinction between Self and Other, with the body as a social microcosm of distinct yet discursive dynamics to observe and question. Everything is both permeable and fractile.
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Dedeaux-Norris completed their BA at University of California at Los Angeles and their MFA at Yale University. Their work has been presented internationally at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Mission Creek Festival, Nasher Museum of Art, Performa, Prospect New Orleans, Rotterdam Film Festival, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Sundance Film Festival, and The Walker Art Center - among other institutions. Dedeaux-Norris has participated in residencies at Grant Wood Colony, MacDowell, Skowhegan, and Yaddo. They are a 2019-2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantee, a 2022 Iowa Artist Fellow, and a tenured Associate Professor at University of Iowa.