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Christopher Meerdo

Chicago, Illinois

© Christopher Meerdo

Christopher Meerdo's Portfolio

Metadata, 2016 HD Video, 11’ loop, 4x5x9 ft Metadata is a video compilation of various montages, frames, and long takes with a musical arrangement by electronic composer Elise Macmillan. This video contains clips from protests, scenes from 3D modeling environments, and drone scapes.
Cataphote, 2014 Welded steel, retroreflective fabric, zippers, vacuum, 16x18x9 ft Project created for the 8550 Artists Residency, funded by Illinois Arts Council, in collaboration with artist May Wilson
Brute-force: xtxp8.jpg (cop selfie), 2014 Framed archival inkjet print, 20x30 in Individual user cell phone photographs stolen via brute-force sever attack.
RPI: fields of environmental sensing, 2017 Raspberry pi, micro sd card, power adapter, 16Gb shark flash drive, 2 LED USB light, programmable RGB LED USB fan, 10 x 12 x 10 in Single-board microcomputers configured with miscellaneous USB peripherals.
Blaze/Chill (IMG96, Phoenix, Arizona, USA), 2017 archival digital print, dichroic, 16x16in, unique (blaze version) Infrared facial recognition camera log files mined from international factory employee work registrations
Lightbody_astral.jpg_white_matter_of_left_cerebral_hemisphere-2.x3d, 2016 Extruded polystyrene, hydrocal, plaster, hydroprint, acrylic gloss glaze, 36 x 24 x 20 inches Hydroprinted sculpture sourced from MRI and SEM medical models from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Underground Nuclear Fallout Home, Las Vegas, NV, west wall detail dusk, 2016 Archival Pigment Prints, 30 x 20 in each Photographs from a subterranean bunker home in Las Vegas, owned by the cryonics enthusiast group The Society of Near-Extinct Species
White Hot (Medical Center), 2017 Hydroprint on painted extruded polystyrene, hydrocal, acrylic, LED screen, chain, carabiners, nylon webbing, USB drive, 21 x 37 x 142 inches Forced photogrammetry models resting atop leaked military drone videos. Hydroprinted with images sourced from internet message boards.

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Artist Biography

Christopher Meerdo is a Chicago based artist who grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Lithuania. Meerdo’s work was recently featured in a year-long solo exhibition at the Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art in Pittsburgh. He was an artist in residence at the SIM Program in Reykjavik, Iceland and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2013. Meerdo received his MFA in Photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago and currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include Exgirlfriend (Berlin); The Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL); Coco Hunday (Tampa,FL); Floating Museum (Chicago, IL), Cabinet Magazine (Brooklyn, NY); SIM Gallery (Reykjavik, Iceland); The National Gallery of Kosovo and a traveling exhibition in Birmingham and Leicester, UK. In 2018-2019 Meerdo will be a participant in the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands.

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