Mekko Harjo
Born 1987, Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in New York, NY
Education
2024 MFA, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2009 BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Average Play Time, The New Uncanny, New York
A group exhibition focused around the concepts of internatlities of gaming spaces and simulated experience. With artists Chia Amisola, Blake Andrews, Skip Brea, Lena Chen, Mekko Harjo, Jason Isolini, Milly Skellington, Viktor Timofeev
IAIA MFA in Studio Arts Thesis Exhibition
We’ve Been Gathering Places, Form and Concept, Santa Fe, NM
Dispatch: A score by Raven Chacon and Candice Hopkins,
performed in collaboration with Ursala Hudson, Mekko Harjo, and
Kimberly Fulton Orozco, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2023
Ways Of Becoming: Selected Works from the MFA in Studio Arts
Class of 2024, Balzer Contemporary Edge Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
SITE Scholars Exhibition, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2022
Solo Exhibit - I Am Happy, Are You Happy?, Choplet Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY
Fellowships and Residencies
2024
Artist in Residence at The Momentary, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Bentonville, AR
Wassaic Project Winter Resident
Wassaic, NY
2023-2024
The Workshop Fellowship, New York, NY
2022-2023
SITE Scholar, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM