Nat Meade (b. 1975, Greenfield, Massachusetts, Grew up in Portland, Oregon) deals with elevated personages and their frailty in his work. The scale of the paintings is small and unheroic, yet the statue like figures with their long beards and gaping mouths appear monumental. Eyeglasses, cigarettes or collars humanize the figures and attach them to our world. Meade carefully works the canvas surfaces with heavily layered, scraped and scumbly paint that is loaded with color.

He has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. He mounted a recent solo exhibition at the Honey Ramka Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been reviewed in publications, such as Art Forum, The Boston Globe, Juxtapoz Magazine, Maake Magazine, and Hyperallergic. Meade holds an MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, and a BFA from the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. He attended the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture 2009, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in 2016, the Siena Art Institute in 2018, and will attend the James Castle House summer Residency in Boise, Idaho in summer 2021.

EDUCATION

2009 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Skowhegan, Maine (US)

2007 Master of Fine Arts. Pratt Institute, New York City (US)

2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts. University of Oregon, Oregon (US)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

Bad Luck Buddy. L21 Gallery, Mallorca (ES)

2018

Never Learn Not to Cease to Exist. Honey Ramka, Brooklyn, New York (US)

2017

The Wait. Schneider Museum, Ashland, Oregon (US)

All Arounders. Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon (US)

2016

Undershadow. Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon (US)

2014

Pecker Tracks. Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon (US)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 

The Symbolists: Les Fleurs du Mal, co-curated by Nicole Kaack and Karen Hesse Flatow. Hesse Flatow Gallery New York (US)  

Melancholympics, curated by Sasha Bogojev. The Wunderwall, Brussels (BE)

2020 

First, Second, Third Person. Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (US)

2019 

Biophilia, curated by Emily Burns. Unpaved Gallery, Yucca Valley, California (US)

Selections: Works from Fine Arts Faculty. President’s Office Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York (US)

!QUIRK. Kathryn Markel Fine Art, New York (US)

Distance: Works on Paper by Skowhegan Alumni, curated by Betsy Alwin and Steve Locke. Dorsky Curatorial Projects, Queens New York (US)

2018   

Buddy System. Deanna Evans Projects, Brooklyn, New York (US)

Interrupting Lines, curated by Brock Brake. Pt. 2 Gallery, Oakland, California (US)

I Remember You Well- Part 2, curated by Adam Noack. Galerie Eigenheim, Weimar (DE)

2017    

I Remember You Well, curated by Adam Noack. Galerie Eigenheim, Berlin (DE)

Published by the Artist, curated by Angela Conant and Grayson Cox. International Print Center, New York (US) 

Crunch, curated by Matthew Fisher. The Breeder Gallery, Athens (GR)

2016

Plus One. Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (US) 

Heads Up Game, curated by Suzanne Dittenber. Metcalf Gallery, Taylor University, Upland, Indiana (US)

Casual Deviant. Castledrone, Boston, Massachusetts (US)

2015

Befana’s Secret Booty. Orgy Park, Brooklyn, New York (US) 

Dogs and Cats, curated by Nancy Grimes. Mark Miller Gallery, New York (US)

Paintings in Trees. Peoples Garden, Brooklyn, New York (US)

2014

Pierogi XX: 20th anniversary Exhibition. Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (US)

Wretch. Honey Ramka Gallery, Brooklyn (US)

Congregation, curated by Sheila Pepe. Gallery 106 Green, Brooklyn, New York (US)

2013

Unhinged, Summer Group Show. Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (US) 

2011

12 Painters 12 Hours. Rogue Space, New York (US)

2010

Five From Brooklyn. Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon (US)

I Know What You Did Last Summer, Saint Cecilia’s Convent, Brooklyn, NewYork (US)

A Separate Peace-curated by Shane McAdams, McNeil Project Space, New York (US)

Artist of the Week, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (US)

2009

Winter Group Show 2009, Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon (US)

PUBLICATIONS

2021 Brooklyn Rail, The Symbolists: Les Fleurs du Mal, review by Elizabeth Buhe, March

2020 Punch, Limited edition, Esopus Foundation 

2019 Art Forum, review by Tod Lippy, March

2018 Art Maze Magazine, Summer Issue 9

2017 Juxtapoz Magazine, Evolution of a Man, Sasha Bogojev

Maake Magazine, Issue 5

Hyperallergic, From Interference Paint to Prompt-Driven Portraits, a Trip to Dumbo Open Studios, Seph Rodney, May 15

Two coats of Paint, May 16

2015 Art and Everything After, One Question, Steve Locke, June 4

The Boston Globe, May 25

2014   The Portland Mercury, Art Walkin’, A.L. Adams, Feb 12

2012   Tin House: Winter Reading, December 2012, Issue 54, Cover

The Berlin Journal, Spring 2012, Number 22, On Lonliness: The unbearable lightness of being  alone, pages 18-23

Watercolor Magazine, Winter 2012, Morphing Memories, pages 84-91