Nat Meade (b. 1975, Greenfield, Massachusetts, Grew up in Portland, Oregon) es un pintor y educador afincado en Brooklyn que utiliza su obra para reflexionar sobre los complejos sentimientos que rodean la experiencia de atravesar las distintas fases de la vida. Las figuras de los cuadros de Meade se convierten en sustitutos de sí mismo en su investigación sobre la experiencia de convertirse en adulto, marido y padre, cada personaje se ve a través de la doble lente del autoescrutinio y las expectativas de la sociedad. Meade se licenció en Bellas Artes en la Universidad de Oregón y obtuvo un máster en Bellas Artes en el Pratt Institute.

Su obra se ha mostrado en exposiciones individuales como «A Hole is for Looking Through», Taymour Grahne Gallery, Londres, 2022); «Nothing, Happens for a Reason», Hesse Flatow Gallery (Nueva York, 2022) y «Never Learn Not to Cease to Exist», Honey Ramka, Brooklyn, Nueva York (EE.UU.), y en exposiciones colectivas en Pierogi Gallery (Nueva York, 2022), L21 LAB (Palma de Mallorca, 2022), The Hole Gallery (Copenhague, 2021), The Wunderwall (Bruselas, 2021) entre muchas otras.

La práctica de Meade ha sido reseñada en publicaciones como Artforum, Juxtapoz, The Boston Globe e Hyperallergic. Asistió a la Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture en 2009, al Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program en 2016, al Siena Art Institute en 2018 y a la James Castle House Summer Residency en Boise, Idaho, en el verano de 2021.

EDUCACIÓN

2009 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Main (US)

2007 Máster en Bellas Artes, Pratt Institute, New York City (US)

2001 Licenciatura en Bellas Artes, University of Oregon, Oregon (US)

EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES

2023

Nurse Log. L21 Palma, Palma (ES)

2022

A Hole is for Looking Through, Taymour Grahne Gallery, Londres (UK)

Nothing, Happens for a Reason, Hesse Flatow Gallery, Nueva York (US)

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)

EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS

2021

Paperworks Vol II, NBB Gallery, Berlin (DE)

Phase Three- East Hampton Hole, The Hole Gallery, East Hampton (US)

Enter Art Fair, The Hole Gallery, Copenhagen (DK)

The Symbolists: Les Fleurs du Mal, comisariada por Nicole Kaack and Karen Hesse Flatow. Hesse Flatow Gallery New York (US)  

Melancholympics, comisariada por Sasha Bogojev. The Wunderwall, Buselas (BE) 

2020

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

2019

Biophilia, comisariada por Emily Burns. Unpaved Gallery, Yucca Valley, California (US)

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

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

Distance: Works on Paper by Skowhegan Alumni, comisariada por Betsy Alwin y Steve Locke. Dorsky Curatorial Projects, Queens, Nueva York (US)

2018   

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

Interrupting Lines. pt. 2 Gallery. Oakland, California (US)

I Remember You Well- Part 2, comisariada por 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, Nueva York (US)

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

2016

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

Dogs and Cats, Curated by Nancy Grimes. Mark Miller Gallery, Nueva York (US) 

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

2014 

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

Wretch. Honey Ramka Gallery, Brooklyn, Nueva York (US) 

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

2013

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

2011

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

2010 

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

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

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

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

2009 

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

PUBLICACIONES

2021 

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

2020 

Punch, Limited edition, Esopus Foundation 

2019 

Art Forum, review by Tod Lippy, March 2019

2018 

Art Maze Magazine, Summer Issue 9

2017 

Juxtapoz Magazine, Evolution of a Man, Sasha Bogojev, October 2017

Maake Magazine, Issue 5

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

Two coats of Paint

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