Nat Meade (nacido en 1975, Greenfield, Massachusetts. Creció en Portland, Oregón) se centra en representar personajes elevados que denotan fragilidad. La escala de los cuadros es pequeña y poco heroica, pero las figuras que parecen estatuas, con sus barbas largas y bocas abiertas, parecen monumentales. Gafas, cigarrillos o collares humanizan las figuras y las vinculan al mundo terrenal. Meade trabaja cuidadosamente las superficies del lienzo con una pintura muy estratificada, raspada y escamada, cargada de color.

Meade ha expuesto su obra en exposiciones individuales y colectivas a nivel nacional e internacional. Recientemente ha montado una exposición individual en la Honey Ramka Gallery de Brooklyn, Nueva York. Su obra ha sido reseñada en publicaciones como Art Forum, The Boston Globe, Juxtapoz Magazine, Maake Magazine e Hyperallergic. Meade tiene un máster del Pratt Institute, en Brooklyn, Nueva York, y una licenciatura de la Universidad de Oregón, en Eugene. Asistió a la Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture 2009, al Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program en 2016, al Siena Art Institute en 2018, y asistirá 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

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

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 

2008   Fine Art Connoisseur, January/February 2008, Volume 5, Issue 1, Five to Watch page 63

2008   Portrait of Portland, Spring 2008, Volume 14, pages 18-26

2006   Portland Monthly, Volume 4, Issue 7, page 189

2005   The Oregonian, September 18, 2005

2005   Northwest Review, Volume 43, Number 1, Eight Clowns