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Michi Meko (1974 -) is an African-American multidisciplinary artist residing in Atlanta, Georgia.

Exhibitions
His exhibitions have included in 2015 the solo exhibition Pursuit: Almost Drowned, a mix of assemblage sculptures and paintings at Buckhead, Georgia's Alan Avery Art Company and Kazuko at Cress Gallery in Chattanooga as part of the Diane Marek Visiting Artist Series in 2018. In 2017 he exhibited Michi Meko: How Far We Haven’t Come at The New Gallery at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee. He also exhibited at The Dodd Galleries affiliated with the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.

Performances and lectures
Michi Meko's performances, exhibitions, and lectures on You Tube videos include Footwerk:The Studio Dance, Michi Meko Artist Talk at Alan Avery Art Company, Michi Meko: At First Light,Surfcasting, MICHI MEKO: Sailing sing along, Art Crush 2013: Michi Meko, WONDERROOT CSA - MICHI MEKO,

Education
Although university-trained, he says that art has always been with him.

Awards
In 2017 Meko won national awards from New York nonprofits Artadia and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, with a combined prize of $35,000. Travis Laughlin, a senior director of artist programs for the Joan Mitchell Foundation, called Meko’s work “incredibly relevant to ongoing discussions about race.” Meko also won an award from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia and presented a solo show there.