Meridith McNeal is a Brooklyn-based artist represented by Figureworks Gallery (Saugerties, NY), the Flat Files of Kentler International Drawing Space (Brooklyn, NY), and Embrace Creatives (Detroit, MI).
She has been a frequent Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. Her work has received numerous awards, most recently Curators Award in All The World’s a Stage, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis MA, Association Award Winner, Brand 49, Brand Library& Art Center, Glendale, CA; Shortlist Finalist, Visual Art Open 2021 UK & International Emerging Artist Awards; Best of the Net 2021, nomination by The Lumiere Review; Silver Medal, Curators Award, PAPERWORKS 2021, b.j. spoke gallery, Huntington, NY; Jurors Top Choice in Arizona Aqueous XXXV at Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ; Meridith was honored as a 2020 Artist of the Year by the Circle Foundation for the Arts, Lyon, France, and the RJE Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award.
Meridith regularly exhibits her artwork throughout the US and abroad. Recent exhibitions include Peer at Small House Gallery in London, AMPLIFIED Art Music Power at the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, Fizz: Paintings by Meridith McNeal at The Brooklyn Seltzer Museum, and Things That Happened at The Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling, in Manhattan.
Meridith is the co-founder and Director of ART YARD BKLYN.
Now on View!
Peer More Closely: A Meridith McNeal Retrospective now on view at The Museum of Miniature Houses in Carmel, Indiana.
Meridith McNeal, Inside Outside Pink House (Upper East Side, Manhattan), 2025, watercolor on paper, 45x45"
You are invited
Thursday February 26th at 12:30pm for an artist talk at Rutgers–Camden Center for the Arts, Stedman Gallery, Fine Arts Building, 314 Linden Street, Camden, NJ 08102.
Of the People features a selection of works on paper by contemporary artists from across the United States who responded to the question: what does American Democracy mean to you?
Through investigative research, consulting various formal and informal repositories of knowledge, and reflecting inwardly, this group of artists particularly consider the meaning of American democracy in the present moment.