Meredith Leich
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I
MEREDITH LEICH (pronounced: like) is a painter, animator, and video artist, who explores the hidden forces—human and nonhuman—acting on our environments. The Boston Globe stated that Leich’s work is “uncanny yet earthbound” and “asks to witness what we have wrought” and the Washington Post described her work as “delicately beautiful but [...] warns of [...] perils.”
Leich’s work have been shown in film festivals, galleries, museums, and numerous off-the-grid settings. Her practice draws on scientific research, collaboration with scientists, and time spent as an artist-in-residence at field research stations, including UVA’s Mountain Lake Biological Station and UNH's Shoals Marine Lab. Her collaboration with glaciologist Dr. Andrew Malone was awarded an Arts, Science & Culture Initiative Grant from the University of Chicago, second place in Deutsche Bank’s “Macht Kunst” Contest, and an Individual Artist Grant from Chicago’s DCASE. Her films have screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Athens International Film + Video Festival, and Chicagoland Shorts, among others. She has completed residencies at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Tide Institute and Museum of Art, Studios of Key West, Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Wrangell Mountain Center in McCarthy, Alaska.
Leich received her BA from Swarthmore College and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently serves as the Co-Director of the Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency and lectures at the School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.