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Meredith Laura Lynn
2024 Fellowship Award Recipient

Email: mllynn@fsu.edu

Website: www.meredithlauralynn.com 

Meredith Lynn is an artist, curator, and educator based in Tallahassee. Through her creative and scholarly projects she researches the impacts of climate change and land management and ownership. Her work has recently been shown at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City, UT), Knoxville Museum of Art (Knoxville, TN), Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), the Wiregrass Museum of Art (Dothan, AL), and Gadsden Museum of Art (Gadsden, AL).

She has been an artist in residence at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum (St. Augustine, FL), the Jentel Foundation (Sheridan, WY), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), and Kimmel Harding Nelson (Nebraska City, NE). Her curatorial projects have been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the Indiana Arts Commission, and the Minnesota State Arts Board.

She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Florida State University where she is also the curator of the Museum of Fine Arts.

She frequently works with collaborator Katie Hargrave, an artist and educator based in Chattanooga, TN.

2010–2011
University of Iowa, MFA in Painting and Drawing, minor in Printmaking

2008–2010
University of Iowa, MA in Painting and Drawing

2002-2006
Cornell University, BFA in Painting and Drawing 

2022–Present
Assistant Professor of Art,
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

2018–2022
Assistant Curator,
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

2015–2018
Gallery Director,
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN

2014–2015
Executive Director,
Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN

2012–2015
Director,
Nemeth Art Center, Park Rapids, MN 

2024
Bad Outsdoormen: Episode 1,
collaboration with Katie Hargrave,
Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL

2023
Moss Gathers,
collaboration with Katie Hargrave,
COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN

Bad Outsdoormen: Episode 2,
collaboration with Katie Hargrave,
Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA 2022

Mirror Muir: the Cumberland Mountains,
collaboration with Katie Hargrave,
Gadsden Museum, Gadsden, AL

Mirror Muir: the Cumberland Mountains,
collaboration with Katie Hargrave,
Blue Heron Nature Preserve, Atlanta, GA

2021
Welcome to Florida,
Alexander Brest Museum, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL

Overlook/Underfoot,
collaboration with Katie Hargrave,
Granary Arts, Ephraim, UT

From the Inside Looking Out,
collaboration with Katie Hargrave,
Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery, University of Texas Permian Basin, Odessa, TX

2020
Overlook/Underfoot,
collaboration with Katie Hargrave,
curated by Epicenter, Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT (canceled due to Covid-19)

Popsicle Energy,
collaboration with Katie Hargrave,
Houseguest, Louisville, KY

Overlook/Underfoot,
collaboration with Katie Hargrave, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN

2019
Sight Lines,
collaboration with Katie Hargrave,
Wiregrass Art Museum, Dothan, AL

Divine Providence,
Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA

2015
Wartime Psychiatry,
St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA

Joke Book Drawings,
Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD

2014
Elkhorn Ranch,
MacRostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, MN

2011
One-Liners,
Drewelowe Gallery, University of Iowa

2010
New Work,
Burford Gallery, University of Iowa

2006
Run Down,
Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University 

2023
Tennessee Triennial,
collaboration with Katie Hargrave,
consulting curator María Magdalena Compos-Pons, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

A Greater Utah,
collaboration with Katie Hargrave, curated by Amy Jorgensen, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT

Between Spaces,
collaboration with Katie Hargrave,
Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR

2022
this exists inside this frame, but it also exists inside this other frame,
collaboration with Katie Hargrave,
curated by alejandro t. acierto, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN


2021
Atlanta Biennial,
collaboration with Katie Hargrave,
curated by Jordan Amirkhani, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA

AOVx,
curated by Steve Dietz and Piotr Szyhalski, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN (canceled due to Covid-19)


2018
2018 Miami University Young Painters Competition,
juried by Michelle Grabner, Hiestand Galleries, Miami University, Oxford, OH

Extension: Artist Books, Prints, and Zines,
collaboration with Katie Hargrave,
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN

Tiny Acts Topple Empires,
curated by Heather Darcy Bhandari,
Woskob Family Gallery at Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA

Nicole Hill, Meredith Lynn, and Lee Running,
FrontierSpace, Missoula, MT


2017
Printwork,
Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA

Context II,
Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO

Star Crossed Lovers,
Morrissey Gallery at St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA


2015
Art(ists) on the Verge 6,
The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN

Oil Boom
(curated by Becky Dunham), Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND

What’s Left Behind,
MacRostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, MN


2012
Drawn and Quarto,
Abecadarian Gallery, Denver, CO

North of the 45th Parallel,
DeVos Museum, Marquette, MI

Women’s Works 25th Anniversary Show,
Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock, IL

Living with Others,
Chautauqua National Exhibition, Eastern Kentucky University


2011
Texas National 2011,
Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX

Graduate Student Congress Juried Show,
Market-Dubuque Space, Iowa City, IA


2010
Gone to the Other Side,
Times Club, Iowa City, IA

RealPeople 2010,
Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock, IL

First Degree Burns,
Drewelowe Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Five Thirty-One,
Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN


2009
Joseph Frasca Memorial Works on Paper Exhibition,
Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL

Displaced,
Quad Cities Airport, Moline, IL


2007
Another Thing Added to the World,
curated by Buzz Spector, Old Capitol Museum, Iowa City, IA 

2024
Individual Artist Grant,
Florida Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture


2023
Artist Grant,
Puffin Foundation (with collaborator Katie Hargrave)

Artist Grant,
Current Art Fund (with collaborator Katie Hargrave)


2022
Artist Residency,
Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL


2021
Arts & Humanities Program Enhancement Grant,
Florida State University


2018
Individual Advancement Program,
Indiana Arts Commission, Indianapolis, IN


2017
Artist Fellowship and Residency,
Jentel Foundation, Banner, WY


2016
Artist Fellowship and Residency,
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE


2014
Art(ists) on the Verge New Media Fellowship,
awarded by Northern Lights, funded by the Jerome Foundation, Minneapolis, MN

Artist Quick Start Grant,
awarded by the Lake Region Arts Council, funded by the McKnight Foundation, Fergus Falls, MN

Artist in Residence,
TMI Hospitality, Fargo, ND


2013
Springboard for the Arts Community Supported Art Grant,
The Arts Partnership, Fargo, ND


2012
Viewing Program,
The Drawing Center, New York, NY


2011
Artist Grant,
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT


2011-2010
Mildred Pelzner-Lynch Painting Fellowship,
University of Iowa


2010
Grabhorn Fellowship at Arion Press,
awarded by the College Book Art Association, San Francisco, CA

Artistic Achievement Award,
Old Courthouse Center, Woodstock, IL


2006
Achievement in Art,
Cornell University 

Fuerst Award for Student Achievement in Library Science, Cornell University 

* indicates a grant for which I served as Principal Investigator

2022
President’s Diversity and Inclusion Grant Program,
Florida State University*

General Program Support Grant,
Florida Department of Cultural Affairs*


2021
Pandemic Relief Funds,
Knight Foundation

General Program Support Grant,
Florida Department of Cultural Affairs

Cultural Grant Program,
Tallahassee Council on the Arts


2020
ArtWorks,
National Endowment for the Arts*

General Program Support Grant,
Florida Department of Cultural Affairs

Collaborative Collision,
Florida State University Office of Sponsored Research*


2019
General Program Support Grant,
Florida Department of Cultural Affairs

Cultural Grant Program,
Tallahassee Council on the Arts

College of Fine Arts Faculty Teaching Award

College of Fine Arts Travel Grant


2018

ArtWorks,
National Endowment for the Arts*


2017
Our Town,
National Endowment for the Arts
   – Key Personnel on a grant awarded to Art Spaces of the Wabash Valley

Focus Indiana Grant,
Eli Lilly Foundation at Indiana State University*

Experiential Learning Grant,
Indiana State University

Office of Community Engagement Domestic Travel Grant,
Indiana State University Career Services


2016
Indiana Masterpiece Bicentennial Grant,
Indiana Arts Commission*

Faculty and Student Travel Grant,
Indiana State University Office of Community Engagement


2015

Experiential Learning Grant,
Indiana State University Office of Community Engagement

Operating Support Grant,
Minnesota State Arts Board*

Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant,
Lake Region Arts Council, Fergus Falls, MN* 

2022
Bruce Davidson: Love and Longing,
FSU Museum of Fine Arts

Chasing Spirits: Jiha Moon,
FSU Museum of Fine Arts

Boundless Terrain,
FSU Museum of Fine Arts Featuring work by Allison Janae Hamilton, Sky Hopinka, Doug Baulos, and Dionne Lee


2021
A Shared Body,
FSU Museum of Fine Arts, co-curator Featuring work by Calida Garcia Rawles, Pope.L, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Courtney M. Leonard, Jim Denomie, Andrea Carlson, Sarah Sense, and Heid E. Erdrich


2020
Rising Water,
FSU Museum of Fine Arts, co-curator Featuring work by Trenton Doyle Hancock, Aspen Mays, Richard Misrach, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun, Willie Birch, Frances Gallardo, and Sarah Welch.


2019
68:18 Student Protest in Print,
FSU Museum of Fine Arts, co-curator Featuring selected prints by the Atelier Populaire and contemporary prints inspired by the Florida student-led gun movement


2018
The Flat Object: Sculptural Prints and Installations,
Indiana State University, curator Featuring work by Susanna Crum, John Hitchcock, Daniel Luedtke, Katarina Reising, and Sarita Zaleha


2017
State of Work,
Indiana State University, curator Featuring work by StudioREV, Santiago Ferrero, Gulf Labor Artist Coalition, and a selection from the Works Progress Administration Collection at Indiana State University Guest juror, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga


2016
Open-Type,
Indiana State University, curator Featuring work by Buzz Spector, Katie Hargrave & Brett Hunter, Lee Marchalonis, Mark Booth, and Chris Walla


2015
Northern Spark Festival,
Minneapolis, guest juror


2014
Minnesota Biennial,
the Minnesota Museum of American Art, juror

Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program at the NAC 2014,
Nemeth Art Center in partnership with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, curator 

2021
Research in Response to Crisis,
keynote panelist, State of Florida Undergraduate Research Conference, Florida State University.

Artist Talk with Collaborator Katie Hargrave,
Snow College, Ephraim, UT.


2020
That’s Unprofessional? When Artists Curate,
panel chairperson, College Art Association Annual Conference.

Doing Art: Making, Curating, and Being at Home.
Minnesota State University Moorhead colloquium speaker.

Artist Talk with Collaborator Katie Hargrave,
Houseguest, Louisville, KY.

Artist Talk with Collaborator Katie Hargrave,
Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN.


2019
Collaboration, Cooperation, and Coalition: What the Pedagogy of a University Gallery is Uniquely Equipped to Teach,
College Art Association Annual Conference.

The Value of Multi-Generational Maker’s Spaces in Museums,
Southeastern College Art Conference.

Curatorial Work as Academic Labor,
Association of Academic Museums and Galleries Annual Conference, with Dr. Claire Kovacs. Katie Hargrave and Meredith Lynn.

Winnebago, Jayco, Airstream.
Memphis: Walls Divide Press, 2019.


2018
The Future of the University Art Gallery,
panel chairperson, Southeastern College Art Conference.

Public Art and Public Health: A Critical Service-Learning Approach to Intersectionality,
with Dr. Tina Kruger-Newsham, Association for Interdisciplinary Studies Conference.

Utilizing Art to Mobilize Advocacy Efforts Related to Traditional Women’s Work: Addressing Threats to the Well-being of Formal and Informal Family Care Providers,
with Dr. Tina Kruger-Newsham, Women’s Colloquium, Indiana State University.


2017
ArtWork Podcast,
host Turning a University Art Gallery into a Learning Laboratory: Utilizing Existing Resources to Teach Professional Skills in a Professional Setting,
Southeastern College Art Conference.

Democratizing Public Art,
Indiana Arts Commission annual conference.

That’s Worth What? How Non-Profits Impact the Commercial Art Market,
Business Ethics Conference at Indiana State University.

Visiting Artist Lecture,
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.


2016
Lynn, Meredith, ed. CC: Two-Hundred Years of Indiana Art.
Terre Haute, IN: Indiana State University, 2016.Â