Meredith Leich

Meredith Leich is a painter, animator, and video artist, who explores the hidden forces—human and nonhuman—acting on our environments. Leich’s work have been shown in film festivals, galleries, museums, and numerous off-the-grid settings, including on a glacier, alongside the ocean, and in an old-growth forest. 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 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. She has also completed residencies at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, the Tide Institute and Museum of Art, Studios of Key West, Ragdale Foundation, among others.

Leich received her BA from Swarthmore College (2008) and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2017), where she also lectured in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department. She currently serves as the Co-Director of the Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency.