Shane Mecklenburger's work examines cultural value & identity. Recent projects consider the way popular media conflates entertainment, war, the market & art to construct masculinity. He is Assistant Professor of New Media Art at the University of North Texas.

His work has exhibited in the U.S. and internationally at The Ubersee-Museum, Bremen Germany; The Japanese-American National Museum in Los Angeles; The Los Angeles Municipal Gallery; California College of the Arts, San Francisco; Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago; The Nightengale Theater, Chicago; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Axiom Gallery, Cambridge; The Letelier Theater, Washington D.C.; Antena Gallery, Chicago; and The University of Virginia Fine Arts Library.





Selected Exhibitions
  • 2009 The Niche, Fine Arts Library, University of Virginia
    2009 Faculty Exhibition, University of North Texas
    2009 MGFest Installation Art Screening, Letelier Theater, Washington DC
    2009 Sugar, Around The Coyote, Chicago
    2009 re(load), Antena Gallery, Chicago
    2009 re:model, Sullivan Gallery, SAIC, Chicago
    2009 King Ludd's Midway Arcade, Experimental Station, Chicago
    2009 MGFest Finalist Showcase, Axiom Gallery, Cambridge
    2009 Defective: Debugging Media Myths, Nightengale, Chicago
    2009 MGFest Mashitude, Pixel Brothers Studio, Chicago

    2008 Department (Store), Sullivan Gallery, SAIC, Chicago
    2008 Atmospherics, Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago
    2008 Preemptive Archaeology, Art & Technology Studies Dept, SAIC

    2006 Curing Sanity, Department of Mental Technology, Black Rock City, Nevada

    2005 Holiday of the Heart, Heart of Los Angeles Youth, LA

    2004 FARfetched, Foundation for Art Resources, LA
    2004 Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, LA
    2004 Faculty Exhibition, California College of the Arts, SF
    2004 Pleasure Garden, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, LA

    2003 CITYZOOMS, Up-And-Coming International Film Festival, The Ubersee-Museum, Bremen, Germany
    2003 The Impossible, Japanese-American National Museum, LA

    1999 The Event, The Distillery Gallery, LA
Awards & Grants
  • 2010 Faculty Research Fellowship, University of North Texas

    2009 Winner, Motion Graphics Festival, Chicago

    2008 Albert Krehbiel Scholarship Award, SAIC, Chicago
    2008 Community Leadership Award, Student Assn., SAIC
    2008 Teaching Assistantship, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago

    2007 SAIC Grant, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
    2007 Artist-Educator Service Award, Child Care Resource Center, Los Angeles

    2004 Ucross Foundation Residency, Clearmont, Wyoming
    2004 I-Park Artist Residency, East Haddam, Connecticut
    2004 Stonehouse Residency for the Contemporary Arts, Miramonte, CA
    2004 Apple Seed Grant, Apple Computer, Connecticut

    2001 Dewitt Wallace Foundation Fellowship, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

    1999 Anne Pansanella Scholarship Award, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
    1999 APLE Teacher's Grant California Student Aid Commission

    1997 Projects Grant, US Peace Corps, Republic of Bolivia
Publications