Shane Mecklenburger examines value, transaction and conflict by making diamonds, weaponizing paint, turning love into money and making music with shooter games. He is Assistant Professor of Art at The Ohio State University.
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2009 MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1995 BA University of California, Santa Cruz
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2012 CONFLUX, Pearl Conrad Art Gallery, Mansfield, Ohio
2011 Aurora, Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
2011 Faculty Exhibition, Urban Arts Space, Columbus Ohio
2011 Memento Mori, Hoxton Art Gallery, London, UK
2011 Slippage, 1111 Gallery, Dallas
2011 Intersections, R&D Gallery, Chicago
2011 Centro Cultural Paso del Norte, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
2011 Glitch, CentralTrak Artist Residency, Dallas, Texas
2010 Border Art Biennial, El Paso Museum of Art, Texas
2010 Faculty Exhibition, Studio Art Dept., Univ. N. Texas
2010 Semi-Automatic, Texas Woman's University
2010 in.f3xxx10n.us
2010 pwn3d, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
2010 Liminality, Antena Gallery, Chicago
2010 UltraXtra, Denton Visual Arts Center, Denton, Texas
2009 The Niche, Fine Arts Library, University of Virginia
2009 Faculty Exhibition, University of North Texas
2009 MGFest Installation Art Screening, Letelier Theater, DC
2009 Sugar, Around The Coyote, Chicago
2009 re(load), Antena Gallery, Chicago
2009 re:model, Sullivan Gallery, SAIC, Chicago
2009 King Ludd's Arcade, Experimental Station, Chicago
2009 MGFest Finalist Showcase, Axiom Gallery, Cambridge
2009 MGFest Mashitude, Pixel Brothers Studio, Chicago
2009 Defective: Debugging Media Myths, Nightengale, Chicago
2008 Department (Store), Sullivan Gallery, SAIC, Chicago
2008 Atmospherics, Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago
2008 Uninstalled, Art & Technology Studies Dept, SAIC
2006 Curing Sanity, Dept 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, The Ubersee-Museum, Bremen, Germany
2003 Impossible, Japanese-American National Museum, LA
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2011 Faculty Scholarship Grant, The Ohio State University
2011 Research Initiation Grant, University of North Texas
2010 STEIM Artist Residency, STEIM, Amsterdam
2010 Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, Univ. North Texas
2009 Winner, Motion Graphics Festival, Chicago
2008 Albert Krehbiel Scholarship Award, SAIC, Chicago
2008 Community Leadership Award, Student Assn., SAIC
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
- Collaborating with the Enemy. Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Mish Mash Edition 17.1 (2011): 156-171. Published by Leonardo / International Society of the Arts, Sciences, and Technology (ISAST) and Goldsmiths University.
ISSN: 1071-4391 , ISBN: 978-1-906897-11-6
- Market Pressures and New Media Art Education. Media-N Under Fire Edition 7.1 (2011). Published by the New Media Caucus. ISSN: 1942-017X
- Itala Schmelz. Exhibition Catalog, Border Art Biennial 2010. Publication for the El Paso Museum of Art, Dec 2010.
- Bekhrad, Joobin. Diamonds are forever. Made in Shoreditch, Sept 29, 2011.
- Pavlik, Nicholas. Faculty art exhibit showcases OSU's best in video games, photography. The Lantern, Nov 8, 2011.
- Why Did The Armadillo Cross the Road?. Think-Work-Play, Sept 15, 2011.
- Lucinda Breeding. All that Glitters. Denton Record-Chronicle, Jul 28, 2011.
- June Mattingly. Shane Mecklenburger in "Glitch". Modern Dallas, Feb 15, 2011.
- Ellen Rossetti. Is a diamond forever? Inhouse, Jan 25, 2011.
- Katy Siegel. Around The Corner. DVD Publication of the 2009 SAIC MFA Exhibit, Nov 1, 2009.
- Sharon L. Butler. Hello Wikipedia, it's the blogosphere calling. Two Coats of Paint. February 14, 2009.
- Andrew Newman. Education for Sale. The Jackette: Media, Art, Communication. Jun 2, 2009.
- Claire Mazur. New media artist Shane Mecklenburger is auctioning Wealth on eBay. Performing, Visual, Digital. Oct 2 2008.
- Corrinna Kirsch. Interview: Recently Made. Interview, FNews Magazine. Oct 2008.