Shane Mecklenburger (b. Chicago) uses multiple media to explore constructed value, play, and power. His creative practice queers and collaborates with popular culture and simulation systems to recuperate mediated experience.

His projects have sold the future, made a diamond out of gunpowder, and repurposed shooter games.

His work has exhibited at The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Eyebeam, NYC; Bitforms Gallery, NYC; Microscope Gallery, NYC; Queens Museum, NYC; Übersee-Museum, Bremen, Germany; The Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; The Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; The El Paso Museum of Art, Texas; El Centro Cultural Paso Del Norte, Juarez, Mexico; California College of Art, San Francisco; and The Reading Room, Dallas. His awards include a MacDowell Fellowship; a Ucross Foundation Fellowship; residencies at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, Ohio, and the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam; and a Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs which fosters projects that examine the complex relationship between science, technology and broader social and cultural issues. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

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