Shane Mecklenburger uses multiple media to explore constructed value, agency, and mediated experience. The projects queer and collaborate with popular media, critically examining cultural mythologies by making a diamond from roadkill, selling the future, or repurposing shooter games.

Exhibitions include 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; El Paso Museum of Art, Texas; VR Arles Festival, Arles, France; SIGGRAPH Asia, Bangkok; Pallas Projects, Dublin; Sazmanab Project, Tehran; El Centro Cultural Paso Del Norte, Juarez, Mexico; and SCOPE Miami, among others.

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; a UCLA-AFT Creative Endeavors Award; 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.

Mecklenburger lives and works in Los Angeles and Miami.


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