Meredith Leich

Meredith Leich (b. 1986) is a lens and hand-based artist, working across painting, photography, animation, video, and installation. Her work explores our relationship with our changing environment, through research, collaboration, and intuitive visual exploration.

The Boston Globe stated that Leich’s work is “uncanny yet earthbound” and “asks to witness what we have wrought” and the Washington Post described her work as “delicately beautiful but [...] warns of [...] perils.” Meredith’s films have screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Athens International Film + Video Festival, and Chicagoland Shorts, among others, and she has shown her work at venues nationally and abroad. 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 completed residencies at the Tide Institute and Museum of Art, Studios of Key West, Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Wrangell Mountain Center in McCarthy, Alaska, among others. Meredith received her BA from Swarthmore College and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she also lectured in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation for five years. She currently serves as the Co-Director of the Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency.