Meredith Kooi is an experimental artist, scholar, and educator whose site-responsive work uses video, performance, photography, sound, and writing to unveil the complexity of place and history. Driven by experience, Meredith’s process-based work actively integrates a myriad of knowledge- and sense-making practices to provide a holistic narrative of being. She has held artist residencies across the United States including at Elsewhere, Wave Farm, PlySpace, and Hambidge, among others. As an educator, Meredith has taught a diversity of students including undergraduates, youths, and incarcerated adults in the classroom and as a workshop facilitator. She received her PhD in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts from Emory University, her MA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her BA in Environmental Studies from Denison University.