EDUCATION
YTT 200, YogaOasis; Tucson, AZ (2021)
PhD, The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University; Atlanta, GA (2011-21)
MA, Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, IL (2009-11)
BA, cum laude, Environmental Studies, Denison University; Granville, OH (2003-07)
AWARDS
Project Grant, Fulton County Arts & Culture; Atlanta, GA (2018)
Influential in Art & Culture, Creative Loafing; Atlanta, GA (2018)
Hughley Artist Fellowship, WonderRoot; Atlanta, GA (2017-18)
Artist Project Grant, Office of Cultural Affairs, Office of the Mayor; Atlanta, GA (2017)
Nominee for Forward Arts Emerging Artist Award, Forward Arts Foundation; Atlanta, GA (2017)
Classroom Grant, Center for Creativity and the Arts, Emory University; Atlanta, GA (2016)
Classroom Grant, Center for Creativity and the Arts, Emory University; Atlanta, GA (2015)
Emerging Artist Award, Office of Cultural Affairs, Office of the Mayor; Atlanta, GA (2014-15)
Robert A. Paul Award, The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University; Atlanta, GA (2014)
Arts Writers Workshop Finalist, Andy Warhol Foundation | Creative Capital; New York, NY (2014)
Georgia Fee Residency Finalist, ArtSlant (2014)
Summer Intensive Scholarship, gloATL; Atlanta, GA (2013)
Arts Investment Package, The Goat Farm Arts Center; Atlanta, GA (2013)
Visual Scholarship Initiative Grant, Emory University; Atlanta, GA (2012)
MA Visual and Critical Studies Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, IL (2011)
Trustee Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, IL (2010-11)
Provost Scholarship, Denison University; Granville, OH (2003-07)
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Artist-in-Residence Fellow, Plyspace; Muncie, IN (2019)
Artist-in-Residence, Wave Farm; Acra, NY (2016)
Artist-in-Residence, The Creatives Project; Atlanta, GA (2015-17)
Artist-in-Residence with Radius, Museum :: Instrument, curated by Shannon Stratton and Joe Jeffers, hosted by Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC (2015)
Artist-in-Residence, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences; Rabun Gap, GA (2014)
Artist-in-Residence, betterArts, Better Farm; Redwood, NY (2011)
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2016
Pitchtree, Peachtree, Nickel Bottom, too, {Poem 88}; Atlanta, GA
2015
Close: New Works by Nicole Akstein & Meredith Kooi, curated by Chanel Kim, Kibbee Gallery; Atlanta, GA
2008
Call to Arms, with Young Joon Kwak, The Green Lantern Gallery, NFO XPO/Version Fest ’08; Chicago, IL
2007
Impermanent Remnants, Denison University; Granville, OH (2007)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Third Person Plural, Hughley Fellowship Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia; Atlanta, GA
2017
Disguises Welcomed Here, Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery; Atlanta, GA
re:Fresh, Swan Coach House Gallery; Atlanta, GA
Blue in the Face, curated by Mike Calway-Fagen, Gallery Protocol; Gainesville, FL
ART PAPERS 18th Annual Art Auction, Ponce City Market; Atlanta, GA
2016
NINE, The Creatives Project Yearly Group Exhibition, Armour Yards; Atlanta, GA
The Garden of Unearthly Delights, curated by Jerry Cullum, Whitespace; Atlanta, GA
2015
Make Making Work, Work, MINT Gallery; Atlanta, GA
ALTERNATE | ALTERNATE, Doppler Projects; Atlanta, GA
Sur(real)scapes, Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, Chastain Arts Center; Atlanta, GA
Hambidge Art Auction + Performance Gala, The Goat Farm Arts Center; Atlanta, GA
EngageMINT Party + Fundraiser for MINT Gallery, Mammal Gallery; Atlanta, GA
2014
SUMPTUARY, with Mason Brown, MINT Gallery; Atlanta, GA
ROAM In the Family: A Scrapbook of Sonic Snapshots, ROAMTransmissions podcast; Atlanta, GA
2013
Im/Permanence, Eyedrum; Atlanta, GA
2011
Symptoms Variable, Roxaboxen Exhibitions; Chicago, IL
2010
Touched by Fire, organized by non-profit Touched by Fire, Royal Ontario Museum; Toronto, Canada
Dreams of Healing, Swedish Covenant Hospital; Chicago, IL
2009
A Vernacular of Dissent: American Expression and the America of George W. Bush, Independent Media Center; Urbana, IL
SELECTED PERFORMANCES / PUBLIC ART / INSTALLATIONS
2020
Movement Love, Atlanta Contemporary; Atlanta, GA
2019
BUT MEREDITH, BOO-FUCKING-HOO, The Bakery Atlanta/New Square; Atlanta, GA
work-in-progress, death factory, PlySpace; Muncie, IN
2018
Vote with Your heART with C4 Atlanta; Atlanta, GA
Where the Heart Is: An Artistic Examination of Home in Pittsburgh with WonderRoot; Atlanta, GA
seeing through silk chiffon, video installation with Brandon English, ResidenceATL at The Little White Chapel; Atlanta, GA
2017
ENTER THE BUCKY DOME ZONE: Record Store Day Edition, live performance-broadcast series in the plaza of Little Five Points, commissioned by Little Five Arts Alive; Atlanta, GA
ENTER THE BUCKY DOME ZONE: CONFERENCE TALK, live performance-broadcast, Critical Juncture 2017: The Work of Art, Emory University; Atlanta, GA
Two Days After 45, sound installation for Movement Love yoga class with Maggie Benoit, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; Atlanta, GA
2016
L5P LIVE: PSAs, live performance-broadcast in the plaza of Little Five Points, commissioned by Little Five Arts Alive; Atlanta, GA
Why Go Terrestrial: How Radio Can Benefit You & Your Life, performance-lecture for Atlanta Zine Fest, Murmur Media; Atlanta, GA
(RIP) Van Winkle Hillside on Air, radio-based installation commissioned for Hambidge Auction / Field Experiment, The Goat Farm Arts Center; Atlanta, GA
2015
Meat Joy, directed re-performance of Carolee Schneemann’s Meat Joy for Blood, Milk, and Fire: Re-Performance Art, 1962 – 1977, curated by Grace Thornton, The Mammal Gallery; Atlanta, GA
Border Area, video installation and performance with John Lloyd Hannah, Phoenix Fest, curated by Deer Bear Wolf, The Wherehouse; Atlanta, GA
Truck Talks with Beth Malone, live radio broadcast and conversation in a circling truck, 9/50 Summit, Atlanta, Contemporary; Atlanta, GA
tettix chorus for the unmarked, public art installation for The Cryptophonic Tour commissioned by Callosum Collective & Historic Oakland Cemetery; Atlanta, GA
2014
Movement for a Dying Sun, dance performance with musicians Outer Gods, SOLAR HERESIES, Mammal Gallery; Atlanta, GA
radio books, public radio art installation for art|DBF presented by Eyedrum, Decatur Book Fest; Decatur. GA
doris, ray & me, audio piece included in ROAM In the Family: A Scrapbook of Sonic Snapshots, ROAMTransmissions podcast; Atlanta, GA
2013
OMIGOD HELLO HOW ARE YOU, MINT Gallery; Atlanta, GA
untitled Lemures (Anarch), dance performance with poetry by Justin Andrews for Student Re-Visioning Committee (SRC) Symposium, Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Emory University; Atlanta, GA
towards the side exposed to wind i place a hawk, dance performance with poetry by Justin Andrews for Deke Weaver’s Other Animals, The Goat Farm Arts Center; Atlanta, GA
2012
new descendent on escaleer, no, too, solo dance performance with live musical accompaniment for series OMIGOD HELLO HOW ARE YOU, High Museum of Art; Atlanta, GA
SELECTED MUSIC SETS
2019
APHWK&K live set, The Bakery Atlanta; Atlanta, GA
2018
The Emotron / Cousin Dan / Salsa Chest / Aww phooey with Kim & Kooi, The Bakery Atlanta; Atlanta, GA
2017
Thalmus Rasulala / Mannequin Lover / Ashby / Meredith Kooi w/ Alice Kim, bb haus; Decatur, GA
Pre-INC, Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery; Atlanta, GA
Juan Montoya / Lala Boosh / Meredith Kooi, Collect; Atlanta, GA
Grateful Machine, Imado Xenga w/ Zach Rowden, Lucas Brode, Meredith Kooi, Duet for Theremin & Lap Steel, Mammal Gallery; Atlanta, GA
2016
Roadkill Debutante / Black Cat Rising / Scumboy / Aww phooey with Kim & Kooi, The Star Community Bar; Atlanta, GA
Elka Bong / Meredith Kooi / Bradley Bailey, Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery; Atlanta, GA
The Benefit for Robert Lange, The Star Community Bar; Atlanta, GA
Ziemba / Aww phooey with Kim & Kooi / Bradley Bailey, The Mammal Gallery; Atlanta, GA
Battery Powered Noise Fest with No Fun For Her, JOKER JOKER Gallery; Athens, GA
Ladyfest Atlanta with Aww phooey with Kim & Kooi, The Mammal Gallery; Atlanta, GA
Coppice / Peter Speer / Jeff Kolar / Aww phooey with Kim & Kooi / Trousseaux, The Empty Bottle; Chicago, IL
Benoit Pioulard / Narrator / Aww phooey with Kim & Kooi / Casey Hood, Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery; Atlanta, GA
Multiple Tap Tour, with Aww phooey with Kim & Kooi, The Cleaners; Atlanta, GA
Curse / Nu Depth / Dok V / Meredith Kooi, The Mammal Gallery; Atlanta, GA
2015
Meredith Kooi / MIDI Users Group / Cookie Factory / Slam Dunk Champs, Go Bar; Athens, GA
25 Antlers / Le Trash Can / Suffer Bomb Damage / Meredith Kooi, Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery; Atlanta, GA
Doom Salad / Meredith Kooi / Dok V / Future Ape Tapes / Genetic Outcast, Go Bar; Athens, GA
Ensembles: Meredith Kooi / Jeramy Lamanno and Alec Livaditis / Jacob Parr and Richard Hunsinger / Sahada Buckley, Go Bar; Athens, GA
Invent Room Pop 47 (Ladyfest Edition), Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery; Atlanta, GA
Invent Room Pop 45, Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery; Atlanta, GA
2014
Respite VII – Cursory / Magicicada / Nows / Frasers / Gelding / Cave Bat / Unit Charge / Brainworlds / Meredith Kooi / Majid, Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery; Atlanta, GA
Avant Atlanta: A Selection of Experimental Sound from Terminus City – They Can’t Hear It / Meredith Kooi & Mason Brown / The Language of Men Dying / Stephen Fenton / Dux, 529 Atlanta; Atlanta, GA
TEACHING / GUEST LECTURES / WORKSHOPS
2022
Instructor, “Learning How to Look: Comparisons in Art History,” Metro Re-Entry Facility, Clemente Course through Common Good Atlanta and Bard College; Atlanta, GA
2020
Guest Lecturer, “Performance Art” (ARTS 267), Micaela Vivero, Denison University; Granville, OH
Instructor, “Learning How to Look: Comparisons in Art History,” Metro Re-Entry Facility, Clemente Course through Common Good Atlanta and Bard College; Atlanta, GA
Instructor, “Learning How to Look: Comparisons in Art History,” Common Good Downtown, Clemente Course through Common Good Atlanta and Bard College; Atlanta, GA
2019
Instructor, “Learning How to Look: A Brief Survey of Modern & Contemporary Art,” Metro Re-Entry Facility, Clemente Course through Common Good Atlanta and Bard College; Atlanta, GA
2018
Guest lecturer, “Community Writing” (ENGL 1101), Anna Barratin, Georgia State University; Atlanta, GA
2017
Instructor, “The art of the art analysis / critique,” #YOURBASICS WonderRoot youth series, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; Atlanta, GA
Workshop facilitator, “Listening to Each Other,” WonderRoot; Atlanta, GA
Workshop series facilitator, “The SWATL Oral History Project,” The Andrew P. Stewart Center; Atlanta, GA
Workshop series facilitator, Wellspring Residential Living, Paint Love; Atlanta, GA
2016
Adjunct, “Visual Culture: And Don’t Call Me Provincial: Regionalism & Contemporary Art in the American South” (IDS 216), Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture and Society, Emory University; Atlanta, GA (Fall)
Workshop facilitator, “Soundmapping & Soundwalking,” Wave Farm; Acra, NY
Adjunct, “Visual Culture: Feminism & Contemporary Art” (IDS 216), Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture and Society, Emory University; Atlanta, GA (Summer)
Adjunct, “Visual Culture: Feminism & Contemporary Art” (IDS 216), Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture and Society, Emory University; Atlanta, GA (Spring)
2015
Workshop facilitator, “Deep Listening,” for EXTREME WEATHER, Murmur; Atlanta, GA
Adjunct, “Visual Culture: Interfaces from Plato’s Cave to Glitch” (IDS 216), Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture and Society, Emory University; Atlanta, GA (Fall)
2014
Guest Lecturer / Critique Panelist, “Experimental Practices in Lens-Based Media” (ART 4708), Prof Erin Johnson, University of West Georgia; Carrollton, GA
Teacher-Artist, STE(A)M Truck; Atlanta, GA
Workshop Facilitator, “The Mark as Movement: Bodily Approaches to Mark-Making,” Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia (MOCA GA); Atlanta, GA
Graduate Instructor, “Performance Practices” (IDS 201), Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture and Society, Emory University; Atlanta, GA (Spring)
2013
Graduate Instructor, “Visual Culture: The Image” (IDS 216), Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture and Society, Emory University; Atlanta, GA (Fall)
2012
Teaching Assistant/Co-Teacher with Robert Paul, “ILA Foundations: The Social Construction of Knowledge” (ILA 771 / ANT 585), Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University; Atlanta, GA (Fall)
2010
Teaching Assistant to Daniel Merkle, “World Cultures and Civilizations: Prehistory – 19th Century” (ARTH 1001), School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, IL (Fall)
Teaching Assistant to Maud Lavin, “Undergraduate Thesis Writing II” (VCS 4005), Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, IL (Spring)
2009
Teaching Assistant to Maud Lavin, “Undergraduate Thesis Writing I” (VCS 4005), Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, IL (Fall)
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS & PANELS
2018
Panelist, “ART + ATLANTA + ACTIVISM: Art Over Dinner,” Art Farm at Serenbe; Serenbe, GA
2017
Panelist, “Arts Journalism in the Digital Age,” TechSMARTS, C4 Atlanta, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History; Atlanta, GA
Judge, “Moog Hackathon,” Guthman Musical Instrument Competition and Moog Music, Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta, GA
2016
Roundtable discussant, “Radiophonic Cultures — Sonic Environments and Archives in Hybrid Media Systems,” Radio Space is the Place Symposium, Radio Revolten; Halle, Germany
Panelist, Artist panel for Hz – A performance experiment involving dance, binaural beats, and shared experience, Eyedrum; Atlanta, GA
Panel Moderator, Deer Bear Wolf Issue #4 Release, Mammal Gallery; Atlanta, GA
2015
“303 (khora study edition),” for Make Making Work, Work, MINT Gallery; Atlanta, GA
Resident Artist Talk, Elsewhere; Greensboro, NC
2014
“Radius: GRIDS,” Creative Time Summit Satellite Screening, University of West Georgia; Carrollton, GA
Guest Critic, MFA Photography Fall 2014 Critique, Georgia State University; Atlanta, GA
Studio Visit Host, “Photography Directed Study” (PHOTO 8500), Prof Nancy Floyd, Georgia State University; Atlanta, GA
Visiting Artist Talk with Radius, ACRE Residency; Chicago, IL & Steuben, WI
2013
“RANGE: Local, Distant, Fringe,” talk with Radius, included in panel “Radio on the Fringe,” TransX Transmission Art Symposium, Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art; Toronto, Canada
“Moving Misrecognition,” included in panel co-chaired “Misrecognized In/Ex/ternal Boundaries: The Autoimmune Response in Art, Literature, and Dance,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), University of Notre Dame; South Bend, IN
“Miming and Doubling: Nabokov’s and Dostoevsky’s Dances with the Devil,” Cognition and Poetics International Conference, University of Osnabrück; Osnabrück, Germany
2012
“The Zombie; A Post-Human, Becoming-Undead Flâneur?,” End of Days Secret Supper hosted by BURNAWAY, Historic Oakland Cemetery; Atlanta, GA
“Relational Spasms and Aristophanes’ Hiccups,” Location/Location, symposium for group show Field Static: A Group Show About the Object, curated by The Green Lantern Gallery & Press, Co-Prosperity Sphere; Chicago, IL
“Misrecognized Immunity: Gertrude Stein’s Portraits and an Autoimmune Aesthetic,” included in panel “Decolonizing Vision: Reading Visual Culture Through a Feminist Lens,” National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA); Oakland, CA
“Autoimmune Doublings: The Surplus of Golyadkin and Helen,” included in panel “Doubles,” The Shifting Self: Radical Transfigurations, English Department, Brooklyn College; Brooklyn, NY
“Autoimmune Miming,” included in panel “Uneasy Borders II: Form, Content, Matter,” Mimesis Now, University of Rochester; Rochester, NY
2011
“An Autoimmune Aesthetic,” included in panel “Visualizing Disability,” Southeastern College Art Conference; Savannah, GA
“Towards an Autoimmune Aesthetic,” included in symposium for group show Symptoms Variable, Roxaboxen Exhibitions; Chicago, IL
SELECTED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Meredith Kooi, “Watching Touch: Exploring Dance as Possibilities of Bodily Permeation and Posture,” Jahrbuch Literatur und Medizin, vol 6 (2014): 185-200.
Meredith Kooi, “Visible Woman: Pictures of Health, Pictures of Illness,” Theorizing Visual Studies: Writing Through the Discipline, edited by James Elkins et al. (New York: Routledge, 2013), 273-277.
Meredith Kooi, Voice over analysis of Jeff Kolar’s Two Ties, ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, vol. 16 (2010).
Art & Cultural Criticism Contributions
ART PAPERS
ArtsATL
Bad At Sports
BURNAWAY
Dilettante Army
Temporary Art Review
Wussy
Editing
Copyeditor/Proofreader, Kevin Corrigan and Tuomas Rasimus (eds.), Gnosticism, Platonism, and the Late Ancient World (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013).
Assistant Bibliographer, Kevin Corrigan, The Face of the Other: Athens and Jerusalem (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013).
CURATORIAL & ARTS ADMINISTRATION
Gallery Assistant, whitespace gallery; Atlanta, GA (2022)
Operations Manager & Director of Print, The Mainline; Atlanta, GA (2019-20)
Project Manager, “Founding Stories: Oral Histories of Grassroots Atlanta,” Art Papers; Atlanta, GA (2019-20)
Director of Development, The Bakery Atlanta; Atlanta, GA (2018-19)
Grants awarded:
Community Reinvestment Grant; Pride Atlanta; Atlanta, GA (2017)
Individual Artist & Small Projects Grant, Fulton County Arts Council; Atlanta, GA (2017)
Chief-Curator-Editor-Director, ALTERED MEANS; Atlanta, GA (2014-present)
Projects include:
bakies kansas city, time-based art speakeasy, The Bakery Atlanta; Atlanta, GA (2018-19)
CC Calloway & Jill Frank: do you ever feel left out?, Collect; Atlanta, GA (2018)
Erin Palovick & Shanequa Gay: where do we find grace?, Collect; Atlanta, GA (2018)
Iman Person & Dianna Settles: bodies of yesterday, today, tomorrow, Collect; Atlanta, GA (2018)
Digital Transplants: Mediated SciArt, collaboration with Bojana Ginn, Lightroom; Decatur, GA (2017)
Rent was due on the 5th, group exhibition, ALTERED MEANS HQ; Atlanta, GA (2017)
EXTREME WEATHER, group art exhibition, Murmur Media; Atlanta, GA (2015)
BENEFIT SHOW XTRAVAGANZA, art auction and live music show, Star Community Bar; Atlanta, GA (2015)
SOLAR HERESIES, group art exhibition, Mammal Gallery; Atlanta, GA (2014)
Editor and Assistant Director, Radius; Chicago, IL (2011-16)
Grants awarded:
Pilot Program, Propeller Fund; Chicago, IL (2014-15)
Propeller Fund Grant, regranting agency of Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Chicago, IL (2013-14)
Projects included:
PATCH, a bi-monthly playlist concerning a particular aspect of radio and transmission art for WFMU’s Free Music Archive (FMA) (2014-16)
GRIDS, four-part commissioned series presented at Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, Mana Contemporary Chicago, Comfort Station, and a ComEd facility parking lot (2014-15)
RANGE: Local, Distant, Fringe, three-part commissioned series that asked artists to respond to the particularities and specificities of different broadcast ranges (2012)
Curator, Deke Weaver’s Other Animals, The Goat Farm Arts Center & Emory University, Emory Visual Scholarship Initiative; Atlanta, GA (2013)
Founder and Curator, SENSORIUM, Emory Visual Scholarship Initiative, Emory University; Atlanta, GA (2011-2013)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021
Jerry Cullum, “Review: Ego te Absolvo” group exhibit at new Eyedrum is surprisingly calm, tender,” ArtsATL (Oct 26, 2021).
2020
“The Mediums Series: Installation,” Under the Bridge (Autumn 2020), 20, 23.
2018
Staff, “CL Influentials: Introducing the Summer 2018 Recipients,” Creative Loafing Atlanta (Jun 8, 2018).
2017
“Interview with Meredith Kooi,” Radio Free Activists, 89.3FM-WRFG (2017)
Angela Bortone, “Review: The allure of summer re:FRESH,” ArtsATL (Aug 18, 2017).
2016
Staff, “BURNAWAY’S Best of 2016: Cultural Experiences,” BURNAWAY (Dec 27, 2016).
Gabbie Watts, “Atlanta Zine Fest Speaker Talks Benefits Of Radio Saturday,” City Lights with Lois Reitzes, WABE 90.1-FM (Jun 10, 2016).
Staff, “Meredith Kooi,” Panhandler: A Journal of Art and Literature, (Mar 28, 2016).
2015
Jami Moss Wise, “The Silent Disruptions of EXTREME WEATHER at Murmur,” BURNAWAY (Dec 30, 2015).
Tom Roe, “Interview with Tom Roe,” WGXC 90.7-FM, (Dec 15, 2015).
Wendy Parker, “Exploring ‘Widow’s Walks’ And More of Oakland Cemetery Tour,” City Lights with Lois Reitzes, WABE 90.1-FM (Apr 9, 2015).
Julia Munslow, “Emory Graduate Students Recipients of Emerging Artist Awards,” Julia The Emory Wheel (March 30, 2015).
Staff, “Emerging Artist Awards Given by Atlanta OCA,” BURNAWAY (Mar 15, 2015).
Bojana Ginn, “Solar Heresies at Mammal Gallery,” artandscienceATL (Jan 5, 2015).
2014
Staff, “BURNAWAY’s Best: Coming up in 2015,” BURNAWAY (Dec 31, 2014), http://burnaway.org/burnaways-best-coming-2015/.
Staff, “BURNAWAY’s Best of 2014: The Movers, Shakers & Newsmakers,” BURNAWAY (Dec 29, 2014), http://burnaway.org/burnaways-best-2014-movers-shakers-newsmakers/.
Staff, “BURNAWAY at DBF / Kiki Blood & Meredith Kooi,” BURNAWAY, (Nov 10, 2014).
Muriel Vega, “Art-techstic speech: How technology informs and inspires 3 ATL artists,” Creative Loafing (Nov 6 – Nov 12, 2014): 35.
Sherri Caudell, “Speleogen and the New Cave Art,” BURNAWAY (Aug 13, 2014).
Elisabeth Zimmerman, “Interview with Radius,” Kunstradio (Apr 27, 2014).
2013
Jill Frank, “Dodge & Burn: Meredith Kooi and Mike Stasny,” Jill Frank, BURNAWAY (Aug 19, 2013).
2012
Hira Mahmood, “Scholar Meredith Kooi Talks Zombies at BURNAWAY’S Secret Supper,” BURNAWAY (Nov 13, 2012).
Caroline Picard, “The Liminal Space of Self: An Interview with Meredith Kooi,” Bad At Sports (Mar 7, 2012).
2011
Joel Kuennen,“The Cure,” ARTslant Chicago (May 9, 2011).
Rev. Kari Lindholm-Johnson, “Dreams of Healing,” Rev. Kari Lindholm-Johnson, Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities, vol. 3, no. 1 (January 2011).
“Dreams of Healing,” Bill Werner, MD, MPF (Outgoing CMS president), Chicago Medical Society Newsletter (2011).
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2016
Invited Faculty Member, Professor at Kaldi’s Getting Coffee, Interdisciplinary Exploration and Scholarship (IDEAS) Fellowship and TableTalk, Emory University
Invited Faculty Member, Faculty and Alumni Dinner, Alpha Tau Omega, Emory University
2014
Coordinator & Print Designer, Interdisciplinary Futures: Symposium to Honor 60 Years of the ILA, Emory University
2012-13
President, Visual Scholarship Initiative (VSI), Emory University
Secretary, Institute of Liberal Arts Committee (ILAC)
2011-14
Member, Visual Scholarship Initiative (VSI), Emory University
2011-12
Print Designer and Organizer, ILA Colloquium Series
2009-11
Leader, Yoga Club, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Production Assistant, Environmental Design, AFROPUNK Fest; Atlanta, GA (2018)
Production Assistant, Newmerica Media; Atlanta, GA (2017-18)
Projects included: Black Lips, Crystal Night music video, Gone is Gone, Echolocation music video, Pabst Super Bowl Half-Time Show with Fiend without a Face live-streaming concert, Tortuga Music Festival promotional videos, Brent Hinds Terrorizer for Orange Amps commercial
Development Intern, MINT Gallery; Atlanta, GA (2012)
Writing / Editing Consultant, Goizueta Business School, Emory University; Atlanta, GA (2012)
Library Circulation Assistant, Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, IL (2010-11)
Volunteer Marketing & PR Coordinator, The Green Lantern Gallery and Press; Chicago, IL (2009)
Patron Services Assistant, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies; Chicago, IL (2008-11)
Publications Intern, Threewalls Gallery; Chicago, IL (2008)
Curatorial Intern, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Chicago, IL (2007-08)
Manager, Andersonville Galleria; Chicago, IL (2007-08)
Volunteer Studio Assistant, Arts of Life; Chicago, IL (2007-08)