MERIK GOMA
Born in Manistee, MI 1987
Lives and works in New Haven, CT
Education
2014 BA Psychology, Fredonia, State University of New York
Solo Exhibitions
2023 My Heart is Light in the Void, Amistad Cultural Center Hartford, CT
2022 Your Absence is My Monument, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Selected Exhibitions
2022 The New England Triennial, deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, MA
Perpetual Ebb, Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, IN
Conscious Response: Photographers Changing the Way We See, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
2021 Still, Life! Mourning, Meaning, Mending, 21c Museum, Louiseville, KY
Legacy & Rupture, City Gallery, New Haven, CT
2020 We Are More Than A Moment, virtual exhibition curated by Genevieve Gaignard, Gallery 51,
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA
2019 NXTHVN: First Year Fellows, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Public Collections
Yale University Collection, New Haven, CT
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
21c Museum, Louisville, KY
Awards and Residencies
2021 Real Art Award Recipient
Joyce C. Williams Artist in Residence, Amistad Center for Arts & Culture at Wadsworth Atheneum
Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
2019 NXTHVN Studio Fellowship, New Haven, CT
Professional and Advocacy Experience
2018 Vice President, WNY ASMP Board
2017 Secretary of WNY ASMP Board
2016 Member WNY ASMP Board
Talks and Lectures
2019 Narrative Within Photography at Yale Beinecke Library