Andy Meerow
Andy Meerow
b. 1980, Park Ridge, NJ
Lives and works in New York
Andy Meerow’s artworks incorporate a broad spectrum of found imagery, language, and materials into the painterly tableau. Canvases are stained, painted, collaged and printed, at times composed dyadically, such as in Julia (2025), in which an image of the artist’s distressed studio corner is screenprinted over a minimal, floral motif. Other works are built up indexically, offering a dense palimpsest of collaged newspaper and monoprinted gestures that obfuscate the news of the day. Situating themselves within the broader aesthetic economy, Meerow’s paintings often point to the ways avant garde vocabularies are digested into the middle regions of consumer culture, interrogating tensions between originality and derivation, legibility and opacity, drama and design.
EDUCATION
| 2012 | MFA Virginia Commonwealth University |
| 2003 | BA Fine Art, Wesleyan University |
| 2001 | Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy |
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
| 2026 | Looking for Emoji, Gene's Dispensary, Los Angeles, CA (with Gus Thompson) |
| 2025 | Heart of Palm, Derosia, New York, NY |
| 2024 | 100%, No Gallery, New York, NY Slanted Andy, Derosia, New York, NY |
| 2021 | Haze Machine, Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY (with Rose Marcus) |
| 2019 | Man In My Table, KAJE, Brooklyn, NY (with Rose Marcus) |
| 2016 | Openers, Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY And Now, Dallas, TX |
| 2014 | Lying in a Field, Levy Delval, Brussels, BE Blackberries, Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY Lion King, Essex Flowers, New York, NY |
| 2012 | Cafe, Recess, New York, NY (with Rose Marcus) |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2025 | 64 South, Derosia, Germantown, NY In Medias Res, Derosia, New York, NY |
| 2023 | Brick Wall, Derosia at Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA As It Stands, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2022 | We didn’t ask permission, we just did it ..., Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO Napkin Brain, Local1, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2017 | What Would the Community Think?, curated by Tim Gentles, Hotel Art Pavillion, Brooklyn, NY Loss for Words, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY Alluring shapes, temping spaces (curated by Domenico de Chirico), Galerie Eva Meyer, Paris, France Lentils, Ramiken, New York, NY |
| 2016 | 189 Beach 96th St, Queens, Organized by Justin Caguiat and Irina Lotarevich, New York, NY Duplify, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2015 | Text efter Tekst, Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark Clorox/Envy, The Still House Gallery, New York, NY Freedom Culture, organized by Graham Collins, The Journal Gallery, New York, NY Comforter, Shanaynay, Paris, France 2159 Miles, Museo Britanico Americano, Mexico City, Mexico Mixed Doubles, Sometimes, New York, NY |
| 2014 | Haute Surveillance, James Fuentes Gallery, Hudson, NY Changing Table, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY Struggle, David Peterson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2013 | Free Play, Stadium, New York, NY Shanghai Biennial, Brooklyn Pavillion, Shanghai, China Some Facts About Manhattan, Martos Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2012 | A Hand is a Gif(f)t, Reference Gallery, Richmond, VA Cave-In, with Ramiken Crucible, Puerto Rico |
| 2011 | Wax Apple, Bodega (Derosia), Philadelphia, PA NADA Miami w/ Showroom, NY The Dependent Art Fair w/ “Evil Freaks” New York, NY |
| 2010 | NADA Miami w/ “Booooooth” Miami, FL Brucennial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY Lean Harvest, By and By, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2009 | Giftland, Printed Matter, New York, NY Materialism, Real Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2008 | The Dark Fair, Swiss Institute, New York, NY Abandoned Plot, Key Foods Parking Lot, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2007 | Wu-Tang/Googolplex, Gavin Brown’s Passerby, New York, NY |
| 2005 | Put It in Your Mouth, Rivington Arms Gallery, New York, NY |
SELECTED PRESS
Andy Meerow, medium cool, Jonathan Stevenson, Two Coats of Paint, January 27, 2024
FIAC and Paris Internationale, Sabrina Tarasoff, Art Agenda, October 2016
Andy Meerow at AND NOW, ARTnews, June 2016
“Freedom Culture” at Journal Gallery, Katelynn Mills, Artcritical, July 14, 2015
Comforter at Shanaynay, Contemporary Art Daily, April 2015
Changing Table at Kate Werble, Andrew Russeth, Gallerist NY, July 23, 2014
Stop By Essex Flowers, Simone Krug, Kaleidoscope, May 6, 2014
Looking Back on 2011 with 15 Artworks that Feature Text, Andrew Russeth, Gallerist NY, December 2011
Town and Country, Michael Miller, The New York Observer, August 2, 2011
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
| 2014 | Keyholder Resident, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY |
| 2012 | Recess Activities, New York, NY |