About
Merik Goma (born in Manistee, MI in 1987.) is a photographer and alumni of the NXTHVN Studio Fellowship Program. Goma builds intricate sets within his studio that he uses both as subjects of tableaux and as backdrops for narrative portrait photography. His technique is painterly in execution, with close attention paid to color and lighting. His work has been shown In gallery as presenting work in NYC in places like Tilton Gallery, Management Gallery and a solo both at Photo Fair. He has shown work and is in the collection of 21C Museum, Yale University Art Gallery and the Detroit Institute of Art. Goma is a FY21 Connecticut Artistic Excellence award recipient and was selected as the Joyce C. Willis Artist in Residence by the Amistad Center for Arts & Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum.
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EDUCATION
2014 BA Fredonia University, Fredonia NY (Psychology)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Photo Fairs Solo Both, Management, New York,NY
2023 Your Absence is My Monument; When Your Being Was My Everything, Management Gallery, New York, NY
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
2024 Photographic Storytelling: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2023 Journey Around My Room, Portland, ME
2022 Conscious Response: Photographers Changing the Way We See Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
2022 New England Triennial
2022 Perpetual Ebb, Purdue College, West Lafayette, IN
2021 Still, Life! Mourning, Meaning, Mending, 21c Museum, Louisville, KY
2021 Legacy & Rupture, City Gallery, New Haven, CT
2020 CEPA Member Show, Buffalo, NY
2019 Art Basel, Miami, FL (Tilton Gallery)
2019 Group Show, NXTHVN Fellows, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & HONORS
2024 Fountian Head, Miami, FL
2023 LightHouse Works Residency, Fishers Island, NY
2021 Inaugural Amistad Fellowship, Hartford, CT
2021 Real Art Ways Award, Hartford, CT
2021 Artistic Excellence Award: Connecticut Office of the Arts
2019 Inaugural NXTHVN Studio Fellowship Program New Haven, CT
COLLECTIONS
2022 Detroit Institute of Art Detroit, MI
2020 21C Museum, Louisville, KY
2020 Burger Collection, Hong Kong
2019 Yale Museum University Art Gallery New Haven, CT
PUBLICATION
2022 New England Triennial Catalog
2022 Hartford’s Real Art Ways back on track with full gallery, regular cocktail hours, big plans for bright future
2020 Art New England, Welcome to the Neighborhood: NXTHVN Hits the Ground Running
2019 NXTHVN Tilton Catalog, Riham Majeed
2019 Hartford Courant NXTHVN: An emerging arts incubator for emerging artists in New Haven
TALKS & LECTURES
2021 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, The Next Generation Virtual Panel
2021 White Columns, Still Standing: An Evening of Poetry
2020 Tilton Gallery, NXTHVN Artist Talk
2019 The Narrative Within Photography; Yale, Beinecke Library