Mercedes Jelinek

Mercedes Jelinek (b. 1985 New Haven, CT) is an American artist working in Italy and NYC. She holds a BFA in Visual Arts from the State University of New York at Purchase and an MFA from Louisiana State University. She recently completed the three-year residency at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in Louisiana; the Hinson Art Museum, Gaston County Museum, Blowing Rock Art and History Museum and the Cassilhaus Gallery in North Carolina; SoHo Photo Gallery, Cuchifritos Gallery, Littlefield Gallery, and Gallery MC in New York; Page Bond Gallery in Virginia; the Satellite Art Show at Art Basal Miami; 30-under-30 Exhibition at Vermont Center for Photography; MPLS Photo Center in Minnesota; Midwest Center for Photography Exhibition at the Center Gallery in Kentucky; among others. Mercedes' second books have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Library of Congress, Aperture Foundation and the Getty Institute collections. She is also on the board of Blue Sky Gallery in Portland.

Represented by WmPost Gallery & The Alternative Process Gallery

MFA - Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge, LA
BFA - SUNY Purchase - Purchase, NY

Selected Exhibitions
Solo/ Two- Person
2018 These Americans, Cary Arts Center Gallery, Cary, NC
2017 Dean Allison & Mercedes Jelinek, Hinson Art Museum, Wingate, NC
2016 Stare, Gaston County Museum, Dallas, NC.
2014 Lullwood Group Presents – Mercedes Jelinek, Lullwood Gallery, San Antonio, CA
2012 North to South, Glassel Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
Group
2018 Center Forward 2018, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2018 Colorless, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
2018 United/Divided 2 Exhibit, Glen Echo Photo Works, Glen Echo Park, MD
2018 The Eyes of a Stranger: Street Portraits, MPLS Photo Center Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2018 Focus: Shadow and Light, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 Black and White, Art Room Gallery, Online: April 2018
2018 Mono-kromatic, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2017 View Find 6: Photography, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA.
2017 Exquisite Corpse, Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2016 Conversion - Satellite Art Show during Art Basal Miami, Berlin Collective #27, Miami, FL
2016 2 Squared, Caldwell Arts Council Gallery, Lenoir, NC.
2016 Assemble Special Exhibition, Penland School of Crafts Gallery, Penland, NC.
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