KATA MEJIA

BIOGRAPHY

1974                  Born Medellín, Colombia.

2002-2004         M.F.A.  Performance  

                          SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO. 

                          Chicago, USA.

1995-2000         B.F.A.          

                          UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA.  

                          Medellín, Colombia.

PERFORMANCE FESTIVALS

2006                  DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival. Brooklyn, NY.

2005                  Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Philadelphia, PA.

                          PAC/edge, Performance Festival. Performance Art Chicago, Chicago, IL.

2004                  Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Philadelphia, PA

                          PAC/edge, Performance Festival. Performance Art Chicago, Chicago, IL.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2010                  “Feeling what no longer is”,  A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by                

                          Serra Sabuncuoglu.

2009                  Kata Mejía: “40 Weeks” Performance Installation, rogersmitharts The Lab                                                   Gallery. New York, NY.

                          Kata Mejía: “Castigo” Performance Installation, Dumbo, curated by       

                          Randall Scott Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.

2008                  "Intermedios", Sala U. Arte Contemporáneo, Universidad Nacional de                  

                          Colombia, Medellín, Colombia.

                         “Romper Room”,  a collaboration Performance Installation with Rodney                                                   Dickson. Rogersmitharts The Lab Gallery. New York, NY.

                         “Homemade” community-based project led by Pepón Osorio. Fleisher        

 Art Memorial. Philadelphia, PA.

2007                 “Materia Dolorosa”, Galería Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile.

                           Kata Mejía: “Homage to a Hero” Performance Installation, rogersmitharts 

                          The Lab Gallery. New York, NY. 

  “Yokohama Boogie”, Yokohama, Japan.

                          Kata Mejía: “HEALING” Performance Installation, Randall Scott Gallery,                                                   Washington DC.

                          Kata Mejía: “HEALING” Performance Installation, rogersmitharts The

                          Lab Gallery, New York, NY.                        

2006                  Kata Mejía: “Beyond the Threshold” Performance Installation, Curated by

                          Koán Jeff Baysa. Rogersmitharts The Lab Gallery, New York, NY. 

                          Screening -The Moving Image - Cave Gallery, curated by Drew Ford,                                                   Brooklyn, NY.

2005                  Salón de la Justicia. Galería Santa Fé. Planetario ciudad Santa Fé de

                          Bogotá. Colombia

2004                  Frank Hyder Gallery, today Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, USA.

                          MFA Show, Gallery 2, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2003                  Gallery X, School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL

                          Institute of Puertorican Arts and Culture, Galeria Tinta Roja, Chicago, IL.

                          Gallery 2. School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

                          Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL.

2002                  Salón Regional de Arte, Palacio de la Cultura, Medellín, Colombia.

2001                  IX Salón Regional de Artistas. Palacio de la Cultura, Medellín, Colombia.

2000                  Salón de Arquitectos, BFA Show, Medellín, Colombia.

1999                  Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia.

1998                  Salón Nacional de Arte, Universidad de Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia

                          Cámara de Comercio de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia.

HONORS AND AWARDS

2009                  Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) Fellowship Award,

                          New Performance Forms.

2005                  PAC/edge Excellence in Solo Performance Award.

2004                  James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, School of The Art Institute of       

                          Chicago. PAC/edge. Fellowship-Commission, Performance Art Chicago.

2002                  Trustee Scholarship, School of The Art Institute of Chicago.

                          Graduate Studies Scholarship, Colcultura. Ministerio de Cultura,  

                          Colombia.

                          Graduate Studies Scholarship, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: PERIODICALS

2010     “Thoughts on Re-Performance, Experience and Archivism by Robert C. Morgan.

               PAJ, A Journal of Performance and Art, # 96 September 2010 Volume XXXII,

               No. 3. Published for PAJ Publications by MIT Press Journals.

             “Feeling what no longer is” by Sophie Landres, ArtSeen, The Brooklyn Rail. June

               2010.

2009     “Fluxus Redux” by John Perreaul, Artopia, posted on September 18, 2009.

2008     “A Terrorist Reliquary” by Roland Betancourt, New York Arts Magazine,  

              November 2008. 

             “Causing a stir on Lexington Ave.” by Peter McDermott. The IrishEcho Online   

              Magazine. July 16-22, 2008.

             "Fleisher Blurs the Borders Around High Art" by Rachel Dukeman. The Bulletin.     

              Tuesday 8 July 2008.

2007      A Violent Death Inspires 'Healing' by Rachel Beckman, The Washington Post

              August 2, 2007.

              A Hole in the Heart: Kata Mejía, By Arion Berger, Express, A publication of The   

              Washington Post/ Washington’s Free Daily Newspaper, August 3.

2003      UIC Art History Club.

              “F News”, Student Art Magazine, School of The Art Institute of Chicago.