EFEMERAL ART


about



Meredith Ojala is a multi-media artist and activist from Seattle, USA. Her work often delves into the emotional landscapes of climate-emergency and social-justice issues. She facilitates contemplative channels surrounding our global eco-system by weaving polarities of connection and separation, starvation and gluttony, power and vulnerability, life and death. She is currently splitting time between Seattle and her ancestral homelands of Sápmi/ Meänmaa.



Exhibitions and Screenings



2024 New Britain Museum of American Art, Group Show, CT

2024 Boomer Gallery, Dreams and Nightmares, Group Show, London

2024 Studio 103 Gallery, FATIGUES, Solo Show, Seattle

2023 Wailoa Center (U of Hawaii), In the Time of Climate Change, Group Show

2023 Confluence Lab and Prichard Gallery, Ground Truths, Group Show on Wildfire

2023 Vashon Center for the Arts Gallery, CHOICE, Group Show on Women's Rights

2023 Gallery North, Small Works Group Show, USA

2023 Studio 103 Gallery, Group Show, Seattle WA

2022 EightxEight Gallery, Daajing Giids, Haida Gwaii, Canada

2022 ARTDOC Film Festival, Abalone Eye in Argillite (Producer), USA

2021 Environmental Film Festival Australia, Juskatla (Producer, Sound, Assistant Editor)

2020 Indie Grits Film Festival, Juskatla, North Carolina

2019 Joshua Tree Art Gallery, HWY 62 Group Show, CA

2019 Highway 62 Art Tour, Deserted Samsara, CA

2019 Site-Specific Public Performance Art, Transplant, Serrano Territory, CA

2019 North Carolina Museum of History, Longleaf Film Festival, Juskatla

2019 Charlotte Film Festival, Juskatla, North Carolina

2019 Cinema Verde International Film Festival, Juskatla, Florida

2019 Indie Grits FF, White Ravens: A Legacy of Resistance (Producer, Assistant editor)

2018 Victoria Film Festival, White Ravens, Canada

2018 Portland Art Museum, NWFC, White Ravens, OR

2018 Sante Fe Independent Film Festival, White Ravens, Santa Fe NM

2018 Cucalorus Film Festival, White Ravens, NC

2018 Pierogi Gallery, Power T's (Blue Wave Fundraiser), Group Show, NYC

2018 Madrid International Film Festival, White Ravens, Spain

2018 Vancity Theater, DOXA Film Festival, White Ravens, Canada

2018 Museum of Vancouver, Haida Now, White Ravens, Canada

2018 Haida Gwaii Museum, White Ravens: A Legacy of Resistance, Canada

2018 Indie Grits Film Festival, America Is Waiting (Assistant Editor)

2018 National Lawyer's Guild, America is Waiting, Pittsburgh PA

2018 The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, America is Waiting, Haverford College

2018 Queen B's Gallery, This Forest is Lit, Solo Show, Daajing Giids, Haida Gwaii

2017 Documenting J20: Protest & Resistance, America is Waiting, Seattle WA

2017 Northwest Film Center, America is Waiting, Portland OR

2017 Resist, Rebel, Survive: ExCinema Group Show, America is Waiting, Seattle WA

2017 Politti4: Mayday Resistance, America is Waiting, San Francisco CA

2017 Queen B's Gallery, This American Carnage, Solo Show, Haida Gwaii, Canada

2016 LA Underground Film Festival, Hyperloop Dreams (Film poster), Los Angeles CA

2015 Queen B's Gallery, Skin Flesh and Bones, Solo Show, Haida Gwaii, Canada

2014 Queen B's Gallery, Haida Gwaii in Oil, Solo Show, Haida Gwaii, Canada

2011 Queen B's Gallery, Paintings, Sculpture, and Performance Art, Solo Show

2011 Shoreline City Hall, Group Show, Shoreline WA

2009 Ballard Art Walk, Oils and Watercolors, Seattle WA

2008 Lewis Center for the Arts, Mosquito Americano, Mural and Performance Art, NJ

2006-2008 Lucas Gallery, Oil Paintings & Performance Art, NJ

2007 Public Performance Art, Buried Alive, Princeton NJ

2007 Strohl and Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Oil Paintings and Performance Art, NY



Education

2020 Nursing Assistant Training Institute, USA

2017 Tsering Art School, Kathmandu, Nepal

2008 Princeton University, BA Art History and Visual Arts


Residencies

2007 Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program, NY, Visual Arts


Awards & Nominations

2024 Juror's Choice Award, Nor'Easter Exhibition, New Britain Museum of American Art

2020 Virginia Dares Cinematic Art Awards for Decolonizing/ Re-Indigenizing Media, Juskatla

2020 Best Short Documentary 'Doc Short Grit', Indie Grits Film Festival, Juskatla

2019 Nominee, Best Short Documentary, Long Leaf Film Festival, Juskatla

2019 Nominee, Best Short Documentary, Charlotte International Film Festival, Juskatla

2018 Nominee, Best Feature Documentary, Madrid International Film Festival, White Ravens

2018 Nominee, Best Feature Documentary, DOXA Film Festival, White Ravens

2018 Nominee, Best Feature Documentary, Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, White Ravens

2018 Nominee, Best Editing in a Feature Documentary, Madrid International Film Festival, White Ravens

2008 Lucas Award in Visual Arts, Princeton University

2008 Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts Princeton University


Affiliations

2024 Center On Contemporary Art (CoCA), Member, Seattle

2022-2023 Woodinville Arts Alliance, Member, WA

2020-2021 Black Action Coalition, Co-founder, Seattle WA​

2019 Morongo Basin Arts Council, Member, Morongo Valley CA

2017-2018 Haida Gwaii Land Protectors, Member

2004-2008 Ecology Representatives, Founding Member and Manager, Office of Sustainability, Princeton, NJ

2005 NJ Public Interest Research Group/ U.S. PIRG, Arctic Refuge Action, Washington DC

2005 Washington Public Interest Research Group, Field Manager, Clean Air Campaign, Seattle WA

2004-2005 New Jersey Water Watch, Member, Princeton Chapter


Press

2018 White Ravens and the Art of Listening🔗

2018 Southwest Contemporary, Review Santa Fe International Film Festival🔗

2018 Pasatiempo White Raven's: A Legacy of Resistance🔗

2018 Vancouver Observer Review🔗 of White Ravens at DOXA

2018 Clture Review🔗 of America is Waiting at Indie Grits FF

2008 Making a Statement Through Art🔗