Mekko Harjo
Born Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works Brooklyn, NY
Education
2025 Fellow, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2024 MFA, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2009 BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Selected Exhibitions
Upcoming:
2026
Greater New York 2026, MOMA PS1, New York, NY
2025
Mekko Harjo and Jordan Hill: a point a place a home, Kimura Gallery, University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska
buffalounit for bison bison (dance_hum for dirtbath), Dia Chelsea, New York, NY
With Gladstone Butler, Fjóla Evans, Miguel Gallego, Sam Aros-Mitchell, Talia Dixon, Jonathan González, and Mekko Harjo
The Landlord’s Roommate, The Landlord’s Roommate, Brooklyn, NY
With Lulu White
KITAWIRISU’ (OR THE GAMBLER) with Nathan Young, Warren Realrider, Mekko Harjo, Creative Time, New York, NY
Resounding Sovereign Expressions: Resurgent Indigenuity in Ozark Arts Practice & Scholarship, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Performative Installation/Activation
2024
Average Play Time, The New Uncanny, New York
A group exhibition focused around the concepts of internatlities of gaming spaces and simulated experience. With artists Chia Amisola, Blake Andrews, Skip Brea, Lena Chen, Mekko Harjo, Jason Isolini, Milly Skellington, Viktor Timofeev
Dispatch: A score by Raven Chacon and Candice Hopkins,
performed in collaboration with Ursala Hudson, Mekko Harjo, and
Kimberly Fulton Orozco, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
We’ve Been Gathering Places, Form and Concept, Santa Fe, NM
IAIA MFA in Studio Arts Thesis Exhibition
2023
Ways Of Becoming: Selected Works from the MFA in Studio Arts
Class of 2024, Balzer Contemporary Edge Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
SITE Scholars Exhibition, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2022
Solo Exhibit - I Am Happy, Are You Happy?, Choplet Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY
Fellowships and Residencies
2025
Summer:
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Fellow
Fall:
Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, New York
Artist in Residence
2024
The Momentary, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art,
Bentonville, AR
Artist in Residence
Wassaic Project (Winter Resident)
Wassaic, NY
Artist in Residence
2022-2023
The Workshop Fellowship, New York, NY
SITE Scholar, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM