Employing pseudo-biographical storytelling and intuitive world building, Isaac Mehki constructs unexpected relationships within the socio-political landscape of the American South. Focused on seeing slant, he identifies and disidentifies material culture, recycling and rethinking encoded meaning. His experience-driven, interdisciplinary practice confronts his own social inheritance, interrogating cultural narratives to provoke catharsis
EDUCATION:
2023 BFA in Drawing & Painting | Georgia State University
Ongoing MFA in Studio Arts | Carnegie Mellon University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2025 TWO GREAT COWARDS & A FULL TEN ROUNDS 2 | The END - Atlanta, GA
2025 THE KING & THE GREAT WHITEWASHER | Hawkins Headquarters - Atlanta, GA
2023 TWO GREAT COWARDS & A FULL TEN ROUNDS | Murphy Rail - Atlanta, GA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2026 NowhereATL | Gerber Fine Art - Atlanta, GA
2026 The Second Body | Johnson Lowe Gallery - Atlanta, GA
2025 Southern Hospitality | Sugar Hill Art Gallery - Sugar Hill, GA
2025 The Pliable & The Brittle | Atlanta Contemporary - Atlanta, GA
2024 One Year | Hawkins HQ - Atlanta, GA
2024 American Psychos | UStudio - Atlanta, GA
2023 Arena | Fastnet - Brooklyn, NY
2023 Arts, Letters, & Numbers | Arts, Letters, & Numbers - Albany, NY
2022 Breakthrough | Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design - Atlanta, GA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
2026 Indie Rokkers | Sandler Hudson Gallery
FAIRS:
2026 Atlanta Art Fair
2025 Atlanta Art Fair
GRANTS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES:
2018 Merit Scholarship | SAIC
2019 Merit Scholarship | SAIC
2022 Dean Dryer Award | Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design
2023 Arts, Letters, & Numbers Studio Residency
2025 Leading Performance Artist in the State of Georgia | SEPA
2026 Idea Capital Grant | Idea Capital
2026 Nexus Fund | The Andy Warhol Foundation
LECTURES & TALKS:
2023 Free & Open Discussion on Political Engagement in Art | Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design, Atlanta, GA
2023 Free & Open Discussion on the Artist in Society | Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design, Atlanta, GA
PUBLICATIONS:
2023 On Political Engagement in Art