Isaac Mehki is an American social practice installation and performance artist working out of Atlanta. He was born and raised in Villa Rica, a small railroad town on the western edge of Georgia. He was raised by a family of pastors and worship leaders, and it was here that he inherited an interest in history, mythology, politics, teaching and performance. As a teenager, Isaac played organized basketball, and his experiences as an athlete informs his work. Isaac graduated from Georgia State University with a BFA in Drawing & Painting, and has since participated in exhibitions and residencies in both Atlanta and New York.

He creates work that disrupts the spiritual, historical, and political framework of American Exceptionalism. His work derives from his upbringing as a child of a preacher in the American south, and from a suspicion of his own inheritance within the Western tradition. He generates a self-embodied practice of cultural translation, creating work that orients towards direct social action by being a public catalyst for comparative practices rooted in historical institutionalism, social disidentification, and spatial aesthetics, exposing American identity as actually fully unexceptional, and thus subject to universal demands for justice.

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