Meredith Leich (b. 1986) is a lens (photography, video, animation) and hand (drawing, painting, also animation) based artist, whose work explores the nature of cities, place-based histories, and climate change through scientific research and intuitive visual exploration. Leich’s films have screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Athens International Film + Video Festival, and Chicagoland Shorts, among others, and she has shown her work at venues nationally and abroad. Her collaboration with glaciologist Andrew Malone was awarded a 2015-16 Arts, Science & Culture Initiative Grant from the University of Chicago and received a 2018 Individual Artist Grant from Chicago’s DCASE. She was a 2011 - 2012 resident at Root Division, San Francisco, and has completed residencies at the Tide Institute and Museum of Art, Nes Artist Residency, Studios of Key West, the Ragdale Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Wrangell Mountain Center in McCarthy, Alaska. Leich received her BA from Swarthmore College and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she also lectured in the Film, Video, New Media, and Animation.
