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Merik Goma is a New Haven-based photographer and alumni of the NXTHVN Studio Fellowship Program, an arts incubator. His work has been shown by Tilton Gallery, and is in the collection of 21C Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Detroit Institute of Art. Goma represented Connecticut in the New England Triennial at DeCordova Museum, is a FY21 Connecticut Artistic Excellence award recipient and was selected as the Joyce C. Willis Artist in Residence by the Amistad Center for Arts & Culture at the Wadsworth.
EDUCATION
2014
BA Psychology, Fredonia, State University of New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Your absence is my monument; When your being was my everything, Management, New York
My Heart is Light in the Void, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
2022
Your Absence is My Monument, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
The New England Triennial, deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, MA
Perpetual Ebb, Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, IN
Conscious Response: Photographers Changing the Way We See, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
2021
Still, Life! Mourning, Meaning, Mending, 21c Museum, Louisville, KY
Legacy & Rupture, City Gallery, New Haven, CT
2020
We Are More Than A Moment, virtual exhibition curated by Genevieve Gaignard, Gallery 51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA
2019
NXTHVN: First Year Fellows, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Yale University Collection, New Haven, CT
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
21c Museum, Louisville, KY
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2021
Real Art Award Recipient
Joyce C. Williams Artist in Residence, Amistad Center for Arts & Culture at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
2019
NXTHVN Studio Fellowship, New Haven, CT
TALKS AND LECTURES
2019
Narrative Within Photography at Yale Beinecke Library
Management is delighted to present works by Merik Goma at the inaugural edition of PHOTOFAIRS New York, taking place at the Javits Center, September 8—10