BIO

Cyan Meeks is a cross-disciplinary filmmaker, audiovisual documentarian, and social practice artist. Both her collaborative and solo works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Sundance Film Festival, New Directors/ New Films Festival at MoMA, The Chicago Cultural Center, Glasgow International Film Festival, Dumbo Film Festival, Deuxieme Manifestation International Video et Art Electronique in Montreal, Canada, and Charlotte Street Foundation. She has received first place awards from the American Film Institute, Amsterdam International Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival and received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Mid-American Arts Alliance, National Park Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Humanities Kansas, Kansas Forest Service, and the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission. Her commercial work within the music industry has received accolades by NME and Spin magazines. In addition, she has co-founded several creative space collectives to benefit members of underserved communities. Meeks received her B.F.A. degree in new media from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1995 (mentored by Kristine Diekman), studied for her M.F.A. degree at the California Institute of the Arts in 1997 (mentored by James Benning) and completed her M.F.A. degree in media studies at the State University of New York in 2003 (mentored by Tony Conrad & Sarah Elder).