Meris Drew investigates the earth’s appearance and how we affect it. Like the swampy Floridian landscape where she grew up, her paintings are places where volatile organic systems intersect. They are full of science, storytelling, and magical thinking, born from extended observations of environments. Across cycles of painting and unpainting, each canvas becomes a reenactment of how nature flourishes and decays in micro- and macrocosms.

Meris Drew was born in 1995 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. She earned her MFA in Painting from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.

She has mounted solo exhibitions at Racecar Factory in Indianapolis, IN, and Grunwald Gallery of Art in Bloomington, IN.

Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the John Waldron Arts Center in Bloomington, IN; The Lodge in Los Angeles, CA; Schwitzer Gallery in Indianapolis, IN; Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, OH; Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, TX; University of Texas in Tyler, TX; University of North Carolina in Asheville, NC; Betty Isermann Gallery in Sarasota, FL; and Artspace 111 in Fort Worth, TX.

Drew was the recipient of a Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship nomination, a Bloomington Emerging Artist Grant, a Ringholz Foundation grant, an Indiana University Center for Rural Engagement residency, and multiple awards from the National Society of Arts and Letters.