Sasha Meret

Sasha Meret was born in Romania in 1955, where he studied art from an early age and obtained both his B.A. and M.A. He arrived in New York in 1987 and studied printmaking at Columbia University, setting up his studio in Tribeca. Meret’s work has been exhibited in Europe, Japan, China and the U.S. His production encompasses a wide range of techniques and styles. He combines painting, drawing, photography with printmaking techniques like: intaglio, woodcut, aquatint, monotype, and works in a variety of styles, from representational to abstract. He collaborates as a weekly illustrator for The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune and has illustrated several books for Simon and Schuster, Harper Collins, Henry Holt and other publishing houses. Meret has been awarded the Printmaking prize by the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia and has won the First Prize from the Romanian Editors Association. He currently lives and works in New York.

Sasha Meret's creative process is a continuous search for new challenges. His imagery reflects his spiritual explorations, blending European, African, Asian, and esoteric symbolism in a highly personal visual language. And he alternates figuration with abstraction in search for a balance between ideas and emotions. His latest installation/environment, called “The Shrine of Hronim - The Time Particle”, incorporates drawings, painting, printmaking, and sculpture, as well as assemblages, video, photography, LED lights, and more. This large-scale installation communicates Meret’s ideas, which are triggered by his interest in quantum physics, history, and literature. In his work, Meret tackles theories, concepts, and historical events, often reinterpreting reality in an attempt to capture that elusive moment of transformation that is the fabric of what we call life.

Sasha Meret has had more than twenty international solo exhibitions, showing at places such as the Romanian Cultural Institute, 1100 Madison Gallery and East- West Gallery in New York; Gallery Le Moulin, Espace Gambetta Gallery and Triskel Gallery in France; Artislong Gallery, Naito Gallery and Y’s Bash Gallery in Japan; Quackart Gallery in China; Kronart Galllery in Romania and AmyD Arte Spazio in Italy. In the United States his work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Art and Design; Fridge Art Fair; Bruce Museum, Connecticut; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City; the Contemporary Art Center, Virginia; and the Russian Art Pavilion at the Armory Week. International group shows in which he has exhibited his art have taken place at Taiwan’s MOCA and at the Drawing Biennial at Triskell Gallery, France, among others. His work has been acquired for the collection of the Romanian Cultural Foundation, Carcassonne Museum, Rafael Collection, Pfizer Corporation, Sony Corporation, Joyce-Gilmore Mertz Foundation, Art Lin YuNu Foundation, Pall Corporation, Queens Museum, Brasov Art Museum and of the Craiova Art Museum.