Contact
Email: merrill.leigh@gmail.com
Represented by:
Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX
info@lilianablochgallery.com
Bio
Leigh Merrill is an American Artist born in 1978. Working primarily with photography, Merrill creates digitally collaged photographic and video works that explore our contemporary landscapes and the impact of desire, simulation, and perception on our environments. Leigh Merrill received her BFA from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM and her MFA from Mills College in Oakland, CA.
Merrill’s work has been a part of exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad in venues such as Paris Photo (France), the Phoenix Art Museum (Arizona, United States), the diRosa Art Preserve (California, United States), FotoFest International (Texas, United States), the Fries Museum (Netherlands) and the Museum of Texas Tech University (Texas, United States). Merrill’s work has been included in online and print publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, Afterimage Magazine, Places Journal, Dwell.com, the Dallas Morning News, and the Houston Chronicle.
Merrill’s work is represented by the Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas, TX. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Old Jail Art Center, the Museum of Texas Tech University, the University of North Texas Library Print Study Collection, the City of Phoenix, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and various private collections.
Leigh Merrill lives and works in Dallas, Texas where she is a Professor of Art at Texas A&M University-Commerce.