Nightingale-in-Residence: Joelle Mercedes

Photo by Zachary Nicol

We’re thrilled to introduce you to our first Nightingale-in-Residence artist, Joelle Mercedes! Joelle will be making artwork in the Nightingale studio this summer, and we couldn’t be more excited to share our space with them.

Joelle Mercedes is an artist and educator whose work is grounded in collage techniques that puncture the restrictions of the two-dimensional frame, examining and stretching concepts of origin, interiority, ancestry, death, and history. Their work has been presented in various forms at: ACRE Projects, Links Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, Compound Yellow, Roman Susan, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Threewalls, Sherman Park Branch Library, Hyde Park Art Center, Sullivan Galleries (Chicago), Lynden Sculpture Garden Gallery (Milwaukee), California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA). Mercedes’s work has also been published by KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Recodo.sx.