Born in Haiti in 1991 and raised in the Bahamas, Jeffrey Meris is an artist who earned an AA in Arts and Crafts from the University of The Bahamas, a BFA in Sculpture from Tyler, and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2019. Meris is currently a 2020 NXTHVN Studio Fellow. Meris works across sculpture, installation, performance and drawing to consider ecology, embodiment and various lived experiences while healing deeply personal and historical wounds.