Artist Bio
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Contact: eliasmacauleymendel98@gmail.com
Instagram: @elimendel
Elias Mendel is a London-born, Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist who creates stop-motion animations, sculptures, drawings, prints, writing and performances. He deploys this multifaceted approach to investigate the intersection between dreams, roots, and the abyss, examining legibility, language, diaspora and belonging. These concerns have emerged from his investigation into a vast family history and archive that grapples with the aftermath of fascism and the Holocaust. Mendel engages with this history through my mark-making, as well as through archival research, cataloguing, and writing. Alongside his artistic practice, he has a workshop teaching practice, in which he leads arts, archival, and educational workshops.
Mendel completed his MFA at the University of Illinois, Chicago and studied history and
politics at the University of Manchester. He has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and was exhibited at the Casablanca Art Biennale. He has also exhibited in London, New York, Berlin, Málaga, and Johannessburg.
(Photo taken by Erin Myle)