How can I buy a work by Mee Jey?

Bruno David Gallery handles the sale of available works by Mee Jey. For prices and availability, email info@brunodavidgallery.com or call +1 314 696 2377.

Where can I see work by Mee Jey in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment.

What does Mee Jey make?

Wall works and room-scale installations made by coiling, bundling, tying and knotting donated and recycled fabric, some with emergency Mylar blankets, and participatory works and performances made with community members, such as the permanent outdoor sculpture US: United Sapiens (2024).

Where is Mee Jey based?

Mee Jey lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.

Has Mee Jey had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Cape of Continuity (20 September to 21 December 2024); In Search of Home (28 April to 17 June 2023) are among her exhibitions at the gallery. Catalogues can be read in the gallery’s Publications library at brunodavidgallery.com/publications.

Mee Jey

Mee Jey is a St. Louis-based multidisciplinary artist who works across textile, installation, drawing, painting, text, video, and performance. Born in India, she moved to St. Louis in 2017 to study at Washington University. Built largely from repurposed materials, her work addresses immigration, motherhood, and memory, and is often made with community members who become co-creators and performers.

She coils, bundles, ties, and knots donated and recycled fabric into wall works on wood board, some with emergency Mylar blankets, and room-scale installations. Since 2013 she has led ARTOLOGUE: Art for All, a traveling project begun in India with Jey Sushil that makes art with host communities, from schools and families to prisoners and police officers. Participatory works such as Jantar-Mantar (2023) and Souvenir (since 2021) gather talismans, wishes, and keepsakes from participants.

Mee Jey holds a BA in history from Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi (2008), an MA in history from Jawaharlal Nehru University (2010), and an MPhil from Ambedkar University Delhi (2014).

In 2019 she earned an MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a McDonnell International Scholar and an assistant instructor. She has been a resident teaching artist at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the Saint Louis Art Museum and an art instructor at COCA, and has held residencies at Laumeier Sculpture Park, Craft Alliance, and the Kranzberg Arts Foundation.

She has exhibited or performed at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, and Middlesex University in London, and her permanent outdoor sculpture US: United Sapiens (2024), commissioned by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, stands at the Veterans Community Project. In 2022 she received the St. Louis Visionary Emerging Artist Award and the Mother Art Prize, which brought a residency in London. At Bruno David Gallery she has had two solo exhibitions: In Search of Home (2023), with a catalogue, and Cape of Continuity (2024), a cape woven with participants at her Pulitzer Arts Foundation workshop, worn there in performance, and installed in the gallery’s Window on Forsyth.

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