Biography
Lindsay Mercer sews, prints, and builds small quiet homes. Fabric safekept by friends and reclaimed from dumpsters and mud puddles becomes the walls and windowsills that frame delicate broken glass and greased paper windows. Glass is broken, but mended as well as needle and thread can manage. Paper is toughened by drenching it in grease until the opaque becomes a murky translucent glow. They build homes of empathy, both fragile and resilient.
Dedicated to the art of oral histories and home building, Lindsay is in the continual process of learning what it means to be a country queer in the world today.
Education
MFA in Studio Art
Maine College of Art
MA in Aesthetics and Politics
California Institute of the Arts
BA in Human Ecology
College of the Atlantic
Exhibitions
| 2023 | Uproar Art Fest (Public Installation), Orange County Arts Commision, Hillsborough, NC |
| 2023 | Fibers of Nature, Floyd Center for the Arts, Floyd, VA |
| 2022 | At A Distance, Zand Head Gallery, Portland, ME |
| 2022 | Watch this space: Expressions of Queer Ecology, Sarah Orne Jewett House Museum, South Berwick, ME |
| 2022 | Home? An artistic exploration of housing in the triangle, Eno Arts Mill Gallery, Hillsborough, NC |
| 2021 | The Mobile Studio (Public installation), Attic 506, Chapel Hill, NC |
| 2021 | Illumination, Cameron Museum of Art, Wilmington, NC |
| 2021 | MFA Thesis Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME |
| 2021 | Art Hole: 15 (magazine publication), Art Hole |
| 2020 | [ON]now: Shelter, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME |
| 2020 | 20 things : A List Anthology (Zine), Portland Zine Symposium, Portland, OR |
| 2020 | Articles of Impeachment (online publication), Paperbark Literary Magazine |
| 2020 | Be Seen (Public projection), Maine College of Art, Portland, ME |
| 2020 | Future Tense, Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithvile, TN |
| 2020 | Freshwater and our Watershed (Digital exhibit), Umbrella Arts, Concord, MA |
| 2019 | Welcome Home, Public installation at the Belfast Zine Fest, Belfast, ME |
| 2019 | Ritual + Power, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME |
| 2018 | The Refuge, Two-person exhibit at Litmus Gallery, Raleigh, NC |
| 2018 | Bookopolis, Asheville BookWorks, Asheville, NC |
| 2018 | Illustrated Accordion, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo, MI |
| 2018 | Artist in Residence, Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge, Pittsboro, NC |
| 2018 | Artist in Residence, Door No. 3 Print Studio, Twisp, WA |
| 2017 | The LayMaterialist, Chapbook with Linseed Press |
| 2017 | Trails and Tragedies, Chrsitine Mohle, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2017 | Winter 2017, 3-Elements Magazine, www.3elementsreview.com/past-journals |
| 2017 | Out My Window, Basecamp Books, Roslyn, WA |
| 2016 | In//form, Chapbook with Aesthetics and Politics, CalArts, Santa Clarita, CA |
| 2016 | Artists as Archivists, California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita, CA |
| 2016 | DNA-Sequence, Shabby Dollhouse, www.shabbydollhouse.com/DNA-Sequence |
| 2016 | Spring, Potluck Magazine, www.potluckmag.com/april-2016/2016/4/21/visual-art |
| 2016 | Building the American Workforce, Chapbook with Linseed Press |
| 2016 | Tiny Press Books, CalArts Library, Santa Clarita, CA |
| 2015 | Materials Manifesto, Chapbook with Linseed Press |
| 2015 | An Artist’s Materials, Solo exhibit at College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME |
| 2015 | The Greener Studio Challenge, Lowell Community Center, Lowell, MA |
| 2014 | Crucifixion: Hero Slaying and Phil Ochs, Chapbook with Linseed Press |
| 2014 | Links on the Chain vol. 1, Links on the Chain, www.linksonthechain.weebly.com/ |
| 2014 | Portraits of Plant Pigments, Solo exhibit at Blum Gallery, Bar Harbor, ME |
| 2014 | Ilustration as a Tool for Change, Solo exhibit at Thorndike Library, Bar Harbor, ME |
| 2013 | An Illustrated and Written Portrait of Phil Ochs, Chapbook with Linseed Press |