Shanna Merola

Shanna Merola is an artist, legal worker, and environmental justice organizer based in Detroit, MI. Merola has been awarded studio residencies and fellowships through MacDowell, the Studios at MASS MoCA, Banff Centre for Arts + Creativity, Kala Institute of Art, the Society for Photographic Education, Generator Arts Accelerator, the Puffin Foundation, Bulk Space, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art. Her work has been exhibited nationally and abroad, most recently at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea) Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI) Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (Detroit, MI), TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image (Philadelphia, PA), University of Michigan Museum of Art  (Ann Arbor, MI). She holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.