
Mette Tommerup (born Denmark 1969) is a painter and storyteller who creates simultaneously earnest and satirical narratives to frame her production of objects, whether they are digital or made from canvas and paint. Tommerup relocated to Miami in the late 1990’s after living and studying in New York City for many years. Tommerup has exhibited at Exit Art, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City. In Miami, Tommerup has exhibited at The Bass, Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and The FIU Frost Museum of Art and has work in many public and private collections, including work in the permanent collection of Wilmer Hale in Washington DC, the Lowe Art Museum, and Perez Art Museum Miami. She will have a solo shows, Made by Dusk at Locust Projects in November 2020. Honors include acquisition of work through the Art Purchase Program at The American Academy of Arts and Letters in NYC. Publications include Miami Contemporary Artists, Miami Arts Explosion, 100 Degrees in the Shade and Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze and exhibitions have been reviewed in Art in America, Artnet.com and The Miami Herald among others. Tommerup received an MFA at School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1995
Artburstmiami, Locust Projects Presents "Made by Dusk" Installation, December 31, 2020
Palm Beach Arts Paper, Basel, schmasel: Reduced art week carries on, December 7, 2020
A Golden Haze Made of Honey & Ice at Locust Projects Miami Art Week Performance December 1, 2020
Q&A: The Women Behind The Art Featuring Locust Project Artists August 21, 2020
Mention in the New York Times November 29, 2019
Ocean Drive Magazine January 2020
Palm Beach ArtsPaper December 2019
Exhibition essays
“Out to Sea" (Ocean Loop Exhibition 2017), "Waking the Ur Experience" (Love, Ur Exhibition 2019) and
"Made by Dusk" ( Made by Dusk at Locust Projects 2020)
by Eleanor Heartney
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Represented by:
Emerson Dorsch Gallery
5900 NW 2nd Ave
Miami, FL 33127
(305) 576-1278
Available work on ARTSY/ Emerson Dorsch
Photography by Francesco Casale
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