Shane Mecklenburger (b. Chicago) uses multiple media to explore constructed value, agency and power. His projects queer and collaborate with popular culture and simulation systems to critically examine mediated experience and cultural mythologies.

His projects have sold the future, made a diamond out of roadkill, and repurposed shooter games.

His work has exhibited at The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Eyebeam, NYC; Bitforms Gallery, NYC; Microscope Gallery, NYC; Queens Museum, NYC; Übersee-Museum, Bremen, Germany; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; ACM Siggraph, Los Angeles and Bangkok; SCOPE, Miami; El Paso Museum of Art, Texas; El Centro Cultural Paso Del Norte, Juarez, Mexico; and The Reading Room, Dallas. His awards include a MacDowell Fellowship; a Ucross Foundation Fellowship; residencies at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, Ohio, and the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam; and a Battelle Endowment (BETHA) for projects that examine the complex relationship between science, technology and broader social and cultural issues. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

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