Shane Mecklenburger uses multiple media to explore constructed value, agency, and mediated experience. Projects queer and collaborate with popular media, critically examining cultural mythologies by making a diamond from roadkill, selling the future, or repurposing shooter games.

Exhibitions include The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Eyebeam, NYC; Bitforms Gallery, NYC; Microscope Gallery, NYC; Queens Museum, NYC; Übersee-Museum, Bremen, Germany; Sazmanab Project, Tehran, Iran; El Centro Cultural Paso Del Norte, Juarez, Mexico; The Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; The Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Imagina Festival de Animación, Lima, Peru; VR Arles Festival, Arles, France; El Paso Museum of Art, Texas; SIGGRAPH Asia, Bangkok, Thailand; ScreenDance Miami Festival; and SCOPE Miami, among others.

Awards include a MacDowell Fellowship; a Ucross Foundation Fellowship; residencies at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music in Amsterdam and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design in Ohio; a UCLA-AFT Creative Endeavors Award; and a Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs, which fosters projects that examine the complex relationship between science, technology, and broader social and cultural issues.

Faculty appointments include UCLA and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and full-time professorships at The Ohio State University, University of North Texas, and University of Massachusetts Amherst, where Shane was a Student-Centered Teaching and Learning Fellow at the Institute for Teaching Excellence. Degrees include an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MSEd in Learning and Instruction from the USC Rossier School of Education.