Tameka Jenean Norris received her BA from UCLA in 2010 and her MFA from Yale University (2012). She has participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2009) and the Hermitage Artist Retreat (2012). Her solo exhibitions include Tameka Norris – Family Values, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (2013) and Too Good For You (Introducing Meka Jean), Lombard Freid Gallery, New York (2012).

Her group exhibitions include Prospect.3: Notes for Now, Prospect New Orleans, May Gallery, New Orleans, (2014); a/wake in the water: Mediations on Disaster, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn (2014); Midnight Salon, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles (2012); Gifted and Talented, Third Streaming Gallery, New York (2012); MFA Painting Thesis Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (2012); Prospect.2 Biennial, New Orleans (2011); QueerSexing, Human Resources, Los Angeles (2011); Prospect.1.5 Biennial, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans (2010); Open Projector Night, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2009); True Diva Biennale, Skowhegan, Maine (2009); and Dissent! 1968 to Now, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (2008).