Mette Tommerup (b. Denmark) is a Miami-based artist whose monumental, site-specific painting installations push painting into space, transforming architecture into immersive environments. 

She earned her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and has exhibited widely across South Florida, nationally, and internationally. Recent highlights include Made by Dusk (2020) at Locust Projects with its interactive activation Liminal, Of What Surrounds (2024)Me at the Frost Art Museum FIU, and Act of Infinity  (2025) at the historic Køng Museum in Denmark, which also premiered her video work Ocean Contour Performance (2022).

Tommerup’s public art commissions expand this immersive language into civic space. Her Miami-Dade Art in Public Places projects include Sky of the First Water (2022), a 2,100 sq. ft. hand-engraved façade in Coconut Grove, and Ocean Contour (2022), a 185-foot-wide painting at PortMiami—landmark works that embed painting into the daily life of the city. 

Her work is in the permanent collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Frost Art Museum FIU, the Lowe Art Museum, the Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places Collection, and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, as well as numerous private collections nationally and internationally.

Tommerup’s awards include the Miami Individual Artists (MIA) Grant 2024 and the Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Purchase Fund at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2010).

Tommerup is the former head of the Painting Program at Florida International University, where she taught both BFA and MFA students, Tommerup continues to mentor and work with younger artists through lectures, workshops, and collaborative projects. 

Rooted in both Miami’s cultural landscape and her Scandinavian heritage, her practice investigates painting as portal—creating spaces for collective reflection.