CV

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017
χαρμολύπη / Charmolipi / Mixed Feelings  –  Lazy Susan Gallery, New York  –  curator: Sallie Mize
2016
Displacement  –  Equity Gallery, New York
2014
Pas de Deux Project: Recent Paintings  –  Governor's Island Pop Up with Brooklyn ARTery
2013
Soacha: Portraits  –  L.I.A. Lab, Bogotá, Colombia
2010
PROJECT NIHON / sustainable art travel  –  Design Festa Gallery, Tokyo
Three Person Show  –  Galeria Ileana Viteri, Quito, Ecuador  
2008                                  
Hair Heir: a study in conceptual portraiture  –  Galerija DLUM, Slovenia [catalog]
Atrium Installation Project –  Macaulay Honors College, CUNY
2007                                  
Meghan Keane – Thesis Exhibition –  Brooklyn College, CUNY [catalog]

 

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019
Field Work  –  Georgia Southern University Gallery, Statesboro Campus  –  curator: Jason Hoelscher, Sean Hill, Christina Olson
2017      
Dona Flora  –  Pobre Diablo Gallery, Quito, Ecuador  – curator: Paula Barragan
2016      
Fathers, Brothers, Sons  –  Spacecamp, Baltimore –  curated by MICA Curatorial Practice '17
Partners, Parents, Pets: Contemporary Portraiture  –  Old Stone House  –  curator: Katherine Gressel
2013
Inside Out  –  Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn  –  curator: Laura Phipps, Assistant Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art  [catalog]
Attractive Summer  –  Gallery SANSQUOI, Okayama, Japan  –  curator: K. Saito
4 Painters  –  Brooklyn College, Brooklyn  –  curator: Maria Catalano Rand
2011                                   
BP Beauty Pillows with Pillow Culture  –  New Jersey Film Festival  –  Rutgers University
Single Fare  –  Sloan Fine Art, New York
2010                                                                             
Peace By Peace  –  Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven
The Possibility of a Painting  –  Chelsea Hotel, New York  –  curator: Tara de la Garza
PILLOW CULTURE + A.I.R. Gallery present PILLOW Pageant  –  DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn  –  curator: Natalie Fizer, Emily Stephenson
Wish You Were Here 9  –  A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn
Casa de Muñecas  –  El Conteiner Gallery, Quito, Ecuador  –  curator: Paula Barragan
Do-it-Yourself Candide  –  New York Public Library online
Studio Visit Project  –  P.S.1/MoMA online
2009                                   
Snap to Grid  –  LACDA / Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
The Sketchbook Project  –  Art House Gallery, Brooklyn
Shedding Identity: Community Portrait  –  Figment, Governors Island, New York  
100 Works on Paper  –  Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn[catalog]
Sketch it Out  –  APW Gallery, Long Island City, New York
Your Documents Please  –  ZAIM Artspace, Yokohama, Japan; Museum of Arts and Crafts-ITAMI, Hyogo, Japan; Gallery 2B, Budapest; Galeria Z, Bratislava; Galerie Kurt Im Hirsch, Berlin; Galeria Ajolote Arte Contemporaneo, Guadalajara, Mexico[catalog online]
2008                                   
Night of 1000 Drawings  –  Artists Space, New York
21st Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Juried Exhibition  –  Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, Louisiana  –  juror: Elizabeth Dunbar, Executive Director of Diverseworks Artspace  [catalog]
Suckers and Biters  –  Chashama Gallery, New York [catalog]
2005                                   
Nov-art Festival  –  Galerie Lesbords, Bordeaux, France  –  collaborator: Rokhshad Nourdeh
2004                                  
Home for the Holidays  –  Jan Larsen Galerie, Brooklyn  –  curator: Patricia Frida
Group Show  –  Jigsaw Gallery, New York

 

RESIDENCIES - AWARDS - HONORS

2008 -                                 
Alumni Printmaker in Residence, Brooklyn College Printshop

2019
Guest Critic: Parsons, Brooklyn College -- Masters in Interior Design - Sleep Studio, Printmaking
2018
Broadsided Press 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee for “Niizhosagoons gemaa Nisosagoons Daso-biboonagad” / “Two or Three Thousand Years,” poem Margaret Noodin, art by Meghan Keane
Guest Critic: Brooklyn College -- Relief Final Review, Screenprinting Final Review
2017
Guest Critic: Pratt, Brooklyn College -- Printmaking
2015
Guest Critic: Parsons, Pratt, Brooklyn College -- Architecture Studio, Printmaking
2013
Winner, Penguin Books National Book Display Design Competition, featuring works by Khaled Hosseni, [words] Bookstore, Maplewood, NJ
Guest Critic, Brooklyn College, Screenprinting Fall Review
Guest Critic, University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Landscape, Architecture and Design, Graduate Architecture Studio Review
Guest Presenter, Demostaciones I Conference (on oeurvre of Rodrigo Facundo), hosted by LIA Lab and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Bogotá, Colombia
Guest Critic, Parsons School of Design, Sophomore Design Studio Spring Review
Guest Critic, Brooklyn College, Relief Printmaking Spring Review  
2012                                   
Guest Critic, Parsons School of Design, Senior Design Studio Spring Review
Guest Critic, Parsons School of Design, Foundation 3D Design Studio
2011                                   
Guest Critic, Parsons School of Design, Senior Architecture Fall Review
2008                                   
Residency, DLUM Art Association, Maribor, Slovenia                                 
Residency, Vermont Studio Center
Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center
2007                               
Selected Presenter, Arts in Society: International Arts Conference, host: New York University, keynote: Linda Nochlin
2005
Furman Grant, for travel and research abroad, Brooklyn College Foundation

 

AUTHORSHIP - EDITOR - PUBLICATIONS

2016
Meghan Keane: Displacement, Desplazamiento, artist monograph, hardcover; published by Equity Gallery and MKS Press
2011                           
“Virgins and Nudes: A Historical Overview of Pregnancy in Painting," RIPE: Conception & Perception, exhibition catalog, hardcover; essay author; published by Aferro Gallery (Aferro Publications) and 2|ONE|TWO|PROJECTS; book launch at Alegra La Viola Gallery
2007                           
Meghan Keane, catalog, softcover, foreword by William T. Williams, MKS Press                             
Honors Academy Art Gallery 2006-2007 Exhibition Catalogue, softcover, editor with introduction; published by Zicklin Fund, Brooklyn College Printworks
2004                                     
PROCESS, color images reproduced in artist anthology, softcover; published by C-loop Productions and Circa2004, New York 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY - PRESS

2019
Broadsided Press, “Broadsided Exhibit at Georgia Southern University’s Gallery,” article
2018
Broadsided Press, “2018 Pushcart Prize Nominations,” article
2016
Wilking, Anne, “Painting People, Not Portraits: The Intimacy of Meghan Keane,” Slate Magazine, article
2014
Color Objects Blog, "Painting is Color According to Meghan Keane," article
2013
PeriodismoPublico.com, "Artista estadounidense inspirada en desplazados de Soacha," article, September, http://periodismopublico.com
Broadsided Press, one broadside publication, monotype reproduced with poetry by Ladan Osman, June, http://broadsidedpress.org      
2012                                   
Broadsided Press, three broadside publications, works on paper reproduced with poetry by Anorak Huey, George David Clark, and Heid E. Erdrich, March/July/November, http://broadsidedpress.org               
2011
Broadsided Press, one broadside publication, oil painting reproduced with poetry by Angela Veronica Wong, September, http://broadsidedpress.org
2010                                   
Observers Room – Design Observer - OBlog, “Pillow Culture” by Nancy Levinson, online review, December 10, http://observersroom.designobserver.com
Broadsided Press, two broadside publications, work on paper reproduced with poetry by Emily Dickenson and Zach Savich, December, http://broadsidedpress.org                                
Hoy – Vida Diaria – Cultura, “El Arte Expresado en Tres Maneras,” review, two installation views reproduced, Sept. 24, p.1, 8
El Comercio – Cultura, “Nueva Muestra en Ileana Viteri Galeria,” painting detail reproduced, September 23, p.20
El Comercio – Cultura, “Celebracion: La galeria de Ileana Viteri, de aniversario,” featured exhibition, September 20, p.24
La Hora, “Ileana Viteri, de aniversario,” review, painting reproduced, September 20, p.A9
El Comercio – Siete Dias (Ecuador NewsMag), “Cada muneca cuenta el secreto de su costurera,” review, July 4, p.8
White Bear Press, “Finding Japan: Brother, sister team create art installation, deinstallation,” interview, June 22, p.3A
Art Hag Blog, “The Possibility of a Painting : Chelsea Hotel,” online review with paintings reproduced, http://arthag.com, March 3
2009                                   
Art in Brooklyn Blog, “Meghan Keane,” monoprints and statement reproduced online, http://artinbrooklyn.com, March 17
2008                                   
VECER (Slovene newspaper), "Likovna Kritika: Meghan Keane v Galerija DLUM" by Mario Berdic, solo show review, June 24, p. 14.
The New York Times, "House Proud: 1890's Outside, Loftlike Inside" by Michael Cannell, paintings in collector’s home reproduced with article, February 28, p. F6                                    
Startist Art Blog, "Shedding Identity: A Brooklyn Portrait Series in Hair" by Erin Frank, online review, http://startistfrank.blogspot.com, January 18

 

MEDIA - FILM

Current                                  
PROJECT NIHON / sustainable art travel - experimental art-travel-doc film (status: post-production)
2010
BP Beauty Pillows, 1 min. short film of original sculpture, dir. Michael Keane, music by Barry Paul Clark
This Is BushwickBOS video series, 1 min. artist interview, dir. Ben Berlin
2009                                   
Land Without Shadows, narrative short, art direction, dir. Antoine Blanchet
2008                      
Slovenia National News/RTV Slovenija, Artist interview by Simona Kopinsek
2007                                   
Slovenia National News/RTV Slovenija and Slovenia Local News/RTS Maribor, Visiting Artist Interview at Umetnostna Galerija Maribor
2004                                   
The New Yorkers, live interview with James Chladek, WXNY 26/WNYX 35                               
Prospect Heights, indie feature, featured paintings, scenes shot on location at meghan.keane.studio, dir. Paul Bomba

 

ARTIST TALKS - PANELS - WORKSHOPS

2016
Displacement, Desplazamiento | Meghan Keane, Jill Conner, Jonathan Goodman, Sebastián Ramírez Hernández
Art and Literature Series Event, New York Public Library, Midtown Manhattan
Roundtable Discussion (featuring above collaborators), Equity Gallery, New York
Workshop with the Artist, Equity Gallery, New York
2013
Artist Talk, "What Happens If...: A Decade of Making," Joan Mitchell Foundation YAP (Young Adult Program) at Parsons The New School for Design
Experimental Printmaking Workshop, Fundación Colombia Nuevos Horizontes, Colombia
2012
Staff Development Workshop, Arts InterFACE and CRISFE, Quito, Ecuador
Present strategies to non-profit staff in Spanish on effectively discussing art with and teaching art to children, modeling interactive teaching method throughout workshop.
2011   
Professional Development Workshop, Arts InterFACE and CRISFE, Quito, Ecuador
Lead 30 classroom teachers in interactive art PD in Spanish, covering inquiry, VTS, how to discuss children's art, and innovative approaches to art making and sourcing materials without a budget.
Project Nihon Workshop, Paper Crane Collagraphs, Tomodachi, Roseville, MN
2010                                   
Artist Talk + Workshop, PROJECT NIHON exhibition, Design Festa Gallery, Tokyo
2009                                   
Panelist, Twitter for Dummies Panel, [words] Bookstore, New Jersey
Discuss how artists can utilize social media to cultivate and expand their viewing audience.                                      
Artist Talk, Honors Academy Art Gallery opening, Brooklyn College
2008
Visiting Artist, Watercolor in the Gardens of Paris, MICEFA, Paris, France
2007                                   
Visiting Artist, Workshop in New Materials, Umetnostna Galerija Maribor, Slovenia
Visiting Artist, Drawing in the Streets of Paris, MICEFA, Paris, France

 

COLLECTIONS

Princeton Univerity
Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitain Museum of Art — publication: RIPE: Conception & Perception
Kentler International Drawing Space Flatfiles
Brooklyn Sketchbook Library
Private Collections in North, Central, and South America, Europe, and Japan

 

SELECT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2004-                     
Founder and Director, meghan.keane.studio, Brooklyn
2013, 2015
Art Handler, Smack Mellon Gallery, Annual Benefit
2008-2014                     
Teaching Artist, K.I.D.S. Art Education, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn
2008-09                    
Web & Print Communications Coordinator, Macaulay Honors College, CUNY, New York
2008                     
Freelance Archival Image Editor, Louise Bourgeois lithographs, Isis Inc., New York
2006-07                    
Founding Director and Curator, Honors Academy Art Gallery, Brooklyn College
2005                                   
Studio Assistant, artists Anne Ferrer, Rokhshad Nourdeh, Lucy Orta, Paris
2004-06                  
Studio Assistant, artist Debra Goertz, Brooklyn
2002-04                  
Associate Designer, Wid Chapman Architects, New York
1999-2001
Pattern Making and Construction Apprentice, Katherine Tilton, Minnesota 

 

EDUCATION                           

Parsons School of Design - Fashion, Architecture and ID
Brooklyn College - Studio Art

Study abroad:
Université de Paris, France
Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador