Born 1972 Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Los Angeles based artist Megan Whitmarsh grew up in the 70’s and 80’s, and, like many of her generation, uses the visual noise of her youth as inspiration. She works in a variety of low-tech media including drawing, comics, stop-action animation, hand-embroidery and soft sculpture and strives to synthesize an optimistic vision of the future with the detritus of modern life. She has shown in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Iceland, Belgium, Hong Kong, Korea, Switzerland, Japan, Italy
EDUCATION
1997
M.F.A., University of New Orleans, New Orleans,Louisiana.
1993
B.F.A., Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri.
1992
Yale Summer School of Art, Norfolk, Connecticut.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Here comes purple, New Image Art, Los Angeles
Revolution is a circle, Jack Hanley Gallery, NYC
2011 Tourists From the Future, with My Barbarian, Watermill Center NY & CPR brooklyn, NY
Faded Rainbows/Radiant Dust, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels
Radiant Decade, This Gallery, Los Angeles
2010 Color Work Station, Impulse, NYC, courtesy of Michael Rosenthal Gallery
2009 Yeti, Crystal, Rainbow, Krets Galleri, Malmo
The Crap of Life, New Image Art, Los Angeles
2006 Future Elf, Mercado, Barcelona
California Cryptozoic, New Image Art, Los Angeles
Pink Trash, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels
Shangri-La, Branch Gallery, Durham
2005 Crystal Logic, Motel Gallery, Portland
Isangeles, Kling & Bang Gallery, Reykjavik
In the Year 2525, Katherine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto
Forest Logic, Sixtyseven, New York City
2004 Moonboots and Barrettes, Elves and Cigarettes, Sixspace, Los Angeles
2000 New Change Land, Parlour Projects, Brooklyn
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 House of a 100 Hands, Curated by Marteena Duss & Bent Van Looy, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, Netherland
Seek Merry Hell, Curated by Angelique Spaninks, MU, Eindhoven, Netherland
2011 Voluptuous Panic, Watermill Center, New York, USA
A New Hook: Reethinking Needlework, Curated by Tanja Trampe, Zürich Museum of Design
From Bigfoot to the Yeti Crab, Curated by Courtney Gilbert, Sun Valley Centre for the Arts, Sun Valley, UT
2010 Common Jive, curated by Saya Woolfalk and Julie Fishkin, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC
2009 New Voices, New Works, curated by Todd Oldham, Wolfsonian Museum, Art Basel Miami
In Stitches, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, LTMHG Gallery, NYC
Strips, Scripts and Scapes, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside
Visions of the Frontier, curated by Robert Wilson, L’IVAM, Valencia, Spain
Soft Architecture, KK Projects, New Orleans
New Image Art 15 Years, New Image Art, Los Angeles
2008 Technicomfort, Thanky Space, Richmond
Emotions, Galerie Libraire, Hong Kong
Thread as Line, Ellipse Art Center, Arlington
2007 Serendipitous Tangents, the Factory, Seoul Bread & Butter, Barcelona
2006 The General Store Project, Ulrich Musuem of Art, Wichita New Work, New York, Agenzia 04, Bologna
Do You Think I’m Disco, Longwood Art Projects, the Bronx
2005 The Early Show, White Columns, New York City
A Delicate Kinship, haNNa, Tokyo
Move #13, Clementine Gallery, New York City
Follow Me: A Fantasy, Arena 1, Santa Monica
2004 Desert Swap Meet, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree
Drunk vs. Stoned, Gavin Brown Enterprises, New York City
