MEGAN WHITMARSH – SELECTED WORK

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


AWARDS AND GRANTS<

2010
Pulse prize runner-up

2009
Tiffany Grant nominee

2006
Lecture Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Bologna

1994-97
Full fellowship, M.F.A. program, University of New Orleans

1992
Full scholarship, Yale Summer School of Art