Megan Burns Biography


 

 

Ancient Sci-Fi Update

Works by Megan Burns


 

EDUCATION

Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
MFA Received May 2005

Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
BA Received May 2003


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008
Virago, The Proposition Gallery, New York, NY

2007
Megan Burns’ Agents of C.L.O.N.E., The Proposition Gallery, New York, NY

2003
Solo Show of undergraduate work, Bates Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
Spring Round Up, The Proposition, New York, NY
Ancient Sci-Fi Update (2-person show), The Proposition, New York, NY

2010
See You in September: The Bubble Collective Group Show, Parlour, New York, NY
Point Suite Pop-Up: curated by Justine Durrett, Inven.Tory, New York, NY
Denatured Front: curated by Emet Sosna, The Gershwin Hotel, New York, NY

2009
Parlour No.7: Golden Girls, w/ Alison Blickle, curated by Leslie & Ciara Gilmartin, Parlour, NYC
Hail Lampyridae!: curated by Elaine Matthias & Everett Dinapoli, CSV Cultural Arts Center, NYC

2007
Five Years (2002-2007), The Proposition Gallery, New York, NY
SCOPE Miami Art Fair, Miami, FL, The Proposition Gallery

2005
Above the Trendy, the Down and Out, The Proposition Gallery, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Show, Yale School of Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2003
First Year Exhibition, Yale School of Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2000 – 2003
Various Group shows, Bates Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

March 2002
Group Show, A.I.R. Gallery, New York NY


AWARDS

Recipient: 2005 George R. Bunker Award for outstanding work in Painting, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Invited to paint a cow in Chicago’s Cows on Parade public arts program.
Recipient: 2002 Geraldine Putnam Clark Award for an Outstanding Junior in the Studio Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY.


PRESS

August 2007, Paper Magazine, “Opinion”
October 2006, Geek Magazine, “Geek of the Month”
Summer 2006, 34 Magazine, “Steal This Clone”