b. 1979, North Platte, NE
Lives and works in Chesapeake, VA
EDUCATION
MFA New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. 2010
BFA Sculpture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. 2002
Adelphi University Honor's College, Garden City, NY. Painting 2002
Copeland Mills School of the Arts, Chesapeake VA. Dance 1991-1997
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
Double Edged, Virginia MOCA/Boju Gallery, Virginia Beach, VA 2019 (upcoming)
SHESHOWS, curated by Amy Dignam, Leyden Gallery, London, UK, 2018
The Art of Surrender: Motherhood and the moving Image, Stills Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, UK, 2018
Vermont Center for Photography 2018 Juried Exhibition, curated by Shane Lavalette, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT. 2018
Is there a Mother In the House?, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL. 2018
The Art of Breastfeeding: Modern Narratives of Motherhood curated by Leigh Pennebaker and Martina Secondo Russo, MF Gallery, Brooklyn NY. 2018
New Waves 2018, curated by Cay-Sophie Rabinowitz, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA. 2018 (Second Place Award)
New Waves 2017, curated by Ken Harman, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA. 2017, (Third Place Award)
Brood Film Festival (Official Selection), Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, UK. 2016
New Waves, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA. 2016
Mistaken Impressions, Root Division, San Francisco, CA. 2016
Flesh and Blood, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland CA, 2016
Domestic Territories, Ollie Ollie, Fairfax, VA. 2016
TheSHOW 2015, D'Art Center, Norfolk, VA. 2015
Open C(all), Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA. 2015
The Tie That Binds, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD. 2014
New Waves 2013, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA. 2013
Tompkins Projects West, Dan Graham, Los Angeles, CA. 2011
Vernissage, Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, CA. 2010
The Lab Benefit Auction, The Lab, San Francisco, CA. 2010
Where Else? (Swell's Where), Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2010
The Drawing Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2010
Continuing MFA Exhibition, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2010
PastForward, Collaboration with Blade Wynne, The Lab, San Francisco, CA. 2010
The Paradox of the Sets, OnSix Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2010
Figuring Fiction, Swell Gallery. San Francisco, CA 2010
Traffik, Popwerks.com, online video exhibition. 2009
Lopped Off, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009
Here We Are, The Space at Alice, Providence, RI. 2008
The Brooklyn Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY. 2004
Family, Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn, NY. 2003
4 Artists/4 Media, 17 White St., New York, NY. 2002
Juried Senior Fine Arts Exhibition, Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. 2002
Pratt BFA Sculpture Senior Thesis Exhibition, Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. 2002
Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY. 2002
TEACHING
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Photography, Topics: The Darkroom, 2016/17
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Photography, Introduction to Digital Photography, 2012
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Teacher's Assistant, Photoworks, Instructor: Allan deSouza, 2010
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
Second Place Award, New Waves 2018, curated by Cay-Sophie Rabinowitz, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA 2018
Third Place Award, New Waves 2017, curated by Ken Harman, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA 2017
An Artist Residency in Motherhood, 5/2016 - 9/2016
First Place Award, Juried Senior Fine Arts Exhibition, Pratt Institute, NY 2002
PUBLICATIONS
Amy Hughes Braden, Maternal Journal zine, Artist Mother Studio through Washington Project for the Arts. 2018
Allan DeSouza, How Art Can be Thought: A Handbook for Change, Duke University Press, 2018 p.113.
Charlotte Jansen, ELEPHANT Magazine, Post-Partum Document online column, The Work-Life Balance is a Myth, September 2018
Anna Greer, 24 Women Artists Challenge Breastfeeding Stigme In This New Exhibit, Bust Magazine 2018 https://bust.com/arts/194292-brooklyn-breastfeeding-art-exhibit-reception.html
Megan Wynne, The House I Grew Up In, photo blog essay, Lenka Clayton's Artist Residency in Motherhood, 2017 http://www.artistresidencyinmotherhood.com/arimblog/2017/6/5/the-house-i-grew-up-in
Paula Chambers, The Nightdress I wore to Give Birth In: Performative materialities and maternal intersubjectivities. Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts, Vol. 22, Issue 4: On the Maternal. Pages 18-27, 2017Ana Silva, curator, MER, Winter 2016 Issue, December 2016
Dyana Gravina, ed., M.A.M.A. Issue n. 19 Megan Wynne and Susan Vespoli, August 2016
Procreate Project Photozine archive, Procreate Project, International touring archive based in London, UK, 2016
Marjorie Tesser, Ed, Mom Egg Review, Vol 14, Change, 2016
Betsy Dijulio, Talking New Waves 2016 at MOCA, Veer Magazine, March 15, 2016
Megan Meier and Jenny Cutler Lopez, Parenthood As Art, Northern Virginia Magazine, March 3, 2016
Sarah Burke, Life on Video, East Bay Express, January 13, 2016
Richard Nickel, Friday Featured Artist: Megan Wynne, AltDaily, November 6, 2015
Diane Speier, Postnatal Bodies: Maternal Representations, Body Images, and Mothers' Real Life Experience, Birthlight Womb to World Conference, Cambridge, UK. September 19, 2015
Betsy Dijulio, Making New Waves, Veer Magazine, March 15, 2013
Dorothy Santos, Inside the Artists Studio with Megan Wynne, September 22, 2010
ARTIST LECTURES
Story Exchange, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2018
ODU Department of Women's Studies WIP Conference, 2017
Museum of Motherhood Conference, Manhattan College, 2016
Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA. 2015
Frostburg University, Frostburg, MD. 2014