TEACHING:

2009-present: Assistant Professor of Studio Art and Director of Foundations. University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Alabama. Courses Taught: Drawing I, Drawing II, Advanced Drawing: Human Figure, Mixed Media, BFA Foundations Seminar with Writing Reinforcement, Professonal Outreach Seminar

2006-2009: Teaching Associate, Instructor of Record, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA. Courses taught: Basic Design, Foundations Drawing, Painting I, Advanced Drawing, Digital Imaging.

 

EDUCATION:

University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Master of Fine Arts, Studio Arts, 2009.

Colgate University, Hamilton NY, Bachelor of Arts (Honors in Art, Magna cum laude), Art and Art History, 2009

 

SOLO EXHIBITONS:

2012:

Mega Ruins in Micro Times, Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL, November 2012 (upcoming).

2011:

Excursion, Edreich Architecture Space, Sponsored by Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL

2010:

A Little Divided, Second Row Studios/ROAM PROJECTS, Birmingham, AL

Soft Landing, Charles Harris Library Gallery, Wise, VA

Revival, Bloch Hall Gallery, University of Montevallo, Montevallo, AL

2009:

Regalia and Repetition, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

New Works, Essential Design, Boston, MA.

 

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

2011:

In and Out of Whack, The Project Space, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas

The Contemporary Arts Center of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada

SCA Contemporary, Albuquerque, New Mexico,

Chester F. Sidell Gallery, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, Mass.

Arts Place, Portland, Indiana (upcoming, January 2012)

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011:

Neither a Lie Nor a Confession, Maria Antelman, Deb Karpman, Slavs and Tatars, and Alexandra Lerman, Court Square Project Space, Long Island City, NY

minumental, Trifecta Gallery, Las Vegas, NV

The Violent Nature of Love: Patterns of Comfort, Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL.

Pulp, Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL.

Alabama Contemporary Art Biennial, Johnson Center for the Arts, Troy, AL

Painting With Pictures II, Art Jail, New York, NY

2010:

Cut Copy, Engine Room, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, Curated by Shona Macdonald

17th Annual SECAC/MACAA Member's Show, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, Juried by Joe Seipel

Spring Break, Caelum Gallery, NY, NY, Curated by Nicholas Bergman and Misuzu Takemoto

New Works: Misty Bennett, Deb Karpman, and Ted Metz, Johnson Center for the Arts, Troy-Pike Cultural Complex, Troy, AL

Art of the State, Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Juried by Jill Chancey, Curator, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS, January - March 2010

Drawing Discourse: An Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, Tucker Cooke Gallery, University of North Carolina Asheville, Juried by Deborah Rockman, Professor of Art at Kendall College of Art and Design at Ferris University, January-February 2010

2009:

Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Juried by Charles Long, December 2009-January 2010

Seasons, Youngblood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, December 2009.

Paper Explorations, Wallace L. Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State College, MA.

Flower Power, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

UMass-RISD Exchange Show, Benson Hall Art Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

2008:

Remedy, Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, Juried Invitational, November 2008.

New York/New England/New Talent, Hampden Gallery, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, Juried by David Gibson and Klaus Postler.

Radius, Herter Art Gallery, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Boston Young Contemporaries, Boston University 808 Gallery, Boston, MA, Juried by Roger White, Jackie Gendel, and Tom McGrath.

Paper in the Wind Part I, A Small Works Exhibition, RealForm ArtSpace/Article Projects, Williamsburg, New York.

New Art 2008, MPG Contemporary Gallery, Boston MA, Juried, National. Curated by Rachel Rosenfeld Safo, Director of Curatorial Affairs, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park.

Midway, Student Union Art Gallery, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

More is More, Student Union Art Gallery, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA February 2008 (Co-Curated Exhibition with Kimberly Hennessy)

2007:

Counterpoints, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists Space, NY.

The Fantastical, Student Union Gallery, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Transcribing the Figure, Campbell Hall Gallery, Western Oregon University.

Boston Printmaker's North American Biennial and Arches Show, Boston University 808 Gallery, Boston, MA.

Visual Noise, UMC Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

The Condom Show, Naked Duck Gallery, Williamsburg NY.

2006:

BGH Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA.

In House, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

GASA Show, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

2005:

Concentrator's Exhibition, Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY.

National Arts Club 18th Annual Exhibition (Juried Invitational), National Arts Club, New York City, February 2005. Winner, Marguerite R. Josel Prize.

2004:

National Arts Club 17th Annual Exhibition (Juried Invitational), National Arts Club, New York City.
February 2004, Winner, Art Spirit Foundation First Prize.

 

REPRESENTATION:

Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL. www.mauscontemporary.com


GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS:

Visual Arts Fellowship Recipient, Alabama State Council for the Arts, 2011-2012

University Teaching Fellow, University of Montevallo, 2011-2012

Research and Creative Projects Grant Recipient, University of Montevallo, 2010-2011.

Finalist, Sprout Emerging Artist Competition, Juried by Jane Adlin, Associate Curator of 19th Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Katherine Brinson, Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum of Art; Kathryn MacLeod-Schafter, Senior Photography Producer, Vanity Fair; Julie Ragolia, Fashion Director, CITY Magazine; and Will Ryman, Artist, 2009.

Nominated for the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting, 2008.

Nominated for the Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture, 2008.

Harriet Wagner Prize in Art and Art History, 2005.

Marguerite R. Josel Prize (NAC Show), 2005.

J. Curtiss Taylor Research Grant in Arts and Humanities, 2004.

Art Spirit Foundation First Prize (NAC Show), 2004.

 

REVIEWS/PRESS:

"In and Out of Whack wonderfully twists grand and restrained art styles at CAC," Las Vegas Weekly, Danielle Kelly, August 2011, http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2011/aug/03/and-out-whack-wonderfully-twists-grand-and-restrai/

The Boston Globe, Review of Boston Young Contemporaries, Cate McQuaid, July 23 2008.

KUFH Public Radio, Interview with Megan Hendley in conjunction with the exhibtion In and Out of Whack, Houston, Texas, Lawndale Art Center, November 2010, Aired on January 7, 2011.

The Birmingham News, June 20, 2010, James Nelson

Black and White City Paper, Featured on cover of May 2010 edition for ROAM Projects Exhibition

 

RESIDENCIES:

Artist-in-Residence, Stonehouse Residency for Contemporary Art, Miramonte, CA

 

VISITING ARTIST LECTURES / PANELS:

Panelist, "Collage as Contagion: Toward a Process of Mutation" Southeastern College Art Conference, Savannah, GA, upcoming, Nov. 2011

Guest Critic, Birmingham Southern College, Senior Seminar, Oct. 2011

Gallery Talk, "In and Out of Whack," Las Vegas Contemporary Art Center, Las Vegas, NV

Gallery Talk, "In and Out of Whack" Lawndale Art Center, Nov. 2010

Visiting Artist, "Strange Pageantries: Gesture and Repetition," University of Virginia - Wise, Wise, VA, 2010

 

OTHER DISTINCTIONS:

Inclusion in Flat Files at Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Inclusion in The Viewing Program, The Drawing Center, NY, NY

 

AFFILIATIONS:

College Art Association, Member of Students and Emerging Professionals Committee, 2011-2014

Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) 2009-2010