Curriculum Vitae
Education
2023
MFA in Painting, Boston University, Boston, MA
2018
BFA in Studio Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
BA in Portuguese (minor), Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Selected Exhibitions
2024
ArtPM 2024, Buoy Gallery, Kittery, ME
Business Card Art Show, JKR Gallery, Provo, UT
2023
Into The Thicket, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Together/Alone, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN
MFA 2023 Thesis Exhibition, Stone Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
Intersections: Artistic Dialogues in Boston's Graduate Fine Arts Community, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
BU SVA Alumni Exhibition 2023, Gallery 808, Boston University, Boston, MA
2022
Painting At Night, Collar Works, Troy, NY
Two-Person Exhibition Undoing, Commonwealth Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
Art @Sloane, Sloane House, Boston University, Boston, MA
2021
All Walls: Contemporary Art Murals, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
2020
Solo Exhibition Mine Yours Ours, Eccles Gallery, SLCC, Salt Lake City, UT
35x35, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
From Before to Now, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
2019
Two-Person Exhibition In Here, Out There, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2018
Solo Exhibition Sorting and Ordering (BFA Thesis), B.F. Larson Main Gallery, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Two-Person Exhibition You could have rocked the stadium with your abstracts, PAL Gallery, Provo, UT
2017
Flat Death, Gallery 303, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Solo Exhibition Mine/Not, B.F. Larson Main Gallery, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Solo Exhibition Desire and Its Object, Gallery 303, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
2016
Two-Person Exhibition, Here is Home, Back Here Gallery, Provo, UT
Waiting: A Camera Phone Photography Show, Gallery 51, MCLA, North Adams, MA
Williams Prize in Drawing for Emerging Artists, The Silpe Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Grants / Awards
2023
Blanche E. Colman Award
2018
Oscarson Discovery Grant, Experiential Learning Grant for Art, Outstanding Senior Award
2017
BYU Fine Arts and Communications Film and Digital Media Grant, BYU Department of Art Talent Award, Open Studios Award
2016
Betty & Paul Boshard Award, Mary L. Wheatley Award, BYU Department of Art Talent Award
Bibliography
“Invisible Labor Made Visible Through Paint” – An Interview with Megan Arné by Rocio Cisneros, Exponent II, March 18, 2024
Artist, Mother, Proud & Serious, Vol. 1, Women United Art Movement, December 4, 2023
MFA Exhibition Catalog 2023, I Like Your Work, August 7, 2023
Cate McQuaid, “Six art-school stars to watch”, Boston Globe, May 3, 2023
Geoff Wichert, “UMOCA Brings Utah’s Mural Explosion Inside”, 15 bytes, August 30, 2021
Relevant Experience
2024
Painting acquisition for Corporate Collection, Fidelity Investments, February 2024
2023
Procreate Project Archive public activation participant, Makespace Oxford, Oxford, England
2022
Artist Talk, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, October 13-14
2020
Selected artist for 15 bytes “35x35: 35 Artists in Utah under 35”
Artist Residency in Motherhood, Orem, UT
Curator/Publisher of GAL Zine, Orem, UT
2018
Assistant to International Artists, Kirsi Mikkola & Peter Linde Busk, Berlin, Germany
2017
Archival Studies & Art Criticism Internship, Institute for Brazilian Studies, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Mural Painter, University of São Paulo, Brazil
2016
Assistant to International Artist, Joanna Kidney, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland