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MEGAN WILSON www.MeganWilson.com • [email protected] • 415- 351- 8193 EDUCATION: San Francisco Art Institute: Master of Fine Arts, New Genres (1997) University of Oregon: Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts – Printmaking (1992) CURRENT PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE Co-Director, Board President, Curator, Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco, CA Non-Profit Development, Planning, and Marketing Consultant ON-GOING SOCIAL PRACTICE Founder, Co-Director, Better Homes & Gardens Today, ongoing project to benefit The Gubbio Project, Coalition On Homelessness, and At The Crossroads. www.BetterHomesAndGardensToday.org Co-Director, Clarion Alley Mural Project: CAMP is a diverse and inclusive community, a public space, and an organizing force that uses murals and street art as a means for supporting social justice messaging. www.ClarionAlleyMuralProject.org PUBLIC ART / PROJECTS / PERFORMANCES 2020 - Bangkit/Arise: Solidaritas! International exchange & residency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 2022 2018 End Apartheid BDS, public mural, Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco, CA. Bangkit/ Arise Palestina, poster project, Bangkit/Arise cultural exchange, San Francisco, CA. Wayang Polah, shadow puppet performance with Diff-Com, Panggungharjo, Indonesia. Urip Iku Urup, public mural, Bangkit/Arise cultural exchange, Pangunggharjo, Indonesia. Bangkit/Arise: Gotong Royong! International exchange/residency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia & SF, CA. 2017 Flower Interruption, 5-month residency with the Asian Art Museum, included: 1) Production of a mural in collaboration with poet Maw Shein Win 2) four-month community engagement project painting 2-block intstallation of large flowers directly on the sidewalks around the Museum; 3) Public performance; and 4) Limited edition silk-screened broadside letter, presented to city planners and leaders, addressing the Civic Center Commons Initiative, San Francisco, CA. www.FlowerInterruption.com 2016 Housing Is A Human Right, public mural with Christopher Statton, Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco CA. 2015 Menjamin Kesejahteraan Untuk Semua, public mural, part of Geneng Street Art Project #3, Geneng, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Stop The Corporatocracy, public mural, Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco, CA. Eviction = Death, series of public performances with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, SF, CA. 2014 Wall of Shame & Solutions, public mural, Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco, CA. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS 2017 1967 Summer of Love -> Summer of Rage & Resistance, window installation, Artists Television Access (ATA), satellite project with Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA SELECTED TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS 2015 Better Homes & Gardens Today, window installation with Christopher Statton, Artists Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, CA (second installation). Better Homes & Gardens Today, window installation w/ Christopher Statton, Roxie Theater, SF, CA. 2014 Better Homes & Gardens Today, window installation with Christopher Statton, Artists Television Access (ATA), SF, CA (first installation). Megan Wilson SELECTED GROUP / COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS 2019 Women of the Resistance Poster Portfolio: Lara Kiswani, created poster as part of screenprint portfolio, featuring 38 women, Poster Syndicate, San Francisco, CA. Women of the Resistance Poster Portfolio, Alley Cat Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2018 Push It Forward 3, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2017 Flower Power, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. Sixties Revisited, Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI. 2015 Fertile Ground: Art & Community in California, Oakland Museum of CA, Oakland, CA. 2012 Occupy Bay Area, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Changemaker Social, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Broadside Attractions, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. CURATORIAL 2018- Bangkit/Arise: International exchange & residency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia & San Francisco, CA. 2022 2012 Broadside Attractions | Vanquished Terrains, co-curated with Maw Shein Win, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. HONORS / AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS / RECOGNITIONS / RESIDENCIES 2021 2021 Global Mural Conference, Keynote Presenter, Hua Quan Village, China. 2019 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Mentor, Oakland, CA. Center for the Study of Political Graphics Collection, Bangkit Palestina, Los Angeles, CA. Palestine Poster Project Archives, Bangkit Palestina, Women of the Resistance: Lara Kiswani, Georgetown University. 2017 Flower Interruption, Asian Art Museum, 5-month residency, San Francisco, CA. 2015 Geneng Street Art Project #3, 3-month residency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2011 Finalist, Creative Capital, Visual Arts Grant $3,500 Grant, Zellerbach Family Foundation. Nominee, Eben Demarest Award. ARTIST TALKS / PRESENTATIONS / PANELS 2019 Children of the Jacaranda Tree: In Conversation with Sahar Delijani, ATA, San Francisco, CA. Public Art – Controversy, Neglect, Restoration, Shaping San Francisco, 518 Valencia. 2018 Bangkit/Arise, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. Bangkit/Arise, UC Berkeley, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Berkeley, CA. PUBLICATIONS Megan Wilson’s work is included in the following book publications: Are We The 99% by Dr. Heather McKee Hurwitz, Temple University Press; Capitalism On Edge by Dr. Albena Azmenova, Columbia University Press; Urban Scrawl: The Written Word in Street Art by Lou Chamberlin; Flower Power: The Meaning of Flowers in Asian Art by Dany Chan with forward by Jay Xu, Asian Art Museum; The Mission by Dick Evans, Heyday Press; Street Messages by Nicholas Ganz, Dokument Press; Public Works: Artists’ Interventions 1970s – Now edited by Christian L. Frock and Tanya Zimbardo; FRESH 1: Cutting Edge Illustrations in 3D and FRESH 2: Cutting Edge Illustrations in Public edited by Slanted; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 75 Years of Looking Forward, edited by Janet Bishop, Corey Keller, Sarah Roberts; Street Art San Francisco Mission Muralismo, edited by Annice Jacoby;Mural Art: Murals on Huge Public Surfaces Around the World by Kirakoss losifidis; Illustration: Play - Craving for the Extraordinary, Published by Victionary; Sama-Sama/Together: An International Exchange Project Between Yogyakarta and San Francisco, Published by Jam Karet; and The Gallery at Villa Montalvo: Selected Exhibitions from 1996-2000, edited by Theres Rohan. 2 .