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Current & Upcoming Projects/Exhibitions & News:



Installation
Sun Valley Center for the Arts
191 5th Street East
Ketchum, ID
January 9 - February 28, 2009
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Bay Area Now 5
Galleon Trade: Bay Area Now 5 Edition
Guest curated by Jenifer Wofford

Sep 4–Oct 19, 2008 in YBCA's terrace galleries

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St @ 3rd
San Francisco, CA 94103-3138
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This Fever I Can't Resist
Installation and Drawings by Megan Wilson & Carolyn Castaño



thirtyninehotel

39 N. Hotel Street
Honolulu Hawaii
June 6 - July 26, 2008
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Viction:ary's publication: Illustration: Play - Craving for the Extraordinary is now available

About the book:
Getting more boredom from the computer-dominated design world, we always crave for new ways and trends of illustration. Appealing to the curious in all of us, our latest released title Illustration • Play will give you an insight into that! The title reveals the very different signature skills and unique styles of various illustration techniques and experiments, such as paper cutting, stitchery, hand knit, fabric piecing, origami, patchwork, etc. With exclusive interviews, lets' spread the pages and understand more about diverse yet distinct perspective of each featured artists in a total number of 23 from around the globe!

CONTRIBUTORS: Eleanor Bowley, Louisa Bufardeci, Peter Callesen, Genevieve Dionne, Miles Donovan, Stephanie Dotson, Catalina Estrada, AJ Fosik, Melvin Galapon, Steven Harrington, Jenny Hart, Caroline Hwang, Aya Kakeda, Johanna Lundberg, Carolina Melis, Sandrine Pelletier, Robert Ryan, Richard Saja, Vicky Scott, Lisa Solomon, Megan Whitmarsh, Megan Wilson, Ian Wright

248 pages
210 x 260mm
Released: November 2007

English edition
Full color throughout
Soft cover with dust jacket
ISBN 978-988-98229-3-4
Price: US$40.00
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Forever Summer
TBD
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The Fire Horse
The Luggage Store
TBD 2008

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Compilation of My Blog Posts on Galleon Trade:
September 16, 2007: Megan Wilson responds to Claire Light's "all eyes on the artists" >
September 5, 2007: When All Is Said And Done >
September 4, 2007: MANILA: A CITY OF EXTREMES 2 >
September 2, 2007: MANILA: A CITY OF EXTREMES >
August 27, 2007: Kittens & Chix >
August 19, 2007: MISSING MANILA >
August 13, 2007: HELLO MADAM, GOODBYE MANILA >
August 10, 2007: GREEN PAPAYA >
August 8, 2007: ARE YOU STRONG ENOUGH TO BE MY MAN >
August 6, 2007: RAINY DAY IN MANILA >

more to add ... soon
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Bio
Megan Wilson grew up in Montana. She received her BFA from the University of Oregon in 1992 and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1997. Her work has been exhibited nationally in San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, and Los Angeles; and internationally in Tokyo, Japan; Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Paris, France; Jaipur, India, and Manila Philippines. Wilson is a recipient of a 2000 grant award from the Gunk Foundation, a 2001 grant award from Artadia, grant awards from the Asian Art Council, Ford Foundation and San Francisco Foundation in 2003 for her project Sama-sama/Together, and an Individual Artist Commission grant award in 2005/06 from the San Francisco Arts Commission. In 2002, she was selected to design posters for the San Francisco Art Commission's Market Street Art in Transit poster series. She is also a freelance writer and art critic. In 2000-2001 she was a weekly contributing arts writer for the SF Bay Guardian. She co-founded the San Francisco based arts Website www.stretcher.org . Her writings have appeared in afterimage, Digitalcity, and Public Art Review. From 2000 - 2004, she was the co-director of the Clarion Alley Mural Project. In 2002-03 she initiated, curated, co-directed and participated in Sama-sama/Together , an international exchange project between artists from San Francisco and Apotik Komik of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The catalog for the project, Sama-sama/Together An International Exchange Project between Yogyakarta-San Francisco was published in May 2006 and is available at Intersection for the Arts.

Wilson is currently working on her project Forever Summer that was started in 2004 and will be completed in 2008. In 2007 Wilson had a solo show at Tin Lark Gallery in Los Angeles, was part of Wall Works 3 at Traywick Contemporary, and participated in the international exchange project Galleon Trade in Manila Philippines. She also traveled to Buenos Aires Argentina and Sao Paulo Brazil in fall of 2007 to conduct research for future projects. In 2008, Megan Wilson and Carolyn Castaño will collaborate on an installation at thirtyninehotel in Honolulu Hawai'i, Wilson will open her project Forever Summer to the public with dinner salons, curated events, and movie screenings for 2 months in July/August, and she will be one of the artists featured in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Bay Area Now exhibition. In 2009, Wilson will create an installation at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts that reflects on her family's roots in Idaho, dedicated to her father.

Curriculum Vitae (with links)
Curriculum Vitate (printable PDF)