Artist Registry
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RESUME
BIO
Meg Hahn is a painter and arts worker in Portland, Maine. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME; the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME; BUOY, Kittery, ME; Dunes, Portland, ME; SOIL, Seattle, WA; and Collar Works, Troy, NY, among others. She has attended residencies at Surf Point Foundation, York, The Golden Foundation Residency Program, The Vermont Studio Center, Hewnoaks Artist Colony, and the Monhegan Artists’ Residency. She has also been a co-director at Border Patrol, a curatorial collective, since 2017 and is the Development Coordinator at SPACE. She received her BFA in Painting with an Art History Minor from Maine College of Art & Design.
EDUCATION
2017 Bachelor of Fine Art, Painting, Art History Minor with Honors, Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME
RESIDENCIES + AWARDS
2023 Surf Point Foundation, York, ME
2021 The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
2018 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Vermont Studio Center Artist Merit Grant, Johnson, VT
2017 Hewnoaks Artist Colony, Lovell, ME
Monhegan Artists' Residency, Monhegan Island, ME
Joseph A. Fiore Painting Prize, Damariscotta, ME
Professional Development and Entrepreneurship Grant, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2016 Nomination to Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Window Views, Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME
2019 The Sun Is In The Middle, Gallery 49, Oxbow Blending & Bottling, Portland, ME
2018 Campus Center, University of New England, Biddeford, ME
Owen Gallery, Gould Academy, Bethel, ME
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS ( denotes **two or three-person exhibition)
2023 Art Show 3!, W.O.L.F. Walpole, ME
COLLECT: Art Sale, Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME
Summer Art Party, Katzman Contemporary Projects, Dover, NH
House Warming, 82 Parris, Portland, ME
2022 The More the Merrier, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, ME
**Surfacing, Zero Station, Portland, ME
A Window Is Also A Wall, Dunes, Portland, ME
COLLECT: Art Sale, Maine College of Art & Design
Art Show!, W.O.L.F., Walpole, ME
Painting Nerds, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
Tiny Pedestal Project, Dream Clinic Project Space, Columbus, OH
Art PM, BUOY Gallery, Kittery, ME
Made in Paint, The Sam and Adele Golden Gallery at Golden Artist Colors, New Berlin, NY
2021 Laundry Day 3, New System Exhibitions, Portland, ME
Not Just Another Anthropocenic Love Story, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Dinner with Friends, SOIL, Seattle, WA
Women in Abstraction, Curated by Destiny Palmer, New Art Corridor, Newton, MA
COLLECT: Art Sale, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
ArtPM, BUOY Gallery, Kittery, ME
2020 CMCA Biennial, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME
Woven Together, Engine, Biddeford, ME
Flat File 2020, Collar Works, Troy, NY
Distant Future, Curated by Jova Lynn, Wolf Kahn Gallery II, Johnson, VT
COLLECT: Art Sale, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Art PM, BUOY Gallery, Kittery, ME
Case Study #1, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
Small Works Show, Gray Day Studio, Yarmouth, ME
2019 **Noonside, Little Giant, Portland, ME
Wild Light, Hewnoaks Artist Colony, Lovell, ME
COLLECT: Invitational Summer Art Sale, ICA at MECA, Portland, ME
The Missing Half-Second, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
Siblings, Siblings, Chicago, IL
A Salon at Sugar Mountain, The Magenta Suite, Exeter, NH
Art PM, BUOY Gallery, Kittery, ME
2018 There’s No Beginning and There’s No End, BUOY Gallery, Kittery, ME
Rhythm & Rush, Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN, Juried by Catherine Haggarty
**Humble Circle, New System Exhibitions, Portland, ME
COLLECT: Invitational Summer Art Sale, ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Art PM, BUOY Gallery, Kittery, ME
Hewnoaks Alumni Show, Gallery 49, Oxbow Blending & Bottling, Portland, ME
CURATORIAL + SPECIAL PROJECTS
2023 Co-Curator, Viewfinder, Lewis Gallery, Portland, ME
2020 Co-Organizer, Re-Site, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
2019 Co-Organizer, Portland Terrain Biennial, Portland, ME
Curator, Flavor Profile, Border Patrol, Portland, ME
2017-PR Co-Director, Border Patrol, Portland, ME
VISITING ARTIST + JURY EXPERIENCE
2023 Juror, Maine Congressional Art Competition, Maine Arts Commission
Juror, Hewnoaks Artist Colony, Lovell, ME
2022 Visiting Critic, Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME
2021 Visiting Artist, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Panel Discussion, Abstraction and the Cosmos: Abstraction and Pattern, New Art Center, Newton, MA
Panel Discussion, Use of the Grid: Abstraction and Mapping, New Art Center, Newton, MA
Artist Talk, Who Do You Love, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME
2020 Juror, Rent-Free Studio Program, SPACE, Portland, ME
Juror, Scholastic Art Awards, Portland, ME
2019 Juror, Holiday Sale at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2018 Visiting Artist at Gould Academy, Bethel, ME
2018 Artist Talk, Humble Circle, New System Exhibitions, Portland, ME
Artist Talk, Monhegan Artists’ Residents Present!, Monhegan Artists’ Residency
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022-PR Development Coordinator, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
2019-23 Art Program Coordinator/Ed Tech III, PSL Services/STRIVE, South Portland, ME
2019-20 Painting Studio Technician, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2018 Preparator, The Art of Rube Goldberg, Lewis Gallery, Portland, ME
Preparator, “30x30” Comic Artists, Lewis Gallery, Portland, ME
2017 Preparator, Dahlov Ipcar: Stories, Lewis Gallery, Portland, ME
Exhibition Assistant, Zanzibar Henna Artists, Lewis Gallery, Portland, ME
2016 Gallery Intern, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
Editorial Assistant Intern, The Chart, Portland, ME
2015 Gallery Intern, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Jorge S. Arango, “Two Portland shows questions what’s ‘normal,’” Portland Press Herald, September 2022
2021 “Emerging Artists,” MECA Magazine, Maine College of Art, Winter 2021
Carl Little, “CMCA Biennial 2020,” Art New England, January/February 2021
2020 Edgar Allen Beem, “The next wave of Maine artists,” Portland Phoenix, July 2020
Jennifer G. Wolcott, “Art In Bloom,” Decor Maine, May 2020
2019 Olivia Canny, “Food, Mundanity, Devotion: Flavor Profile at Border Patrol,” The Chart, February 2019
2017 Cristopher Crosby, “8 Emerging Contemporary Artists From Maine to Know,” Culture Trip, November 2017