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)

2024

(upcoming) As We Are, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

(upcoming) TBD, The Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA

The Numbers Game, University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, ME

Ten thousand sprats to apprehend a whale, Pascal Hall, Rockport Harbor ME, curated by Anna Queen and Emma John

2023 

Art Show 3!, W.O.L.F. Walpole, 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

Art Show!, W.O.L.F., Walpole, ME

Painting Nerds, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME

Tiny Pedestal Project, Dream Clinic Project Space, Columbus, OH

Made in Paint, The Sam and Adele Golden Gallery at Golden Artist Colors, New Berlin, NY

2021 

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

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

Art PM, BUOY Gallery, Kittery, ME

Case Study #1, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME

2019       

Wild Light, Hewnoaks Artist Colony, Lovell, ME

The Missing Half-Second, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME

Siblings, Siblings, Chicago, IL

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

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

2018    Artist Talk, Humble Circle, New System Exhibitions, Portland, ME

Artist Talk, Monhegan Artists’ Residents Present!, Monhegan Artists’ Residency

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2022-PR Development & Special Projects Manager, 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               

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