Megan Young is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator with an arts administration background. Her works have earned critical acclaim, including features in Hyperallergic, The Atlantic, and on National Public Radio (NPR). Credits include commissions for the International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology, and Open Engagement. Notable projects include the multi-year embodied installations and community dialogue of Longest Walk and interactive political critique of Cloud of Whiteness. She was recently awarded a CEC ArtsLink Residency for socially engaged creative practice in Yerevan, Armenia.
From 2018-2021, Young provided creative oversight and operational management for residency, exhibition, and award programs at SPACES in Cleveland. Previous experience includes managing Solid Ground Studio in the Chicago Arts District and directing interdisciplinary projects through the MegLouise collective.
Young presents workshops, residencies, and coursework for visual and performing arts departments, including: Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA), Kent State University, University of Akron, and Baldwin Wallace University. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art & Media from Columbia College Chicago; BFA in Dance Composition from Ohio University.
Select Exhibitions
2021: Coming Suddenly, Passing Strangely, SPACES
2020: A Public Trust, SPACES
2019: Past Due, Zygote Press
2018: And Me in My Place, Art Souterrain
2018: Longest Walk, Ohio University Gallery
2018: Nuclear Winter, Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology
2017: Scores for Distributed Dancing, Columbus College of Art & Design
2017: Cloud of Whiteness, SPACES
2016: Scores for Distributed Dancing, ISEA
2016: Longest Walk, Glass Curtain Gallery
2015: Breakwall, SiTE:Lab
2015: And Me in My Place, Woman Made Gallery
Select Press
In Response to Rampant Mass Shootings, Artists Offer a Visceral Reality / Sarah Rose Sharp, Hyperallergic
With Regard to Cleveland / Bean Gilsdorf, Open Space, SFMOMA
What is a Feminist Social Practice? / Kerry Cardoza, New City
Reflections on Megan Young’s Cloud of Whiteness / Katherine Cooper, Women & Performance Journal
Art and Body Politics at the Republican National Convention / Diana Sette, Hyperallergic
Returning the Joy to Voting / David Giffels, The Atlantic
Next Level Nostalgia / Tesh Ekman, Pressure Magazine
SPACES Doles Out More Emergency Relief / Shawn Mishak, Cleveland Scene
Select Awards
2021: CEC ArtsLink Residency
2021: Akron Soul Train Residency
2021: SloMoCo Microresidency
2019, 2020: ArtsNEXT, Ohio Arts Council
2016, 2018: Individual Artist Excellence, Ohio Arts Council
2018: Greenhouse Grant, Chicago DanceMakers Forum
2016: Creative Workforce Fellowship, CPAC/Cuyahoga Arts & Culture
2016: Project Grant, Citizen University/Knight Foundation
2013, 2015: Development Grant, City of Chicago DCASE
2015: Seed Grant, Art Prize
2002, 2003: Points of Light Fellowship, United Way & Volunteer Center