Megan Young is an arts administrator, curator, and educator with an interdisciplinary arts practice. Since 2018, she has provided creative oversight and operational management for the residency and exhibition programs at SPACES in Cleveland. Previous experience includes managing Solid Ground gallery in the Chicago Arts District and directing projects through the MegLouise collective.
Young’s works have earned critical acclaim, including features in Hyperallergic, The Atlantic, and on National Public Radio (NPR). Credits include new commissions for Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology, City University of Hong Kong / ISEA, 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. Curatorial projects include the exhibition and community engagement of A Public Trust at SPACES and artist works considering reparations in Past Due at Zygote Press.
Young presents workshops, residencies, and coursework for visual and performing arts departments, including: Kent State University, The 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
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, City University of Hong Kong / ISEA
2016: Longest Walk, Glass Curtain Gallery
2016: Unsuccessful Wrestling, Center for Applied Theater & Active Culture
2015: Breakwall, SiTE:Lab, ArtPrize
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
Awards
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
15, 16, 17: Development Grants, Kent State University
2011 – 2014: Follett Graduate Merit Award, Columbia College Chicago
2002, 2003: Points of Light Fellowship, United Way & Volunteer Center