Megan Johnson
Education
2017-2020 MFA Candidate, emphasis Drawing and Painting, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
2013-2016 BFA May 2016, emphasis in printmaking and painting, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
Exhibitions
2020 Solo Exhibition, Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, Baldwin Gallery,
Tucson, AZ (upcoming)
2020 Solo Exhibition, “Nightwatch”, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Step Gallery,
Phoenix, AZ
2019 Group Exhibition, “Every Body”, Step Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2019 Group Exhibition, “Post- Summer Show”, Fine Art Complex 1101
, Tempe, AZ
2019 Group Exhibition, “Galbut Prize”, Harry Wood Gallery,
ASU, Tempe, AZ
2019 Group Exhibition, “ Nathan Cummings Award”, Harry Wood Gallery,
ASU, Tempe, AZ
2019 Group Exhibition, “New Art Arizona”, Shemer Art Center,
Phoenix, AZ
2018 Group Exhibition, “Sunniest Place on Earth, All Media Juried
Exhibition”, Yuma Art Center, Yuma, AZ
2018 Group Exhibition, “Expulsion: Painting as a Proxy Act and Action”,
Tempe Fine Art Complex, Tempe, AZ
2018 Group Exhibition, “Inaugural Galbut Prize”, Harry Wood Gallery,
ASU, Tempe, AZ
2018 Group Exhibition, “MFA Summer Juried Exhibition”, Harry Wood
Gallery, ASU, Tempe, AZ
2018 Group Exhibition, “Bridged”, +Art Galeria Taller,Quito, Ecuador 2017 Group Exhibition, “The Fate of Landscape Painting”, Tempe Fine Art
Complex, Tempe, AZ
2017 Group Exhibition, ASU, New MFA Show, Harry Wood Gallery, ASU,
Tempe, AZ
2016 Group Exhibition, NDSU Spring Baccalaureate Exhibition, Memorial
Memorial Union Gallery, NDSU, Fargo, ND
2016 Group Exhibition, Student Juried Exhibition, Flakoll Gallery,
Renaissance Hall, NDSU, Fargo, ND
2015 Two- Person Exhibition, Baccalaureate Preview Exhibition,
Flakoll Gallery, Renaissance Hall, NDSU, Fargo, ND, (with
Photographer Shelby Steidl)
2015 Group Exhibition, “Jim Falk Recycled Show”, Flakoll Gallery,
Renaissance Hall, NDSU, Fargo, ND
2015 Group Exhibition, South Africa Photo Exhibition, September
Corks and Canvas, Salon 3|5,Fargo, ND
2015 Group Exhibition, Scale: From Fargo to South Africa”, Flakoll
Flakoll Gallery, Renaissance Hall, NDSU, Fargo, ND
2015 Group Exhibition, Student Juried Exhibition, Flakoll Gallery,
Renaissance Hall, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
2015 Group Exhibition, Community Print Exchange, Plains Art Museum,
Fargo, ND
2014 Group Exhibition, Memorial Union, Absence, North Dakota State
University
2013 Group Exhibition, Central Michigan University Park Library Print
Exchange, Mount Pleasant, MI
2013 Solo Exhibition, May Corks and Canvas, Boerth’s Gallery, Fargo, ND 2013 Group Exhibition, NDSU, Visual Arts Department, 2014
Accreditation
Clubs/Community Involvement
2018 ASU Drawing 1 Head Instructor
2016 NDSU Under Pressure Press: President
2016 April 19th 2016, Artist Talk/Painting Demonstration, Memorial Union
Gallery, Fargo, ND
2014-16 NDSU Spectrum; Arts Writer
2015 NDSU Under Pressure Press: Secretary 2014 NDSU Under Pressure Press: Treasurer
Residencies
2015 Artist-in-Residence, Caversham Press, Howick, South Africa
2015 Artist-in Residence, Durban Center for Photography, Durban, South
Africa
Grant/ Awards
2020 ASU Special Talent Art Scholarship
2019 Marigold Linton Scholarship
2019 ASU Special Talent Art Scholarship
2018 ASU Special Talent Art Scholarship
2018 Gayle J. Novak & Robert D. Cock Award in Painting Scholarship 2016 High Plain Reader, Best of the Best: Emerging Artist Award 2016 James Falk Visual Arts Scholarship
2016 NDSU Visual Arts Scholarship
2016 Fargo Moorhead Fine Arts Club Scholarship 2015 Federal Pell Grant
2015 North Dakota State Grant
2015 NDSU Student Juried Exhibition Honorable mention 2015 NDSU Visual Arts Scholarship
2014 Federal Pell Grant
2014 North Dakota State Grant
2013 Federal Pell Grant
2013 North Dakota State Grant
2018 2016 2015
Summer 2020 Spring 2020 Fall 2019 2017-2019 2016-2017
Publications
Voyage Phoenix, Robert Williamson, “Artists Series; Megan Johnson” (interview)
High Plains Reader, HPR Staff, “Best of the Best Series; Megan Johnson” (article)
NDSU Visual Arts in South Africa, Adventures in making art and meeting new artists, (collaborative blog)
Teaching
Summer 2020 Landscape Summer Camp Teacher, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Spring 2020 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Instructor of Watercolor 1, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Fall 2019 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Instructor of 2-d Design, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
2018-19 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Instructor of Drawing, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
2016-17 Elementary Art Teacher, Challenge Charter School, Glendale, Arizona