Meridith McNeal 

GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Figureworks, Brooklyn NY, Randall Harris Director
Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT, Amy Simon Director
H.A.C. Gallery, Kobe City, Japan, Shiro Sasaki Director

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008    Magical Things (one person), St. Joseph’s College Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
             When We Were Six (one person), Cannon’s Walk, South Street Seaport, NYC
            Dress Up (one person), Fairleigh Dickinson University Art Gallery, Teaneck, NJ
            Represent Brooklyn, TRA Gallery, Brooklyn
            Heart & Soul (Younity), Alphabeta, Brooklyn, NY
2007   Flow: Miami Invitational Art Fair, Amy Simon Fine Arts, Miami, FL                                                                                                              Money, Hewitt Gallery of Art, NYC
            Crossover: Fusion of Female Stylez, Ideaz and Skillz, The Showroom, NYC
            Highlights 2007, Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY
            Punchbowl, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
            Hot Summer Art Battle, Sans Quoi Gallery, Okayama, Japan                         
            Stitched, Surface Library Gallery, East Hampton, NY
            Beside Your Shimmering Doorway in Emily Dickenson, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY    
            Keeping Room (one person), Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY                                                                                                                             Playing For Keeps, Atlantic Gallery, NYC           
            Summer Rotation 2007, Amy Simon Fine Arts, Westport, CT
            ART @ Forte, Forte Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY
            The Spirit of Color, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT         
            Well Dressed, Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC
            The Handmaking, Abington Art Center, Jenintown PA          
2006   Personal Geographies, Hunter 42nd Street Gallery, NYC
            Trashion, Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY
            Trash: What We Value & What We Throw Away, Atlantic Gallery, NYC
            Here Comes the Bride, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
            Racing Pages, LGB&T Community Center, NYC
            Potent Sorcery (one person installation in Threads of Memory), Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
            Brooklyn, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
2005   A Sense of Place, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA
            Another Place, Another Time (one person), H.A.C. Gallery, Kobe City, Japan
            Figurations, Kentler Satellite Flatfile at Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
            Art Bar, Gallery on the Ithaca Commons, Ithaca, NY
            Brooklyn Kicks Ass, Gallery D3, Brooklyn, NY
            Breaking Ground, New York Horticultural Society Gallery, NYC
            Got Quirk?, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Il
            Distance Made Good, Fading Ad, Brooklyn NY
2004   You Must Remember This (one person), Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY
            Uncharted Territories (one person), Wood, Rafalsky & Wood, Brooklyn, NY
            Romantic Places (one person), Berlitz, NYC
            Pattern & Decoration, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
            Memory, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
            Balancing Act, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, NYC
            Subjective Mapping by Artists & Cartographers, Julie Saul Gallery, NYC
            She Must Have Looked Lovely in That Dress, (w/Laura C. Hewitt) Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY
            Distance Made Good, gallerythe, Brooklyn, NY
2003   Multiple Memorials, Viridian Gallery, NYC
            Postcards From The Edge, Galerie Lelong, NYCS
            Paper Cuts, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
2002   Peace, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
            Beautiful Necessity (one person), Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY
            Ground Zero, Detroit Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI
            Souls of Humanity, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2001   Assumed Presence (w/Laura C. Hewitt), ACT, Indianapolis, IN
            eMotion Pictures, Herbst International Exhibition Hall, San Francisco, CA
            Misinterpretation: Naming the Thing One Sees (w/Laura C. Hewitt), TAI Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
    
PUBLICATIONS
“Stitched” The Independent. Joan Baum. May 23 2007
“Needlework Scratches the Surface at Gallery” South Hampton Press. Pat Rogers. May 2007
"Brooklyn Dispatches" The Brooklyn Rail,  James Kalm, May 2007
"Works that speak in a 19th Century poets voice" The New York Times,  Benjamin Genochhio, March 18, 2007
“How a solitary poet of the past speaks to 10 artists today” The New York Times, Martha Schwendener, March 9, 2007
“Visual artists give solid form to Emily Dickinson's ethereal poetry” The Riverdale Press, Nicole LaRosa, March 8, 2007
“The Belle of Wave Hill” The New York Sun, Amanda Gordon, March 1, 2007
“Coney Island Divas” WNBC, Cat Greenleaf, February 19, 2007                                                                                                            “Wearable Art?” The Brooklyn Papers, Stasha Vasilyek, September 15, 2006                                                                             “Threads of Memory” ARTnews, Ann Lando, May 2006                                                                                                                        "Brooklyn Accents Turn up in Westport” Connecticut Post, Philip Eliasoph, February 5, 2006
“Dateline Brooklyn” Artnet.com Magazine, Stephen Maine, September 30, 2004
“Balancing Act” New York Times, Ken Johnson, February 20, 2004
“Meridith McNeal” Brooklyn Heights Press, Don Evans Jan 1, 2004
“Paper Cuts” New York Times, Arts & Leisure, Sunday January 5, 2003
“Meridith McNeal” New York Arts Magazine, James Kalm, September 2002
“Beautiful Necessity” New York Arts Magazine, Rachael Stark, September 2002
“Paper Doll” Brooklyn Papers, Lisa J. Curtis, July 22, 2002
“Beautiful Necessity” Brooklyn Journal of Arts and Urban Affairs, July 4, 2002

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS CURATED
2008   Truly Inspiring, Rush East NY, Brooklyn, NY
            Transformers (w/Danny Simmons), Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
            Crossing Cultures (w/Danny Simmons) Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY                                                                                                   Rush Kids/Teens (annually 2006-), Corridor Gallery & Rush Arts Gallery, NYC
2007   A Certain Slant of Light, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
            Keep the Change, Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC
            Read Me a Story, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
            Brooklyn Nature, St. Joseph’s College Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
            Weave, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
            Alternate Realities (w/ Danny Simmons), Brooklyn Borough Hall, Brooklyn, NY
2006  Coney Island Divas, Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn, NY
            Rush Kids (annually 2005-) Rush Arts & Corridor Galleries, NYC
2005  Organized Spaces, Asian American Arts Centre, NYC
            Seeing Stories, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn NY
            KidsArt (annually 1989 - 2005), Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2004   All the Numbers I Know, Rotunda Gallery
            Conceptual Realism, Rotunda Gallery
            Recycle/Reuse/Reexamine, Rotunda Gallery
2003   Explaining Magic (w/Janet Riker), Rotunda Gallery
            To Scale (w/Janet Riker), Rotunda Gallery
2002   20 / 02 (w/Janet Riker), Rotunda Gallery
            Try This (w/Janet Riker), Rotunda Gallery
2001   Cities and Desire (w/Janet Riker), Rotunda Gallery

CONFERENCES AND LECTURES
Getting Into a Gallery (panelist) Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 2005
Workshops for Visual Artists Full-Time Artist: Business of Art Conference (presenter) NYFA, NYC 2004
Balancing Studio Practice while working in the Field (lecturer) Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY 2004
Making critical decisions shaping the contemporary scene (panelist) Abrons Art Center, NYC 2004
Alternative Exhibition Spaces (panelist) Artists Talk on Art 2003
Beautiful Necessity (lecture) 2002
Studio Tours Public Artists working in Williamsburg PAN (Public Art Network) NYC Conference 2001
Studio Practice and Exhibiting Work (lecturer) Marymount Manhattan College 2000, 2001
Contemporary Collage (lecturer) Brooklyn Public Library 1999
Studio Practice (guest artist) Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville NY 1998/1999
Contemporary Painting/Collage/Bookarts (lecturer) Rotunda Gallery Brooklyn, NY 1995, 97, 98

AWARDS AND HONORS
2008    Visiting Artist/Scholar, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
             GGP exhibition support, When We Were Six, NYC
             Women’s Action Network, Featured Artist, Online project, Lexington, Kentucky
2005    Art Bar artist, Ithaca Fine Art Chocolates, Ithaca, NY
2001    Lilly Foundation Sponsorship of Assumed Presence
1986    Change Inc.
1985    Skowhegan fellowship
    
EDUCATION
Vermont College Norwich University, Montpelier VT MFA 1998
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY BFA 1985
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 1980-1982

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