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Education
1991 Diploma in Studio Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Medford, MA
1984 B.F.A. in Graphic Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Grants/Awards/Residencies
2023 Surf Point Foundation, York, ME
2018 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Artist Fellowship, Finalist, Drawing & Printmaking
2004 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Artist Fellowship, Finalist, Drawing & Printmaking
2003 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Arts Lottery Grant, Artist Fellowship
1999 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Arts Lottery Grant, Artist Fellowship
1996 Alumni/ae Traveling Fellowship, SMFA/Tufts, Boston
Massachusetts Cultural Council, Arts Lottery Grant, Artist Fellowship
1993 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Arts Lottery Grant, Artist Fellowship
Exhibitions: Solo and Two-Person
2024 False Azure, Ellen Miller Gallery, Boston, MA
2022 Out of the Swing of the Sea, Meg Alexander: Selected Works 1992-2022, Ishibashi Gallery, Middlesex School, Concord, MA
2018 How Little is Enough?, Drive-by Projects, Watertown, MA
2015 Field to Flower, 5th Business Projects Gallery, Woodstock, VT
2013 Recent work by Meg Alexander and Richard Forster, Drive-by Projects, Watertown, MA
2011 New Landscapes, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2010 Sorry Deer, Taylor Gallery, Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, NH
2006 New Work, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 Forward Back, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 Drawings, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 Sculpture Installations, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
Exhibitions: Selected Group
2024 Perception Part 1/Perceived: Look Closely. Observe. Look Again, Suffolk University Gallery, Boston, MA
2024 Persistence of Drawing, Jane Deering Gallery: JDG'S New Second Space , Gloucester, MA
2024 Blue arrived, and, Jane Deering Gallery: JDG'S New Second Space, Gloucester, MA
2023 Stick People, Storefront Art Projects (Rebecca Doughty, selecting), Watertown, MA
2022. Art on Paper Fair, with Ellen Miller Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Dance of Opposites, Drive-by Projects, Watertown, MA
2022 Becoming Trees, ComcordArt, Concord, MA
2021 Marking Lives COVID-19, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
2020 Belated Spring, BK Projects @ Jameson & Thompson, Jamaica Plain, MA
2020 Drivin’ Along: 10th Anniversary Show, Drive-by Projects, Watertown, MA
2019 26th Drawing Show, Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2019 Treasures, Gateway Gallery, Brookline, MA
2018 Trees II, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2018 Power of the Flower, ConcordArt, Concord, MA
2017 Paperwork, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2017 Unveiled, HallSpace Drawing Project, HallSpace, Dorchester, MA
2017 Ptown Pop-Up, BK Projects @ 444 Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2017 Sunscreen, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2016 Transforming And New Considerations, Conley Harris Studio, Boston, MA
2014 Dreaming Gardens, Suffolk University Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 Place Value: Place as Inspiration, Cornelius Ayer Wood Gallery, Middlesex School, Concord, MA
2010 Mapping and Mating, Singer Editions, Boston, MA
2010 Winter Wonderland, The Beehive, Boston, MA
2009 For Real, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2009 New Works on Paper, OH+T Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 ex.05.03.06103, The Cartin Collection, Hartford, CT
2004 Curators’ Intuition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2002 Making a Mark, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2002 New England New Talent: 6th Biennial Exhibition, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2001 The Drawing Show, Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA,
(also included in: 1997, 1995, 1993)
1996 Traveling Scholars Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1996 Seats of Meaning: The Chair as Expression of Status, Style, and Spirit, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
1993 A Woman’s Place: Icons to Domesticity, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Commissions
2016 Middlesex School Music Department. Concept development and execution of lid decoration
for a newly commissioned Flemish style, double-manual harpsichord. India ink and milk paint on wood. Concord, MA
2015 Shepard Restaurant. Concept development and execution of large scale, site specific wall drawing (approximately 24’ x 4’)
for James Beard Award Winning chef Susan Regis’ restaurant. India ink and graphite on absorbent ground. Cambridge, MA
Collections
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Wellington Management, Boston, MA
The Cartin Collection, Hartford, CT
Private Collections in the United States, England, and South Africa
Selected Bibliography
Cate McQuaid, Ocean in a Drop, "The thud on the windowpane: Meg Alexander on the creation of "False Azure" at Ellen Miller Gallery" 10/8/24
Cate McQuaid, Ocean in a Drop, "Stick, stack, stuck: Wood is animate in "Stick People" at Storefront Art Projects", 6/9/23
Jerry Russo, Zoom interview for archive on artists’ experiences during the pandemic, 10/22/20
Dan Blask, ArtSake blog, Massachusetts Cultural Council, “Studio Views”, April 2018
Staff, Boston Voyager, “Meet Meg Alexander,” interview, October 2017
Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, “Inspired by details of a place,” exhibition review of Place Value, 4/17/14
Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, “Razor Sharp: Recent Work by Meg Alexander and Richard Forster”, exhibition review of
Recent Work by Meg Alexander and Richard Forster, 6/5/13
Rachael Arauz, Exhibition Essay, “Meg Alexander and Richard Forster: Drawing”, May 2013
Sebastian Smee, Boston Globe, “Meg Alexander: An artist capturing nature in bristles and black
ink”, 4/28/13
New American Paintings, Volume 74, Published by Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2008
Anja Chavez, Exhibition Catalog, “New England New Talent,” Fitchburg Art Museum, 2002
Rebecca Tasker, Exhibition Catalog, “The 17th Drawing Show”, 2001
Bunny Pearlman, Exhibition Catalog, “A Woman’s Place…Icons to Domesticity”, 1992
Curatorial Projects
2014 Place Value: Place as Inspiration, Cornelius Ayer Wood Gallery, Concord, MA
Featuring works in various media by: Meg Alexander, Beth Galston, Pat Shannon, Nancy Murphy Spicer,
and Maggie Stark
Represented by Ellen Miller Gallery, Boston, MA
1991 Diploma in Studio Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Medford, MA
1984 B.F.A. in Graphic Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Grants/Awards/Residencies
2023 Surf Point Foundation, York, ME
2018 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Artist Fellowship, Finalist, Drawing & Printmaking
2004 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Artist Fellowship, Finalist, Drawing & Printmaking
2003 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Arts Lottery Grant, Artist Fellowship
1999 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Arts Lottery Grant, Artist Fellowship
1996 Alumni/ae Traveling Fellowship, SMFA/Tufts, Boston
Massachusetts Cultural Council, Arts Lottery Grant, Artist Fellowship
1993 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Arts Lottery Grant, Artist Fellowship
Exhibitions: Solo and Two-Person
2024 False Azure, Ellen Miller Gallery, Boston, MA
2022 Out of the Swing of the Sea, Meg Alexander: Selected Works 1992-2022, Ishibashi Gallery, Middlesex School, Concord, MA
2018 How Little is Enough?, Drive-by Projects, Watertown, MA
2015 Field to Flower, 5th Business Projects Gallery, Woodstock, VT
2013 Recent work by Meg Alexander and Richard Forster, Drive-by Projects, Watertown, MA
2011 New Landscapes, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2010 Sorry Deer, Taylor Gallery, Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, NH
2006 New Work, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 Forward Back, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 Drawings, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 Sculpture Installations, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
Exhibitions: Selected Group
2024 Perception Part 1/Perceived: Look Closely. Observe. Look Again, Suffolk University Gallery, Boston, MA
2024 Persistence of Drawing, Jane Deering Gallery: JDG'S New Second Space , Gloucester, MA
2024 Blue arrived, and, Jane Deering Gallery: JDG'S New Second Space, Gloucester, MA
2023 Stick People, Storefront Art Projects (Rebecca Doughty, selecting), Watertown, MA
2022. Art on Paper Fair, with Ellen Miller Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Dance of Opposites, Drive-by Projects, Watertown, MA
2022 Becoming Trees, ComcordArt, Concord, MA
2021 Marking Lives COVID-19, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
2020 Belated Spring, BK Projects @ Jameson & Thompson, Jamaica Plain, MA
2020 Drivin’ Along: 10th Anniversary Show, Drive-by Projects, Watertown, MA
2019 26th Drawing Show, Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2019 Treasures, Gateway Gallery, Brookline, MA
2018 Trees II, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2018 Power of the Flower, ConcordArt, Concord, MA
2017 Paperwork, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2017 Unveiled, HallSpace Drawing Project, HallSpace, Dorchester, MA
2017 Ptown Pop-Up, BK Projects @ 444 Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2017 Sunscreen, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2016 Transforming And New Considerations, Conley Harris Studio, Boston, MA
2014 Dreaming Gardens, Suffolk University Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 Place Value: Place as Inspiration, Cornelius Ayer Wood Gallery, Middlesex School, Concord, MA
2010 Mapping and Mating, Singer Editions, Boston, MA
2010 Winter Wonderland, The Beehive, Boston, MA
2009 For Real, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2009 New Works on Paper, OH+T Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 ex.05.03.06103, The Cartin Collection, Hartford, CT
2004 Curators’ Intuition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2002 Making a Mark, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2002 New England New Talent: 6th Biennial Exhibition, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2001 The Drawing Show, Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA,
(also included in: 1997, 1995, 1993)
1996 Traveling Scholars Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1996 Seats of Meaning: The Chair as Expression of Status, Style, and Spirit, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
1993 A Woman’s Place: Icons to Domesticity, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Commissions
2016 Middlesex School Music Department. Concept development and execution of lid decoration
for a newly commissioned Flemish style, double-manual harpsichord. India ink and milk paint on wood. Concord, MA
2015 Shepard Restaurant. Concept development and execution of large scale, site specific wall drawing (approximately 24’ x 4’)
for James Beard Award Winning chef Susan Regis’ restaurant. India ink and graphite on absorbent ground. Cambridge, MA
Collections
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Wellington Management, Boston, MA
The Cartin Collection, Hartford, CT
Private Collections in the United States, England, and South Africa
Selected Bibliography
Cate McQuaid, Ocean in a Drop, "The thud on the windowpane: Meg Alexander on the creation of "False Azure" at Ellen Miller Gallery" 10/8/24
Cate McQuaid, Ocean in a Drop, "Stick, stack, stuck: Wood is animate in "Stick People" at Storefront Art Projects", 6/9/23
Jerry Russo, Zoom interview for archive on artists’ experiences during the pandemic, 10/22/20
Dan Blask, ArtSake blog, Massachusetts Cultural Council, “Studio Views”, April 2018
Staff, Boston Voyager, “Meet Meg Alexander,” interview, October 2017
Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, “Inspired by details of a place,” exhibition review of Place Value, 4/17/14
Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, “Razor Sharp: Recent Work by Meg Alexander and Richard Forster”, exhibition review of
Recent Work by Meg Alexander and Richard Forster, 6/5/13
Rachael Arauz, Exhibition Essay, “Meg Alexander and Richard Forster: Drawing”, May 2013
Sebastian Smee, Boston Globe, “Meg Alexander: An artist capturing nature in bristles and black
ink”, 4/28/13
New American Paintings, Volume 74, Published by Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2008
Anja Chavez, Exhibition Catalog, “New England New Talent,” Fitchburg Art Museum, 2002
Rebecca Tasker, Exhibition Catalog, “The 17th Drawing Show”, 2001
Bunny Pearlman, Exhibition Catalog, “A Woman’s Place…Icons to Domesticity”, 1992
Curatorial Projects
2014 Place Value: Place as Inspiration, Cornelius Ayer Wood Gallery, Concord, MA
Featuring works in various media by: Meg Alexander, Beth Galston, Pat Shannon, Nancy Murphy Spicer,
and Maggie Stark
Represented by Ellen Miller Gallery, Boston, MA
