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