About
Megan Young is a transmedia artist underscoring all that is human across technological ecosystems. She explores the rules, codes, and presets of our social and cultural spheres while working to craft more humane dwelling places. Her creative research unfolds through experimental archives, movement portraits, and interactive experiences.
Young’s socially engaged projects and curation have earned critical acclaim through features in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Hyperallergic, and on National Public Radio (NPR). Exhibition credits include commissions for the Armenia Art Fair, ISEA (Hong Kong), Art Souterrain (Montreal), Open Engagement (Chicago), Chicago Cultural Center, and the Biennial Symposium on Arts & Technology. Recognition includes a CEC ArtsLink Art Prospect Residency, Knight Foundation technology grant, Satellite Fund Award from the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts as administered by SPACES, and two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards.
Young holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art + Media from Columbia College Chicago; BFA in Dance from Ohio University. She is a Lecturer and Digital Art Area Head at Indiana University in the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design.
Featured Exhibitions
2025: The Carry Root Project, Interactive Media Lab, Cleveland, OH
2024: With What?, MOCO Exhibition, Utrecht, Netherlands
2024: In Touch, Ohio Arts Center Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
2023: Resilience, DIS Exhibition, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
2023: Lineages of Birth, Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN
2022: Sign Stealing, Open Space Platform, Yerevan, Armenia
2022: Bound, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
2020: A Public Trust, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
2018: And Me in My Place, Art Souterrain, Montreal, Canada
2018: Longest Walk, Ohio University Gallery, Athens, OH
2018: Nuclear Winter, Ammerman Center, New London, CT
2017: Cloud of Whiteness, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
2016: Scores for Distributed Dancing, ISEA Re>evolution, Hong Kong
2016: Longest Walk, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015: Breakwall, SiTE:Lab Rumsey Street Project, Grand Rapids, MI
Awards
2024: SPACES+Warhol Foundation – The Satellite Fund Award
2024: Assembly for the Arts – Creative Impact Award
2024: Indiana University – Eskenazi Technology + Innovation Lab Fellowship
2022: Knight Foundation – Tech Capacity Grant
2021: CEC ArtsLink – Art Prospect Residency
2016, 2018: Ohio Arts Council – Individual Artist Excellence Awards
2018: Chicago DanceMakers Forum – Greenhouse Grant
2016: CPAC – Creative Workforce Fellowship
2016: Citizen University – Joy of Voting Commission
2013, 2015: City of Chicago DCASE – Residency