
Megan Young is an interdisciplinary artist underscoring all that is human across technological ecosystems. She explores the rules, codes, and presets of our social and cultural spheres while crafting alternative spaces to imagine otherwise.
Young’s socially engaged projects, curation, and embodied installations 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), Open Engagement (Chicago), Art Souterrain (Montreal), SPACES (Cleveland), Chicago Cultural Center, and the Ammerman Center Biennial Symposium on Arts & Technology. Recognition includes a Knight Foundation technology grant, CEC ArtsLink residency, and two OAC Individual Excellence Awards.
Young is on faculty at Indiana University and has previously taught for visual and performing arts departments at Baldwin Wallace University, Cleveland Institute of Art, and Kent State University. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art + Media from Columbia College Chicago and a BFA in Dance from Ohio University.
Awards
- 2022: Knight Foundation – Tech Capacity Grant
- 2021: CEC ArtsLink – Art Prospect Residency
- 2021: MOCO – SloMoCo Microresidency
- 2019, 2020, 2021: Ohio Arts Council – Arts Next Grants
- 2016, 2018: Ohio Arts Council – Individual Artist Excellence Awards
- 2018: Chicago DanceMakers Forum – Greenhouse Grant + Commission
- 2016: Cuyahoga Arts & Culture [CPAC – Creative Workforce Fellowship
- 2016: Citizen University – Joy of Voting Commission
- 2013, 2015: City of Chicago DCASE – Residency + Commissions
Press
- What is a Feminist Social Practice? Kerry Cardoza, New City
- Feminist Social Practice: A Manifesto, Neysa Page-Lieberman + Melissa Hilliard Potter, ASAP/Journal
- Art and Body Politics at the Republican National Convention, Diana Sette, Hyperallergic
- Returning the Joy to Voting, David Giffels, The Atlantic
- Body Group, Jesse Hewit, SFMOMA OpenSpace
- With Regard to Cleveland, Bean Gilsdorf, SFMOMA OpenSpace
- Reflections on Megan Young’s Cloud of Whiteness, Katherine Cooper, Women & Performance Journal
- SPACES Doles Out More Emergency Relief, Shawn Mishak, Cleveland Scene
- Next Level Nostalgia, Tesh Ekman, Pressure Magazine
- In Response to Rampant Mass Shootings, Artists Offer a Visceral Reality, Sarah Rose Sharp, Hyperallergic
Select Exhibitions
- 2023: Resilience, Designing Interactive Systems Exhibition at Carnegie Mellon University
- 2023: Lineages of Birth, Mellon Foundation funded partnership IU Kinsey Institute and local library systems
- 2023: With What We Could Carry, Humankind Series at Manierre Dawson Gallery
- 2022: Sign Stealing, Armenia Art Fair: Open Space Platform
- 2022: Sign Stealing, Ann Arbor Film Festival: Off the Screen!
- 2021: Coming Suddenly, Passing Strangely, SPACES+Columbia College Chicago
- 2020: A Public Trust, SPACES
- 2019: Past Due, Zygote Press
- 2018: And Me in My Place, Art Souterrain
- 2018: Longest Walk, Ohio University Gallery
- 2018: Nuclear Winter, Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology
- 2017: Scores for Distributed Dancing, Columbus College of Art & Design
- 2017: Cloud of Whiteness, SPACES
- 2016: Scores for Distributed Dancing, ISEA
- 2016: Longest Walk, Glass Curtain Gallery
- 2015: Breakwall, SiTE:Lab