
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 crafting more humane dwelling places. Her ongoing research into technology as ancestry unfolds through interactive installations, experimental videos, AR/VR design, and immersive performances.
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), 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 Art Prospect Residency, The Satellite Fund Award administered by SPACES and funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, 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.
Select Exhibitions
- 2025: The Carry Root Project: Live Taping, CIA Interactive Media Lab – XR Studio, Cleveland
- 2024: carry:root, Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington
- 2024: With What?, MOCO Exhibition at Parnassos Cultural Center, Utrecht, Netherlands
- 2024: In Touch (curation), Ohio Arts Center Riffe Gallery, Columbus
- 2024: In Touch (curation), Medici Art Museum, Warren
- 2023: Resilience, Designing Interactive Systems Exhibition, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh
- 2023: Lineages of Birth, Mellon Foundation funded partnership with the Kinsey Institute
- 2023: With What We Could Carry, Humankind Series at Manierre Dawson Gallery, Scottville
- 2022: Sign Stealing, Armenia Art Fair: Open Space Platform, Yerevan, Armenia
- 2022: Bound, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor
- 2021: Coming Suddenly, Passing Strangely, SPACES+Columbia College Chicago, Cleveland
- 2020: A Public Trust, SPACES, Cleveland
- 2019: Past Due, Zygote Press, Cleveland
- 2018: And Me in My Place, Art Souterrain, Montreal
- 2018: Longest Walk, Ohio University Gallery, Athens
- 2017: Scores for Distributed Dancing, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus
- 2018: Nuclear Winter, Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology, New London
- 2017: Cloud of Whiteness, SPACES, Cleveland
- 2016: Scores for Distributed Dancing, ISEA Re>evolution, Hong Kong
- 2016: Longest Walk, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago
- 2015: Breakwall, SiTE:Lab Rumsey Street Project, Grand Rapids
Awards + Honors
- 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
- 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
- This AI art exhibition wants to hear your migration story Alex Chambers, WFIU
- 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