Megan Williams

EDUCATION

1978 BFA, California Institute of the Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Purge, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Onslaught, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1996 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 Bravin Post Lee, New York, NY
1994 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993 John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY
         Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
1992 Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
         John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 Drawn From Memory, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
         Systems to Measure, Margins 3 Gallery, University Art Museum,
         Santa Barbara, CA
1983 Rising Up, LAICA, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Drawing Installation, 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 The Viw, works from the 1930's and New Works, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
         Ten Years Ago Today, California Community Foundation Fellowship Recipients,
         Japan American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
         Tree Service, Domestic Setting, Venice, CA
2007 When Worlds Collide, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Drawing from LA, Carl Berg Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005 Blake Byrne Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Fractured Fairy Tales, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA
         25th Anniversary Show, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 Intimates, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
         Funny Papers, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 A Lasting Legacy: Recent Additions to the Collection, Orange County
         Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.
1998 L.A. on Paper 2, Galerie Krizinger, Vienna, Austria.
1997 Pitch the Woo, Lincoln Savings, Philadelphia, PA.
         Drawings..., Meyerson and Nowinski Gallery, Seattle, WA
         Dry, Miller Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Comic Inspirations, Adam Baumgold Fine Art & Simon Capstick Dale Fine Art,
         New York, NY
         Just Past: The Contemporary in the Permanent Collection, 1975-96, Museum
         of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
         Drawn from L.A., Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
         Frankenstein (In Normal), University Galleries, Illinois State University,
         Normal, IL
1995 Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York, NY
         Stretch Out and Wait, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
         An Offering to San Simone, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
         It's My Life, I'm Going to Save the World, Galleria OMR, Mexico City,
         Curated by Maria Guerra.
1994 Head Games, Horodner-Romley Gallery, New York, NY
         Possible Things, Bardamu Gallery, New York, NY Curated by Vic Muniz.
         Drawing; Reaffirming the Media, University of Missouri, Kansas City Gallery of
         Art, (catalogue), Kansas City, MO
         Bad Girls West, Wight Art Gallery, University of California at Los
         Angeles, (catalogue), Los Angeles, CA
         Difficult Conceptualists, M Y T H Series at the Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
         Drawing Pairs, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York, NY
1993 The Figure as Fiction, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, (catalogue).
         Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, (catalogue), NY
         traveling to: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; The Santa Monica
         Museum, Santa Monica, CA, The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
         The Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
         Mr. Serling’s Neighborhood, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
         Irony and Ecstasy, Salama Caro Gallery, London, England (catalogue)
         N.A.M.E. Gallery, Three person show, Chicago, IL.
         Interzone, John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990's, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
         Fear of Painting, Arther Roger Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Dan Cameron.
         Fever, Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY
         Irony and Ecstasy: Contemporary American Drawing, Wesleyan University, Middleton, CT
1991 Selections/Fall 91, The Drawing Center, New York.
         Ha!, Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
         Someone or Somebody, Meyers Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
         Curated by Simon Watson
         Examples Cool and Lonely, Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 Group Show, Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
         Faces,” Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Excavations, Five Installations, Otis Parsons Exhibition Space, Los Angeles, CA
1983 The Los Angeles-New York Exchange, Artists’ Space, New York City, NY (catalogue).
         Transitional Use, Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles, CA
         Drawings: Komoski, Miller, Williams, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions,
         Los Angeles, CA
1982 Wallworks, USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue).

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Myers,Holly, Los Angeles Times, February 29, 2008.
Knight, Christopher, “Mastering the Mass Media”, The Los Angeles Times, October 3, 2003
Miles,Christopher, “Critics Pick”, ArtForum Online, Sepember, 2003
Wood, Eve, “Train in Vain”, Artnet.com, September 20, 2003
Ollman, Leah, “Images Grow Fuller,” The Los Angeles Times, January 23, 1998.
Pagel, David, “Delicious Work,” The Los Angeles Times, Sept. 20, 1996.
Wilson, William, “L.A. Gives Draftsmanship It’s Due,” The Los Angeles Times, May 15,1996
Schaffner, Ingrid, “Review", Artforum, March 1996
Princinthal, Nancy, “Review", Print Collector’s Newsletter, February 1996
Harvey, Doug.”Review,” Art Issues, November 1996
Schaffner, Ingrid, “Cursive", Parkett, No. 42, 1994
Darling, Michael, “Dizzy, Megan Williams at Christopher Grimes”,
         Artweek, June 9,1994
Green, David, “Just the Facts Ma'am”, The Los Angeles Reader, May 13, ’1994
Rugoff, Ralph. “Beep Beep, Toot Toot”, LA Weekly, Feb 18, 1994
Knight, Christopher. "Bad Girls, Feminism on Wry", Los Angeles Times, Feb. 8, 1994
Rogers, Michael. “Toons Drawn from the Dark Side”, Orange County Register, Oct.15, 1993
Kimmelman, Michael. “The Exquisite Corpse Rises from the Dead”, New York Times
         Nov. 7, 1993
Curtis, Cathy. “Raw Responses as Raw Material”, Los Angeles Times, October 12, 1993
Hess, Elizabeth. “Material Girls”, Village Voice, April 20, 1993
Johnson, Ken. “Review", Art in America, February, 1993
Jones, Amelia. “Review", Art Issues, January/February, 1993
Hirsh, Faye, “Written on the Wind”, Tema Celeste, Autumn, 1992
Bourdon, David. “Critics Diary: Six Weeks In Manhattan Galleries”, Art in America,
         Sept. 1992
Kandel, Susan. “Review”, Los Angeles Times, October 15, 1992
Myers, Terry. “Fear of Painting”, Contents, October 4, 1992
Pagel, David. “Helter Skelter”, Art Issues, July/August, 1992
Seward, Keith. “Review”, Artforum, May, 1992
Schwartzman, Alan. “Review,” New Yorker, March 30, 1992
Von Trenlker, Thomas. “Perverse Holterdiepolter”, Wochen Presse, Vienna, No. 17,
         April 29, 1992
Rugoff, Ralph. “Pele-mele: L'Art Des Annees 90 a Los Angeles”, Tenebres ArtPress, Paris
         No.168
Becker, Shizuyo, “From Los Angeles”, BT Monthly Art Magazine, Tokyo, No. 653, May 1992
Rugoff, Ralph. “Moca's Helter Apocalypse”, LA Weekly, Jan 31, ‘92
Muchnic, Suzanne. “Art in the City of Angels and Demons”, Los Angeles Times, Jan 26, 1992
Knight, Christopher. “An Art of Darkness at MOCA”, Los Angeles Times, Jan 28, 1992
Drohojowska, Hunter. “LA Raw”, Art News, April, 1992
Kandel, Susan. “Review”, Arts Magazine, February, 1991
Schwartzman, Alan. “Review”, New Yorker, October 14,1991
Weissman, Benjamin. “Review”, Artforum, January, 1991
Curtis, Cathy. “Review”, Los Angeles Times, January 15, 1991
Bouilhet, Carline. "Identity and Conformity", Artweek, November 22, 1990
Muchnic, Suzanne. “Cultural Gems”, Los Angeles Times, December 19, 1988
Russell, John. “Summertime Discoveries”, New York Times, June 24, 1983
Knight, Christopher. “Review”, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Sept. 28, 1982
Muchnic, Suzanne. "Review", Los Angeles Times, Sept. 1982
Drohojowska, Hunter. "A Suburban Exhibition", Arts and Architecture, Fall 1982


WILLIAMS/CATALOGUES

Gerstler,Amy; Huneven, Michele; Krusoe, Jim; “Megan Williams :Pictures”,
         Bravin Post Lee, Volume 3, 1995
Dunbar, Burton L. and Feagin, Susan L.,“Drawings: Reaffirming the Media,”
         U. of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art, 1994
Tucker, Marcia,“Bad Girls,” The New Museum, New York., 1994
King, Elaine,“The Figure as Figure, The Figure as Visual Art and Fiction,” The Contemporary
         Arts Center, Cincinnati, 1993
Ottman, Klaus,“Irony and Ecstacy,” Salama-Caro Gallery, London, England, 1993
“Return of the Cadavre Exquis,” The Drawing Center, New York, 1993
“Helter Skelter:LA Art in the 1990’s,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992
Gerstler, Amy,“Systems to Measure,” University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, 1990
Larsen, Susan, “The Los Angeles-New York Exchange,” Artists Space, New York 1983
Delgado, Michael,“Wallworks,” USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, 1982
Atkins, Robert,“80 Langton Street Catalogue,” San Francisco, 1981
Rosenthal, Mark, “Matrix 10, Borofsky/Williams,” University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, 1978