Megan Major
meganmajor.com
Education
2007 | Bachelor of Arts Degree in Photography | Grand Valley State University- Allendale, MI
Exhibitions
2023 | Improv Art Fair | Trinosophes | Detroit, Michigan
2023 | Detroit Art Book Fair - Co-organizer and Exhibitor | Detroit, Michigan
2023 | 2023 Spring Salon | Detroit Contemporary | Detroit, Michigan
2023 | Monster Drawing Rally - Participating Artist | MOCAD | Detroit, Michigan
2023 | Get Together - Reyes | Finn | Detroit, Michigan
2022 | Detroit Art Book Fair - Co-organizer and Exhibitor | Detroit, Michigan
2020 | Art Mile - ARTWORK | Detroit, Michigan
2020 | Monster Drawing Rally - Participating Artist | MOCAD | Detroit, Michigan
2019 | Detroit Art Book Fair - Co-organizer and Exhibitor | Detroit, Michigan
2019 | Youth Arts Alliance 2nd Annual Art Auction Fundraiser | Ypsilanti, Michigan
2019 | Issue Press Publications on View at the Michigan State University Special Collections Library | Lansing, Michigan
2018 | Monster Drawing Rally - Participating Artist | MOCAD | Detroit, Michigan
2017 | Monster Drawing Rally - Participating Artist | MOCAD | Detroit, Michigan
2016 | Standing Rock Benefit Art Show - UFO Factory | Detroit, Michigan
2016 | The Softer Side - El Club | Detroit, Michigan
2015 | Monster Drawing Rally - Participating Artist | MOCAD | Detroit, Michigan
2015 | Tall Tales - Light Leaked and Canopy Collective | Cleveland, Ohio
2015 | Megan Major: Past and Present (solo) - This Week in Art, MCBW | Detroit, Michigan
2015 | Memory Wastes - The Garden Gallery at DittoDitto Books | Detroit, Michigan
2015 | Picnics in a Polar Vortex - Public Pool | Hamtramck, Michigan
2014 | Distorted Fragments (solo) - This Week in Art, MCBW | Detroit, Michigan
2014 | Blooms, Bugs, and Beasts - The Scarab Club | Detroit, Michigan
2014 | Material/Photo - Paint Creek Center for the Arts | Rochester, Michigan
2013 | Monster Drawing Rally - Participating Artist | MOCAD | Detroit, Michigan
2013 | Detroit Art Book Fair - Co-founder and Exhibitor | Detroit, Michigan
2013 | Unnatural (solo) - This Week in Art, MCBW | Detroit, Michigan
2013 | What Goes Up Must Come Down - Paint Creek Center for the Arts | Rochester, Michigan
2013 | Desaturated - Fourteen-Eighty Gratiot Gallery | Detroit, Michigan
2012 | Sum of Parts: Annual Members Exhibition - Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography | Detroit, Michigan
2012 | Imperfect Specimen (solo) - This Week in Art, MCBW | Detroit, Michigan
2012 | Je T'aime à Mort - 2136 Michigan Ave | Detroit, Michigan
2012 | A Divining Lens: Photos by Megan Major, Lauren Semivan, and Clinton Snider - Public Pool | Hamtramck, Michigan
2012 | Whitdel Arts Annual Members Show - Whitdel Arts | Detroit, Michigan
2007 | Hide and Seek - Performing Arts Center Gallery | Allendale, Michigan
2007 | New Works of Photography - Flux Gallery | Grand Rapids, Michigan
2006 | Southwest Desert Workshop - Padnos Gallery | Allendale, Michigan
Publications
2024 | Issue No. 10 | Aeonian Magazine
2020/2021 | Though of real knowledge there be little, yet of books there are plenty | Artists’ Book and Zine Box Set- Northampton, Massachusetts
2019 | Abstractions | PhotoPlace Gallery- Middlebury, Vermont
2017 | Detroit Sequential | Rotland Press- Detroit, Michigan
2013 | Dirty Snow | Issue Press- Grand Rapids, Michigan
2012 | Artists Find Fresh Beauty in Decay | The Detroit News- Detroit, Michigan
2007 | Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing- Allendale, Michigan
Collections
+Art, Architecture and Engineering Library’s Special Collections, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, MI
+Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Arts Library Special Collections, Yale University- New Haven, CT
+Michigan State University Library Special Collections and Rare Books- Lansing, Michigan
+Grand Valley State University Library Special Collections and Archives- Allendale, Michigan
+Rare Book Collection in the Research Library at the Detroit Institute of Arts- Detroit, Michigan
+Indie Photobook Library- Washington, DC
+Grand Valley State University- Allendale, Michigan