Megan Major
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Education
2007 | Bachelor of Arts Degree in Photography | Grand Valley State University - Allendale, MI
Exhibitions
2026 | Featured Artist | Detroit Artists Market - Detroit, Michigan
2025 | Detroit Warehouse Art and Design Fair - Curated by Katy Kim | Boyer Campbell Building - Detroit, Michigan
2025 | Abstracting the Anthropocene: An Ecological Elegy - Two Person Show with Brittanie Bondie | Riverside Arts Center - Ypsilanti, Michigan
2025 | Hot DAM! the Detroit Artists Market Annual - Curated by Dr. Kelli Morgan | Detroit Artists Market - Detroit, Michigan
2025 | Photography Now - Curated by Whitney Bradshaw | Woman Made Gallery - Chicago, Illinois
2025 | Composing Detroit - Until Next Time:… | Playground Detroit - Detroit, Michigan
2025 | Lumiere: Photography Exhibition - Juried by Brian Day | Playground Detroit - Detroit, Michigan *Voting Finalist
2025 | Growth - Curated by Sierra R. Aguilar | Lenscratch - Los Angeles, California
2025 | Hatchback 19 - Juried by Grace Serra | Hatch Art - Hamtramck, Michigan
2025 | The Abstract Image | The Chateau Gallery - Louisville, Kentucky
2024 | A Little of This & A Little of That: Photo Show | 4850 Bellevue - Detroit, Michigan
2024 | Hot DAM! the Detroit Artists Market Annual - Curated by Katie Pfohl | Detroit Artists Market - Detroit, Michigan
2024 | 43rd Michigan Fine Arts Competition | Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center - Birmingham, Michigan
2023 | Spring Salon | Detroit Contemporary - Detroit, Michigan
2023 | Get Together | Reyes Finn - Detroit, Michigan
2020 | ARTWORK | Art Mile - Detroit, Michigan
2019 | Issue Press Publications on View at the Michigan State University Special Collections Library | Lansing, Michigan
2016 | The Softer Side | El Club - 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 | 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
Fairs and Benefits
2025 | Detroit Art Book Fair - Co-organizer and Exhibitor | Detroit, Michigan
2024 | Detroit Art Book Fair - Co-organizer and Exhibitor | Detroit, Michigan
2024 | Monster Drawing Rally - Participating Artist | MOCAD - Detroit, Michigan
2024 | Small Press Fest - Exhibitor | Denver, Colorado
2023 | Improv Art Fair | Trinosophes - Detroit, Michigan
2023 | Detroit Art Book Fair - Co-organizer and Exhibitor | Detroit, Michigan
2023 | Monster Drawing Rally - Participating Artist | MOCAD - Detroit, Michigan
2022 | Detroit Art Book Fair - Co-organizer and Exhibitor | 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
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
2015 | Monster Drawing Rally - Participating Artist | MOCAD - Detroit, Michigan
2013 | Monster Drawing Rally - Participating Artist | MOCAD - Detroit, Michigan
2013 | Detroit Art Book Fair - Co-founder and Exhibitor | Detroit, Michigan
Fellowships and Residencies
2026 | Vermont Studio Center Fellowship | Vermont Studio Center - Johnson, Vermont
Publications
2025 | Eroding Forms | Ephemere Tokyo and Alternative Processes
2024 | Issue No. 10 | Aeonian Magazine
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 | Grand Valley State University - Allendale, Michigan
Collections
+Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum | Salem, Massachusetts
+Art, Architecture and Engineering Library’s Special Collections, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan
+Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Arts Library Special Collections, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut
+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