Curriculum Vitae
Education
Diploma
2015 Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Art. Salzburg, Austria.
Masters of Fine Art
2010 Concordia University. Montreal, Quebec.
Bachelors of Fine Art (Visual Art)
2005 Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Vancouver, Canada.
Selected Exhibition Record
2024
(upcoming) Black and White and Everything in Between: A Monochrome Journey. Vancouver Art Gallery. Vancouver, Canada
2022
Fielding Road. Nanaimo Art Gallery. Nanaimo, Canada
2021
for wave hands, like clouds, not eyes. Collaboration with Serena Lee and Gina Badger. Or Gallery. Vancouver, Canada
2020
The Pandemic is a Portal. SFU Galleries. Vancouver, Canada
2019
Material Elements. Elissa Cristall Gallery. Vancouver, Canada
Passing Through Smoke. CSA Space. Vancouver, Canada
2018
Megan Hepburn and Hannah Yuill. Kombinat. Sofia, Bulgaria
Banana Dust. Spare Room. Vancouver, Canada
Pictures at an Exhibition. Elissa Cristall Gallery. Vancouver, Canada
2017
The Price and the Witness. Duplex. Vancouver, Canada
Dark Sand Asks Why You Talk So Fast. Deluge Contemporary. Victoria, Canada
A Terrible Signal. Access Gallery Artist Run Centre. Vancouver, Canada
Peer Pressure. Plaza Projects. Richmond, Canada
2015
Royal Bank of Canada Painting Competition Exhibition. Contemporary Art Gallery. Vancouver, Canada
How Long Can You Contain an Echo? Field Contemporary. Vancouver, Canada
Painting Enquiry. Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Art. Salzburg, Austria
2014
Tarot. Reading for Casey Wei’s Kingsgate Mall Happenings. Western Front Lodge. Vancouver, Canada
The Plaskett Award: Ten Years. Equinox Gallery. Vancouver, Canada
Pulling Feathers From a Broken Tooth. Index Gallery. Vancouver, Canada
2013
1989. Ross Creek Centre for the Arts. Ross Creek, Nova Scotia, Canada
2012
Six Positions. WWII. Montreal, Quebec
Kauneus/Beauty. Mustarinda. Hyrynsalmi, Finland
Murmurer. Studio Baustelle. Berlin, Germany
2011
Voices of Fire. Galerie SAS. Montreal Quebec
Pulling a Slow One. LES Gallery. Vancouver, Canada
2010
Royal Bank of Canada Painting Competition Exhibition. Art Gallery of Calgary. Calgary, Art Gallery of Northumberland. Cobourg, Dalhousie Art Gallery. Halifax, The Power Plant. Toronto, Canada
WHAT/DON’T/FALL/TOGETHER. October 2010. MFA Gallery. Concordia University. Montreal, Quebec
Subpoplar. The Basement. Concordia University. Montreal, Quebec
2009
Why Art Conceptual Artists Painting Again? The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts. Banff, Canada
Vooiiid Fooouul Looove. Galerie Werner Whitman. Montreal, Quebec
Time Off. Art Mur. Montreal, Quebec
If Only We Had Ten Foot Mirrors, We Could Make This Room Twice As Big. Parc X Apartment. Montreal, Quebec
Strata. Espace Artefacto. Montreal, Quebec
2006
Terminal Modern. Stride Gallery Artist Run Centre. Calgary, Canada
Publications
Contributions published in Journals:
“Cracher Dans La Soupe”. The Capilano Review. Issue 3.41. Eds. Matea Kulic and Jaquelyn Ross. Summer 2020.
“For Erin Moure’s Poem Snow Door”. The Capilano Review. ti-TCR: A Web Folio. Number 15. Pp.33. Eds. Anahita Jamali Rad and Stacey Ho. 2016.
“A Couple Goldfsh.” Can’t Live With ‘Em, Can’t Kill ‘Em. AAB Issue 4. Winter 2016. Eds. Anahita Jamali Rad and Danielle La France. Vancouver.
“La Force qui s’use et celle qui ne s’use pas. November 1914, Slip and Slide Transcendent Ass.” Looking At Nothing, Real Time. Ed Steven Hubert. Vancouver. 2014.
“Playmates.” I’m, Like, in Love With You! AAB Issue 3. Autumn 2013. Eds. Anahita Jamali Rad & Danielle La France. Vancouver.
“Aristotle says to R2D2.” Concatenate! Concatenate! Concatenate! AAB Issue 1. Summer 2012. Eds. Anahita Jamali Rad & Danielle La France. Vancouver.
Co-authored Catalogues:
Megan Hepburn, editor. Should I Expect More From You? Plaskett Award Ten Years Exhibition Catalogue. Vancouver. 2014.
Jesse Benson, editor. The Beneft of Friends Collected. Renee Petrololous->Megan Hepburn->Jacob Melchi. Published at Assembly. Los Angeles. 2013.
Artist book published as part of a series:
Hepburn, Megan. The Ground. Montreal Quebec, Vancouver, New York and Berlin: No Kings Press. Ed. James Whitman. 2011.
Bibliography
La France, Danielle. “Review of Dina Gonzalez Mascaro's vessels are never empty and Megan Hepburn's Passing Through Smoke (Franc Gallery and CSA Space, Vancouver 2019)” The Capilano Review. Issue 3.39. Fall 2019. Eds. Matea Kulic, Juliane Okot Bitek, Jacquelyn Ross and Afuswa SM Granger.
https://scoutmagazine.ca/2019/10/31/getting-olfactory-with-local-artist-and-perfumer-megan-hepburn/
Ling, Steffanie. “Megan Hepburn: Banana Dust”. C Magazine Issue 138: Games, Summer 2018, Edited by Kari Cwynar, Toronto, 2018.
Witt, Andrew. “Painting and Obstinacy”. Peripheral Review. Edited by Lauren Lavery, Vancouver, 2018.
Witt, Andrew. “Eccentric, Polymorphous, Abstract: Vancouver Art and Other Mythologies of the Near-Future”. The Mainlander, Editorial Collective Sydney Ball, Nathan Crompton, Stefana Fratila, Bára Hladíková, Steffanie Ling, Andrei Mihailiuk, Caitlin Shane, Vince Tao, Maria Wallstam, Andrew Witt. Vancouver, January, 2017.
Durey, Lucien. “Vancouver Report: From Black and White to Coloured Lights”. Canadian Art: Reviews, 2017.
Milbrath, Claire. “A Week in Canadian Painting: Megan Hepburn”. The Editorial Magazine, Edited by Claire Milbrath, Montreal, 2015.
Skeene, Cameron. “Voices of Fire: Toward a Postmodern Theory of Abstraction”. Bordercrossings Magazine, Issue 119, September, 2011.
Sherlock, Diana. “An economy of Censorship”. Fuse Magazine, Volume 29, Number 4, October, 2006.