Megan Wilson

Megan Wilson is an American visual artist based in San Francisco. Known for her large-scale installations and public projects, she incorporates traditional crafts and decoration to address conceptual interests that include “home,” impermanence and generosity; and intersections of art and life. Notable projects include:

• “Better Homes and Gardens”, a public project included in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 75 Years of Looking Forward,^[1] that featured 250 signs hand-painted by the artist with the word “Home” and a flower given for free to the homeless and those facing eviction in San Francisco during the dotcom boom.
• Clarion Alley Mural Project: Wilson is one of the primary organizers of the mural project, including initiating and co-organizing the international exchange “Sama-sama/Together.”
• “Flower Interruption”, a four-part public installation series through which Wilson filled traffic intersections in San Francisco, Tokyo, Yogyakarta and Ubud Indonesia with giant “Technicolor flowers” that passersby were invited to take for free.
• “Sama-sama/Together,” the first international mural exchange between artists in the United States (San Francisco) and Yogyakarta Indonesia. Wilson initiated and co-organized the project with Apotik Komik of Indonesia and Intersection for the Arts. The project was the catalyst for the mural and graffiti movement in Yogyakarta. The SF Bay Guardian awarded the project “The Best Transnational Art Undertaking” in 2004.
• Wilson’s use of textiles and quilling to create large-scale non-traditional mural installations. She is one of the first artists to use quilling as a contemporary art form outside of its historical use as a decorative craft on paper or household objects.
• “Home 1996-2008” was in part inspired by artist David Ireland. From 2004-2008 Wilson transformed her home into an installation that she opened up to the public in 2008.

Wilson grew up in Montana. She received her BFA from the University of Oregon and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Intersection for the Arts, and Southern Exposure. She has created public projects and murals in San Francisco California; Tokyo Japan, Yogyakarta Indonesia, Jaipur India, and Manila Philippines. Wilson is a recipient of grant awards from the Gunk Foundation, Artadia, the Asian Cultural Council, the Ford Foundation and San Francisco Foundation. Wilson’s work is included in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 75 Years of Looking Forward,^[2] edited by Janet Bishop, Corey Keller, Sarah Roberts; Street Art San Francisco Mission Muralismo, edited by Annice Jacoby; and Illustration: Play - Craving for the Extraordinary, Published by Victionary.

Wilson is also a writer and art critic. She co-founded the San Francisco based arts Website www.stretcher.org. Her writings have appeared in stretcher.org, afterimage, Digitalcity, Public Art Review, and Art Practical; and in the book Street Art San Francisco Mission Muralismo (edited by Annice Jacoby with Forward by Carlos Santana).

References

1. ^ San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art 75 Years of Looking Forward edited by Janet Bishop, Corey Keller, and Sarah Roberts, Published December 2009, ISBN 978-0-918471-83-3; page 346, plate 300
2. ^ San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art 75 Years of Looking Forward edited by Janet Bishop, Corey Keller, and Sarah Roberts, Published December 2009, ISBN 978-0-918471-83-3; page 346, plate 300

• San Francisco Art Institute
• San Francisco Chronicle, Home: artist puts out the welcome mat by Jesse Hamlin, November 18, 2008
• KQED, "Megan Wilson: Home: 1996-2008" By Claire Light, Nov 11, 2008
• Artadia Artist Registry
• Victionary
• "Best Transnational Art Undertaking"
• Craftzine,"Megan Wilson's Morning Glory Exhibit" by Natalie Zee Drieu
• In Memoriam: David Ireland 1930 – 2009

External links

• http://www.meganwilson.com/index

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