Megan M Bent
www.meganbent.com
BentMeganM@gmail.com
Education
2012 MFA Photography University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
2012 Graduate Certificate Disability Studies University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
2004 BFA Photography School Of Visual Arts [SVA], New York, NY
Grants and Awards 2023 Critical Mass Top 200 Finalist, Photolucida 2023 Artist Fellowship Recipient, Connecticut Office of the Arts 2022 Review Santa Fe Photographer, Center Santa Fe Portfolio Reviews, Santa Fe, NM 2021 Lensbaby Award & Works of Merit, 2021 Rfotofolio Selections, Rfotofolio, (jurors Diana Bloomfield and Ann Jastrab) 2021 Review Santa Fe Photographer, Center Santa Fe Portfolio Reviews, Santa Fe, NM (online) 2021 Avant-garde Short Film Festival Winner, Big Day Film Collective, Philadelphia, PA 2021 Outstanding Work, 2021 Denis Roussel Awards, Rfotofolio (juror Christopher James) 2021 Honorable Mention in Alternative Process Series, the 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards (jurors Barbara Davidson and Elisabeth Biondi) 2020 Outstanding Work, 2020 Denis Roussel Awards, Rfotofolio (juror Christopher James) 2019 Photographer of Merit Recognition, 2019 Denis Roussel Awards, Rfotofolio, (juror Jesseca Ferguson) 2019 Award of Excellence, 91st Honolulu Printmakers Exhibition, University of Hawai’i Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI, (juror Jeffrey Dell) 2018 Best In Show, 1st Annual Women's Exhibit, East Hawai'i Cultural Center/HMOCA, Hilo, HI 2016 The Thomas and Harriet Blank Award, First Place in Photography, 21st Annual Art Ability Exhibition, Bryn Mawr, PA 2014-2015 Artscapes Program Participant, Spaceworks Tacoma, Tacoma, WA
2013 Soup Artist Micro-Grant, Charlottesville Soup, Charlottesville, VA
2012 John Young Scholarship in the Arts, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
2011-2012 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
2011 John Young Scholarship in the Arts, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
Exhibition Record
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Slowly, The Sun Weaves Past Into Present, Cultural Equity Incubator Gallery, Boston, MA
2023 I Don’t Want To Paint A Silver Lining Around It, Open Door Gallery Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
2022 Patient / Belongings, form & concept, Santa Fe, NM
2020 Latency, Commons Gallery, the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
2019 Latency, Austin Central Library Main Gallery, Austin, TX
2019 Senescence, Foster Gallery, Dedham, MA
2019 Latency, Hawai’i Pacific University, Kaneohe, HI
2014 There Is A Crack in Everything, That’s How The Light Gets In, The Bridge PAI, Charlottesville, VA
2013 Rhizomatic, WNPR, Charlottesville, VA
2013 Wanderlust, Piedmont Council for the Arts at City Space, Charlottesville, VA
2012 Entanglement of Movement and Memories, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Commons Gallery, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
Two and Three-Person Exhibitions
2022 A Room For Duration, Alternative Space 298, Pohang, South Korea (curated by Sun Jung)
2017 Animating Archives: Contemporary Chlorophyll Prints, VALA Eastside, Redmond, WA, A collaboration with Shin Yu Pai
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Crip’d Ecologies: Unfurling Expanded Environments, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (curated by moira williams and Jeremiah Barber)
Perennial Hug, Circle Contemporary, Chicago, IL (curated by Em Kettner, Kevin Gotkin, and Jason Lazarus)
Viral Integration, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA (curated by elin o’Hara slavick)
2023
The Analog Forever Exhibition, Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, OR (curated by Michael Kirchoff)
Photographs Are Never Forever, Experimental Photo Festival, Barcelona, Spain/Online (curated by Gal Wachs)
Weep to Water the Trees, / (Slash) Art, San Francisco, CA, (curated by Aay Preston-Myint)
2022
Wanted: A World For One Billion, United Nations Visitors Lobby, New York, NY, (curated and supported by the UNFPA, Photoville, and Women Enabled International)
39th Center Annual: Living Creatures, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX (curated by Kristen Gaylord)
Your Body Belongs To You, Shutter Hub at Festival Pil’Ours, St. Gilles Croix de Vie, France
Arrivals 2022, form & concept, Santa Fe, NM
Living Image, The Halide Project, Philadelphia, PA, (juror Aline Smithson)
Political Statement, Millepiani, LoosenArt, Rome, Italy
2021
6th Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, (jurors Barbara Davidson and Elisabeth Biondi)
2021 Alternative Process Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, Online (juror Paula Tognarelli)
Edition 365, The British Journal of Photography and New Art City, Online
The Curated Fridge Autumn 2021 Show, The Curated Fridge, Online, (curated by Crista Dix)
In Conversation With The Land, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO (curated by Karen Haas)
The 2021 Vernacular Photography Exhibition, Lenscratch, Online, (juror Greg Sand)
A Gift in the Wound, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY (curated by Noah Phillips)
2020
Annus Horribilis (Horrible Year), Float Photo Magazine, Online, (curated by Adam Cable)
Unique: Alternative Process, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, (curated by Jill Enfield)
The Artist Letter, F1963, Busan, South Korea, (curated by Sun Jung)
I Am…, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven CT
2019
Alternative Process, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY,
The Handmade Photograph: Contemporary Photographers Working in Historic Processes, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM
TALKBACK, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY (curated by Lexy Ho-Tai and Moira Williams)
91st Annual Honolulu Printmakers Exhibition, the University of Hawai’i at Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2018
Tourists: Looking at/Looking As, Analog Sunshine Recorders, Aupuni Space, Honolulu, HI
Contemporary Photography 2018, The Arts at Marks Garage, Honolulu HI
1st Annual Women's Exhibit, East Hawai'i Cultural Center/HMOCA, Hilo, HI
Contact Zone: ReImagining Waikiki, Analog Sunshine Recorders, SurfJack Hotel, Honolulu, HI
2017
Critical Junctures: The Work of Art, exhibiting artist, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2016
21st Annual Art Ability Exhibition, Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, Malvern, PA
Park(ing) Day, Downtown on The Go, Tacoma, WA
10 x10 x 10 x Tieton 7th Annual International Small Works Exhibition, Mighty Tieton Warehouse, Tieton, WA
2015
Organic Inclusivity, Woolworth Building, Tacoma, WA
2012
Proximity, Linekona Art Center, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
FAX, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
Rayko’s 5th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2011
Sunmaps of the Phenomenal, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
The Analog Sunshine Recorders: Slow Jams the Pinhole Edition, Thirtyninehotel, Honolulu, HI
Now Here From Nowhere: The Future History of Navigation, The ARTS at Marks Garage, Honolulu, HI
2010
The Analog Sunshine Recorders: A Hodgepodge of Photographic Wonderment, The Manifest, Honolulu, HI
Body/Mind, Y Center for the Visual Arts, Honolulu, HI
32nd Annual Graduate Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
Bibliography
“Top 40 Analog Photographs of 2021” Analog Forever Magazine, December 27, 2021
Bree Lamb and Leo Hsu, Fraction Magazine Issue 148, September 2021
Diana Nicholette Jeon, “Poignant Portfolio No. 31: Megan Bent”, One Twelve Publishing, July 29, 2021
Color Tag Magazine Volume III, 2021
Too Tired Project, “Sunday Spotlight: Megan Bent”, May 30, 2021
Rachel Ababio “ CWOS Braves The Leap Online”, Greater New Haven Arts Council, October 16, 2020
Rfotofolio “Megan Bent”, January 19, 2020
Jillian Steinhauer “New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now”, The New York Times, May 23, 2019
Brian Bergen-Aurand “Screening Expectations” Screen Bodies Journal, Winter 2018
James Charisma “Field Notes: Analog Sunshine Recorders” Honolulu Magazine, January 25, 2016
Residencies 2021 /2022 Artist in Residence, Art Beyond Sight Art + Disability Residency, New York, NY 2019 Artist in Residence, Nobles and Greenough School, Dedham, MA 2015 Artscapes Participant, Spaceworks Tacoma, Tacoma, WA 2011 Orvis Artist in Residence, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
Lectures, Presentations, Artist Talks, Workshops
2022 Panelist “Broken Time Machines: Discussing the Work of Daisy Patton”, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in collaboration with Holding Space Archive and Minerva Projects, Online
2021 Presenter Common Field Convening: Sustaining Futures, “Dreaming Crip Futurity”, NY, NY/Online
2021 Panelist Disability Unite Festival, “Envisioning a New Normal: Our World After Covid”, Online
2020 Artist Talk The Secret Arts Chlorophyll Photography, Atlas Obscura, Virtual Experience
2019 Artist Talk Critical Junctures: Translating Across Boundaries, “Latency: Printing on Organic Matter to Decompose Health Binary Boundaries”, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2019 Presentation Symposium on Disability Rights, “ Disability Representation: From Other to Empowered” University of Alabama at Birmingham Institute For Human Rights, Birmingham, AL
2017 Presentation 33rd Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity, "The Abject: Flipping the Script to Reclaim and Empower Through Art", Honolulu, HI
2017 Presentation Different Bodies: (Self) Representations, Disability, and the Media, “Vulnerable Strength: The Power of Self-Representation and Disclosure Through Art“ University of Westminster, London, U.K.
2016 Artist Talk The University of Hawai’i at Manoa Department of Art and Art History, “Alternative Processes” Honolulu, HI
2016 Presentation 32nd Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity, “Entanglement of Movement and Memories” Honolulu, HI
2015 Presentation 57th Annual Western Social Sciences Association Conference, “Entanglement of Movement and Memories”, Portland, OR
2015 Workshop International Peace and Justice Cafe, “Disability as a Social Construct”, Tacoma, WA
2014 Artist Talk The Bridge PAI, “There’s A Crack In Everything That’s How The Light Gets In”, Charlottesville, VA
2011 Artist Talk The University of Hawai’i at Manoa Department of Art and Art History, “Pecha Kucka", Honolulu, HI
2011 Artist Talk ThirtyNineHotel, “Emerging Artist Talks”, Honolulu, HI