Meg Aubrey bio

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Education

MFA Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design – Atlanta GA
BFA Illustration, Rhode Island School of Design – Providence RI

Professional Experience

2009 to Present
Professor of Foundations Studies – Savannah College of Art & Design

Solo Exhibitions

2012
Domiciled – Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2009
Home Sweet Home – Milliken Gallery, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC
I Just Live Here – Encore Series – ACA Gallery, Atlanta / Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah, GA
I Just Live Here – Gallery Stokes, Atlanta GA

Group Exhibitions

2012
A sense of Place – Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA
Duets – Terminus 200 Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2011
Small Wonders – MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD
Aqua Art – Whitespace Gallery , Miami Beach, FL
Homebound – Fe Arts Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Dog Days – Galley Walk at Terminus, Atlanta, GA
The Contemporary Figure – Swan Coach House, Atlanta, GAAfter the Suburbs – Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Rising Movers & Shakers of the Georgia Art Scene
Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta, GA
2010
The December Show – Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Small Works
– Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA
The Price is Right – Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Hand to Hand Project – traveling exhibition
Unconventional Portraiture – Terminus, Atlanta, GA
Burb – Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2009
The Ones to Watch – Alan Avery Art Co., Atlanta, GA
Emerging Artists – Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA
The Guard and the Vanguard – Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Contemporary Art for Modern Times – Johns Creek Arts Center, GA
2008
Post-Petroleum – Sheppard Fine Art Gallery at the University of Nevada, Reno
Wish You Were Here – A.I.G. Gallery, New York NY
Sweet Fried – Defoor Center, Atlanta GA
On the Edge – Vaknin Gallery, Atlanta GA
2007
Louvre Project – High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA
Room by Room – Atlanta GA
Case Studies – Defoor Center, Atlanta GA
Fresh Blood – Mason Murer, Atlanta GA
Alexander Ink – Savannah GA
2005
Four X Four – Gallery 253, Atlanta GA

Awards

2010
Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award, Finalist – 2011
2009
Encore Series Award – the best MFA thesis exhibitions – SCAD
Hambidge Residency Award – Fulton County Arts Council
2008
Artropolis, Chicago Travel Award – Savannah College of Art and Design
2005
Artistic Honors Scholarship – Savannah College of Art and Design

Reviews and Press

kurt Shaw – Pittsburg Tribune-Review, “Homebound,” May 2011
Felicia Feaster – Contemporary Figure, ArtsCriticAtl, March 2011
Cinque Hicks – After the Suburbs, Creative Loafing, February 2011
Felicia Feaster – The Atlantan, “Sprawl on the Wall,” Sept/Oct Issue p. 54, 2010
Jeremy Abernathy – Creative Loafing, “Ones to Watch ATL,” August 2009
Catherine Fox – www.artscriticATL.com, “Emerging Artists at Spruill Gallery,” July 2009
Felicia Feaster – Art Papers, “Meg Aubrey,” March/April 2009
Cinque Hicks – Creative Loafing, “White Space,” February 2009
Laura Ann Meyers – www.bigredandshiney.com, issue 100, February 2009
Felicia Feaster – Creative Loafing, “SCAD on the Edge,” March 2008