about the artist:
I am a multimedia artist and writer from the Pacific Northwest who comes from a line of Montana farmers, pastors, and writers. I have inherited their diligence, their spiritual reverence, and their seeking to communicate about life and the divine
(the real and the ineffable)
(the land and the sky).
My work is made in any number of mediums, usually in series, and frequently in reference to the landscapes in which I grew up. I use found and recycled materials in combination with print, collage, textile, drawing, painting, and sculptural techniques. My process is organic and gradual and time- and labor-intensive. The images and objects that result are prayers, and they are dreams, and they are a little piece of home.
MF 2024
Please direct all inquiries to meganefinch.studio@gmail.com.
Studio portraits by Caitlin Spiritus, 2022.
EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming: Art Quilt Elements 2024, group, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, March-April 2024
Going-to-the-sun Road, solo, Belong Gallery, Chicago IL, April 2022
You Belong Here, group, Belong Gallery, Chicago IL, December 2021
Rock Songs (for Susan), solo, Parlour & Ramp (formerly Three Seeds), Chicago IL, July 2019
Somewhere, Elsewhere, solo, Bowtruss Logan Square, Chicago IL, June 2016
Self/Scapes, group, 47th Ward Alderman’s Office, Chicago IL, February 2016
BFA Thesis, group, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago IL, December 2015
Conglomeration, group, Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, Spokane WA, May 2013
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Neighborhood councilmember, West Central, Spokane WA, February 2024-present
Volunteer for community renovation of a historic building, Garland Theater, January 2024-present
Host of Murder, She Won’t Shut Up About, a Murder, She Wrote recap podcast, May 2023-present
Instructor for two-week screenprinting intensive, Ox-Bow School of Art, August 2022
Curator of and performer at Going-To-The-Sun-Sounds, a music and poetry showcase, May 2022
Invited lecturer for senior seminar, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, November 2021
As-needed bartender/bouncer at neighborhood tavern, July 2021-August 2023
Curator of a weekly film screening series, April 2021-August 2023
Instructor for Setting a Good Corner, a workshop and showcase by Colleen Keihm, February 2021
AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS
Received an Honorable Mention in Ten Moir Gallery’s Scenic Vista Art Competition, October 2023
Featured artist for Western Pole, December 2021
EDUCATION
Bachelor’s of Fine Arts Degree
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Printmedia, Painting, Sculpture, Visual and Critical Studies
Merit Scholarship Recipient
Student Leadership Award Recipient
2013-2016
Whitworth University
Spokane, WA
Writing, Literature, Philosophy, Fine Arts
Honor Roll, Presidential and Merit Scholarships
2011-2013