MEGAN CRAIG megan@megancraig.com www.megancraig.com EDUCATION Ph.D. The New School for Social Research, New York, NY. Philosophy. 2007 B.A.Yale University, New Haven, CT. Philosophy, Painting. 1997 Cum Laude, Distinction in the major of Philosophy. SOLO SHOWS this is the garden - Good News Gallery, Woodbury, CT. 2007 Roofscapes – Donna Tribby Fine Art, Inc., West Palm Beach, FL. 2006 Views – Kunstverein Graftschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, GERMANY. 2006 City Studies – Art Galerie Markus, Lingen, GERMANY. 2006 Artists at Weir Farm – Weir Farm, Wilton, CT. 2005 Places – The Mark Potter Gallery, The Taft School, Watertown, CT. 2004 GROUP SHOWS “Romanticism Restaged: The Romantic Impulse in Contemporary Art” - SPAS Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. 2008 Tabletops, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT. 2007 MOXIE: The Best of City Wide Open Studios 2005, Green Gallery at Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (Curated by Jodi Hanel of Exit Art, NYC). 2006 Art Obituaries: Chapter One Exhibition, M.W. Offit Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY (Curated by Jenifer Simon and Paul Silver). 2006 Landscapes – Realism to Abstract, Donna Tribby Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL. 2004 North Dakota Museum of Art Autumn Art Auction, North Dakota Museum of Art,Grand Forks, ND. 2003 RISD Biennial Faculty Exhibition – Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI. 2003 Re–imagining New York – North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND. 2002 New Views – D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival, New York, NY. 2002 Illuminated Interiors – Rubulad, New York, NY. 2001 Cartouche – Emerging Artists in New York – CB313 Gallery, New York, NY. 1998 Senior Painting Group Show – Yale University, New Haven, CT. 1997 RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS Vermont Studio Center Dodge Foundation Fellowship – Johnson, VT. 2003 Weir Farm Trust, Resident Artist – Wilton, CT. 2003 Rockwell Visiting Artist – The Taft School, Watertown, CT. 2003 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council New Views Residency – Brooklyn, NY. 2002 C –Scape Dune Shack, Artist in Residence – Provincetown, MA. 2002 New York Foundation for the Arts Recovery Grant – New York, NY. 2002 Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship – Johnson, VT. 2001 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Studioscape Residency to paint cityscapes from the 91st Floor of 1 World Trade Center – New York, NY. 2001 Pollock/Krasner Emergency Assistance Painting Grant – New York, NY. 2001 FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS Graduate Faculty Holocaust Memorial Fellowship. 2005 Eberstadt Dissertation Fellowship. 2004 New School University Dean’s Teaching Fellow. 2003 Graduate Faculty Donnelley Fund Scholarship. 2002 New School University Teaching Fellowship. 2002 Grace LeGendre Fellowship Award for Advanced Graduate Study. 2002 New School University Dean’s Fellowship. 1999 – 2004 TEACHING & ADVISING Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. Fall 2007 - present. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. Fall 2004 The New School for Social Research, New York, NY. Fall 2004 Eugene Lang College, New York, NY. Spring 2003, Spring 2004 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY. Spring 2002 INVITED LECTURES Rhode Island College, Providence, RI. Fall 2004, Fall 2005 Visiting Artist The Taft School, Watertown, CT. Fall 2004 Rockwell Visiting Artist. PUBLICATIONS “On the Side of the Angels: Richard Bernstein and His Quest for Truth.” Pragmatism in the 21st Century (New York: The New School for Social Research, 2003) 4 – 8. (Published conference proceedings). “Strange Love: Freud’s Mourning,” Women in Philosophy Third Annual Journal of Papers, 3 (2004): 103 – 119. “Intervention and the Ideal of Perpetual Peace” Women in Philosophy First Annual Journal of Papers, 1 (2002): 8 – 21. “The View From Here,” Radical Society Review of Culture & Politics, 29.3 (2002): 15 – 16. “Statement,” Site Matters: The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s World Trade Center Artists Residency 1997-2001 (New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2004). A Short statement about perspective in New York after September 11th. “Painting and Perspective,” 7 Carmine, Volume 5 (2004). Limited edition hand-bound poetry collection. Published online March 2004 and delivered at Halcyon in Brooklyn, NY. EDITED BOOK Fré Ilgen, Art? No Thing! Analogies between Art, Science and Philosophy (Netherlands: PRO Foundation,2004). 395 pages / 32 color. Reviewed by Donald Kuspit in The Art Book, 12.4 (2005) 3 -– 5: "Fré Ilgen's Art? No Thing! Is the most important publication by an artist since Kandinsky's On The Spiritual In Art (1912). It is a comprehensive, systematic, in depth rethinking of the concept and significance of art.” PAPER & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS "On Painting," The Fate of Romanticism, RIT, Rochester, NY, 2007. “A Comparative Study of the Ethical Theories of Kant and Levinas,” response to Stephen Minister. Conference: Topics in Kant and Post-Kantianism, The New School for Social Research, New School University, 2005. “Erotic Ethics or Ethics without Eros? Reading Plato & Levinas,” response to Sarah Allen. Conference: Ethics and Epistemology, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY, 2004. “On the Side of the Angels: Richard Bernstein and His Quest for Truth.” Opening Remarks. Conference: Pragmatism in the 21st Century, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY, 2003. “The View from Here.” (Peer Reviewed) Conference: Thinking Through September 11th: New York Philosophers Respond, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY, 2002.