Megan Major
meganmajor.com
Education
2007 | Bachelor of Arts Degree in Photography | Grand Valley State University- Allendale, MI
Exhibitions
2025 | Photographic Abstractions of the Anthropocene - Two Person Show with Brittanie Bondie - Riverside Arts Center | Ypsilanti, Michigan
2025 | Lumiere: Photography Exhibition - Curated by Brian Day - Playground Detroit | Detroit, Michigan
2025 | Hatchback 19 - Hatch Art | Hamtramck, Michigan
2025 | The Abstract Image - The Chateau Gallery | Louisville, Kentucky
2024 | A Little of This & A Little of That: Photo Show - 4850 Bellevue | Detroit, Michigan
2024 | Hot DAM! the Detroit Artists Market Annual - Curated by Katie Pfohl - Detroit Artists Market | Detroit, Michigan
2024 | 43rd Michigan Fine Arts Competition - Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center | Birmingham, Michigan
2023 | Spring Salon - Detroit Contemporary | Detroit, Michigan
2023 | Get Together - Reyes Finn | Detroit, Michigan
2020 | Art Mile - ARTWORK | Detroit, Michigan
2019 | Issue Press Publications on View at the Michigan State University Special Collections Library | Lansing, Michigan
2016 | The Softer Side - El Club | Detroit, Michigan
2015 | Tall Tales - Light Leaked and Canopy Collective | Cleveland, Ohio
2015 | Megan Major: Past and Present (solo) - This Week in Art, MCBW | Detroit, Michigan
2015 | Memory Wastes - The Garden Gallery at DittoDitto Books | Detroit, Michigan
2015 | Picnics in a Polar Vortex - Public Pool | Hamtramck, Michigan
2014 | Distorted Fragments (solo) - This Week in Art, MCBW | Detroit, Michigan
2014 | Blooms, Bugs, and Beasts - The Scarab Club | Detroit, Michigan
2014 | Material/Photo - Paint Creek Center for the Arts | Rochester, Michigan
2013 | Unnatural (solo) - This Week in Art, MCBW | Detroit, Michigan
2013 | What Goes Up Must Come Down - Paint Creek Center for the Arts | Rochester, Michigan
2013 | Desaturated - Fourteen-Eighty Gratiot Gallery | Detroit, Michigan
2012 | Sum of Parts: Annual Members Exhibition - Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography | Detroit, Michigan
2012 | Imperfect Specimen (solo) - This Week in Art, MCBW | Detroit, Michigan
2012 | Je T'aime à Mort - 2136 Michigan Ave | Detroit, Michigan
2012 | A Divining Lens: Photos by Megan Major, Lauren Semivan, and Clinton Snider - Public Pool | Hamtramck, Michigan
2012 | Whitdel Arts Annual Members Show - Whitdel Arts | Detroit, Michigan
2007 | Hide and Seek - Performing Arts Center Gallery | Allendale, Michigan
2007 | New Works of Photography - Flux Gallery | Grand Rapids, Michigan
2006 | Southwest Desert Workshop - Padnos Gallery | Allendale, Michigan
Fairs and Benefits
2024 | Detroit Art Book Fair - Co-organizer and Exhibitor | Detroit, Michigan
2024 | Monster Drawing Rally - Participating Artist | MOCAD | Detroit, Michigan
2024 | Small Press Fest - Exhibitor | Denver, Colorado
2023 | Improv Art Fair | Trinosophes | Detroit, Michigan
2023 | Detroit Art Book Fair - Co-organizer and Exhibitor | Detroit, Michigan
2023 | Monster Drawing Rally - Participating Artist | MOCAD | Detroit, Michigan
2022 | Detroit Art Book Fair - Co-organizer and Exhibitor | Detroit, Michigan
2020 | Monster Drawing Rally - Participating Artist | MOCAD | Detroit, Michigan
2019 | Detroit Art Book Fair - Co-organizer and Exhibitor | Detroit, Michigan
2019 | Youth Arts Alliance 2nd Annual Art Auction Fundraiser | Ypsilanti, Michigan
2018 | Monster Drawing Rally - Participating Artist | MOCAD | Detroit, Michigan
2017 | Monster Drawing Rally - Participating Artist | MOCAD | Detroit, Michigan
2016 | Standing Rock Benefit Art Show - UFO Factory | Detroit, Michigan
2015 | Monster Drawing Rally - Participating Artist | MOCAD | Detroit, Michigan
2013 | Monster Drawing Rally - Participating Artist | MOCAD | Detroit, Michigan
2013 | Detroit Art Book Fair - Co-founder and Exhibitor | Detroit, Michigan
Publications
2024 | Issue No. 10 | Aeonian Magazine
2020/2021 | Though of real knowledge there be little, yet of books there are plenty - Artists’ Book and Zine Box Set | Northampton, Massachusetts
2019 | Abstractions - PhotoPlace Gallery | Middlebury, Vermont
2017 | Detroit Sequential - Rotland Press | Detroit, Michigan
2013 | Dirty Snow - Issue Press | Grand Rapids, Michigan
2012 | Artists Find Fresh Beauty in Decay - The Detroit News | Detroit, Michigan
2007 | Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing | Allendale, Michigan
Collections
+Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum | Salem, Massachusetts
+Art, Architecture and Engineering Library’s Special Collections, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan
+Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Arts Library Special Collections, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut
+Michigan State University Library Special Collections and Rare Books | Lansing, Michigan
+Grand Valley State University Library Special Collections and Archives | Allendale, Michigan
+Rare Book Collection in the Research Library at the Detroit Institute of Arts | Detroit, Michigan
+Indie Photobook Library | Washington, DC
+Grand Valley State University | Allendale, Michigan