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GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Figureworks, Saugerties, NY, Randall Harris, Director

Flat Files at Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, NY, Florence Neal Director

Embrace Creatives, Detroit, MI, Andrea Bogart, Founder

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2024


Things That Happened, Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling, New York, NY


Fizz, Brooklyn Seltzer Museum, Brooklyn, NY


2023    


Brooklyn Queen: Magical Things e altri dipinti di Meridith McNeal, la Dama di Capestrano, Capestrano, Italy


Inside Out, Plus Space at FiveMyles, Brooklyn NY

2022   

Ordinary Magic, The Galleries at Interchurch Center, NYC


2021    


The Way We See It, FiveMyles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


More French Windows, Appétit Sono, Norwalk CT


2019   


Portrait of My Mother, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY


French Windows, Appetit Bistro, Port Chester, NY


2018   


Grand Windows, 705 Driggs, Brooklyn, NY


Buonappetito, Capers, Port Chester, NY


2017   


Inside/Outside Windowphilia, Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY


We Are All Puppets, HEREart, NYC


In Reflection, Torre Truglia, Sperlonga, Italy


The View from Here, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY


é vero, Tramonto Bistrot, Sperlonga, Italy


2016   


Finestre e altei oggetti, Il Tramonto, Sperlonga, Itlay


2015   


Hot Town, Summer in Italy, Gorilla Arté, Sperlonga Italy


2013   


Camera con vista: incantevole windowphilia, Hyunnart Studio Gallery, Rome, Italy


Seer, Aita, Brooklyn, NY


2012   


50/50: Brooklyn/Sperlonga, ex chiesa sanctae mariae de Spelonchae, Sperlonga, Italy


“Rome and a Villa”, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Cream & Sugar, NeroDoro, Brooklyn, NY


2010   


La Dispensa, Santi, Roma, Italia


In the Footsteps of the Starry Messenger, Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY


Cream & Sugar, NeroDoro, Brooklyn, NY 2010-2014


Italian Lessons, Gnarly Vines, Brooklyn, NY


2009   


Golose Necessità, Santi, Roma, Italia


2008


Magical Things, St. Joseph’s College Alumni Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


When We Were Six, Cannon’s Walk, South Street Seaport, NYC


Dress Up, Fairleigh Dickinson University Art Gallery, Teaneck, NJ


2007   


Keeping Room, Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY


2006   


Threads of Memory (project room installation), Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY


2005   


Another Place, Another Time, H.A.C. Gallery, Kobe City, Japan


2004   


You Must Remember This, Figureworks, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY


Uncharted Territories, Wood, Rafalsky & Wood, Brooklyn, NY


Romantic Places, Berlitz, NYC


2002   


Beautiful Necessity, Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2024


Amplified: Art, Music, Power, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA


2023


Covers, the record shop, Brooklyn, NY


Type Speaks, Dane Leddit Gallery, Thibodaux, LA


Art of the Word, Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, CA


Earth Mothering, The Gallery at 180 Franklin, Brooklyn, NY


Dada Domicile, Newhouse Center Galleries, Staten Island, NY


Banned Books, Valley Cottage Library, Valley Cottage, NY


Animal Kingdom, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Yarmouth, MA


The Shelley Lazarus Award for Excellence in Watercolor, TAG Gallery, LA, CA


Art and Poetic Text, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Yarmouth, MA


McNeese Works on Paper, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA


Zephyr, Pour-d, Rockford, MI


Crow, The Studio Door, San Diego, CA


2022    


Femmes Ensemble, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY


Teeny Tiny Bold, Round Tree Gallery, Platteville, WI


Small Matters, CMU 437 CO Art Gallery, Mesa, CO


Wild Card, Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Pawtucket, RI


Small Worlds, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Traverse City, MI


Realism Today, Pickens County Museum of Art, Pickens, SC


Towards A Brave New World, 180 Franklin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


All The World’s a Stage, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis MA


Our Reflection, The Huts, virtual exhibition curated by Gita Joshi


City Scape Night and Day, Rice Gallery, Overland Park, KS


RenovArt: 100 Artists for the Future, ApuliaAste, Turi, Italy


The Elements: ART YARD BKLYN, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY


ViewPoints, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ


Escape into Reality, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY

 

Protest Signs, CAB Gallery, University of North Carolina Wilmington


I HeART Connection, Art Therapy Institute, Carrboro, NC.


Baldwin National 2022, Holt Russell Gallery, Baldwin City, KS


Invitational, Art Essex Gallery, Westport, CT 


2021   


Pure Paint, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA


Luminosity, B Extraordinaire Gallery, St. Louis, MO


Your Flowers Are So Lovely They Have Made Me Well Again, STAR, Brooklyn, NY


Artful Post, HEREart, NYC


20 years: 2000-2020, Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY The Art of Coney Island, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY


Brand 49 Annual National Exhibition of Works on Paper, Brand Library& Art Center, Glendale, CA


LUMIÈRE, ART FLUENT, Boston, MA


PAPERWORKS 2021, b.j. spoke gallery, Huntington, NY


The Way We See It, FiveMiles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Landscapes Built and Grown, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY


40th Annual Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, View, Old Forge, NY


Arizona Aqueous XXXV, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac AZ


Out of Darkness, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum Hamilton, OH 


2020


Home for the Holidays, Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Pawtucket, RI


Out of Isolation, The Firefly Artists, Northport, NY


State of the Arts 2020, Prairie Village Arts Council, Prairie Village, KS


30/30 Small Works on Paper, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY


Go With The Flow Watercolor Exhibition, Sacramento Horizons, Sacramento, CA


Another Moment in Time, Old Town Guild Fine Art & Crafts Center, Cutchogue, NY


WASH 2020, Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Sacramento, CA


Artists Who Teach 2020, Ellington-White Contemporary Gallery, Fayetteville, NC


In Reflection, Kentler International Drawing Space, ART YARD, Brooklyn, NY


Works on Paper, The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ


Endless Horizon, Gestalt Projects, Los Angeles, CA


Expressions 2020, Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA


Summer Play, Cape Cod Art Museum, Dennis, MA


Open Art Show, Grey Cube Gallery, online platform


2020 National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA


Reflections, St. Joseph’s College Alumni Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


20 years: 2000-2020, Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY


2019   


Arizona Aqueous XXXIV, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac AZ


Black and White National, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC


National Juried Painting Exhibition, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS   


Artists Who Teach, Fayetteville State University Rosenthal Art Gallery, Fayetteville, NC


Small and Smaller, Site : Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY


The Room, Gestalt Projects, Santa Monica, CA


Aqueous, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA


Imagine, Gallery by the Lake, Lake Charles, LA


Contemporary Art Survey, Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO


Loss, Redemption and Grace, EBD4, Chamblee, GA


ART & DEMOCRACY VI 2019, Visual Artists Guild, Los Angeles, CA


Brooklyn Vanguard, Hudson Guild Gallery, NYC


Piezas Exquisitas / Exquisite Parts, Mar Vista, Guanacaste, Costa Rica


Transformers, St. Joseph’s College Alumni Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


2018   


Landscape: Real and Imagined, Site : Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY


Echo Echo, Curated by Nancy Bowen, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY


Black Out, Ashton Gallery, San Diego, CA


October Show, OSSAM Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Cat and Dog in Art, OSSAM Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


connect + collect, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY


2017   

New Additions, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY


STATE PROPERTY, BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY


Place, A Point of View, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY


FabrianoInAcquarello 2017, Torre Truglia, Sperlonga, Italy


FabrianoInAcquarello 2017, ex chiesa sanctae mariae de Spelonchae, Sperlonga, Italy


The Four Seasons, Village West Gallery, Jersey City, NJ


Political Unrest Revisited, Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY


Notes from Abroad, 107 Bowers Gallery & Art Space, Jersey City, NJ


2016   


Making Music, Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY


Wearable Arts, GCCA, Catskill, NY


Collage, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY


Outdoor Banner Project, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY


2015   


Cautionary Tales: Old Visions Through New Eyes, President’s Gallery, John Jay College, NYC


In Pursuit of Freedom, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn NY


Sodom by the Sea Salon, Coney Island Museum, Coney Island USA, Brooklyn, NY


Crystal Anniversary, Figureworks Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Useful Objects, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY


We Got Spirit, Yes We Do, Unity Gallery, Fairfield, IA


Without/Color, Figureworks Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


2014   


Liar, Liar, (with Giuseppe Di Lelio) Figureworks Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Friend of a Friend, Lovey Town, Everywhere 


Circumstances, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY


Get Up, Stand Up!, The Distillery Gallery, Jersey City, NJ


My Sisters Doll, Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY


2013   


Toast of Bed Sty, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Co., Brooklyn, NY


Day After Day, Museum at SUNY Albany, Albany, NY


Art Barn 2013, Amy Simon Fine Arts, Westport, CT


Word, Rotunda Gallery at Mount Vernon Public Library, Mount Vernon, NY


Faces of Figureworks: Self Portraits, Figureworks Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Contemporary Cartographies, Lehman College Art Gallery/CUNY, Bronx, NY


2012   


Word, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Summer Has Just Come, Sans Quoi Gallery, Okayama, Japan


Art Barn, Amy Simon Fine Arts, Westport, CT


The Influential Female - Drawings Inspired by Women in History, Kentler, Brooklyn, NY


2011   


Fashioned in Time, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Common Threads, Fairleigh Dickinson University Art Gallery, Teaneck, NJ


Human Form: An Enduring Inspiration, Ann Street Gallery, Newburg, NY


The Heights, Distillery Gallery, Jersey City, NJ


Italiana, St. Joseph’s College Alumni Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


2010   


Topology of Dream Time, HAC Gallery, Kobe City, Japan


Meridith McNeal, Ed Rath & Shiro Sasaki, Nuovo e Vecchio Gallery, Kobe City, Japan


Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY


Exploring 100 Years of Figurative Art: The Edith Halpert Influence, Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY


Fan, Sans Quoi Gallery, Okayama, Japan


A Light Above the Rest, MyPAC, Miami, FL


Water, Atlantic Gallery, NYC


Figureworks 10th Year Anniversary, Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY


2009   


Map as Art, Christopher Henry Gallery, NYC


The Exquisite Corpse, Paul Robeson Galleries, Newark NJ


Funny Face Invitational, Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn, NY


The Future Figure curated by K. Saito, Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY


Magical Things/For the People (w/ Ed Rath), James Cummins Bookseller, NYC


Sic Transit Gloria, Atlantic Gallery, NYC


Tote Bag, Sans Quoi Gallery, Okayama, Japan


2008   


Fashion Forward, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY


Brooklyn Is A State of Mind, 95 Lexington, Brooklyn, NY


Represent Brooklyn, TRA Gallery, Brooklyn


Heart & Soul (Younity), Alphabeta, Brooklyn, NY


ART @ Forte, Forte Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY


2007   


Flow: Miami Invitational Art Fair, Amy Simon Fine Arts, Miami, FL


Punchbowl, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY


Highlights 2007, Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY


Crossover: Fusion of Female Stylez, Ideaz and Skillz, The Showroom, NYC


Well Dressed, Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC


Money, Hewitt Gallery of Art, NYC


Beside Your Shimmering Doorway in Emily Dickinson Rendered, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY


Hot Summer Art Battle, Sans Quoi Gallery, Okayama, Japan


Stitched, Surface Library Gallery, East Hampton, NY


Playing For Keeps, Atlantic Gallery, NYC


Summer Rotation 2007, Amy Simon Fine Arts, Westport, CT


ART @ Forte, Forte Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY


The Spirit of Color, Amy Simon Fine Arts, Westport, CT


The Handmaking, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA


2006   


Personal Geographies, Hunter 42nd Street Gallery, NYC   


East Wind: West Wind (w/Ed Rath & Shiro Sasaki), H.A.C. Gallery, Kobe City, Japan


Trashion, Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY   


Music to my Eyes, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Art re-FASHION-ed, Harriet’s Alter Ego, Brooklyn, NY


Trash: What We Value & What We Throw Away, Atlantic Gallery, NYC


Here Comes the Bride, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL


Women’s History, Community Gallery, Brooklyn Borough Hall, Brooklyn NY


Neighborhood Divas, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Racing Pages, LGB&T Community Center, NYC


Brooklyn, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT


2005   


A Sense of Place, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA


Art Bar, Gallery on the Ithaca Commons, Ithaca, NY


Figurations, Kentler Satellite Flatfile at Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY


Brooklyn Kicks Ass, Gallery D3, Brooklyn, NY


Breaking Ground, New York Horticultural Society Gallery, NYC


Works on Paper, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY


Benefit 2005 and Works from the Flat File, Momenta, Brooklyn, NY


Got Quirk?, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Il


Distance Made Good, Fading Ad, Brooklyn NY


2004   


Pattern & Decoration, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL


Memory, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS


Balancing Act, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, NYC


Uncharted Territory: Subjective Mapping by Artists & Cartographers, Julie Saul Gallery, NYC


She Must Have Looked Lovely in That Dress (w/ Laura Hewitt), Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY


Distance Made Good, gallerythe, Brooklyn, NY


2003   


Multiple Memorials, Viridian Gallery, Chelsea NYC


Postcards from The Edge, Galerie Lelong, NYC


Small Works on Paper, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY


Paper Cuts, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY


2002   


Peace, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY


Postcards from The Edge, Sperone Westwater, NYC


Ground Zero, Detroit Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI


Souls of Humanity, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI


Reactions, Exit Art, NYC


2001   


Assumed Presence (w/ Laura Hewitt), ACT, Indianapolis, IN


Chair City, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI


eMotion Pictures, Herbst International Exhibition Hall, San Francisco, CA


Heel to Toe, Smithtown Township Arts Council, St. James, NY


 

PRESS


“Our Reflection”, The Huts Magazine, June 2022


“Letting In The Light at FiveMyles", Star Review, October 2021


“The Way We See It”, NY Art Beat, September 2021


“The Way We See It”, Mutual Art, September 2021


"A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine", HYPERALLERGIC, February 19, 2021 


Featured Artist, Off the Walls and Behind the Brush, February 2021 


“Reflecting in Red Hook”, Red Hook Star, July 3, 2020


“Five Fun Spots to see in Red Hook”, Brooklyn Eagle, Feb. 28, 2019


“Sui Generis Artist”, The Red Hook Star Review, Jan. 4, 2019


“Meridith McNeal: Portrait of My Mother”, What I Watched And Read, Diana Rickard, Jan. 11, 2019


“107 Bowers Gallery & ArtSpace: Artist Conversation with Meridith McNeal”, Growing in Jersey City, May 31, 2017


“9 Books About City Life You Must Read This Fall”, CITYLAB, Janet Leigh Hester & Ellie Anzilotti, Oct. 16, 2016


“Gorilla Arté Esposizione are contemporanea: l'esposizione di Meridith McNeal”, HeyeEvent and Where’s UP?, 2015


“On view now at Figureworks”, Greenpointers.com, Ona Abelis, January 14, 2014


“Without/Color at Figureworks”, What I Read and Watched (and Saw), Diana Rickard, January 10, 2015


“Attualità Manierista”, Quaz-Art: Arte Esperimentale, April 27, 2013


"The Mapmakers," The Envoy, March 23rd, 2013


"Charting a New Course," Bronx Free Press, February 6 – 12, 2013


"Artists ‘map’ out their creativity in a new exhibit that re-invents and re-imagines the craft of map making," New York Daily News, January 31, 2013


“Word”, What I Read and Watched (and Saw), Diana Rickard, September 16, 2012


“Coats of Arms, Shoes of Feet”, ARTslant and Mappa Mundi, Lisa Peet, January 23, 2010


“The Presence of Time Within "In the Footsteps of the Starry Messenger”, ARTslant, Odetta Dangerfield, January 19, 2010


“The Map As Art" ARTNET DESIGN, (Brooklyn Day Dress pictured) January 6, 2010


“Sightlines: Map Art” Wall Street Journal, Kate Auletta, December 11, 2009


“Own This City: Seven Days with Jamie Hook”, (Brooklyn Day Dress pictured) Time Out NY, Linnea Covington, November 26–December 2, 2009


“Magical Things: Spring  at the American Academy in Rome” Feminist Review, Eleanor J. Bader, November 21, 2009


“Romantic Journey…” Rachel Lucie Jewellery Designs, Rachel Lucie, November 19, 2009


“The Map as Art” What I Read and Watched (and Saw), Diana Rickard, November 6, 2009


“Sic Transit Gloria Exhibit Glorifies Biking in a Crowded City” The Indypendent, Julia Dunn, July 10, 2009


“Last-Minute Plan: Reinventing the Wheel” TimeOut NY, Sharon Steel, July 9, 2009


“Recycling Paper: Not Just Good for the Environment” Jinnie Seo (Artists Pension Trust Beijing) 2009


"Where Fashion Meets its Artistic Match" The New York Times, Benjamin Genochhio, January 8, 2009


“Clothes calls: What the artists say about style” New York Newsday, Steve Parks, December 23, 2008


“Meridith McNeal, Magical Things” Daily News, Gayle DeWees, September 16, 2008


“Brooklyn People” Brooklyn Eagle.  Caitlin McNamara, September 4, 2008


“Stitched” The Independent. Joan Baum. May 23 2007


“Needlework Scratches the Surface at Gallery” South Hampton Press. Pat Rogers. May 2007


“Keeping Up Appearances” AOL Video, James Kalm May 2007


"Brooklyn Dispatches" The Brooklyn Rail, James Kalm, May 2007


“Works That Speak Volumes in a19th-Century Poet’s Voice” The New York Times, Benjamin Genocchio, March 18, 2007


 “How a Solitary Poet of the Past Speaks to 10 Artists of Today” The New York Times, Martha Schwendener, March 9, 2007


“The Belle of Wave Hill” The New York Sun, Amanda Gordon, March 1, 2007


“Coney Island Divas” WNBC, Cat Greenleaf February 19, 2007


“Wearable Art?” Brooklyn Papers, Sasha Vasilyuk, Sept 16, 2006


“Threads of Memory” ARTnews, Ann Landi, May 2006


“Brooklyn Art to be Featured at Arts Center” Westport Now, December 26, 2005


“Brooklyn Accents Turn up in Westport” Connecticut Post, Philip Eliasoph, February 5, 2006


“Dateline Brooklyn” Artnet.com Magazine, Stephen Maine, September 30, 2004


“Balancing Act” New York Times, Ken Johnson, February 20, 2004


“Meridith McNeal” Brooklyn Heights Press, Don Evans Jan 1, 2004


“Paper Cuts” New York Times, Arts & Leisure, Sunday January 5, 2003


“Meridith McNeal” New York Arts Magazine, James Kalm, September 2002


“Beautiful Necessity” New York Arts Magazine, Rachael Stark, September 2002

 

EXHIBITIONS CURATED


2022


ART YARD BKLYN, BWAC, Brooklyn, NY


Towards A Brave New World, 180 Franklin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


2021


Your Flowers Are So Lovely They Have Made Me Well Again, STAR, Brooklyn, NY


2020   


Reflections, St. Joseph’s College Alumni Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


2019   


Transformers, St. Joseph’s College Alumni Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


2018


Natural Causes, 107 Bowers Gallery & Art Space, Jersey City, NJ


Good Natured, St. Joseph’s College Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Rush Education Exhibition (annually 2005-2018), Corridor Gallery & Rush Arts Gallery, NYC


2017   


In Our Nature, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Notes from Abroad, 107 Bowers Gallery & Art Space, Jersey City, NJ


Voyager, St. Joseph’s College Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


2016   


Well Traveled, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Mystique, St. Joseph’s College Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


2015   


In Pursuit of Freedom, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


HOME, The Distillery Gallery, Jersey City, NJ


Home Again, St. Joseph’s College Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


2014   


HOME, Corridor Gallery Brooklyn, NY


Get Up, Stand Up!, The Distillery Gallery, Jersey City, NJ


Freedom Fighters, St. Joseph’s College Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


2013   


Justice Blind, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Word, Mt. Vernon Public Library, Mt. Vernon, NY


2012   


Word, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


So Moving, St. Joseph’s College Alumni Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


2011   


Motion Sensitive, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Italiana, St. Joseph’s College Alumni Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2010   


Provisions, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY


2009   


Seaworthy, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Out of the Woods: Florence Neal, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


2008   


Transformers, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Crossing Cultures, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


2007   


A Certain Slant of Light, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Keep the Change, Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC


Read Me a Story, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Brooklyn Nature, St. Joseph’s College Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Weave, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Alternate Realities, Brooklyn Borough Hall, Brooklyn, NY


2006   


Coney Island Divas, Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn, NY


Optical Perceptions, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


Seeing the Forest through the Trees, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


2005   


Organized Spaces: New York Based Singaporean Artists, Asian American Arts Centre, NYC


KidsArt (annually 1989 - 2005), Rotunda Gallery


Seeing Stories: Clinton Hill Kids and Teaching Artists, Corridor Gallery

 

CONFERENCES AND LECTURES


Making & Seeing Art in New York (course), Wagner College, Staten Island, NY, Spring 2022


In Reflection: Living An Art-Full Life (lecture), San Jose Art History Club, Jan Jose, CA, October 2021


KENTLER CONNECTS: Curiosity (what is that?), Moderator: Robin Holder, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, 2019


For This Ecstatic Afternoon (discussion) Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, 2017


Meet me at Kentler (Lecture) Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, 2017


Inside/Outside: In Reflection (lecture – Young Artists Programme) Royal Drawing School, London, 2017


Windowphilia and Reflections (lecture) AquarelloinSperlonga Festival, Sperlonga, Italy 2017


Contemporary Feminism (lecture and panel discussion) St. Joseph’s College 2016


In Pursuit of Freedom (lectures for BMCC department of Sociology/Criminal Justice) Corridor Gallery, 2015


50/50 (lecture series) ex chiesa sanctae mariae de Spelonchae, Sperlonga, Italy, 2011


Watercolor Painting and English (classes for children and teens), public schools, Sperlonga, Italy, 2011


Painting from What You Know (Lecture and class) Figureworks Gallery for St Joseph’s College 2010


Magical Things, Lecturer St Joseph’s College, Child Studies Dept. x2, Art Department x3 2008


Meridith McNeal: Artist &Arts Professional, (lecturer) Journalism Dept. Pratt Inst., NYC 2008, 2009, 2010


Running A Gallery while Maintaining a Studio Practice (moderator) Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn NY 2006


Getting into a Gallery (panelist) Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 2005


Workshops for Visual Artists: Business of Art Conference (presenter) NYFA, NYC 2004


Potent Sorcery (artists talk and panel discussion) ArtTable and Dorsky Gallery, LIC NY 2006

 


AWARDS, BOOKS, FEATURES AND HONORS


2023


Featured Artist, CaFÉ All Over the Place, Denver, CO


The Shelley Lazarus Award for Excellence in Watercolor, TAG Gallery, LA, CA


Banned Books Trading Cards, Valley Cottage Library, Valley Cottage, NY


2022


DOT Traffic Barrier Mural, Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn 


Curators Award, All The World’s a Stage, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis MA


2021    


RJE Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award winner 


The Way We See It, exhibition catalogue with essay by Lisa Peet, 2021


Association Award Winner, Brand 49, Brand Library& Art Center, Glendale, CA


Shortlist Finalist, Visual Art Open 2021 UK & International Emerging Artist Awards

Best of the Net 2021, nominated by The Lumiere Review


Silver Medal, Curators Award, PAPERWORKS 2021, b.j. spoke gallery, Huntington, NY


2020   


The Lumieri Review Literary Magazine, CA


Awarded Jurors Top Choice in Arizona Aqueous XXXV at Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac AZ


Vox Viola Literary Magazine: amplifying women's voices through poetry, prose, and visual arts.

Art in Social Isolation, Duende Art Magazine, UK


Awarded Curators Choice for Excellence, Go With The Flow, Sacramento Horizons, Sacramento, CA


Awarded Curators Choice for Excellence, WASH 2020, Sacramento, CA


Finalist Visual Art Open 2020 UK & International Emerging Artist Awards, Chester, UK


35x35 Art Project & permanent collection of Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, Greece


Finalist Summer Play, Cape Cod Players Playbill Print Cover, Dennis, MA


Artists of the Year (Painting), Circle Foundation for the Arts, Lyon, France


Awarded Honorable Mention, Open Art Show, Grey Cube Gallery, March 2020


Awarded Curators Choice for Excellent Artwork in Open Exhibition Art Room Contemporary, 2020


Freebird Books featured in Reed Magazine, San Jose, CA, Winter 2020


Inside Outside Windowphilia featured in The Stirling Spoon, January 2020 issue


Graceful Confusion featured in Up the Staircase Quarterly, issue #48


Meridith McNeal: Liberty Clouded; Liar, Liar; Inside Outside featured in Barzakh Magazine, 2020


2019   


Awarded BEST IN SHOW in Arizona Aqueous XXXIV at Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac AZ


Awarded Curators Choice in 2019 Contemporary Art Survey at Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO


Jury Top Merit Award in Loss, Redemption and Grace, EBD4, Chamblee, GA


BAC (Brooklyn Arts Council), Brooklyn Arts Fund Program, Artists Grant


Artists of the Year (Painting), Circle Foundation for the Arts, Lyon, France


Included in: UPPERCASE Magazine issue 42, Magically Mundane, Alberta, Canada


Inside Outside Windowphilia included in: Genre: Urban Arts' No. 9, print and online magazine


Published: A Portrait of My Mother, Blurb 2019


2017   


American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist/Scholar Residency


Arte Laguna Prize International Art Award: Finalist/Painting


2016   


Included in: You Are Here/NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City, Katharine Harmon


2014   


American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist/Scholar Residency


2013   


American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist/Scholar Residency


2011   


Published: In the Footsteps of the Starry Messenger, Blurb 2011


Artslant, 1st 2011 Showcase Winner in Sculpture


Hooper of the Month, Artwork featured and award, hoopnotica.com, February 2011


2010   


American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist/Scholar Residency


Artslant, 6th 2010 Showcase Winner in Drawing


2009   


Published: Meridith McNeal, Magical Things, Blurb


American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist/Scholar Residency


Included in: Map As Art, The: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, Katharine Harmon, 2008   


American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist/Scholar Residency

 


MEMBERSHIPS/COMMITTEES

Kentler International Drawing Space Artists Advisory Committee 2006 – present

The Brooklyn Public Library Curatorial Advisory Committee 2004 – 2015

Romare Bearden: 20th Century American Master, Artist/Curator 2011

Curate NYC: A Multi Venue Exhibition of Emerging Artists, Curatorial panel

Fund for Teachers Program Selection Committee 2010

Brooklyn Academy of Music, BAMart Curatorial oversight 2006/07

Skylight Gallery/Bed Sty Restoration Co. Curatorial & Program oversight 2006/07

The Gallery at Horticultural Society of NY Artists Advisory Committee 2006-2008

Coney Island Museum Artists Advisory Committee 2006-2008

Project Diversity Curatorial Committee/Brooklyn 2004-05; Curatorial Liaison Queens 2006/07

New York State Council on the Arts Panelist 1998, 2005-06

DCA Site Specific Selection Panels Panelist 1997, 2007

 

EDUCATION

Vermont College Norwich University, Montpelier VT MFA 1998

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY BFA

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA


Co-founder and Director of ART YARD BKLYN.