Meridith McNeal's work has explored territory related to social history, women’s issues and personal reminiscence, often linking her work to a physical space, a specific geographic location, and/or historical fictions or realities.  She brings a broad range of concerns, materials, and methods to her work, from elaborate installations to beautifully realized pen and ink and watercolors.  Her work is densely layered combining stunning visual effect and narrative force.  Her latest series of large-scale paintings entitled Inside/Outside are highlighted in this site.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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2022    Graceful Confusion, Magazzino Gallery, Palazzo Polignac, Venice, Italy

            Inside Out, Plus Space at FiveMyles, Brooklyn NY

2021    The Way We See It, FiveMyles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

More French Windows, Appetit 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

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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

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 exhibition, Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CASan Rafael, CA 94901

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

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

2019 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 at 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

            In the Footsteps of the Starry Messenger (one person) 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

“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

 “Meridith McNeal”, 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

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

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

2021   

RJE Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award winner 2021

The Way We See It, exhibition catalogue with essay by Lisa Peet, published 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 Watercolor Exhibition, 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

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/COMMITTIES

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

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY BFA

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA