Meghan Price Explained

Meghan Price
Birth Date:	1972
Field:	Visual Art / Textiles
Training:	Concordia University, Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles
Website:	https://www.meghanprice.com

Meghan Price is a Canadian visual artist living in Montreal. She is known for her digital jacquard weaving, sculpture and textiles using plastics and other post-consumer waste.^[1]

Biography

Meghan Price was born in 1972 in Montreal. Price holds an MFA from Concordia University and a DEC from the Montreal Centre For Contemporary Textiles. She has taught at OCAD University, Concordia University, Sheridan College and John Abbott College.

Geologic time, processes and formations,^[2] human-earth interactions^[3] and ideas related to the Anthropocene ^[4] inform Price's work.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2022, Best Estimate, United Contemporary, Toronto ^[5]
• 2022, Grid, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada
• 2020, Land Line, YYZ Artist Outlet, Toronto, Canada with Suzanne Nacha ^[6]
• 2019 The Bonavista Biennale, Bonavista Penninsula, Canada ^[7]
• 2018, New Balance, Fiberspace, Stockholm, Sweden ^[8]
• 2017, Watching Rocks, AKA artist-run, Saskatoon ^[9]
• 2016, "Part Time Deep Time", Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2024, "Erratic Behaviour", Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Canada
• 2023, "Climate Awakening: Crafting A Sustainable Future", Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, USA
• 2021, "Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through", Art Museum at the University of Toronto^[10]
• 2019, "L’abstraction dans le Jacquard", Centre Matéria, Quebec City, Canada
• 2019, "Becoming Lithocene", Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
• 2018, "Longevity or a Lack Thereof", McClaren Art Centre, Barrie, Canada
• 2017, Tie Up, Draw Down, The Centre for Craft Creativity and Design, Asheville, NC
• 2015, Biennale du lin, Portneuf, Canada

Collections

• Idea Exchange contemporary textile collection
• Aimia
• Canada Goose
• RBC Bank
• TD Bank

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2023-04-17 . Thread Count . 2024-02-06 . Studio Magazine . en-CA.
2. Xiang . Joy . Bending the Light: 10 Contemporary Artists . canadianart.ca . Dec 12, 2019 . 5 April 2021.
3. ecoartspace - Tread Boldly: Recycling Composition as Landscape . ecoartspace.org . Jan 31, 2020 . 5 April 2021.
4. Web site: Mugnus . Erin . Meghan Price - Staying with the Trouble . Contemporary Craft . 5 February 2024 . 21 November 2023.
5. Web site: Meghan Price . 2024-02-06 . United Contemporary . en.
6. Web site: Meghan Price . 2024-02-06 . United Contemporary . en.
7. Web site: Meghan Price . 2024-02-06 . United Contemporary . en.
8. Web site: Meghan Price . 2024-02-06 . United Contemporary . en.
9. Web site: Meghan Price . 2024-02-06 . United Contemporary . en.
10. Web site: Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through . 2024-02-06 . Art Museum at the University of Toronto . en-CA.