Megan Wolfkill (b. 1996) is a Cincinnati-based painter and dancer who contends with identity, intimacy, and softness in her work. She is the 2024-2025 Scholar-in-Residence at Manifest in Cincinnati, OH. Megan recently completed her MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Painting + Drawing at the University of Tennessee where her thesis exhibition titled Back-to-Back opened at the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture in March 2024. She was a finalist in the 2024 Miami University Yeck Young Painters Competition, and recently presented research on interdisciplinary practices at SECAC in Richmond, VA. Megan has had artwork in numerous juried exhibitions in Tennessee, Illinois, Louisiana, and Ohio, and has had two-person shows with artists such as Anthony Huang and Carole Quinn. Her first solo exhibition, Durational and Momentary, took place at Gallery 1010 in Knoxville, TN in 2022. Megan has attended residencies at Penland School of Craft in 2019 and 2020 and the Hambidge Center in 2019. She has been featured in publications such as Ouch! Collective, Phoenix Literary Arts Magazine, and I Like Your Work Winter 2022 catalog. In 2018, Megan completed a BFA in Studio Art and Dance at Tulane University, where she attended on a full scholarship awarded for excellence in writing.

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