education
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan ME
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, MFA
Macalester College, St. Paul MN, BA
selected exhibitions
2015ATOMS / STONES (solo), Station Independent Projects, New York NY
2014Wrap Around 4: Megan Cump, Liz Nielsen, LoVid; curated by Renée Riccardo, ARENA@Suite 806, New York NY
2013BLACK MOON (solo), Station Independent Projects, New York, NY
One Minute Film Festival: 10 Years, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Summer Break, Station Independent Projects, New York NY
2011CABIN FEVER, MIXED GREENS, New York NY
The Emerging Landscape: Photographs & Drawings Exploring Real & Imaginary Landscapes, Society Contemporary, New York
MYSELF, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno NV (catalog)
2010One Hour Photo, American University Museum, Katzen Art Center, Washington D.C.
Human Nature: Megan Cump & Thierry Kupferschmid, Collective Gallery 173-171, New York NY
Tragic Sense of Life, Westchester Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Valhalla, NY
2009Unseen, curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel- Randall Scott Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Still Life, Rayko Gallery, San Francisco CA
State of Consciousness, Collective Gallery 171-173, New York NY
Currents in Contemporary Photography- Flanders Art Gallery, Raleigh NC
2008The Rain, The Park and Other Things- curated by Renee Riccardo, Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson NY
Working Space 08 -Cuchifritos Gallery, New York NY
Romero/Winkleman Gallery Project Space, New York NY
Topography of Nature- Station Independent Projects@Arcade Gallery, New York NY
2007Cinema Scope- Perpetual Art Machine@ Scope New York and Scope Hamptons, New York NY
Summer Photography-SVA, Westside Gallery. New York NY
Coma erotique- Issue Project Room, New York NY
2006Stilled Life- curated by Daria Brit Shapiro, Islip Art Museum, Islip NY
A Distant Mirror- M.Y. Art Prospects, New York NY
Panoramica- Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Emotional Landscape- Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2005Hey Hotshots- Jen Bekman Gallery, New York NY
Dark Nature- Station Independent Projects, Brooklyn NY
video_dumbo- dumbo art center, Brooklyn NY
Me, Myself and I: Remix-The Living Room, Miami FL
2004Dark Matter-Solo White Room Exhibition@White Columns, New York NY
There is a Light that Never Goes Out- dumbo arts center, Brooklyn, NY
Colony- Hudson Clearing, New York NY
Scapes- Berlin Kunst Projekt, Berlin Germany
2003AIM 23, Bronx Museum of Art, New York NY
Phelanges-50 Broadway Gallery, New York NY
My Mother’s An Artist-Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, New York NY
2002Scratch-ARENA Gallery, New York NY
Regarding Beauty-Texas Women’s University, Denton TX
Residual Images-Studio Z, San Francisco CA
AWARDS AND HONORS
2011Residency, Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program- Woodstock NY
2008Summer Fellowship, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts- Ithaca NY
2007Lower East Side Studio Program Residency, Artists Alliance Inc.- New York NY
2005Islip Art Museum Winter Residency- Islip NY
2004Residency Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony-Peterborough NH
2003Lower Manhattan Cultural Council/Workspace: The Woolworth Building- New York NY
2002Residency Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony- Peterborough NH
teaching, lectures & visiting artist
2012New York University, Photography and Imaging Department, New York NY (lecture)
2010International Center of Photography, New York NY (faculty)
2009International Center of Photography, New York NY (faculty)
Mildred's Lane, THE LAND, Beach Lake PA (visiting artist)
2008Loyola Marymount University, Photography Department, Santa Monica CA (visiting artist)
2005New York University, Photography and Imaging Department, New York NY (lecture)
2004New York University, Photography and Imaging Department, New York NY (lecture)
online exhibitions
2010GROUP SHOW 36, curated by Nathanial Ward, Humble Arts Foundation
2009GROUP SHOW 30, curated by Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation
writings
2008 "Now Showing | Annika von Hausswolff," T Magazine Blog (The New York Times/The Moment)
sELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHy
2013“Megan Cump: Black Moon,” LID MAGAZINE, twelve page spread, Issue #16, May 2013
“Feature Newsletter Photography, Film & Video,” re-title.com, April 18, 2013
Wolf, Dominik, “Megan Cump - When the Night Swallow the Earth,” I-REF, January 22, 2013
Douer, Irana, "RUBY: Otherwordliness", book published by Gestalten
Megan Cump: Darkening, portfolio in La Lettre de la Photographie, February 2011
Vecchio, Marjorie; MYSELF, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery at the University of Nevada, Reno, 2011, exhibition catalog
2010"Selection 1," Ruby Mag, published August 2010, pp.6-10
Artist Focus: Photography, Re-title.com, June 2010
Dawson, Jessica, Review "One Hour Photo," The Washington Post, May 7, 2010
2009 "Todays Flak Photo," Flak Photo, September 8, 2009
Ruby Mag, June 2009, Issue #37
"Den," Take the Handle, The Mysteries Issue p.27-28
"Feral," 180 magazine, April 2009 issue
"Today's Flak Photo," Flak Photo, February 5, 2009
2008"Into the Wild," NY ARTS magazine, September-October 2008, Vol. 3 N o.9/10; pp.102-103
Banai, Nuit, "Working Space 08," Time Out New York, Issue 676: September 11-17, 2008
2006Genocchio, Benjamin, "Objects at Rest," The New York Times, Long Island Edition, July 23, 2006
PJ, “Natural Reaction,” Flavorpill.net, December 2006, issue 338
2005Harrison, Helen, “Art in Review: In Process,” The New York Times, Long Island Edition, May 1, 2005
2004Bethencourt, Carmen. 'The Little Things," NYARTSmagazine.com, January 2004
Donnelly, Erin, “Critical Distance,” Site Matters, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s
World Trade Center Artists Residency, 1997-2001 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (book)
Smith, Roberta, “Art in Review: Colony,” The New York Times, April 9, 2004
2003Yee, Lydia and Rosenblum Martin, Amy; AIM 23, Bronx Museum of Art, 2003, exhibition catalog
curatorial and related projects
2012HELP ME, limited edition book available at Printed Matter, Inc.
films & videos by Karen Azoulay, Jem Cohen, Brent Green, Ben Kinsley & Jessica Langley, Carolyn Monastra, and Dan Torop
2010HELP ME: co-curated with Gillian McCain, Camera Club of New York, New York NY
HELP ME, limited edition book available at CLIC Bookstore & Gallery
curatorial and related press
2012"Sleepwalking" Interview with Gillian McCain, LID Magazine, issue 14, Spring 2012
2011HELP ME, portfolio in La Lettre de la Photographie, January 29, 2011
2010Aletti, Vince, "HELP ME" The New Yorker, December 13, 2010, p.20
Therond, Eve, "En Direct de New York," PHOTO Magazine (French), November 2010, p.12