p. Hamden, CT
E D U C A T I O N
2005
MA in Photographic Studies – Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, UK – Equivalent to MFA
2003
BFA in Photography – School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
A W A R D S
2018
11th Julia Margaret Cameron Award – Portrait Finalist – Website
E X H I B I T I O N S
Group
2022
The Will To Change: Gathering as Praxis
Lyman Allyn Art Gallery, New London, CT
Connecticut College, New London, CT
Hair@Loomis, Richmond Art Center, Loomis Chaffee, Windsor, CT
Hair@Ely, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2019
Our Bodies, Ourselves, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Complicit: Erasure of the Body, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT
2018
Silence Breakers, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2017
Nasty Women New Haven, The Institute Library, New Haven, CT
In Grace We Trust, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2012
Both Sides of the Lens: Self-portraiture, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA
2006
Salthouse 06, Salthouse Church, Salthouse, UK
Norwich Fringe Festival, Bally Shoe Factory, Norwich, UK
25: Women’s Photography & New Media, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, UK
2005
Norwich Fringe Festival, Bally Shoe Factory, Norwich, UK
2003
Mentors, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Juried
2014
Imagined Realities, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2012
18th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Commissioned / Collaborative
2006
Pellicola, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, UK – Commissioned by Norwich Arts Centre and shot on location in Spannocchia, Italy
2005
Lacuna: Origin, Destiny, Choice, RoaR Art Gallery & Archive, Norwich, UK
Film and Performance
2017
Hygienic Screening Room: Indie Film Festival, Crocker House Ballroom, New London, CT
2011
GLOVEBOX Film and Animation Festival, Somerville Theatre, Somerville, MA
2009
Offshoots Shorts, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, UK
The Late Shift, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
International Women’s Day Exhibition, Global Cafe, Reading, UK
2008
Offshoots Shorts, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, UK
Norwich Festival of Life 2008, Outpost Gallery, Norwich, UK
2005
Troika: movement, sound, photography, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, UK
P U B L I C A T I O N S
Shots Magazine, Mustache, Hair Project 2018 by Megan Manton (a.k.a. Megan Shaughnessy), Shots Issue No.139, Spring 2018 Self Portraits (Saint Paul, MN 2018), Cover.
Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Manifest International Photography Annual INPHA5, Manifest Press (Cincinnati, OH 2017), 109.
PhotoPlace Gallery, Imagined Realities, PhotoPlace Gallery Exhibition Catalogue (Middlebury, VT, 2014), 41.
The Kiernan Gallery, Both Sides of the Lens: Self-portraiture, The Kiernan Gallery Exhibition Catalogue 6 (Lexington, VA, 2012), 54.
Norwich School of Art and Design, “Graduate Profile: Megan Shaughnessy and Emma Shipton-Smith, “Alumni, Winter 2008”. 14-15.
Houston Center for Photography, “Call for Entries – 24th Annual HCP Juried Membership Exhibition,” advertisement, Spot, Spring 2006, 36.
Norwich School of Art and Design, “Photographic Studies [MA],” Prospectus, 2006, 87-89.
Norwich School of Art and Design, “Megan Shaughnessy,” in MA Catalogue 2005 (Norwich School of Art and Design, 2005), 34-35.
R E L A T E D P R O F E S S I O N A L A C T I V I T I E S
2017-Present
Curatorial and Community Engagement Committee – Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2022
STRAND, Digital Grace @ ECOCA, Curator. STRAND is a celebration of the power and significance of all hair including facial, crown, and body hair.
2006-2009
Guest Lecturer – MA Photographic Studies, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, UK
2005-2006
FIVE, Co-founder – Norwich University of the Arts creative collective that organized and curated 25: Women’s Photography and New Media at the Norwich Arts Centre in conjunction with International Women’s Day
2005
Lacuna, Co-curator – RoaR Art Gallery & Archive, Norwich, UK
2005-2009
Shaughnessy/Shipton-Smith – Artistic collaboration with fellow artist, Emma Shipton-Smith. During this period Shaughnessy/Shipton-Smith not only curated two major exhibitions, including Pellicola commissioned by the Norwich Arts Centre in the United Kingdom, but they also took part in numerous exhibitions and film screenings and were co-founders of Five a creative collective that organized and curated 25: Women’s Photography and New Media at the Norwich Arts Centre in conjunction with International Women’s Day in 2006.
Megan Shaughnessy 