Megan Pobywajlo
instagram.com/meganpobywajlo
Education
BFA - Photography, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO 2014
MFA (candidate) - University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 2024
Selected Exhibitions
2022 Tidal Lock, the pH Gallery, West Fork, AR
2021 Megan+Max, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO
Kansas City Flat File and Digital File, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
The Secret Life of Plants, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
2020 BOK Financial Crossroads Arts District Billboards, in collaboration with Max Wagner, Kansas City, MO
The Anniversary Show, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
2019 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award Exhibition, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
New Poetics, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
First D8, Granite City Arts and Design District, Granite City, IL, and Open House, Kansas City, MO
2018 Art at Swiss Re Kansas City, Site Specific Installation commissioned through Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Future/Garden/Growth (new works from Megan Pobywajlo) University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
A Dream About My Garden Without the Smell of Dirt (Solo) Front/Space, Kansas City, MO
Philadelphia Art Book Fair by Philadelphia Photo Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
Context 2018 Filter Photo Space, Chicago, IL
2017 The Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives (Boundaries performance) Open House, Kansas City, MO
TotLuck Harrison Street DIY, Kansas City, MO
Against the Screen La Esquina, Kansas City, MO
Proximity Trapp Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Photography Portfolio Walk, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
2016 Kansas City Flat File and Digital File H&R Block Artspace at KCAI, Kansas City, MO
The One Thing That Can Save America Paragraph + Project Space, Kansas City, MO
2015 Proximity Kiosk Gallery + Trap Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2014 Something Better or At Least Different Our House, Kansas City, MO
The Telephone Show Craft Studio, Columbia, MO
Trade Look Ship Regional Postal Cultural Exchange, Kansas City, MO + Chicago, IL + Milwaukee, WI
2013 Something Better or At Least Different Midwestern Musical Co, Kansas City, MO
2010 Out of The Shadows Center for Creative Chaos, Tucson, AZ
Sound of Paint Dinnerware Artspace, Tucson, AZ
Selected Curatorial + Public Programming
2022 Artist Lecture, University of Kansas Photo, Lawrence, KS
2021 Artist Lecture, Rutgers University Photo, Newark, NJ
2020 KC Spaces Fund Covid-19 Emergency Fund for Grassroots Arts+Culture Spaces, Kansas City, MO
2019 Artists on location studio visit and artist talk with Kansas City Art Institute Graphic Design, Kansas City, MO
2018 Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
Art Book Club + Pop Up Reading Room (featuring Alec Logan Smith), Juice Box Gallery, Kansas City, KS
2017 Archive Collective + Front/Space (month-long event series), Front/Space, Kansas City, MO
Art Forum Lecture Series (guest lecturer), Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
Zines and How Pictures talk to Each Other (workshop), ongoing, Kansas City, MO
Care, a Performance (public programs), La Esquina, Kansas City, MO
Ironic Methods with Sincere Motivations (curator), Kiosk Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2016 Incline / Decline (new works by Adam Long) published by Archive Collective, Kansas City, MO
Big American Picture Paragraph Gallery + Project Space, Kansas City, MO
We Stole This (and so should you)*, published by Fort Gondo, St. Louis, MO
2015 Archive Collective Crit Nite #5 Kiosk Gallery Kansas City, MO
Miscellanea The East Gallery at KCAI, Kansas City, MO
2014 Infrastructures and Inheritance the Red Lady Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Print + Bowl at KU Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Homebodies the Red Lady Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2013 Artists Talk : Lens Culture in the Public Eye Paul Turounet via web KCAI, Kansas City, MO
2010 Center’s Material Exchange and Open Workdays Center For Creative Chaos, Tucson, AZ
Stand Up For Kids (Fundraiser) Z Mansion, Tucson, AZ
Awards and Honors
2023 Center for Art as Lived Experience (CALE) Research Grant, Fayetteville, AR
2022 University of Arkansas School of Art JEADI Micro-grant, Fayetteville, AR
University of Arkansas School of Art Summer Travel Grant, Fayetteville, AR
2020 BOK Financial Crossroads Arts District Billboards, Kansas City, MO
2019 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award Winner, Kansas City, MO
2018-present Drugstore Studio Resident
2016 ArtsKC Inspiration Grant, Kansas City, MO
Guest Artist Educator for Nelson-Atkins Photo Scholars, Kansas City, MO
2015 Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Residency Program, Kansas City, MO
2012 Betty Jean House Award for Photography, San Diego, CA
2011 Jim Noel Award for Alternative Photography, San Diego, CA
Teaching and additional Experience
2022 Queer Camp Photography Activity Assistant, Fayetteville, AR
2021-2023 Darkroom photography instructor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
2019-2021 Adjunct Faculty for Kansas City Art Institute department of Photography, Kansas City, MO
2017-present Photography Instructor KCAI School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Kansas City, MO
Assistant to Patty Carroll Fine Art Photographer, Kansas City, MO
Juror for Photography Portfolio Walk at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. MO
2016 Portfolio Reviewer for Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Teen Photo Program, Kansas City, MO
Juror + Lecturer + Instructor for Nelson-Atkins Photo Scholars, Kansas City, MO
2014 Assistant to Diana Heise , Artist, Photographer, Filmmaker, Kansas City, MO
2013-present Co-founder, Archive Collective, Kansas City, Missouri
2011-present Self publishing and nonprofit art book publishing San Diego, CA + Kansas City, MO
2009-2010 Co-founder at Center For Creative Chaos safe space for homeless and at-risk artists, Tucson, AZ