Megan Wilson is an American visual artist based in San Francisco. Known for her large-scale installations and public projects, she incorporates traditional crafts and decoration to address conceptual interests that include “home,” impermanence and generosity; and intersections of art and life.
Notable projects include:

• “Better Homes and Gardens”, a public project included in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 75 Years of Looking Forward, that featured 250 signs hand-painted by the artist with the word “Home” and a flower given for free to the homeless and those facing eviction in San Francisco during the dotcom boom.
• Clarion Alley Mural Project
  Clarion Alley Mural Project
  Clarion Alley Mural Project is an artists' collective formed in October 1992 by a volunteer collective of six North Mission residents: Aaron Noble, Michael O'Connor, Sebastiana Pastor, Rigo 92, Mary Gail Snyder, and Aracely Soriano...
  
  : Wilson is one of the primary organizers of the mural project, including initiating and co-organizing the international exchange “Sama-sama/Together.”
• “Flower Interruption”, a four-part public installation series through which Wilson filled traffic intersections in San Francisco, Tokyo, Yogyakarta and Ubud Indonesia with giant “Technicolor flowers” that passersby were invited to take for free.
• “Sama-sama/Together,” the first international mural exchange between artists in the United States (San Francisco) and Yogyakarta Indonesia. Wilson initiated and co-organized the project with Apotik Komik of Indonesia and Intersection for the Arts
  Intersection for the Arts
  Intersection for the Arts, established in 1965, is the oldest alternative non-profit art space in San Francisco, California. Intersection's reading series is the longest continuous reading series outside of an academic institution in the state of California....
  
  . The project was the catalyst for the mural and graffiti movement in Yogyakarta. The SF Bay Guardian awarded the project “The Best Transnational Art Undertaking” in 2004.
• Wilson’s use of textiles and quilling
  Quilling
  Quilling or paper filigree is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs. The paper is wound around a quill to create a basic coil shape...
  
   to create large-scale non-traditional mural installations. She is one of the first artists to use quilling as a contemporary art form outside of its historical use as a decorative craft on paper or household objects.
• “Home 1996-2008” was in part inspired by artist David Ireland. From 2004-2008 Wilson transformed her home into an installation that she opened up to the public in 2008.

Wilson grew up in Montana. She received her BFA from the University of Oregon and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...

. Her work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is a multi-disiplinary contemporary arts center in San Francisco, California, United States. Located in Yerba Buena Gardens, YBCA features visual art, performance, and film/video that celebrates local, national, and international artists and the Bay Area's diverse...

, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art...

, Sun Valley Center for the Arts

Sun Valley Center for the Arts

Sun Valley Center for the Arts is the oldest arts organization in central Idaho’s Wood River Valley. Founded in 1971, the center has grown from a few people presenting classes and events to an organization that has over 25,000 people attend events annually...

, Intersection for the Arts

Intersection for the Arts

Intersection for the Arts, established in 1965, is the oldest alternative non-profit art space in San Francisco, California. Intersection's reading series is the longest continuous reading series outside of an academic institution in the state of California....

, and Southern Exposure

Southern Exposure

Southern Exposure may refer to:*Southern Exposure - a San Francisco non-profit art space.*Southern Exposure - a 2007 album released by FireHouse guitarist Bill Leverty...

. She has created public projects and murals in San Francisco California; Tokyo Japan, Yogyakarta Indonesia, Jaipur India, and Manila Philippines. Wilson is a recipient of grant awards from the Gunk Foundation, Artadia, the Asian Cultural Council, the Ford Foundation and San Francisco Foundation. Wilson’s work is included in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 75 Years of Looking Forward, edited by Janet Bishop, Corey Keller, Sarah Roberts; Street Art San Francisco Mission Muralismo, edited by Annice Jacoby; and Illustration: Play - Craving for the Extraordinary, Published by Victionary.

Wilson is also a writer and art critic. She co-founded the San Francisco based arts Website www.stretcher.org. Her writings have appeared in stretcher.org, afterimage

Afterimage

An afterimage or ghost image or image burn-in is an optical illusion that refers to an image continuing to appear in one's vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased...

, Digitalcity, Public Art Review, and Art Practical; and in the book Street Art San Francisco Mission Muralismo (edited by Annice Jacoby with Forward by Carlos Santana).

External links

• http://www.meganwilson.com/index