Meghan Price is a Canadian visual artist living in

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. She is known for her digital

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weaving,

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and

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s using plastics and other

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Biography

Meghan Price was born in

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...

. Price holds an MFA from

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and a DEC from the Montreal Centre For Contemporary Textiles. She has taught at

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Sheridan College Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, formerly Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology, is a public polytechnic institute partnered with private Canadian College of Technology and Trades operating campuses ...

and

John Abbott College John Abbott College ( French: ''Collège John Abbott)'' is an English-language public college located in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada, near the western tip of the Island of Montreal. John Abbott College is one of eight English publ ...

. Geologic time, processes and formations, human-earth interactions and ideas related to the Anthropocene inform Price's work.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

*2022, ''Best Estimate'', United Contemporary, Toronto *2022, ''Grid'',

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, Toronto, Canada *2020, ''Land Line'', YYZ Artist Outlet, Toronto, Canada with Suzanne Nacha *2019 The Bonavista Biennale, Bonavista Peninsula, Canada *2018, ''New Balance'', Fiberspace, Stockholm, Sweden *2017, ''Watching Rocks'', AKA artist-run, Saskatoon *2016, "Part Time Deep Time", Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

*2024, "Erratic Behaviour", Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Canada *2023, "Climate Awakening: Crafting A Sustainable Future", Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, USA *2021, "Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through", Art Museum at the

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*2019, "L’abstraction dans le Jacquard", Centre Matéria, Quebec City, Canada *2019, "Becoming Lithocene", Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada *2018, "Longevity or a Lack Thereof", McClaren Art Centre, Barrie, Canada *2017, ''Tie Up, Draw Down'', The Centre for Craft Creativity and Design, Asheville, NC *2015, Biennale du lin, Portneuf, Canada

Collections

*Idea Exchange contemporary textile collection * Aimia *

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Price, Meghan Living people Concordia University alumni 21st-century Canadian women textile artists Canadian contemporary artists 21st-century Canadian textile artists Canadian weavers 1972 births Artists from Montreal