Meg Hitchcock is a visual artist known for her intricate text-based works that explore spirituality, language, and religious
traditions. She holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and has studied in Florence, Italy. Hitchcock has
received prestigious grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Gottlieb Foundation, as well as residencies at
MASS MoCA, the Bronx Museum’s AIM Program, and the Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts. Her work has been
exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions across the U.S. and internationally, and she has completed major public
commissions, including The Sea, Parts I and II for the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia. Her
art has been featured in Art in America, Hyperallergic, The New Criterion, and Huffington Post, among others
Education
1996 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1988-89 Cecil-Graves Studios, Florence, Italy
Residencies/Grants
2024 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2023 Gottlieb Foundation Grant
2022 Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts, Charleston, SC: Artist in Residence
2020 Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY: Artist in Residence
2016 MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA: Artist Residency
2011 Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY: AIM Program
1989 Study Grant: Child Foundation, Florence, Italy
Public Commissions
2024-5 The Sea, Parts I and II, large-scale diptych for the lobby of the Contemplative Sciences Center at the
University of Virginia, Charlotteville
Solo Shows
2025
Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY: All That Matters
2024
Argosy Books, New York, NY: Context
2021
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT: New Works on Paper
2020
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY: Illuminate (Visiting Artist)
2019
Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY:
2018
ODETTA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Fever Songs (with the composer John Morton)
2017
Studio10, Brooklyn, NY: 10,000 Mantras
2015
Studio 10, Brooklyn, NY: Verbatim
Randall Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD: New Works
2013
Studio 10, Brooklyn, NY: The Land of Bliss
2012
ACA Gallery, New York, NY: Different Voices, Unique Visions
2011
Famous Accountants, Brooklyn, NY: Obsession: The Book of Revelation (installation)
Group Shows
2025
Rosebud Contemporary, New York, NY
2024
daphne:art, Litchfield, CT: Chimera
2023
Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA, Axis Mundi
2022
Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY: The Material, the Thing
Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn, NY: MAGIC
Webber Gallery, College of Central Florida, Ocala, FL: Next Text
2021
Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach, VA: Give the Word: Women, Art and Text
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY: Summer Reading
Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT: Embody
Fridman Gallery, Beacon, NY: Time Lapse
Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, WI: To the Letter: Text in Art
Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY: One Thing Leads to Another
Blank Space, New York, NY: Contemporary Collage
2020
Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA: Art of the Book
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA: Tradition Interrupted
2019
C24 Gallery, New York, NY: Word Up Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX: Cut Up, Cut Out
Doug Adams Gallery, Berkeley, CA: Sacred Texts in Art
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY: Walt Whitman’s Words: Inspiring Artists Today
Green Door Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Refuge
A.I.R., Brooklyn, NY: Make Make Make: Repetition and Accumulation
Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL: To the Letter
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY: Intent and Purpose
2018
September, Hudson, NY: Out of Line
McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY: The Possibilities of Line
Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY: Light Years
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY: Art on Paper RAW (Real Art Ways), Hartford, CT: Abductions and
Reconstructions
Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY: Text Me
2017
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH: Deep Cuts: Contemporary Paper Cutting
Gutstein Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA: Take Note
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID: Contemplative Practice
Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY: Alien Nation
Hudson Valley Contemporary Center for Art, Peekskill, NY: Between I & Thou
2016
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art: This Is Not A Book
White Noise Gallery, Rome Italy: Any Given Book
Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY: Tower of Babel
2015
MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA: Bibliotechaphilia
CODA Museum, Netherlands: CODA Paper Art
Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY: Reconfigured
Hazan Projects, New York, NY: Text Me
Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY: Duets
Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA: The Art of the Book
2014
Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR: State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now
Scream, London, UK: Telling Tales
Salisbury University Gallery, Salisbury, MD: TEXTED
Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID: Filtered
BBAC, Birmingham, MI: Altered Books
Town Hall Gallery, Boroondara, Australia: Re-Writing the Image
2013
Manresa Gallery, San Francisco, CA: Dialoguing with Sacred Texts
Towson University, Towson, MD: And the Word Is
Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ: Dialogic
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA: Dialoguing with Sacred Texts
Blanc Gallery, Boston, MA
Design Matters, Los Angeles, CA: Wordplay
2012
Artifact, New York, NY: Aftermath
Studio 10, Brooklyn, NY: Text
BRIC Contemporary Art, New York, NY: Mystics: A Blessed Rage for Order
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY: Contemplations and Conjectures
2011
Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL: People Don’t Like to Read Art
Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY: AIM Biennial
ACA Gallery, New York, NY: Fragments
Projective City, Paris, France: If Lightning Fell on Low Places
2010
Famous Accountants, Brooklyn, NY: Tunneling
Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Science Fiction
2009
NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY: Bushwick Biennial
Middlesex College, Edison, NJ: Multiply
Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY: Clamoring to Become Visible
Art Fairs
2016
Volta, New York, NY: solo booth with Studio 10
San Francisco Art Market, San Francisco, CA: with Seager Gray Gallery
2015
Art on Paper, New York, NY: solo booth with Randall Scott Projects
San Francisco Art Market, San Francisco, CA: with Seager Gray Gallery
2014
Volta, New York, NY: solo booth with Studio 10
Selected Press
2019
Surface Design, “Meg Hitchcock: In the Beginning, There Was the Word”, Kim Power
The New Criterion, “The Critic’s Notebook: Meg Hitchcock at Margaret Thatcher Projects”, James Panero
2017
Religion News Service, “Far from the Museum of the Bible…”, S. Brent Rodriguez Plate
2016
The Jealous Curator, “Meg Hitchcock”
Buzzworthy, “Artist Deconstructs Sacred Texts to Show Them in a New Light”, blog post
Colossal, “New Text Drawings Formed by Letters from Religious Texts by Meg Hitchcock”
2015
The Boston Globe, “The Library, Illuminated Anew, in Bold Mass MoCA Show”,
Stacey Kors
Arte Fuse, “Reconfigured at Margaret Thatcher Projects”, Daniel Gauss
Baltimore City Paper, “Great Scott: Two Very Different Shows”, Rebekah Kirkman and Baynard Woods
2014
Studio International, “Meg Hitchcock: Interview”, Kate Tiernan
Schon Magazine, “Scream London: Telling Tales”, Raoul Keil
2013
Artcritical, “Red Letter Day: Meg Hitchcock’s Cut-and-Pastes from Scripture”, Deven Golden
The New Criterion, “Meg Hitchcock: The Land of Bliss”, James Panero
Hyperallergic, “3 Critic Pick Their Favorites….”
Harper’s Bazaar, Hong Kong, “New York Art Scene: Special Feature”, December Issue
Platinum Cheese, “Art Chat with Meg Hitchcock”
2012
Huffington Post, “Meg Hitchcock Dissects Religious Texts to Create Spiritual Tapestries”
WNYC, “Meg Hitchcock at Famous Accountants Gallery”, mention on radio program
Inhabitat, “Sacred Texts are Dissected and Transformed Into Spiritual Tapestries”, Helen Morgan
Quiet Lunch, “Our Type of Lady”
Design Boom, “Cut and Paste Religious Rewritings by Meg Hitchcock”, blog post
2011
Daily Beast, “Is Meditation Selfish?”, Andrew Sullivan CityArts, “Meg Hitchcock: Obsession: The Book of Revelation
from the Koran”, Nicholas Wells Hyperallergic, “Weaving the Book of Revelation from the Koran”, Daniel Larken
Gutfire! “Hymns, Mantras, and Meditations: The Art of Meg Hitchcock”
Colossal, “Meg Hitchcock”, blog post
2010
Art in America, “Tunneling” at Famous Accountants, Sarah Schmerler
2003
Artweek, “Review: A Street Gallery”Sandy Thompson
2001
Art in America, “Meg Hitchcock, Quotidian Gallery”, Mark Van Proyen
1999 San Francisco Chronicle, “Art Here and Now”, Kenneth Baker (cover of Sunday section)
Collections
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Contemplative Science Center
Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library, Yale University
Nouf Al-Saud of the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia
Christopher Rothko, New York, NY
Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR
Lawrence Greenberg, Brooklyn, NY
Robert Mailer Anderson and Nicola Miner, San Francisco, CA
Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA