CV

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

2023

Artist Fellowship Recipient – Connecticut Office of the Arts

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

Orla & Otis: Lost & Found by Megan Shaughnessy, Self-published (Hamden, CT 2021).

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

2017-2023

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.