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By Meagan D. Killian

"Through this interweaving of anatomical, architectural, historical, and psychological systems, my practice becomes a meditation on resilience, fragility, and inheritance. It considers how bodies and structures—corporeal and cultural—are sustained, disrupted, and reconstituted over time, contributing to an ongoing dialogue on materiality, memory, and the body as both subject and archive."

- Meagan Killian

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Meagan
Killian

About

My work explores the intersections of the human body and cathedral architecture, examining how structural systems—iron, stone, glass, timber, bones, cartilage, tendons, and ligaments—provide stability and respond to external forces and internal stressors. By approaching the body as a cathedral, where skin becomes surface and openings mark the confluence of inside and outside, I invite viewers to enter the body beyond its physical limits. Architectural lineage and familial inheritance connect the influence of genetics to one’s perception and understanding of their own body.

Through acrylic painting and layered wood cutouts, I manipulate perception and spatial orientation, creating moments where the conscious and subconscious merge. Anatomical motifs intertwine with architectural fragments, from Romanesque solidity to Gothic verticality and Renaissance precision, tracing the evolution of structural thought alongside human physiology.

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More about the artist 

Teaching Appointments

Continuing Teen Education Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

  • Title: Instructor of Record: Pen and Ink, Dates: Summer 2025, Summer 2026

  • Title: Instructor of Record: Portrait Painting, Dates: Summer 2025, Summer 2026

Department of Fine Art, College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, Ny

  • Title: Instructor of Record: Drawing Fundamentals, Dates: Fall 2023-Spring 2024

  • Title: Instructor of Record: Drawing Concepts, Dates: Fall 2024- Spring 2025

Elementary Art Teacher, Cumberland Academy Elementary, Tyler, TX

  • Title: Elementary and Intermediate School Art Teacher (K-6th Grade), Dates: Fall 2022- Spring 2023

Education

  • 2023-2025 Master of Fine Arts  in Studio Art, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

  • 2020-2021 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting with a minor in Drawing, Delta State

  • University, Cleveland, MS 

  • 2018-2019 Associate of Art, Tyler Junior College, Tyler TX

Awards/Grants/Recognition

  • 2026 Factory at Willow Artist in Residence Grant, Manchester, NH

  • 2025 Student of Academic Excellence, University at Buffalo

  • 2025 Frances R. and Louis B. Morrison Memorial Fund

  • 2025 Virginia Cuthbert and Philip C. Elliott Fund

  • 2023-2025 Help an Artist Fund, Graduate Student Association, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

  • 2023-2025 Schomburg Fellowship, University at Buffalo, Buffalo NY 

2026 Fertile Grounds, The Factory at Willow, Manchester, NH

2025 Age In Our Times, The Health Museum, Houston, TX

2025 RISD Summer Faculty Exhibition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence 

Rhode Island 

2025 ARTBOX.PROJECT Zurich, SBB event hall in Zurich's main train station,

Zurich, Switzerland 

2025 Process, Crucible Art Collective, Buffalo NY 

2025 Below the Surface Beyond the Bones (Solo exhibition) 

Gallery at Seneca, Buffalo, NY

2024 Mine. Refine. Expose, Project Space, Buffalo, NY

2024 Symbiosis, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2024 Placeholder Show, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Selected Exhibitions

2023 Temporary Public Art Installation, Caldwell Arts Academy Middle School,

Tyler, TX

2023 Temporary Public Art Installation, St Luke's Mission of Mercy School, 

Buffalo, NY

2023 Group Exhibition University at Buffalo Cohorts, University at Buffalo

Project Space Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2023 Collaboration with Aidelen Montoya, Silo City,  Buffalo, NY 

2021-2023 Represented by Lamoureaux Gallery, Tyler, TX

2021 Student Exhibition, Wright Center Art Gallery, Cleveland, MS

2020 Student  of Excellence Exhibition, Wright Center Art Gallery, Cleveland,

MS

2018-2019 Winner Congressional Art Competition, United States Capitol Building, 

Washington, D.C. 

2018 Senior Show, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX

2017-2018 Annual Texas State Artist Showing, Bob Bullock Museum, Houston, TX

2016-2018 Annual Veterans of Foreign Wars Dedication Showcase, Tyler, TX

2015-2018 Annual Visual Art Scholastic Event State Qualifier Exhibition,  TX

2017 Ringling College of Art and Design Scholarship Recipient for Summer

Arts Program, Ringling Art Semposem Show, Sarasota, FL

2017 Featured Artist, WISD Education Foundation, Whitehouse TX

2017 Senior Show (Up and coming artist), Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX

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Contact Information

For inquiries on commissions or existing works in my portfolio, collaborations, or questions, feel free to reach out.

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