MEEGAN BARNES
meeganbarnes@gmail.com
Meegan Barnes is a ceramic artist and painter based in Los Angeles. Her work plays with the intersections of pop culture, music, art and art history, all set against the backdrop of the vibrant city of LA.
With an extensive career as a designer and creative director in the music, fashion and streetwear industries, she channels those influences along with her passion for art and art history into her imaginative “ceramic-scapes”. Set within the context of the vibrant city of Los Angeles, there’s an anthropological aspect to her work in that she documents iconic landscapes and locales which are quintessentially LA. They also serve as the canvas for her unique blend of personal style and humor, infusing each piece with a distinct charm and vitality.
“It is an artist’s duty to reflect the times” - Nina Simone
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Meegan graduated with a BFA from CCA, Oakland and SF, California. She started her career in New York City as an illustrator for Vibe and Paper Magazines. Later, she was Co-founder and Creative Director of a lifestyle brand called Femme Arsenal which was all about celebrating diversity and empowering young women.
She had a long career in the fashion, music and beauty industries before creating the signature ceramic booty vases (see www.B-sides.shop) for which she became well known.
She began to focus on ceramic art and painting around 2015 and since then her work has been exhibited at One Trick Pony Gallery, Hashimoto Contemporary (LA), Phillips Gallery LA, Felix Art Fair (Los Angeles), Good Mother Gallery (LA) La Loma Projects (LA), The Lodge (LA), Anat Ebgi Gallery (LA), Kantor Gallery (LA), Untitled Space (NYC) and more.
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SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2024
Felix Art Fair with One Trick Pony Gallery, Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles
Potluck, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles
All Killer No Filler, One Trick Pony Gallery, Los Angeles
2023
Solo: Sunset Noir, One Trick Pony Gallery, Los Angeles
Swelter, Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles
LA Woman, Phillips LA, Los Angeles
Felix Art Fair with One Trick Pony Gallery, Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles
2022
LA Landscapes and Other Pleasures, The Lodge, Los Angeles,
CA Impact: LA For Choice, Artsy Auction and in person at Anat Ebgi Gallery, LA, CA
True Stories, Untitled Space, New York, NY
2021
Goals, La Loma Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Solo Exhibition - Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Coup D’oeil (A Glimpse)l Group Show, Glass Rice Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019
Body Beautiful Group Show, The Untitled Space Gallery, New York, NY
Every Woman Biennial Group Show, Los Angeles, CA
Come Hither Group Show - Art Cave, Santa Cruz, CA
2018
Booteus Maximus Solo Show - New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Defining Form - The Untitled Space, New York, NY
Platinum Blend - Stephanie Chefas Gallery, Portland OR 2017
2017
Whitney Houston Biennial - XOCO, New York, NY
Ladies Night - Carlos Queso Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Governor’s Island Art Fair” - New York, NY
Heatwave - Stephanie Chefas Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Swimmin’ at the Playground - Fifty24SF Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016
The Parking Lot Art Fair - Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Sexy X-mas - The Lodge LA, Los Angeles, CA
Platinum Blend - Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015
California Fantasy - New Image Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Dark Paradise - Last Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Superchief Group show at Superchief Gallery, Los Angeles and New York
SELECT PRESS
New American Paintings Pacific Coast No. 157
Huf Worldwide, HUF x Meegan Barnes Interview
Playboy Magazine - “An Artful, Cheeky Exploration into the World of Sexual Ceramics”
Vice Magazine - “The Creators Project”
Paulette Magazine - “La Ceramique Passionnement, a la Folie”
Wine & Bowties- “Booty Talk with Meegan Barnes”
Paper Magazine - “Preview Pieces From Booty Worship”
EDUCATION
California College of the Arts | Oakland, CA | BFA in Illustration, 1996
SELECT COLLECTIONS
The Palms Casino, Las Vegas NV.
HUF Headquarters, LA CA