CV

2021 

The Sense Economy, The Laboratory for Spatial Bemusement: Megan Dyck + Tia Halliday, Kamloops Art Gallery

2018 

Routine Maintenance, The Laboratory for Spatial Bemusement: Megan Dyck + Tia Halliday, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary

2017 

Handgerdir Minjagripir, Bílskur Gallerí, Blönduós Iceland

2015 

The Rumpus Room, Harcourt House, Edmonton, AB

Faculty Exhibition, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, BC

In Your Eyes, University of Victoria MFA 2014 Graduate Show, Victoria

Under New Management: Video Store, *various locations: Third Space Gallery, St John,NB (2014); Judith & Norman Alix Gallery, Sarnia, ON (2014); Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC (2013); ODD Gallery, Dawson City, Yukon​ (2013).

Encoding Identities, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, AB​

​Offspring, Upstairs Gallery, University of Victoria

The Sketch Book Project: Various Locations

2011​ 

Bump\Shift, Satellite Gallery, Calgary

​The Abstract Drawing Show, Satellite Gallery

​Mediating Perceptions, Studio C, Calgary

​The Sketch Book Project: USA Tour, Various location

For Louise: In Honour of the Life and Work of Louise ​Bourgeois, Untitled Art Society

Alberta College of Art + Design Grad Show, AUArts

8 x 8 x 8, Gallery 371, AUArts

​ArtaWEARness X Wearable Art Extravaganza, ACAD main mall

Holiday Show, The New Gallery, Calgary

3 > 2: a Sculpture Show by Painting & Drawing Majors, Gallery 371

Not in Nottingham, Gallery 371

​Expensive Expansive Group Show, The Ralph Klein Gallery, AUArts 

MFA Supervisory Committee Member, University of Calgary (summer 2024—present)

Painting 401: Painting Senior Studio II, AUArts (winter 2025, winter 2020, winter 2019)

Painting 101, AUArts (winter 2025, winter 2022, fall 2021, winter 2020, fall 2019, winter 2018, fall 2017, fall 2016, fall 2015)

Painting 301, AUArts (fall 2024, fall 2018)

Painting 223: Methodologies and Methods, AUArts (fall 2021)

ACAD 310: Colour: Affect & Perception, AUArts (winter 2024, winter 2023, winter 2022, winter 2021)

Sculpture 101, AUArts (fall 2023)

Pre-College Drawing Program, AUArts (summer 2023, summer 2022, summer 2021, summer 2020)

Art 103: Design Principles, University of Calgary (Presently — ongoing: fall, winter, and spring *since fall 2015)

Drawing 110, AUArts (fall 2021, fall 2020, fall 2017)

Painting 402: Painting Senior Studio III, AUArts (Winter 2021)

Painting 302: Painting Studio III, AUArts (Winter 2021)

Painting 400: Senior Studio I, AUArts (fall 2020)

Art 365: The Body, Gender, and Social Media, University of Calgary (summer 2020)

ACAD 310: The Human Figure in Phantasmagorical Imagery, AUArts (winter 2020, winter 2019)

Painting 300: Painting Studio I, AUArts (fall 2019)

Contemporary Art: Origins and Themes, University of Calgary (fall 2019, fall 2018)Drawing 212: Anatomy Drawing, AUArts (fall 2018)

Drawing 120: Contemporary Investigations, AUArts (winter 2018, fall 2015)

Drawing 204: The Human Figure, AUArts (fall 2017, spring 2016, fall 2015)

Humanities 110: Art + Design Now, AUArts (winter 2017, fall 2016, winter 2015)

Painting 213: Formal & Conceptual Issues, AUArts (winter 2016)

Introduction to Installation Art, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, BC

Sculpture 200: Ideas and Processes, Vancouver Island School of Art

Critical Studies II, Vancouver Island School of Art

Sculpture 100: Introduction to Materials, Vancouver Island School of Art

Art History 215: Minimalism to End of Century 1965-2000, Vancouver Island School of Art

Drawing 202, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC

Teaching Assistant, Foundation Sculpture: Material Methods, University of Victoria

Teaching Assistant, Intro to Contemporary Art Theory: Practice and Criticism, University of Victoria​

Academic Tutor, AUArts, (2011-2012)

​Instructor, various art classes, Studio C, Calgary (Fall 2010-Summer 2012)

Session Chair: Hospitality of the Classroom: Place-Making, Welcoming, and Warming the Learning Environment, Conference of the University Art Association of Canada, October 24-26, Western University, London, ON

Guest Critic, Graduate Student MFA Critique Week (fall term), University of Calgary Department of Art

2020 

Contributor: Online Teaching Exchange: Strategies for Teaching Studio Art in Virtual Contexts, Hospitality in Teaching: An Antidote to Anxiety in the Online Learning Environment, University of Calgary Art Department

Guest Critic, MFA Committee Meeting (fall term), University of Calgary Department of Art

Artist Mentor, RISE Emerging Artist Program, Canadian Mountain Arts Foundation, artsPlace Gallery, Canmore

2023 

Guest Lecture (with Lia Golemba), High Chroma Low Times, Daughter Collective, Calgary

Itinerant Keynote Speaker, The Alberta Society of Artists Group Exhibition: Geometry, The Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton, AB

Presenter: The Body as Proximal Avatar: Disembodiment & Self-Referential Imagery in Contemporary Fashion Visualities, Conference of the University Art Association of Canada, October 24-26, Western University, London, ON

Presenter: Inter-Face: The Painted Portrait as Antidote to Alienation for Learners in the Digital Age, AMPS International Research Society (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society) Focus on Pedagogy Conference in Association with Routledge Publications, June 10-12, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA

Visiting Artist, National accessArts Centre, Calgary

Facilitator, Summer Studio Residency, AUArts

Workshop: Electric Eel: Experimental Lexicons and the Playful Practice of Colour Naming, Alberta Colleges & Institutes Faculties Association (ACIFA) Conference, Lake Louise, AB

Workshop: The Shape of Colour, AIC Sensing Colour 2022 Conference (Association Internationale de la Couleur), Ontario College of Art & Design University, Toronto

Workshop: Local Colour, AUArts Administrative Faculty, AUArts, Calgary

Workshop: Coloured Pencil Portraiture, BSide Studio, Calgary

Workshop: Creative Strategies for Overcoming Artist Block, Megan Dyck + Tia Halliday, Kamloops Art Gallery

Workshop Series: We Are Made of Colour: Detecting Undertones & Applying Colour Theory in Figurative Representation, National Access Arts Centre, Calgary

2020-2019                

Contributor: Online Teaching Exchange: Strategies for Teaching Studio Art in Virtual Contexts, University of Calgary Art Department

Workshop Series: Drawing & Anthropomorphic Perception, TELUS Spark Science Centre

Board Member, The New Gallery, Calgary

Workshop: Utilizing Found Objects in Sculptural Production, Prospect Human Services

A Ceiling Lamp is Not a Breast: Fragmentation, Magical Realism, and Pareidolia in Figurative Painting, Winter Faculty Research Soirée, AUArts

The Sense Economy, Megan Dyck + Tia Halliday, Kamloops Art Gallery

The Body on Repeat, Ledge Gallery, Calgary

Interview by Claire Coutts: “Megan Dyck”,  Art AF Podcast, CJSW Calgary

Textîlsetur Îslands Artist in Residence Program, Blönduós, Iceland

The Rumpus Room, Harcourt House, Edmonton, AB

Surface Development, Sculpture 104 class, University of Victoria

Experimental Fibre, Art Recruits: A Division of Prospect Human Services,Calgary    

2011​ 

Found Objects for Mark-Making, Menno Simons school, Calgary

Free Sculpture, Prospect Human Services      

Summer 2017 — Textîlsetur Îslands Artist in Residence Program, Blönduós, Iceland

Spring 2017 — Calgary Allied Arts Foundation Artist in Residence Program, Calgary

Spring 2017 —  Gushul Artist in Residence Program, Blairmore, AB     

2018 

Individual Project Grant *with Tia Halliday, Alberta Foundation for the Arts

Visual Arts Individual Project Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts

Painting 4rth year Award, AUArts Access to the Future Fund

Art Central Studio Prize, AUArts and Art Central